New QoL Features (8/24/23)

@rainkingucd said:

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@frank42 said:

@IceIX said:
We've got more features, big and small, coming in the upcoming months and in the Anniversary, including a bigger one that we're close to announcing, so stay tuned!

Well, I really like these QoL changes. especially the increased saved team slots.

But, when it comes to QoL ... I still have an - IMHO - valid concern that is getting ignored for years now, despite constantly reasking.

What about fixing the broken, incomplete, wrong and sometimes silly translations?

There are LOTS of places, where the German translation doesn't match the English original (example: MEH green: start of battle passive is swapped with start of round passive), or where placeholders appear (example: 2★ Magneto who does a countdown tile for %BombTurns rounds), or the score counter on the nodes that doesn't fit the German translation of the countdown in its box, which makes the whole countdown box disappear, to name just a few (I got a whole collection of these).

Last info, If I remember correctly, was "Yes we know, we're on it", that was somewhere in late 2022, nothing happened since then - well besides more characters, more events, and of course more ways to exchange money against pixels...

Besides that: It's not even a German problem. According to a reddit poll some months ago this problem seems to be present in several other language packs, too.

But... I wouldn't even care, if there was an option in the settings to switch the Game's language. But there is nothing, even though Android has builtin functions for that, which require minimal changes to the APK.
(And no, I'm not switching the whole phone to another language for one single app that can't handle this)

I loved the translation of Thick as Thieves, because as far as I can tell (since German is a second language), they used the British slang "thick" meaning stupid, rather the phrase meaning tight/close knit. Translating it to Idiot Thieves

I always assumed that the English version was intended to have a double meaning and so the translator had to pick one. But I never considered that the slang meaning was limited to Britain.

@fractalvisions said:

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@rainkingucd said:

@frank42 said:

@IceIX said:
We've got more features, big and small, coming in the upcoming months and in the Anniversary, including a bigger one that we're close to announcing, so stay tuned!

Well, I really like these QoL changes. especially the increased saved team slots.

But, when it comes to QoL ... I still have an - IMHO - valid concern that is getting ignored for years now, despite constantly reasking.

What about fixing the broken, incomplete, wrong and sometimes silly translations?

There are LOTS of places, where the German translation doesn't match the English original (example: MEH green: start of battle passive is swapped with start of round passive), or where placeholders appear (example: 2★ Magneto who does a countdown tile for %BombTurns rounds), or the score counter on the nodes that doesn't fit the German translation of the countdown in its box, which makes the whole countdown box disappear, to name just a few (I got a whole collection of these).

Last info, If I remember correctly, was "Yes we know, we're on it", that was somewhere in late 2022, nothing happened since then - well besides more characters, more events, and of course more ways to exchange money against pixels...

Besides that: It's not even a German problem. According to a reddit poll some months ago this problem seems to be present in several other language packs, too.

But... I wouldn't even care, if there was an option in the settings to switch the Game's language. But there is nothing, even though Android has builtin functions for that, which require minimal changes to the APK.
(And no, I'm not switching the whole phone to another language for one single app that can't handle this)

I loved the translation of Thick as Thieves, because as far as I can tell (since German is a second language), they used the British slang "thick" meaning stupid, rather the phrase meaning tight/close knit. Translating it to Idiot Thieves

I always assumed that the English version was intended to have a double meaning and so the translator had to pick one. But I never considered that the slang meaning was limited to Britain.

It's not just British; it definitely carries that connotation in American English, too, though I'm sure we got it from British writers. In the U.S., though, it's pretty old fashioned. I don't recall ever hearing someone use it that way in speech, for example.