User:Deusite/Magick - Revision history

Egallager: use some wiki formatting around wiki links (page is still a mess, tbh)

2023-04-24T02:07:26Z

use some wiki formatting around wiki links (page is still a mess, tbh)

Espreon: Blargh... make it less redundant...

2012-01-04T22:12:05Z

Blargh... make it less redundant...

Espreon: '; have been included for the' -> '; have been added for the'

2012-01-04T22:08:08Z

'; have been included for the' -> '; have been added for the'

Espreon: If only the campaign were called "The Legend of Wesmere"...

2012-01-04T22:04:13Z

If only the campaign were called "The Legend of Wesmere"...

Espreon: We don't like 'have begun' there.

2012-01-04T21:55:59Z

We don't like 'have begun' there.

Deusite: Boring repetitions are boring. Also, Espreon underestimates me.

2012-01-04T21:42:27Z

Boring repetitions are boring. Also, Espreon underestimates me.

Espreon: 'closer to our goals' -> 'closer to meeting our goal'

2012-01-04T21:34:23Z

'closer to our goals' -> 'closer to meeting our goal'

Espreon: 'much more then' -> 'much more than'

2012-01-04T21:33:42Z

'much more then' -> 'much more than'

Espreon: 'stable series' -> 'stable release series'

2012-01-04T21:33:01Z

'stable series' -> 'stable release series'

Espreon: Reworded moar stuff

2012-01-04T21:16:19Z

Reworded moar stuff

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 <div id='content'>
-<h1>Battle for Wesnoth 1.10 Release Notes</h1>
+==Battle for Wesnoth 1.10 Release Notes==
 <p><em>January 2012</em>. It is once again time for that thrill you’ve all been waiting for: the beginning of a new stable release series. The development team is proud to release version 1.10 of <em>The Battle for Wesnoth</em>, a <a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html'>free</a> and <a href='http://www.opensource.org/'>open-source</a> turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme and role-playing elements. The game is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and various GNU/Linux distributions.</p>
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-<p>The 1.10 series brings many new features for content developers, such as <a href="http://wiki.wesnoth.org/PersistenceWML">persistent variables</a>, which allow add-on authors to save data to players’ hard disks for use by other content developers or in future playthroughs.</p>
+<p>The 1.10 series brings many new features for content developers, such as [[PersistenceWML|persistent variables]], which allow add-on authors to save data to players’ hard disks for use by other content developers or in future playthroughs.</p>
 <p>The game’s Lua capabilities have been strengthened considerably, which allows content developers to do much more than they could with it on the 1.8 series. In fact, one of our Google Summer of Code projects was focused on improving the AI-related Lua capabilities.</p>
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 <p>A new batch of item icons&mdash;drawn in the same style as the attack icons&mdash;have been made for the benefit of content creators; depictions of items such as potions, robes, armor, and jewelry are included.</p>
-<p>Thanks to revisions in the code that handles <a href="http://wiki.wesnoth.org/LanguageWML">[language]</a>, custom range and attack type strings can now be translated.</p>
+<p>Thanks to revisions in the code that handles [[LanguageWML|the [language] tag]], custom range and attack type strings can now be translated.</p>
 <div class='visualClear'></div>
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 <p><em>The Battle for Wesnoth</em> is made available under the <a href='http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html'>GNU General Public License</a>
-(GPL). The source code is available from <a href='http://www.wesnoth.org'>wesnoth.org</a>, where you can also find instructions for <a href='http://wiki.wesnoth.org/CompilingWesnoth'>building from source</a> on a range of different operating systems. Ready-to-go packages are also available for most popular operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux.</p>
+(GPL). The source code is available from <a href='http://www.wesnoth.org'>wesnoth.org</a>, where you can also find instructions for [http://web.archive.org/web/20171021201402/http://wiki.wesnoth.org/CompilingWesnoth building from source] on a range of different operating systems. Ready-to-go packages are also available for most popular operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux.</p>
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-<p>You can get up-to-date information on downloads at the <a href='http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Download'>downloads page</a>. There you can also find packages and instructions for other platforms once they are available.</p>
+<p>You can get up-to-date information on downloads at the [[Download|downloads page]]. There you can also find packages and instructions for other platforms once they are available.</p>
-<p>If you downloaded previous versions of the game, you might be interested in downloading the <a href='http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Download_Xdeltas'>xdelta</a> files only.</p>
+<p>If you downloaded previous versions of the game, you might be interested in downloading the [http://web.archive.org/web/20200412113411/https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Download_Xdeltas xdelta] files only.</p>

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 <p>Thanks to a Google Summer of Code project that took place during 2010 and 2011, we now have a <a href="http://eclipse.wesnoth.org">Wesnoth Eclipse plugin</a>, which provides a full-blown IDE for WML in Eclipse thus providing features such as syntax highlighting, tag folding, autocompletion, and more. It even has front-ends for maintenance tools such as <tt>wmllint</tt> and <tt>wmlindent</tt> as well as the ability to start the game or map editor and have it go right to the desired scenario or map.</p>
-<p>A new batch of item icons&mdash;drawn in the same style as the attack icons&mdash;have been added for the benefit of content creators; depictions of items such as potions, robes, armor, and jewelry are included.</p>
+<p>A new batch of item icons&mdash;drawn in the same style as the attack icons&mdash;have been made for the benefit of content creators; depictions of items such as potions, robes, armor, and jewelry are included.</p>
 <p>Thanks to revisions in the code that handles <a href="http://wiki.wesnoth.org/LanguageWML">[language]</a>, custom range and attack type strings can now be translated.</p>

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 <p>Thanks to a Google Summer of Code project that took place during 2010 and 2011, we now have a <a href="http://eclipse.wesnoth.org">Wesnoth Eclipse plugin</a>, which provides a full-blown IDE for WML in Eclipse thus providing features such as syntax highlighting, tag folding, autocompletion, and more. It even has front-ends for maintenance tools such as <tt>wmllint</tt> and <tt>wmlindent</tt> as well as the ability to start the game or map editor and have it go right to the desired scenario or map.</p>
-<p>A new batch of item icons&mdash;drawn in the same style as the attack icons&mdash;have been included for the benefit of content creators; depictions of items such as potions, robes, armor, and jewelry are included.</p>
+<p>A new batch of item icons&mdash;drawn in the same style as the attack icons&mdash;have been added for the benefit of content creators; depictions of items such as potions, robes, armor, and jewelry are included.</p>
 <p>Thanks to revisions in the code that handles <a href="http://wiki.wesnoth.org/LanguageWML">[language]</a>, custom range and attack type strings can now be translated.</p>

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 <em>Dead Water</em> spent some time being polished in the <a href="http://wesnoth-umc-dev.sourceforge.net">Wesnoth-UMC-Dev project</a> to prepare for mainline inclusion, just like <em>Delfador’s Memoirs</em> in the 1.8 series.</p>
-<p>Most of the existing campaigns have received both major and minor updates and improvements; new sets of portraits have been created for several campaigns: <em>The Rise of Wesnoth</em>, <em>Descent into Darkness</em>, <em>Liberty</em>, <em>The South Guard</em>, and <em>A Tale of Two Brothers</em>, and the latter’s storyline was rewritten. Several scenarios from the <em>Legend of Wesmere</em> were reworked to include more dynamic gameplay and better mechanics.</p>
+<p>Most of the existing campaigns have received both major and minor updates and improvements; new sets of portraits have been created for several campaigns: <em>The Rise of Wesnoth</em>, <em>Descent into Darkness</em>, <em>Liberty</em>, <em>The South Guard</em>, and <em>A Tale of Two Brothers</em>, and the latter’s storyline was rewritten. Several scenarios from <em>Legend of Wesmere</em> were reworked to include more dynamic gameplay and better mechanics.</p>
 <h4 id='multiplayer'>Multiplayer</h4>

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 <p>Substantial improvements have been made in regards to typography and consistency.</p>
-<p>Existing translations have been updated, and two new translations have begun: Irish and Old English.</p>
+<p>Existing translations have been updated, and two new translations were started: Irish and Old English.</p>
 <h3 id='campdev'>For Content Developers</h3>

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 <em>Dead Water</em> spent some time being polished in the <a href="http://wesnoth-umc-dev.sourceforge.net">Wesnoth-UMC-Dev project</a> to prepare for mainline inclusion, just like <em>Delfador’s Memoirs</em> in the 1.8 series.</p>
-<p>Most of the existing campaigns have received both major and minor updates and improvements; new sets of portraits have been created for several campaigns: <em>The Rise of Wesnoth</em>, <em>Descent into Darkness</em>, <em>Liberty</em>, <em>The South Guard</em>, and <em>A Tale of Two Brothers</em>, and the latter’s storyline was rewritten. Several scenarios from the <em>Legend of Wesmere</em> were reworked to include more dynamic gameplay and improved mechanics.</p>
+<p>Most of the existing campaigns have received both major and minor updates and improvements; new sets of portraits have been created for several campaigns: <em>The Rise of Wesnoth</em>, <em>Descent into Darkness</em>, <em>Liberty</em>, <em>The South Guard</em>, and <em>A Tale of Two Brothers</em>, and the latter’s storyline was rewritten. Several scenarios from the <em>Legend of Wesmere</em> were reworked to include more dynamic gameplay and better mechanics.</p>
 <h4 id='multiplayer'>Multiplayer</h4>
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 <p>The lighting system can now illuminate specific areas differently to better show local time of day effects and, for example, keep caves dark during the day.</p>
-<p>Various UI improvements have also been made. For example, you can now remove multiple add-ons at once using checkboxes. You can also now use the twelve-hour clock format thanks to a new advanced preference. </p>
+<p>Various changes were made to the UI. For example, you can now remove multiple add-ons at once using checkboxes. You can also now use the twelve-hour clock format thanks to a new advanced preference. </p>
-<p>Various improvements were made to the sidebar to make it more appealing and its elements easier to grasp.</p>
+<p>The sidebar was modified to make it more appealing and its elements easier to grasp.</p>
 <p>To help you quickly identify slowed units, they are now tinted light blue.</p>

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-<p>New generic portraits were added for the Drake Warden, Thrasher, and Enforcer, thus getting us closer to our goals of having high-quality art throughout the whole game.</p>
+<p>New generic portraits were added for the Drake Warden, Thrasher, and Enforcer, thus getting us closer to meeting our goal of having high-quality art throughout the whole game.</p>
 <p>The lighting system can now illuminate specific areas differently to better show local time of day effects and, for example, keep caves dark during the day.</p>

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 <p>The 1.10 series brings many new features for content developers, such as <a href="http://wiki.wesnoth.org/PersistenceWML">persistent variables</a>, which allow add-on authors to save data to players’ hard disks for use by other content developers or in future playthroughs.</p>
-<p>The game’s Lua capabilities have been strengthened considerably, which allows content developers to do much more then they could with it on the 1.8 series. In fact, one of our Google Summer of Code projects was focused on improving the AI-related Lua capabilities.</p>
+<p>The game’s Lua capabilities have been strengthened considerably, which allows content developers to do much more than they could with it on the 1.8 series. In fact, one of our Google Summer of Code projects was focused on improving the AI-related Lua capabilities.</p>
 <p>The terrain palette has been vastly expanded with the addition of new basic terrains as well as new structures and embellishments, thus allowing map makers to create more vibrant maps.</p>

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 <p>With several terrain types being added, and many more being completely redrawn or updated, including volcanoes, moving water, jungles, new embellishments and completely redrawn grasslands, the Wesnothian battlefield is now a much more beautiful thing to see.</p>
-<p>Many units, such as entire saurian race, have received new standing and other animations. These, along with the new, animated water help breathe life into the previously nigh-on motionless battlefield.</p>
+<p>Many units, such as the saurians, have received new standing and other animations. These, along with the new, animated water help breathe life into the previously nigh-on motionless battlefield.</p>
 <p>The 1.10 series features a completely remade version of the old <em>Northerners</em> theme as well as a new track: <em>Battle Epic</em>.</p>