EC 'BOOK' fix... not.
Hi I asked about a fix for the fact that you cannot read ec books and cc books the same, nor can you cut and paste into the ec books as you could always do the cc books back about 10 yrs ago when SA first came out. I then asked about a fix for it often over the years until at the march m&g on oceania I asked again and Mesanna said the fix would come in pub 105, which it didn't so i was surprised to see it on this latest publish notes gone to Origin etc.
So I dashed to the TC to check it out as FINALLY I would be able to use the books the same. So I thought.
FAIL.
Not sure what the 'fix' was but you still cannot copy and paste into an EC book. When you are trying to do a player run event or something, rules or
instructions, you usually type into a text or word doc then copy to an
in game book, it works fine in cc but always bugged out in the EC and
wouldn't copy so you would need to type it all manually page by page, so
basically this is a fail. It is still a fail as EC books will still not copy
anything after the first page.
This is a sample of how the same text 'copies' and 'pastes' into an EC/CC book. EC is the top, CC is the bottom.
AS you can see, yet again the text does NOT copy into an EC book other than the first few lines. The same text was copied by Allen into the CC and it copied the whole lot.
You should be able to copy enough text to fill a 20 page book in ONE paste.
Having waited well over ten years for a fix this is a total disappointment.
Any chance of this ever getting fixed? I used to be able to copy text into a book then just target the next book and the next etc to produce the same book text across 20 or more books, just by hitting cntrl V to paste. YOu cannot expect people to type mini pages manually to fill a book in the EC.
Cheers MissE
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We have been begging for this fix ever since the day EC came out, and am thrilled it is finally here. It is not perfect, but it is a far cry better than what we had before. I poked and prodded a bit, and was not able to get EC client viewing a CC written book (or reverse) to screw each other up - but I am going to do some more poking. There are some spacing differences, but the Devs are aware of it and even if it never changes I can work with this. I am very happy.
EC / CC comparison:
I was hoping the change of font would let me use special characters in EC, but it is only a partial change. Can this code be applied to the title on the outside view of the book? And, while you are digging around in that neighborhood of the code... maybe peek at the text code for engraved gear, distilled booze, and pet branding? The special characters show in CC for all of those things, but not EC.
EC / CC comparison:
Thanks you so much, Devs, I somehow missed this part of the patch notes until now. I am gonna poke around with the loading of house contents now.
Cheers MissE
Cheers MissE
This is already live on my home shard, so I ran around viewing already-made books (most of them were made in CC) and the spacing has caused a few hiccups. They are still legible, however, and now all the EC-made books can be viewed in CC. Again, not perfect but this is WAY better than before.
Even so, this is WAY BETTER than before, this is not a fail. It just... is not perfect.
Is there any chance of the special characters being usable in EC? I know there are a lot of actually game-changing bugs that need attention, so I understand that this is not exactly a top priority. But there are a lot of fun things to be done with them in terms of engraving gear, pets, distilled bottles, and other things that EC users are really missing out on. This does already work in CC, so the game CAN do it... it is an EC issue. Thanks for your time!
I've also done some testing on the copy paste, if you paste the same thing in the book multiple times you get more words out of it, but after few times it just breaks down, turns blank and stop working completely.
It still lacks the event that tells you "hey you have no more characters in this page" and move you to the next page where you can continue to write (like it is on CC) - for when you type the book not copy-paste.
Thanks, @Bleak ;
is broken in an unimmaginable way...
little example:
in the image above, I'm typing where the last 2 "aa" are and the caret is on the other side of the world...
in this picture I'm 3 lines down "test" and the caret is disappeared completely...
plus I tried to type the text of the cc book miss echo posted above and certain lines don't match at all.
IMHO the best fix for the books would be to change BOTH clients font into a monospaced one and make each line holding X characters. Since the font is monospaced it will be the same fo both clients without the need of measuring in pixel like they did now that messed up the world...