Freelancer Beta

Nova - you are doing well in English, I realise it is difficult for you, but come on, think before you write something.

You may not be aware, but…

The way you write (several times now) is a demand: “I did not understand nothing! Tell me in Russian! Now!”

It is not a request: “Guys I did not understand this, can you explain it for me step-by-step please? Or can anyone give me a translation in Russian?”.

This tutorial is quite clear, although I know it is written like a discussion, as many authors do, nd this means too many words for non-native English speakers. But the fact that you did not understand nothing is not because the tutorial is bad. It is because your English is still not enough.

We will help, but your writing implies that the tutorial is not understandable. That is offensive to the author.

When you need help, just say “Can someone please help me with a Russian translation, my English is not so good. Thanks.”

What is the difference?

It is a request: “Can someone…”

It contains “PLEASE.”

and…

“THANKS.”

Try again - GENTLY! and we will always try to help you, and we will help to add more (and better) English to your memory banks too!

StarTrader wrote:
This tutorial is quite clear, although I know it is written like a discussion, as many authors do, nd this means too many words for non-native English speakers. But the fact that you did not understand nothing is not because the tutorial is bad. It is because your English is still not enough.

Where i said that tutorial is bad? I said that i cant understand it, it doesnt mean its bad.

Hehe, I had the same problem in reverse, you should read the translations of the Russian Stalker threads to English, quite funny when it talks about hanging a lamp then hanging your neighbor in the very next sentence….

Let’s take it easy on the foreign speakers, google is their best friend and their worst enemy but it’s getting better, drink a cold brew and reread their posts, it always helps me …

Ya, but it was the way you wrote - the English language has many subtle meanings and sarcasms which only native speakers can get from it.

Don’t worry, I have seen it from many other nationals, Italians and French and Germans and Greeks also say it the same and in those languages it only means what you see - “I did not understand anything from this”. But in English it reflects on the material, not their own non-understandings. An English speaker would say “I didn’t understand much of this” - (this is another subtlety of English - reversal, for another example: “This isn’t bad, is it?”) This means he understood some of it, and has no implication that the material is bad because the word “from” is not used.

Even though they don’t say “from this”, it is implied, and because of the implied “from this”, this in turn also implies that “this material is insufficient”. It is almost like adding “It is rubbish!” - because when English people say “I didn’t understand anything from this!” that is what they are meaning, that the material is bad or insufficient - or crap!! Sadly we use extremely derogatory words such as “crap” too often in speech, instead of saying “this could be better” or other less offensive words, and this is becoming the implied meaning more and more even when the bad word itself is not there!

Can you see what I am saying? That is the hard part to understand. But it really is there.

I realise you did not mean it to sound like that, but we need to help you correct it. And it will make your English much better and more natural, so this is a good thing!

Keep up the good work, be encouraged, and don’t be offended, I don’t mean any offence to you, only to help and teach you and others who are willing to learn the subtle parts of the English language!

Then you can use the subtle parts to be bad when you want to be, like me! rofl -

( Hey, FF - where’s my goddam ROFL button?!! ) - so subtle!

I like the way you wrote your new request for translation, good work.

A troll will always be a troll.

Nova wrote:
Sushi, honestly, all what i understood in this tutorial are screenshots.
I don’t know english so good and i simply cant understand. It would be nice to see russian translation.

Ask me in Skype, i will translate

Your links are broken.

http://kdaug.com/Art_Freelancer.html x)

Looks like it’s a problem with XOOPS. Let’s just link the description.

Pittsburgh
LIGHT EFFECTS ON ASTEROIDS???
Old Trent costume
Old Trent costume 2 and lights
Old Trent costume 3
Dr. Sinclair
Shadows???
A beautiful nebula on an ugly jpg compression lol
Dynamic lights
Another A beautiful nebula
Freeport 7

the only thing i see is trent’s costume (prolly still in the costumes somewhere)
all the other things can be modded. or are from the released game. there are no dynamic lights or shadows on that screens or anything else that is graphically or technically different from the freelancer we’re used to.

I think it is promo rendering

a nomad?? cool!

http://www.cozmicfunk.com/dapage.html

Contract work on the space game “Freelancer” and project “Lonestar”. Work includes building 3D models and textures, animation, texturing and refining models, designing and building space ojects from asteroids to debris fields etc. Follow the links lsited below to find more information and graphics/screenshots.