Masters..

[Ryuusei]

This is one that really wouldn't affect Central, unless it came with an alteration of the Master list, but I noticed something while working on my server. Why is it that all the Masters are male? There's not even an option to change their gender, which is.. well, kinda dumb and perhaps slightly biased. :? And awfully inconvenient when I'm trying to convert the Master List into a set of inside jokes. :roll:

[Elessa]

This is one that really wouldn't affect Central, unless it came with an alteration of the Master list, but I noticed something while working on my server. Why is it that all the Masters are male? There's not even an option to change their gender, which is.. well, kinda dumb and perhaps slightly biased. :? And awfully inconvenient when I'm trying to convert the Master List into a set of inside jokes. :roll:

hmmmm... most interesting. kind of chauvinistic then, is it not, if all are male? i hath played on a .9.7 server that had a mix of genders for the masters.

perhaps it was easier in that version to make the change.

[Sichae-Saracen]

I thought Fie, Mereraband and Sensei Noetha were all female... *shrugs*

[Ryuusei]

Well, all I know is, Question Master seems to always yield a masculine pronoun, and there's no field to change gender in the editor. :/

[YurianStonebow]

Uh, welcome to the new millennium? I remember some kind of announcement that some feminine titles, like actress, were all going out the window as we kept becoming more and more modern a global community and society, but that was a long, long time ago...

[Ryuusei]

I don't have access to the exact text right now, but I'm talking about this:

You timidly approach (master's name) and inquire as to your standing in his class.

Easy to go unnoticed, since Question Master is essentially unnecessary now that we have the experience bar, but still it would be nice to be able to change this. Guess I'll have to edit the PHP files directly.. :/

[jrminga]

well, it's not much, but Bluspring herself is female.

[Sichae-Saracen]

You will have to do more than editing the PHP files... you will have to edit the DB as well, to hold an extra column for sex.

It would kinda go like this...
ALTER TABLE `masters` ADD `sex` TINYINT( 4 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;
Then, you will need to add into the masters.php, a bool switch or enum for the gender...

All in all, such an insignificant thing is not worth all of the trouble.

[SaucyWench]

I wonder if you could use the translation tool...

I think it would be better than actually editing core files, but you will probably find that it is still not worth the effort.

[Nightwind]

couldn't we add it as something we're doing with the master editor?

[SaucyWench]

It's all fine to pick the place to pieces... I could spend ten minutes and come up with a hundred things that are not as good as they could be. But in the end, some things matter and some just... don't. We are never going to have a perfect game. We have limited resources and limits to what is feasible and what is not. Even if the DragonPrime contributors fixed *everything* that is not perfect, Kendaer doesn't have enough hours in the day to check it all in. Add to that, people have opinions... some think something is wrong, some like it how it is.

I am not having a dig at the people suggesting changes. Please, keep the suggestions coming. Just understand, that even if something should be changed in an ideal world, doesn't mean we will think that the effort is worth it. :)

[Ryuusei]

Well, I personally think developers being able to add female masters if they wanted matters, but that's my opinion.. and I'm not a coder. I know nothing about PHP whatsoever. :lol: So I'll just take the easy way out and prevail on my much more knowledgable little brother (the one who uploaded the server in the first place ^_-) to change that 'his' to something non gender specific.