"defence" or "defense" - only a spelling problem ?

[SophieX]

In some game-files you find the british spelling ( defence ), in some other files you find the american spelling ( defense ).

In both cases it is the variable (of course) for "defendending-stats".



My question:

Do anyone know, whether the "game-engine" reflects on both spellings in an equal manor,

or if not:

which is the "correct" spelling in terms of the "game-engine" ?

 

[homerCCCP]

In some game-files you find the british spelling ( defence ), in some other files you find the american spelling ( defense ).

In both cases it is the variable (of course) for "defendending-stats".



My question:

Do anyone know, whether the "game-engine" reflects on both spellings in an equal manor,

or if not:

which is the "correct" spelling in terms of the "game-engine" ?

Dear SophieX,

My deep apologies, but you are wrong. Both words have an entirely different meaning and are used correctly. Let me explain it to you:

Defense De-fense de-fend The ability to fend off attacks.

Defence De-fence de-fence The ability to quickly unmount fences.

I hope this explanation could help a bit.

 

[Spelaren]

Dear SophieX,

My deep apologies, but you are wrong. Both words have an entirely different meaning and are used correctly. Let me explain it to you:

Defense De-fense de-fend The ability to fend off attacks.

Defence De-fence de-fence The ability to quickly unmount fences.

I hope this explanation could help a bit.

That makes no sense at all. Why does a c for a s matter?

 

[homerCCCP]

That makes no sense at all. Why does a c for a s matter?

A single letter can make a big difference sometimes, my dear Spelaren.

Let's take the word toll as an example: It's some kind of a fee that you have to pay for using some specific roads.

Now let's add an "r" at the second position. Just, one letter, shouldn't make a big difference, doesn't it?

My apologies if it's still not obvious enough. This video should help:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...BMAB6BAgIEAM&usg=AOvVaw2636TOAM_egATDmVbKo7Nw

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[SophieX]

Defense De-fense de-fend The ability to fend off attacks.

OK

Defence De-fence de-fence The ability to quickly unmount fences.

Some gamefiles shows a different meaning:
in:.....\common\units\infantry.txt you find this ( and in other files as well )

mountaineers = {
sprite = infantry
......
hills = {
attack = 0.2
defence = 0.05
movement = 0.1
}
mountain = {
attack = 0.35
defence = 0.1
movement = 0.2
}

In my understanding this means : The ability to fend off attacks ( in this eyample in hill/mountain terrain )

 

[jpd]

A single letter can make a big difference sometimes, my dear Spelaren.

Let's take the word toll as an example: It's some kind of a fee that you have to pay for using some specific roads.

Now let's add an "r" at the second position. Just, one letter, shouldn't make a big difference, doesn't it?

My apologies if it's still not obvious enough. This video should help:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...BMAB6BAgIEAM&usg=AOvVaw2636TOAM_egATDmVbKo7Nw

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[Fulmen]

@homerCCCP I will defence your fence that you use for defence.

 

[CraniumMuppet]

It is probably as simple as whoever the programmer who implemented the modifier internally picked to either spell it as defence or defense. However their preferred spelling is (UK or US English).

You cannot pick which spelling you prefer when modding the game for example

 

[bitmode]

My question:

Do anyone know, whether the "game-engine" reflects on both spellings in an equal manor,

or if not:

which is the "correct" spelling in terms of the "game-engine" ?

The game engine has a list of several thousand recognized words, also called tokens. It recognizes both "defence" (TOKEN_DEFENCE, 0x2c67) and "defense" (TOKEN_DEFENSE, 0x2a54). So from the engine's perspective, these two spellings have entirely different meanings and are not interchangable. The surrounding entity will generally expect certain tokens and throw an error if it sees different ones. Even if they look interchangeable to a human reader.

The mountaineers example you quoted is a CUnitAdjuster which happens to expect token TOKEN_DEFENCE but a different entity might expect TOKEN_DEFENSE so there is not one "true" way across the entire engine.

 

[SophieX]

The game engine has a list of several thousand recognized words, also called tokens. It recognizes both "defence" (TOKEN_DEFENCE, 0x2c67) and "defense" (TOKEN_DEFENSE, 0x2a54). So from the engine's perspective, these two spellings have entirely different meanings and are not interchangable. The surrounding entity will generally expect certain tokens and throw an error if it sees different ones. Even if they look interchangeable to a human reader.

The mountaineers example you quoted is a CUnitAdjuster which happens to expect token TOKEN_DEFENCE but a different entity might expect TOKEN_DEFENSE so there is not one "true" way across the entire engine.

Thank you very much for this helpful answer.

As feared I have to run more trials and quality-checks with my mods....

 

[Louella]

my favourite is one of the defines that affects AI air strategy, that uses "interseptors", which isn't a word in either UK or US English.