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[I7-2077] Cosmetic bug with assemblies and printed names #7

Open curiousdannii-testing opened 2 years ago

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

As of release 6M62, there seems to be a bug with displaying things in assemblies whose parents have printed names.

Usually, printing the ownership text describes the name of the related object; however, for an unknown reason, assigning the owner a printed name seems to override this, printing its kind? A minimal example:

A witch is a kind of person. A pimple is a kind of thing.

Every witch carries a pimple (called her wart).

The Coven Commons is a room.
Esther is a witch and here.
Agatha is a witch and here. The printed name of Agatha is "The Grand High Witch".
>x esther's wart
You see nothing special about Esther's wart.

>x agatha's wart
You see nothing special about The Grand High Witch's pimple.

>showme
Coven Commons - room
    yourself - person
    Esther - witch
Esther's wart - pimple
    The Grand High Witch - witch
The Grand High Witch's pimple - pimple

(In this example, ‘pimple’ and ‘wart’ are synonyms; in e.g. complex machines with identical components differentiated by name, it might not be so!)

imported from: Cosmetic bug with assemblies and printed names
  • status: Reported
  • priority: Low
  • resolution: Unresolved
  • imported: 2022/01/10