Shorthand resource name ambiguity

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Shorthand resource name ambiguity #44

Closed generateui closed 3 years ago

generateui commented 6 years ago

Currently, JSettlers uses the names in resources WOOD and WHEAT. while these names definitely make sense, when you shorten them to one letter, they are ambiguous ("W").

I would like to propose a change for either name. The easiest change for me seems to rename WOOD to TIMBER. This will result in the following names with one-letter-ascii-shorthands:

T Timber W WHeat S Sheep C Clay O Ore U Unknown G Gold

This change is a preparation to later enable shorthand ascii characters to refer to resources. E.g. "Player 1 discards [ww tt o c]".

jdmonin commented 6 years ago

For what it's worth here are the currently-official english terms from the 5th-edition rules:

resources: brick, lumber, grain, ore, wool (no ambiguous "W")
tile types: hills, forest, fields, mountains, pasture, desert
dev cards: knight, progress (road building, year of plenty, monopoly), VP (market, library, chapel, university, great hall)

jsettlers code and UI currently uses some previous-edition names that could probably be updated.

jdmonin commented 3 years ago

Thanks again for discussing this, back in the day :) Added to Todo list for eventual name standardization.