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Cardinal · Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:39 pm

How many Longzhu's can you order now at any one Corporate post?

I love those guys. I found 3 in one system once and was able to enhance my omni akan to +150%. Lovely.

Longzhu, by the way, means "Dragon Ball" in Chinese.

Petrus · Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:58 pm

I've never been able to order more than 1 in .98! As Burzmali said, worldship plate x4 is always fun to get from a corporate post, and I haven't checked all the enhancement device order limits but you could probably order a bunch of those too.

Fossaman · Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:53 pm

Enhancers are typically pretty limited; you can't get more than ten of any type, not sure of the exact numbers, and thermo and ion enhancers are down to three or four.

goat not sheep · Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:42 pm

Cardinal wrote: Longzhu, by the way, means "Dragon Ball" in Chinese.

Actually... it means Dragon Scale.
Long- Dragon
Zhu-Scale

Ball is something like...cheo or something.

Cardinal · Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:55 pm

goat not sheep wrote:
Cardinal wrote: Longzhu, by the way, means "Dragon Ball" in Chinese.
Actually... it means Dragon Scale.
Long- Dragon
Zhu-Scale

Ball is something like...cheo or something.

You made my chinese, chinese-speaking girlfriend splutter in dissagreement. Zhu means ball/sphere.

"Lin" means scale.

Boris the Cat · Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:32 pm

Scaly spheres... fish balls?

Yugi · Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:23 pm

Since two people, both fluent in the language disagree, it is time to turn to online dictionary translators:

On every translator I tried for "ball" I got "qiú", which is basically what GnS said (cheo).
For "scale" I got nothing along the lines of "zhu".
However, when going the other way, I got a long list of words for "zhu", though the most promising were "execute" and "punish".

Disclaimer: I am not a fluent speaker of Chinese Mandarin.

Oh, and you are both sure you're talking Mandarin, right? There are others such as Cantonese.

Cardinal · Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:19 am

Dragonball Z is called Longzhu Z in China

dvlenk6 · Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:56 pm

Cardinal wrote:Dragonball Z is called Longzhu Z in China

That settles it for me.
I'm guessing the chinese speak fluent chinese

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evilbob · Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:17 pm

I'm not sure. I know many in England who don't speak fluent english (spelling you with one letter is not fluent english)

Yugi · Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:47 am

On the subject of language, I have recently discovered that 'Qinglong' (AKA Qianlong) is also the Chinese astronomical name for the eastern quadrant of the sky.

goat not sheep · Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:31 am

You pronounce it 'Qinglong'?
Wow... if you pronounce it differently...i means thousand dragon...

Yugi · Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:52 am

goat not sheep wrote:You pronounce it 'Qinglong'?
Wow... if you pronounce it differently...i means thousand dragon...

Yup, and Thousand Dragon is also a Yugioh card, and I finally know how to pronounce my Chinese version of the card

I am pretty much perfect at pronunciation according to my language teachers (french, spanish, japanese, etc.)