reverseArticle="true"

[Aeonic]

I've seen reverseArticle="true" on a few reactor definitions. Does anyone know what it does?

[alterecco]

It just affects the name, when shown in dockscreens and such. The exact effect you would have to ask someone who knows english grammar about.

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[Periculi]

Articles are such: "a" "an" "the".

I am not really sure what reverseArticle="true" does, however. But I do think that George explained it somewhere around here and the search is insufficient to the task of locating the answer.

[Aeonic]

Oh, so with no reverseArticle, it would display "SN150 reactor" as such, while with reverseArticle="true" it displays "a SN150 reactor".

On the other hand, having no reverseArticle would display "a chicken", while having reverseArticle="false" would display "chicken".

Correct?

Basically its reversing whether the object is considered a noun or a name? If the first letter is capitalized, it'll treat it as a name, but if it has reverseArticle, it'll reverse that and treat it as a noun, while a noun would then be treated as a name?

[Periculi]

Probably

[george moromisato]

To generate an article for a noun, the game looks at the first letter of the noun. If the noun starts with a vowel, the article is "an":

An omnidirectional laser cannon
An Iocrym veil
An Urak howitzer

If the first letter is a consonant, the article is "a":

A laser cannon
A class I deflector
A segment of titanium plate

Sometimes, though, that rule doesn't work. Sometimes a noun that starts with a vowel should have the "a" article. Sometimes, a noun that starts with a consonant should have the "an" article:

An SN2500 reactor
A uranium rod
An x-ray laser cannon

[Aury]

thanks ^^

I actually did need something to do this.

How would we get an article like "the" though?

[hex]

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definiteArticle="true"

I think, as in: "the superfreighter St. Aoki"

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<Names definiteArticle="true">
	superfreighter St. Aoki; superfreighter St. Beatrice; ...
</Names>

[Aury]

ok, thanks! I'll have to check to see if that will apply to items