Talk:Elite Trader OXZ

Reval: I'm happy that you liked what I did - at least enough not to revert your page!

I chose SPACE because it is the equivalent of the UK's ghastly tabloid newspapers - this sort of thing!

So your edited paragraph:

From SPACE magazine's THE GUILD - FACT or FICTION?:

The strict and solemn vows of secrecy to which all Guild members adhere mean that rumours concerning the Guild's domination of various Corporate worlds, GalCop, and not a few seedier systems, abound in increasing number. Real facts are limited and often suspicious: But we have a few...

An incoherently inebriated, but presumed Guild-member, Cholmondeley the Craven, told me that there are Seven Strictures which all but the most senior Guild fratres are sworn to the death to follow:

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According to Tea Mereso, who claims to have interviewed him, G.E.T. apostate Contratius Phlebor intimated that a Guild splinter group - which he supports - styling themselves Galactic Overlords, have the sector police in their pockets. Readers are referred to her complete transcript (passim) as well as her article, which we credit with starting the whole outlandish and panicked rumour-mill churning.

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Would be written by them as:

From SPACE magazine's THE GUILD - THE SECRET FACTS:

The strict and solemn vows of secrecy to which all Guild members adhere mean that rumours concerning the Guild's domination of various Corporate worlds, GalCop, and not a few seedier systems, abound in increasing number. Real facts are limited and often suspicious: But we have a few...

An incoherently inebriated, but presumed Guild-member, Cholmondeley the Craven, told me that there are Seven Strictures which all but the most senior Guild fratres are sworn to the death to follow:

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According to Tea Mereso, who claims to have interviewed him, G.E.T. apostate Contratius Phlebor intimated said that a Guild splinter group - which he supports - styling themselves Galactic Overlords, have the sector police in their pockets. Readers are referred to her complete transcript (passim) as well as her article, which we credit with starting the whole outlandish and panicked rumour-mill churning.

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It doesn't matter.

But SPACE as described is much more like the Sun or the Daily Star than it is like the Economist or the Guardian/Daily Telegraph. They would assert their 'truth' rather than hedge about (unless their lawyers confirmed that they would be sued for billions!).

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Another point:

I cut and pasted this - but am unsure what it refers to:

NEW IN VERSION 1.4 Feature update (see bullets above)

Are the bullets above now below (but there are no bullets for Versions 1.1-1.3), or is it the upper section on benefits?

Points taken re SPACE magazine. Will assay another edit bearing them in mind (I was unsure as to the extent to which the publication could be classed as 'gutter press', so erred a little too far on the side of reasonableness!) I had actually conceived the motto of the Xexedi Enquirer to be 'JUST THE FACTS' - but in its case to be taken at face value. Tea, unlike 'the Argument', is a responsible investigative journalist...

The bullet-points referred to in that old (it feels a long time ago!) update announcement are those that now appear in the section provisionally titled 'Overview: The Fat and the Skinny', changed into another short Mereso effort, which really is 'JUST THE FACTS' - part of what her researches have been striving toward. She is now marginally accepted by the Guild as a convenient mouthpiece...

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Cholmondely, do you happen to have any idea how the Wiki's download counter works (or indeed if it still works)? Curious, I pasted one in from another OXP page, but after a week it still registers zero, yet I know this OXZ has been downloaded at least 17 times because I always do a test download after adding a new version...

I've come across at least two references in the BB to the counter no longer working Cholmondeley 08:06, 30 December 2020 (UTC)