#💬-cells-chat
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I'm just built different
Money or grinding a ton.
And getting top 25 or 10 each event gives a lot of logits
They started to build up after I got every augmentation
Do any of the augmentations besides the artifacts give boosts?
I don't think so
Any updates while i was gone
when did you last play
I forgot 💀
last update was cheese event
How can I help you?
- Click 1 for questions about Primary Simulation
- Click 2 for questions about Beyond
- Click 3 for questions about Mesozoic Valley
- Click 4 for questions about Explorations/Events
- Click 5 for questions about Reality Engine
- Click 6 for questions about Augmentations/Darwinium
- Click 7 for technical questions
- Click 8 for other questions/suggestions for new FAQs
- Click 9 for Discord-exclusive questions
- Click 10 for credits
Why did they take out the nanobots from the space simulation?
they neevr were in there
no
are you the nickname I remember who was really active here
Alas, no, this person only has 60 messages
Yeah
There are 50 members with the name of nickname
Skull
how is it funny?
what is the order in which event themes are picked for exploration schedule?
yh, i think so
There doesn't seem to be an order
It's probably just a completely random order
i see
just found ridiculous how cheese event was repeated a few days after its release
💀
every new event is repeated 1 week after they first get added
any spoilers on theme?
well, somenody told me that
Indeed
Yep
Joining late = later divisions
(higher number)
So higher number divs mean less competitive races
Since those tryhards will join early
get on the last hour to get to top 10
Skull
Ok linganguuu
or there will be 1000+ people with the same thought
💀
GET ON HOUR BEFORE THE LAST HOUR
🙏
Indeed
Less time to complete exploration means less competitive
Makes sense ig
More time to complete means more competitive
i got to top 10 in recent event
but
i looked back for a second
and now i am top 100
literally c.a.t.s. vibe
Skull
i may or may not have glitched out the event leaderboard
What
Im finishing up ep 20 on the beyond and I have a neutron star I picked up from explorations, should I use it?
i dont think theres any reason you shouldnt
at most, wait till the end of episode 20 or 21
I think just open all the star you have
Hey so my phones been breaking down and I can't interact with the top of my screen does anybody know how to backup/transfer save data without going through the menu or a different way to reach the menu
The game has an auto-save feature it will save the progress in Local Save section
Where is that?
In menu lol
That's the problem I can't access the menu with my current phone
Maybe it will save on steam data and you can backup it
Try to backup the game file, I think it should has a save progress
Any chance you can enable auto turn and then simply turn your phone to landscape mode?
So in menu it's probably set to be portrait only
You don't have something like split screen?
Hold on
Hm, not sure if it works in cts tho
I dont think so
Also It probably is set to portrait only as I dont normally like it just shifting around when I lay down
I do think I know what to do now though although it will take a while either way thanks for the help
Try to back up the game file with google play, then transfer it into other device
That's what I was thinking
That's the only chance tho-, otherwise rip
I hope it'll work
Cus I'm pretty far and it would suck to lose all that progress but I'll try that at some point not right now as I need to get to sleep so thanks
Rotate it into landscape?
If you can't change orientation by using the android/iOS settings, you could try downloading a 'Screen Orientation' app from Google play / Apple equivalent. Screen Orientation apps let you 'force' the rotation using the app, not the settings, and - as they're used by people who've damaged their screen - may avoid things at the top. Maybe.
I did this when I lost the top of my tablet screen.
Good luck!
It looks like he has set it to portrait only in in-game menu
Just open the menu and- oh wait
Exactly lmao
Less seriously, when I took my phone across the equator, on start up it registered down as up and up as down for a few minutes. I guess it makes a guess using magnetic fields, and thinks about gravity a bit later. If you're quick ... and are y'know travelling ...
hm, i wonder what's the difference between upgrades like x32 speed and x32 payout
in case the speed is already high*
There's no difference in that case
Could you plug it into a computer or cast to something you can control the phone from? Depends what you can access.
Do you have anything that lets people control your phone from other devices (e.g. Team Viewer) - me and my mum both have that (makes remote tech support a lot easier!).
If the speed of generator is under 0.5 second? The circle no longer process, it turn into a solid one. The extra speed will mult to the payout and stacking together
alright, then it is just the split of spending my mutagen and dark matter
Instead of produce 1$/0.25 sec you can say produce 4$/sec
All caps and make sure there's no space at the end or beginning
there's not
And where are you writing it?
You don't need console
on darwin
You need to go to the galapagos island, and click on the statue of Darwin
And you should get a pop up after you click the sign on it
OH!
Thanks!
I already knew the code before playing tho
But the roblox map is really well done
I'm on my way to singularity in 2 minutes
I just tried, so I'll try again when its resimulation time
Spookier
is that roblox 
woah
When your friend is begin marked as a cheater the game will lock their stat, mean you won't see any info about your friend, or it just show 0
well i can see his profile atleast

You can see the profile, but the game progression won't
Cheese time
yup
Noice
Ez Macky Cheese goes hard 🗣️🔥
what?
where'd u hear that?
The livestream?
oh
Missed stream....😑
request
Atleast one announcement of upcoming live stream 3 hours before
request*
Keep missing livestream every time because of no pre announcement
Rip
There was used to be 2 announcement in past
One few days before and second hour or half before livestream
😭
😭
the password is 123
Anyways i guess I will watch "**video **" of it on YouTube now
just need to get to 10 now
dang it i missed the stream
My metabit production isn’t fast enough
Why is my Metabit production so low?
- Each Metabit you create requires slightly more Entropy and Ideas than the previous one, so your production will decrease over time.
How do I collect Entropy/Ideas faster and more efficiently?
- If you have a touch-screen device that supports multi-touch, you can use multiple fingers to tap, allowing you to earn Entropy/Ideas a lot faster than with just one finger. If your device has a keyboard, you can spam your keyboard. Oddly enough, the game registers any keyboard input as a click. You can also use an autoclicker if you want (and we actually recommend this method for players with motor issues, or repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel).
How to increase my Metabit production?
- The best methods for gaining more Metabits are buying the Giant Squid and Capybara augmentations (because of the massive boosts they provide to entropy production), completing lots (or all) of the Mesozoic Valley extinctions, or amassing lots of badges from explorations.
@ember rover ^
oooh lets go cryptids will be back
Ive been doing that
And I’ve been trying to get neutrino expansion for like
A year no
Now*
And I’ve been doing that shit
The whole time
if you have everything exception neutrino expansion, then focus on meso and beyond for the boosts
also make sure to constantly reboot when you have at least 50% increased simulation speed
How do Ik if the simulation speed has increased 50%
I’ve been doing that
it will show you the increase on the confirmation popup when you click reboot
Here?
Do I HAVE to do the math?
ig yh
umm
Increase
100 * new invrease / old invrease
Ok…
Do u mean
Increase
Or is invrease just a word I haven’t heard of
I hate math sm
Oh I see
I feel like I haven’t been going anywhere or progressing recently
Like nothing for the main simulation
Even though I leveled up my beyond 19 times in like a year after being stuck at level 7
take half of your current speed, then subtract your current speed from the new speed (you can do in very rough rounded approximations if you arent sure)
if the 2nd value is greater than the 1st value, your increase is more than 50%
Ok……
or more simply, its more than 50% if the difference between your new and current speeds is more than half of your current speed
Hey. Just seen you have 49 levels of Meso multiplier (490). Because there's 550 levels of Meso altogether, if you got to Prestige 10 level 50 you'd have a multiplier of 5500 here.
You'd increase your metabit production by a factor of ten. That's the most obvious thing.
Meso is a long grind, but you would get lots of Darwinium on the way (through geodes).
Ok
550?! I THOUGJT IT WAS JUST 50
50 levels, then 10 Prestiges of 50 each.
(they get easier / faster cus you keep silver / gold traits when you reset)
Huh, not many main sim reboots
Noooo ... A bit of a challenge I set myself. Mind you, I haven't got that super speedy achievement 😁.
I would get a 30% increase or something if I restarted, but as I've bought everything in the engine, no point. And I like my low number 🙂.
Yeah, super speedy is a challenge to be sure. Even with them loosening it with all the new content, still hard to do
And I'm def not good at clicking things quickly. Got the speedy achievement: that was good enough for me.
How tf
Buying-mode nanobots helps a lot
How many metabits per second do u get
3.62 x 10^9
Tf is that
... 3.62 billion?
Converted: 3.62e9 → 3.62 B
Bro knows nothing about scientific notation
In total
use a vomputer
The 9 at the end of the 10^9 is how many times you multiply it by 10. Or how many places to the right you move the decimal point.
yh, true
What do those do again?
Automatically buy things?
nuy stuff
The big green number on the screenshot.
wow, meso got me 100 dwm in a day
is there any particular reason i start every mv extinction with exactly 3.74 fossils
How
well, for me, it's less than 3.74
does it cost 3.74 at base? rn it costs i think 0.26
by, uh, playing it
yh, it does
What cave u the darwinium
That's thanks to rare and epic cards @regal skiff @still wyvern
well uhh 40 extinctions worth of stone geodes
GODDAMN
That decreases dinos cost
yes ik, thats why i asked if it costed 3.74 at base
HOW DO U DO IT THAT FAST
yh, i was anout to say that
40 IN 1 DAY?!
well i have rares and epics
lots of prestige
only 2 prestige
I see
yh, nut like i mean, like after prestige, first like ton of ranks are super ez
well prestige 2 did take me the better part of half a decade
Guys should I report a good glitch
It’s like
Useful
It allows u to use nanobots in beyond
huh??
This not that useful
plz share in dms
I figured it out
this too
true tho, i've finished neyond
well its not useful but i am kinda curious
same for me here
Should I report it
Yeah
idk, prolly
what would beyond nanobots even get you tho
then don't
2 extra stardust
well you should probably report it then
nut do share it in dms, please
I’m gonna crash out
I did
But I use it
srry, didn't see
I know how to do it and I’m gonna report it
How do you do it? Am curious
Whyyyyyy
I’ll tell u in DMs if u don’t report
i told him like 10 sevs ago
i read "I know how to do it and I'm not gonna report it"
i thought u meant like gatekeep from mods/devs
It’s actually surprisingly simple
It is
did what sent twice?
Just active nanobots in primary, then switch to beyond
Do NOT report
If u report
do u have message logger
It’ll do horrors for the economy
The bug does wonders for the economy
THINK OF THE CHILDREN
umm, mods vould just vhevk this vhannel and see the message #💬-cells-chat message
No not really
They might not see it tho
nruh i vhanged v to v in my google searvh just now💀
im doing it in this entire server and even in private dms to everynody who is in this server
Oh ok
I like ts server
I should talk in it more
Yall are chill
Except for @rough axle
what's ts?
This
He said he’s reporting the nanobot glitch
yh, i knew it
He hasn’t reported it yet so idk if he’s gonna
And I’ve talked abt it in cells chat before but it’s still here
The devs should just keep it and say it’s an Easter egg and give u an achievement for it
And give me my own custom role because I’m rlly cool
Yk?
give u a vustom role vuz u... found a nug?
Well that too but also cuz I’m just a rlly cool guy
Huh??? I coulda sworn I did that at least 50 times
They don’t appear on the tree but they do tap
nruh, when @rough axle said "This thread will soon ne deleted ny the moderators", in the 1st thread, it got deleted in less than 2 sevonds after he said that, and in the 2nd one, it got deleted in like 10-20 sevonds
@still wyvern u broke ur rule when saying @rough axle ‘s name
no
i did
@ symnol
then svrolled (it was the 4th name there)
so i didn't type the third letter of the alphanet
i typed the @ symnol
I'm happy they added daily darwinium
?
@rough axle WHYYYYYYYYYYY
You're asking why they reported a bug in the bug reports channel
Ok so why do you care then
The devs won't place much importance on it
Because I like using it
::)
Then go use it instead of screaming at people -_-
But it’s gonna be gone
In a decade maybe
The game doesn't get updates every other hour
Also it's not that big of a deal
It's a very minor bug
exavtly
Your entire save file won't be deleted if it gets reported or fixed
exavtly
Alien smile emoticon
Just did the math: adding nanobots to beyond boosts your production by a whopping ||6%!!!||
||what a stupendous boost! This is gonna shatter beyond economy||
:shock:
exavtly, so why does tile flooring vare so muvh anout it?
No idea
They're acting like all their data will be wiped if the bug gets fixed
nut it won't
So (((6%)!)!)! is I think less than 1%
also i just notived that in the events in this server it says "The The Large Questions Exploration"
prolly vuz the theme of the exploration is "The Large Questions" and not "Large Questions"
So is it Big or Large? This philosophical debate may never conclude
well, i van't say that word due to my vhallenge, so im replaving it with a synonym of it
so do i just quit the vhallenge?
Yes
I offivially quit noth of the vhallenges that i entered starting... now
phew
fym phew? like were the challenges pressuring u or smth?
my game just went back to a fresh game, like as if nothings happened, but i still have like 33.44Qdc purple things and 416.09Tdc ideas
lmao tf did i do
i think mods van help u
bruh i did c to v here out of instinct
by purple things, do u mean entropy?
yeah
Check save manager for local saves
Does anyone know the Darwinium codes the devs gave out in their livestream today?
I'm too lazy to check myself
eh, prolly smth like cheesecake, idk (i didn't watch it)
They didn't
yh, i was considering that possibility
Oh
Everything you see is an illusion from non absolute perceptions
bruh, why are ppl reacting with the darwinium emoji?
bruh, why does quarter keep reacting and un-reacting the darwinium emoji?
i kinda wanna block quarter now, he keeps reacting and un-reacting to my message
Did you get notifications about it?
yes
and that's why i kinda wanted to block u
why wouldn't it?
Thought it would send you a notification like once or twice
no, it sent the notification every single time u reacted to my message
Uh oh
wdym "uh oh"?
By that I mean I clicked it way too much then
It was satisfying though
how?
when i spam reactions my discord starts tweaking and it spams the reactions by its own
yh, the same happens when i do that
oh god, who knew that using an autoclicker on a reaction would not end well?
anw i gtg sleep now
so gn yall
Surely you're tempted to do the same to Quarter now? I am ...
Aw man I knew I should’ve done cheesecake
Wait why? (I'm texting from my phone rn)
:o
web
Oh yeah

Yo can you send the link
Never seen that on mobile or steam ver
Of the web store
:D
Because it didn't exist earlier
Share.
Be kind and share
Admit web is good then I will
:<
yeah now you shared it after quarter threatened you >:)
-# web good :<
Lmfao, I just opened the game on web to get the link, thanks
huh another game I play uses the same service
playfab
?
Xsolla?
Absolute cinema
what do i do with dariwium once i buy the sphinx?
What should I spend my Darwinium on?
- Darwinium is best spent on Diamond Geodes on Extinction 50 of the Mesozoic Valley. If you aren’t close to that rank, it's best used for time fluxes and x4 boost in events, since they can be hard for new players.
what
besides gambling
Spinning it
What does that mean??
SPIN YOUR DARWINIUM
HOW DO I SPIN DARWINIUM??
By spinning it
awejvkoaefmsldc
Spin is spend
where tho
Use it to buy boost
:
I just got a random ghost ping from #🏆-share-your-prestige
Probably someone trying to ask how I got so many darwinium and logits
Maybe a mod tell you that they have given you a role and delete it
Why would they send it to delete it
Also they never did that
Just "dang"
price of trust?
Yes
chat I'm like, surprising myself
I haven't spent a penny, yet I'm top 68 global on this explore
and almost on my 2nd challenge
I am actually becoming like, good
Congratulations!
I think you can do even better, I think you can make it to top 25 this event
🤔
At least it's head isn't stuck in the ground
that is funni
idk why one of the fish dinosaurs is on the ground
for like a few days
might have been smb reacting to ur message
although only mods are supposed to react to ur message, there are 4 reactions from ppl who aren't mods
well, only mods are supposed to use the :TICK: emoji (i wrote it in uppercase, so that it wouldn't be an emoji)
also, zeppelin doesn't allow u to send messages that aren't purely screenshots/photos in #🏆-share-your-prestige
Because it might be funny to tease Quarter back (just a bit, not to actually annoy them)
Darwinium shards
what?
Since the picture is slightly cut out
It doesn't look like a cube, but rather a shard
to me, it looks very much like a cube and nothing like a shard
But if we stretch it a bit
Freaky
doesnt look anything like a shard
exactly
it just looks like a cube with one of its vertices lightly chipped
exactly
Hi
Hi
hi
hi
Hi
Darwinium chip
Hi
hi
???
Oh hi
hi
I wish there was a mass upgrade button in the beyond. What I mean is a mass rank up button, or being able to hold upgrade on the menu with different upgrade multipliers on. The main thing is all the tapping when I want to get back to where I was before tapping a thousand times is very annoying
😭
how do i get a refund :<
That’s the absolutely tragic part
You don’t 😔
I spend like 200 Darwinium on just rebuying things 😭
Yh
so report it,....
Snitches get stitches
-.- I lost 80 dariwium ofc i will be mad
Report only after loosing sanity
A report already exists just reply to it so it can get patched...
"snitches"? fym? he got scammed by the game and ur saying that you'd be a snitch for reporting it?
I mean I got scammed by game too lol
I didn't spend any money on darwium just watching ads :
when did i mention money?
"scammed"
scammed out of darwinium, which is earned by waiting and due to the saying "time is money", u got scammed out of money
k
"scammed" doesn't necessarily mean out of money
I was confused by the way you were using it mb
but yeah this should get fixxed
agreed (although this hasn't happened to me, i still think it's unfair)
bro that happened to me for dog 😭
What platform do you play on
Why is no one reporting this stuff .-.
it is reported
Someone reports it every other day
Thankfully it never happened to me
same
they don't make updates every day
🫠
Especially on web
web got updated yesterday
I feel like that would be hardest to update since it probably uses a different process
wdym? what'd they even add
what did it even add
didn't steam get updated like 2 weeks ago or something
the web store
Oh
bruh
yh, 10 free 
that then got stripped away when i bought the agumentation i have been saving up for :<
Love some nice juicy 
Why does the darwinium emoji have such a thick white outline
exactly
It isn't like that on any of the platforms
Back in like 2018 it was
Was it really? I don't think I remember that
Damn darwinium existed before c2s
Entropy was orange in the first versions of c2s
How did you get that
The game released in November or December 2018
Extropy
Hm I thought it was early 2019
Download an old apk
Are you grinding old c2s
Ohhhh
Wow that looks so cursed
I didn't even play back then, so ig that explains why I don't remember it
@rough axle don't use the everyone ping
I didn't get pinged
Sorry 7 months ago
No
Well no one’s stopping you
Read down from here
Who wants to grind old c2s with me!1!1!1
No way to install old CTs on apple
hmmm, i believe i can do something
let me do some magic
On android
Add darwinium texture emoji for legacy
Old one

I mean we kept old logit so
maybe i can do something extra now I'm into the mood
old entropy
Oooh, I remember that
The days of the simple gardens
Now they're more like hyperdense forests
Change nitro booster role icon?
I can remember when the land garden was scrabby bare dirt ground crowded with everything
Also the tetrapod was a lifeless lizard muppet

ing- what?
Imsulairt
again, what does that mean?
Simgularity
can we pretty please have a thread for og c2s /j
i don't need thread
just going to share old c2s here
Have fun when you get to hear the scraped extended Moldau
One long and arduous journey later, im finally here
Well it wasn't my destination
My only real goal in beyond was reaching rank 12
But it's nice to finally have caught up with all the craziness Added in beyond chapter 2
Ep27 took so long
old entropy is the same
Very first video, entropy is orange
An idle game about the evolution of life on Earth and the history of technology.
PLAY - http://celltosingularity.com/ (Web)
helo
Oh dang it’s not even entropy yet
It’s just “evo”
PLAY BETA: http://www.cellstosingularity.com/
Cells to Singularity is a idle game about the evolution of life on Earth and the history of human technology. Discover the origins of life, learn the history of science and civilization, and unlock the mysteries of the universe as you climb the tree of life.
I don’t even think it was public yet
i believe yes
the description of the video
Yes
anyway, I don't think I can get something that old, I'll try, but I doubt it
I don’t even know if the devs themselves have access to that anymore
also this isn't the first video
more like the 10th
idk why I said 1st
This is oldest version on yt
https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/s/q6w4YkdEek this is the oldest evidence I can find of the game anywhere
do you also have old c2s or smth
I have seen this but I haven't seen upgrade.life
???
Early web c2s
And this entropy would be cool too
Weird how the extropy looks like a logit
they quickly found what they wanted it to be here
interesting that this exists
What about all other currencies
Also we’re probably gonna get emojis for entrobits and ideabits when reality reboot releases
Neglect
I think they only used the honeycombs since they were the first currency to be part of a brand new feature of c2s
But still
Huge neglect
An probably the fact they they would run out of emojis of the add all currencies
But still
NEGLECT
does anyone remember the C2S roblox game
Yes
imma play it on a new acc
Blue beyond
the people who have the dev role are they acctual devs of the game or is it just a role
no the acc role
Only like half or a third of them
True
Hru y'all doing
How are you you all doing
so
the kpc arms
incredibly random
just kind of appear when you get enough perseus arm
and have no music
50
50
50
...50?
42
HERESY
Yes
off-topic but here's a good minecraft ripoff that i bought and archived. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fs0x7tncgcpa3x6ra5d05/Survivalcraft2.4Bought-Archived.zip?rlkey=18q54muneetagmuuqrd03nte4&st=304v7kzn&dl=0
it has seasons and realistic animals
Off topic stuff is #🏠-general
Also interesting
Will copy this link and paste to zeppelin
don't worry i use windows sandbox
huh
I'm pasting it to Zeppelin because that's how Colin bookmarks
He told me about it
And I thought it was way better
Than "skib"
why is everyone blue📠
Blue?
like countryland
You mean violet?
Actually your right
There are a lot of people who are now violet
There are 6
Don’t be violent; be violet!
When will reality update be released
Summer most likely
@fallow anchor which division are you in for the philosophy event?
222
3500
What's your rank? I started yesterday and landed in 206
My rank is 18
I was around 100 about an hour ago tho
Nice. Probably end up in top 10. I might too.
Might want to word that differently
Oh
I mean rank 18
I also just realized that I'm rank 2000 on the global leaderboard
2087
It was going to be tomorrow, but kids because you asked, it was delayed
crazy how there'll be another reality update for a different game
what's 7.42
42
found the Amazon app store on my fire tablet
It really is the latest version
Dang

_?
Pretty high! Think I'm about 2600 today. Does seems to vary a lot for me - last week I was 7500-ish.
Did anyone else have all their progress deleted?
Mine's fine.
Have you looked in the Save Manager (in the 3 Hz line menu at top right of game gui)?
In here
Yeah that's the menu I get when clicking on that
'Manager Spelchern'. Anything in there?
Ah yeah there are local saves in there
...then why is it called "Speichern"? Was the translator on fumes?
I mean I know why this translation error occurred, but this is the type of mistake made by google translate, not a German-speaking human
Google Translate fail?
hello
Lol
who are you
This is the official German language version, if they did it with google translate it would be ultra embarrassing
But ok, i only lost a day of progress
You could put a bug report in the 'bug-reporting' channel? There's a tag for translation errors.
I think the game play related stuff and descriptions get more attention generally. More than the 'boring' buttons anyway.
I suspect that in English the button is called "Save manager"
"Save" here is a noun, as in "saved games"
But "Save" can also be a verb
And the German version has the verb
So the German button says "save your game"
Just use English because it is the language with the least errors and risks.
If they don't want me to play in German they shouldn't offer German
The correct German translation would be "Speichermanager"
tf? how late did u join?
You can play whatever the language you want to, I just recommend using English for the best config
that isn't even possible, it's impossible to join an event that late, since events last either 3 days and 6 hours or 3 days and 18 hours
it was a joke
nvm
It's important how we talk to each other
then how late did u join?
Alright
not playing events because I'm neglecting them once again
Since a day of my progress got deleted I just can't be assed with this event now
Ouch, that's an unfortunate mis-translation
I don't even like the philosophy event that much
only reason I ever thought it was cool was because logint
i only play events for badges and
s
Yup. I don't mind bad grammar, German grammar is hard, but blatant mislabelling? Yeah no
Have you checked your local save? The game have auto save, and it will import to the local save, you can restore your progress from it
I get that. The event will come round again though. If you can't be bothered, just don't restart it.
If I don't participate then I won't get the badges that speed up the event the next time it comes around T.T
they also boost ur primary sim and also, u won't get the logits
True. But if you try to make yourself play when irritated, you won't enjoy it.
Up to you!
Thank you for rubbing it in
I'm still confused because there's a local save from the last day of April, the first of May, the second of May... but not the third of may
Like wtf happened there
First time in two (five) years
Maybe it was the save that failed and wiped your game data with it. Idk, not an expert. Think someone else had a similar issue a day or two ago though.
If it happened for the first time in several years to two people in the same timespan then it must be a server issue or update issue
Sorry, I was unclear. People ask here about that issue every 2-3 weeks ish, I think? Not sure why I was overly-specific in my previous.
Have the devs addressed it?
No? Not if it's happened at least twice recently?
D'know how hard they've tried, or even if it's been reported as a bug though.
They don't read the chat here?
Occasionally see the Devs in chat. But mainly is the Mods.
Devs more likely to see it if you do / add to a bug report.
They might, but why should they analyse it for possible bug reports? There is a channel for that.
Apart from that, losing one day is annoying, but no real big deal. There's stuff in the game that will take weeks, so don't worry.
Regarding translations- yeah, the German version has some really bad ones.
The German version of Genshin spells Decarabian as Decabarian
So I get the feeling translation companies are kind of bad
No companies involved, it is as you said: AI translators
Cell to Singularity used AI to translate?
As you said, there are mistranslations no one who understands German would make.
And none of the mistakes you would expect from a native English speaker
Still, I would expect they hired someone or ran it through google translate, not that they used extra AI stuff
I used to know a professional translator (before Google translate etc).
We discussed translating names quite a lot. Like, what are the 'vibes' of the word in the original and new language: same and similar sounding words. Is the name 'awkward' in the new language? Should the name stay the same? Is there a famous use of the original name in the new language? Could it be somehow controversial (God name? Historic figure). Trademarks.
Surprisingly complicated. And that's just for names, never mind the rest of the (more complicated) stuff. Reading interviews with the translator of e.g. the Three Body Problem was fascinating too.
Don't know if that applies to your example or if was an error though.
It doesn't apply to my example.
Decarabian is a demon from whom they took the name for Genshin, they took all the other demon names from the game unaltered
Some names were translated (Sucrose became Saccharose, which I like), but the demon names all stayed intact
Think Azazel, Beelzebub or Lucifer (the German localisation of the latter would be Luzifer)
I'm a superfan of localisation, unlike some people
Which means I have a looot of patience for quirks and poor decisions
It's just sloppiness I can't stand
Well, I'm now reading about the Ars Goetia and the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum ... No doubt (as normal) I'll end up tracking backwards through time and up somewhere in pre-historic Mesopotamian mythology. Again.
Well, I have coffee, and it's something new to learn about 🙂.
XD good Sunday morning lecture
Not lecture, wait....
Reading
(I shouldn't watch videos while writing)
violet to singularity
Some years ago, we took the texts of the game in the Spanish version, and we revised them one by one, and we sent to the devs the whole list of changes (it took us a week)
A week? Wow, that actually sounds pretty fast.
Still, great work
Good effort!
Having done a fair bit of 'word-crafting' in my career, I hope it wasn't too painful. And that your proposed changes got implemented
@amber canyon Regarding translations, and as you mention a Three Body Problem- have you read Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang?
Yes! Liked it 😁.
I typically prefer SF rather than Fantasy; but a bit of Global/Oxbridge Fantasy with a hard-ish magic system works too. Y'know ...
'Fantasy' ... Y'know ... Terminology ... Is hard ...
I've somewhat left most Fantasy behind, the genre has become too rigid in its conventions. Same goes for Game of Thrones-like genre subversions.
I don't really see Babel as fantasy
Yeah, terminology is hard- SF is sometimes considered a type of fantasy
Or at least, fantastic fiction
I was just thinking the same. I was contrasting it to Science Fiction (SF) rather than Speculative Fiction (SF).
Lol, I do think we understand each other
Having spent some time at Cambridge (not Oxford), and read a fair bit of fiction written by Oxbridge authors in the past, that part felt very 'probable'.
And the mixing of 'pure' academia with politics and economics and self-interest etc
Can't say I have experienced anything like that, but I'm not an academic. It is belaievable, though
I do like it when books are localised in a place outside the USA, especially if I'm a bit familiar with the place. Growing up, almost all SF I had access to was USA-written and based. And ... as from the 1950s-70s, somewhat limited in it's characters and portrayals.
I need more SF set in Yorkshire!
Luckily, with ebooks and things, there's much more translated non-English language and non-USA based stuff available these days.
I know what you mean, and that's why I was thrilled about Three Body Problem. And that's why I was dissapointed when I learned that Cixin Liu was heavily influenced by the very same sources you mentioned.
It's not the setting so much as the mindset
(The only non-English language I can try and read in is French - very slowly working my way through L'Anomalie and Sunflower - La nuit pourpre).
Africa Risen: A new era of Speculative fiction felt like a different mindset to me. As do some of the collections of Japanese Speculative Fiction (can't find them in my kindle app atm ... Grr).
Any you've found?
French? My goodness, I did learn that at school, only to discover that I don't understand a single word of it, neither spoken nor written.
Japanese can be very different- I seem to remember an animates series called Texnolyze, or something like that. That was very... weird. Oh, and over 25 years ago, I got my hands on some Japanese SF short stories and have been trying to find them again for years now.
I will make a note of Africa Risen
I think when reading a book in a different language, the first chapter is almost always the hardest: lots of scene-setting and descriptive words. Once you get going, the language is often simpler. SF is often an easier genre than most, because the scene-setting language tends to be more 'technical' words that are more similar between languages; as well as often being a more direct writing style generally. My thoughts anyway.
Still can't find my anthology(ies) of Japanese SF; suspect I have it/them in paperback, and not near my bookshelves at the moment. Wonder if it's the same book we're thinking about - do you remember a story about a box, and one about a Carp? I will have got them 2nd hand about 15+ years ago.
Rummaging through my Kindle, I did find my ebooks of the Apex series of World SF, which I assume I liked as I have 4 of them.
Clarkesworld magazine often has translations of modern SF stories, also their stories are usually not quite traditional SF. Stories all available on their website for free (although you can subscribe, and is well worth it imo).
Texhnolyze: never heard of it! Late 90s and 00's had some really interesting experimental SF though, from what I remember (usually late night TV). I will add it to my (large) list of things to consider reading/watching, ta!




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