I think it's because of localization, there was something about it in the patch notes if I remember right. The reason: if you have a russian client you will get some russian version of "... station" when a station gets linked I think. And vice versa when a russian links something. Doesn't make sense for items etc. of course...

Finally I find a topic on this!

At any rate: This is my fault! Feel free to tweet horrible things about me while I come up with a usable solution.

As Jarne already mentioned this is due to localization: Translating autolinks requires them to actually be a sensible word in the first place, otherwise the receiver has no way of forming an expectation of what he is clicking. But even though I love being overly verbose I'll have to admit people do not like to be subjected to verbosity.

So I'll shorten things up considerably. Probably something like "Station: ORBITNAME". So Dodixie IX - Moon 20 - Federation Navy Assembly Plant would become Station: Dodixie IX - M20. That's translatable, informative and not enough characters to build a ladder to heaven with.

Fair play?

Fair play?

Sounds good

Could you apply something like that to the default naming of bookmarks? Or better yet, make it optional. CCP could safe itself a lot of forum tantrums if more UI stuff was optional.

No. If I want to link Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant with the words "Froghole", the link should read "Froghole". There is no reason to translate my words.

Finally I find a topic on this!

At any rate: This is my fault! Feel free to tweet horrible things about me while I come up with a usable solution.

As Jarne already mentioned this is due to localization: Translating autolinks requires them to actually be a sensible word in the first place, otherwise the receiver has no way of forming an expectation of what he is clicking. But even though I love being overly verbose I'll have to admit people do not like to be subjected to verbosity.

So I'll shorten things up considerably. Probably something like "Station: ORBITNAME". So Dodixie IX - Moon 20 - Federation Navy Assembly Plant would become Station: Dodixie IX - M20. That's translatable, informative and not enough characters to build a ladder to heaven with.

Fair play?

No. If I want to link Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant with the words "Froghole", the link should read "Froghole". There is no reason to translate my words.

Bookmarks - I'll see what I can do but I'm under heavy time constraints from other projects and isn't actually connected to the issue at hand.

Would probably also make everyone happier if things only autocomplete if the text supplied is a substring of the actual text.

That sounds fine. Autocomplete is a helpful feature, replacing user input without context is the opposite.

Finally I find a topic on this!

At any rate: This is my fault! Feel free to tweet horrible things about me while I come up with a usable solution.

As Jarne already mentioned this is due to localization: Translating autolinks requires them to actually be a sensible word in the first place, otherwise the receiver has no way of forming an expectation of what he is clicking. But even though I love being overly verbose I'll have to admit people do not like to be subjected to verbosity.

So I'll shorten things up considerably. Probably something like "Station: ORBITNAME". So Dodixie IX - Moon 20 - Federation Navy Assembly Plant would become Station: Dodixie IX - M20. That's translatable, informative and not enough characters to build a ladder to heaven with.

Fair play?

[quote=Aiko Hanomaa]Edit: now can we get to to rattle the inventory guys cages? We would like to have a talk with them.

But that's so mainstream! Being angry at me is much more underground and it's been so long since people were angry at me that it's probably considered retro by now!

So I'll shorten things up considerably. Probably something like "Station: ORBITNAME". So Dodixie IX - Moon 20 - Federation Navy Assembly Plant would become Station: Dodixie IX - M20. That's translatable, informative and not enough characters to build a ladder to heaven with.Fair play?

But that's so mainstream! Being angry at me is much more underground and it's been so long since people were angry at me that it's probably considered retro by now!

NOOO! I can no longer rename items such as slaves with player names!

Y U BREAK MY FUN?!

Also less options when I want to make links look neat such as in MOTD.

Hey, I'm working on it! I've already said I'll reintroduce Frogholing one way or the other.
Nobody reads my posts

Confirming that I'm only posting to use the new word we made up.

It's a good word. Going to see if I can get Twitter to start using it.

P.S. I'm still working on fixing this, not just tweeting and posting. PromiseGäó!

So this is all mostly ready on my machine.

Station links that autocomplete will complete to Station: ShortOrbitName (M instead of Moon).

All types of links can now be FrogholedGäó in the same manner as before. They will not autocomplete on any client and obviously not be translated. Currently I'm having issues with the FrogholingGäó requiring you to delete all of the text used to autolink and I'm trying to work around that because it's annoyingly confusing and I think everyone would appreciate being able to write "Jita IV", link that to Jita IV 4 CNA, and than erase the roman numeral part to only have it display as "Jita" (and never translate, even though that's a solar system name. Can't have your cake and eat it).

However, I'm not committing this today and I'm not rushing this out to TQ because this code is brittle. I'm also well out of my comfort zone as a specialized database developer that generally stops touching things once they've been efficiently fetched and properly stored in client side structures. And lastly I remember all the fringe issues I had when doing this in the first place and am mortally afraid of reintroducing them on TQ if this gets pushed out too soon.

But this is all happening. Sorry for making you wait, but patience is a virtue!
And if wrath is your thing, the offer of calling me nasty names on Twitter still stands!

Dibs on Frogholio as an alt name. "I am Frogholio, I demand T3 for my wormhole."

I don't have a Twitter account, can I call you nasty names here instead?

Prisim X, are you also the person who is responsible for the 'searching' of characters?

So, this is a lttle bit of topic, but I decided I needed to know what froghole really is it turned me into a furry and here is how thing like this can be just three steps removed.

I actually really liked this "feature", made linking destination in fleet, or item types in alliance a lot more readable.

:shrug:, an option to keep it would also be nice

So, this is a lttle bit of topic, but I decided I needed to know what froghole really is...

otherwise the receiver has no way of forming an expectation of what he is clicking.