>From: Bob Stewart <bstewart@...>
>
>What is "proc?" Where does the word come from? Words from inside the
>software and its design, like "mob" have a way of slipping into the game.
>Bet you haven't guessed that bothers me. :-)}
>
Proc'ing is when a item with an effect fires that effect & calls it's
special procedure. The yaulp from the screaming mace, the bloodclaw effect
from the bc stilleto, the berserk effect from the polished granite tomahawk.
>Verant has a bad habit of using such jargon, even in system warnings, with
>no explanation whatsoever of what it means.
>
To a degree, I'll agree that using some of these terms in system warnings
is probably bad taste. It's easy to forget which terms are localized to a
game or genre. Imagine me trying to explain to my parents camping for a
tommy :)
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