There's nothing wrong with progressively eliminating typos and errors.

And there's a lot wrong with intentionally leaving major known typos in place for a whole year.

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I definitely agree with this!

We should be cleaning up major errors/discrepancies as we find them, maybe on a weekly/bi-weekly basis; and we should definitely be versioning the document as we do this.

I didn't realize we'd released a "2012 final" yet, I thought we were simply in a "phase 2" of typo hunting as the Draft hadn't really been up that long.

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I also agree; the document should be locked down for a year for list changes, but not for typos. Any typos should be fixed whenever they're found, even if that's six months from now.

I also agree that date stamping it for even minor typos is a good idea.

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How about a "living Errata" document for catching typos. It could be downloaded separately, and if you use the main document you can quickly catch if any of "your" lists are affected or not.

But for everyone's sake. Let's catch the major typos before the first compendium.

/Fredmans

I'd say update the document with the Errata each time and also have the Living Errata document.

The obvious cutoff point for updating typos is shortly before work starts on the next year's.

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Dude, it's ridiculous to leave major typos on basic units like the Great Gargant in place for a year.

It'll only take us a few months to iron out the errors, but if you refuse to fix it, the document is going to end up poorly regarded and people will just go download the EUK lists instead as they actually fix their typos.


If you're not motivated enough to fix it yourself, ask for a volunteer to do it for you.

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That's not a good argument. You'd rather keep typos, even when we know they're there, just so it won't go out of date? That's nonsensical, unless you plan to play using those typos.

If we're not going to continually fix typos then this entire project was a waste of time.

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A "living document" is something that is "never finished"; the only things "set in stone" for the 2012 Compendium are status levels of each list and the actual, intended stats and point values; correcting errors (and only errors) as they are found should definitely be part of the mandate of the Project. The 2012 Compendium is "finished" in the sense that nothing new will be added, not that it will remain unchanged.

This is not a document that should be printed out, bound, and put on a shelf for constant use; that's why I'm so glad the calls for Moscovian to print it died down, it would've been a complete waste of effort and material. It's a consolidation and guidebook for people playing NetEA, not an end product. People should, in my opinion, only be printing out the pages/references they need "right now", not looking at this as a be-all reference.

That's how I view it.

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I completely agree with Chroma.

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I too agree with Chroma.

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I agree, but i'll still print and bind a copy 2 or 3 slim, stitched, booklet volumes divide by race in a little slip case perhaps?

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What Chroma said.

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We could do that:
Each army list will be handed to a person who is responsible for finding every error in his list. We all have one week for correcting those errors, after wich we can post our changes, discuss them a bit then put them into the compedinum.