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What do the "!" before some things mean?

For example, I see them in front of some of my recipes and not others. I also see them in other places (usually where things are listed like recipes).

Posted 17 months ago by BarryW Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • It means you do not have the items necessary to create that item in your bags.
    Posted 17 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I believe it means there is something you are lacking and cannot make it.
    Posted 17 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I thought that was what the recipe items in red meant.
    Posted 17 months ago by BarryW Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ! in the vendors and in recipes mean you can't use it/make it in the current state. 

    For vendors, you probably need to learn a skill before you can use the item.  If you open the item, you will usually get a verbal warning about what you need to do before you can use that item (you can still purchase it, but you won't be able to use it until you get that skill completed). 

    In recipes, there is typically an ingredient missing.  Often, if you have your bags loaded with basic items, like I do, you can make that item from the things in your bag...but it will require an extra step or two to get the exact item the recipe needs.  Sometimes you just don't have enough of an item, so you need to make more before you can do the recipe.

    I believe they also show up in red as well...suspect they do both since some players are color blind and may not see the red, so they get the visual !.
    Posted 17 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah. My nametag at conventions when @g33kguy can't be with me says !g33gurrl
    Posted 17 months ago by g33kgurrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks everyone. I will see if I have other questions after the game opens.
    Posted 17 months ago by BarryW Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brilliant g33kgurrl...
    Posted 17 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 1. vendors sell stuff that require skills. if you dont have the skill a red ! will show up in front

    that might be why thats there
    Posted 17 months ago by GiaTori Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @b3achy -- Brilliant as long as it's not a geek convention.

    Because to geeks ! is also called bang.  And that's the very last thing I want those boys thinking.
    Posted 17 months ago by g33kgurrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, dear, hmmm thought the # was a bang...wow, even in geek world we have differing connotations for various symbols...interesting...
    Posted 17 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think way back in the long long ago ! was the separator between host names and was called something like the bang path. That was before I was looking at code.

    #! as hashbang in UNIX -- the Brits I used to work with always referred to the ! as bang.
    Posted 17 months ago by g33kgurrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • # (hash) is, of course, also known as "pound."

    Bang, pound - it's all innuendo, no matter what you do.
    Posted 17 months ago by jasbo Subscriber! | Permalink