Curious Differences Emerge in Privateer Commodity Naming (July 5, 2023)

Bandit LOAF

Long Live the Confederation!
Tonight's rabbit hole: I noticed that Privateer has two different internal sets of names for its commodities, one used in the exchange (and on your PPC) and one used on the in flight manifest. Some are the same but others are different. "Movies" becomes... "Moviechips"!





Games become Gamechips, Books become Bookchips. And PlayThing (tm) becomes...!





So I ended up extracting everything and making a Spreadsheet of different commodity names across six sources (three in-game, three from the Playtesters' Guide). It also shows what type of container displays for each:





Found some cut content, too: traces of the ability to eject passengers and a list of additional story-specific items that were cut when the plot was shortened: Alien Crystal, Alien Device, Ancient Gun, Alien Machinery and Alien Metal!

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Original update published on July 5, 2023
 
Plaything becomes pornochips on the manifest, IIRC. Probably a little bit more discrete than pleasure borgs in Privateer 2 (which are contraband as I recall).
 
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