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This is not something important or game breaking but I thought it would not hurt bringing it up. So, a UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object. The first time you spot an alien craft, it is a UFO, but all subsequent times, it is identified, so it is an alien craft of a specified type. Keeping that in mind, it would be semantically more correct to replace the UFO indication to the type of the craft for known alien craft detections. EDIT: This might be the wrong forum for this thread. Maybe it would be better placed at the General Discussion. If a moderator would be so kind to move it there, please.

This is really trivial, I mean really really trivial, but it's annoying once you know the difference and I suspect some of the military types will agree on using the correct nomenclature where possible. In short, all the ballistic weapons in Xenonauts have magazines. Not clips. Ergo, the tooltips all have errors Clips are things like this: (.303 Stripper Clip for SMLE) Whereas magazines refer to both things like this: Which is your standard style external magazine, in this case the very common STANAG as used by the M16 family. AND Where in the case of combat shotguns, they have internal magazines (aka the tube) as part of the gun under the barrel. Lots of sniper or hunting/sporting rifles often have internal magazines as well. A good example of why the distinction in terminology is important can be shown with a good ol' C96: This picture is showing the C96's internal magazine being loaded with a clip of bullets. Nifty eh? Hollywood gets this all wrong all the time and is where most people learn the incorrect use from. The only time it's acceptable to use "clip" when referring to ammo is in a World War Two film in the context of "I'm out, someone give me a clip!" or something similar. I think it would be very nice if the correct term could be used, if not in the code then at least in the tooltips where everyone can see them. I did say it was trivial though, but if you didn't know the distinction, you do now and it will bug you