Good job!
Various comments on wiki stuff:
- I'm thinking of writing a Java bot to do the grunt work of updating ship/weapon stats when a new version comes out, although for 0.8 we may still have to do it manually (and already have in the case of weapons, it looks like).
- In response to your PM, TheWetFish:
I am considering if all of the hullmods should go into the one big hullmod page or if some should be separated out. There are regular hull mods, D mods, built-in mods (often unique) and niche cases of built-in fighters
The current Hullmod page is getting pretty bloated, so it could be kept as a central reference page and the contents migrated to several pages.
Not sure if they should get assigned to pages based on the proposed categories, though: "D mods" is a meaningful logical grouping, but "built-in-mods" is not (e.g. Flux Shunt and Targeting Supercomputer don't have any particular relationship beyond the fact that they come built into certain ships and are otherwise unavailable).
Perhaps each hullmod could get its own page with template, + a shared navbox. This would also give more room for commentary on the usefulness and such of each hullmod.
- Other things that I want to get done (and are hugely overdue in some cases):
Spoiler
- Missile weapon images
- New abilities
- Derelicts/Remnants
- Update star system pages (the current ones are a mess, and the new systems should also be added)
- Update faction pages (ditto)
- Update pages for a couple of important mechanics (sensors, economy)
- Ship systems: new systems + navbox
The descriptions for Autopulse and Plasma also state that the weapon range is 'short'. Due to Safety Override and the abundance of weapons around 450 range I believe we can safely conclude that 500 and under is considered short range, while 600-800 would obviously be medium ranged.
Depends. "Short range" without any clarification probably doesn't make it clear, but I think the relevant point of comparison is not to other, unrelated weapons, but to the other large energy weapons: HIL and Tachyon Lance. These are noticeably longer-ranged than APL or Plasma Cannon at 1000 vs. 700.
Oh thank god, you are around. I am considering making changes to one of the major templates. Queue obligatory waiting for almost-heart-attack to subside.
I'm mostly sure it's a harmless, minor change but I would very much appreciate a second set of eyes on it, particularly as I'm still getting used to the local conventions. I've dropped some details on the talk page;
http://starsector.wikia.com/wiki/Template_talk:ShipInfobox Some variables have very cool coloured modifiers. Recovery cost can now be modified but doesn't have cool modifiers. Would like to add in modifiers for recovery cost so it can hang with the cool stats too.
I've tested the change on template:ShipInfoBoxTest and it worked OK so really just wanting to avoid inexperienced, unknown failure modes. Fun times
The csv format of game data and the standardisation of wiki information certainly is making suggestive eyes at automated updates. I recommend we do not pursue it for this major release but instead do the groundwork in anticipation of having it ready for next major release. We're already here right now, there is bound to be something that is not quite as standardised as we thought and I think I can handle this volume of manual data handling fairly easily. We should do it but let's not rush it right now
I think it's a great idea to keep the current hullmod page as a reference and start on individual pages. The categories and linkages can changed fairly easily as needed. I'll look at setting up a Nav box to include all of the hullmod pages and get started on them
Images are slowing me down. Hullmods & ships have single images in the game files and I've got that down OK. Weapons and such look like they are multiple images that need to be layered together? My rudimentary MS Paint skills aren't going to suffice here; what's a good way to do it?
What's the policy on spoiler information in the wiki? Spoiler banner warnings at the top?
Updated guides and mechanics pages are desperately needed but likely best not done by me. Maybe see if the community wants to put something together? Similar to how some helpfully enterprising people have been suggesting updates in this thread and then I execute them (the changes, not the people, er, phrasing).
I'll let you guys discuss the finer points of short definitions. Let me know when there's enough consensus to update the wiki :)
