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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Wings of Dawn => WoD Archive => Topic started by: Black Wolf on August 03, 2011, 07:50:21 am
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See? (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
Seems WoD never got FA'd when it was new, and it seemd appropriate that you get one now, seeing as how the one year anniversary is fast approaching. I'm going to make some quick updates to the wiki page, but I'm hardly the best source for new WoD data. If anyone wants to add anything to the wiki page (especially reviews from players, in the "Player Comments" section) I'd be most appreciative.
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Also, if people want to help getting WoD more established on the wiki, one of the most useful things you could do would be to continue the good work started here (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Wings_of_Dawn_Ships). Adding a ship to the database is simple, and only takes 5-10 minutes. As long as you can use notepad and PCS2, you have all the information you need at your fingertips.
Screenshots for the main page would also be very useful, if anyone has any good ones, please upload them to the wiki, using some kind of system - I would suggest WoDScreen####.jpg or .png - and they'll get added as part of the general Featured Article tidying up.
[EDIT] - You can now add WoD screenshots in much the same way as regular mainpage screenshots. Simply add them into this article (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/WoD_Screenshots) and this article (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Template:WoD_Random_Screen). Please remember to modify both articles to make the system work right.
If anyone's feeling particularly spry, I'd suggest creating some new articles for as-yet untouched subjects. A Nodera Day (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php?title=A_Nodera_Day&action=edit&redlink=1) and Wings of Dawn 2 (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php?title=Wings_of_Dawn_2&action=edit&redlink=1) might be some good places to start.
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Poking at it some. Don't currently have access to the tables though.
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Well, I could start with the descriptions.
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Hi, my name is Spoon and I approve of this. :yes:
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How long can the comments section be? I wrote a full review for wod here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=74001.0) awahile ago. Its also got some screens in it.
Here's another one I took some months back that I happen to like:
(http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x380/Brandon_Rehayem/fs2_open_3_6_13r_INF-20101212_r2011-01-2619-14-39-01.jpg)
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Someone else edit this stuff besides me. It's getting ronery doing this all by myself. :(
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that shockwave one of nighteyes work, rather than what is in the WoD1 vp files and current media VPs?
While it does look great, I'm not so sure a wiki article should feature "customized" versions of the game, so to say, at least not without pointing out that it isn't from the stock WoD files.
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You are correct, that is one of nighteye's shockwaves. I opted not to use them because I feel they do not have enough frames (yes, one of nighteye's effects not having enough frames, there is some irony in there) and thus do not look as smooth as the other shockwave effects.
Added a bunch of WoD1 screenshots to the wiki's gallery just now.
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It's even worse than that. This screenshot was taken from a custom made multiplayer mission for WOD, so the background never existed in the modpack to begin with. :ick:
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We need more Cyrvan on the Wiki, especially trompin' dem LSF!
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We should start a WoD species page
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More broadly I would want to see a portal for WoD which holds all the stuff that the WoD universe consists of.
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Yeah, I was just thinking a WoD species page would be a good place to start.
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Make it happen :nod:
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Are you people going to let poor Andrew shoulder all the work alone? :(
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I thinks they will. :doubt:
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Well, looks like Snail is working himself off as well. Thank you so much.
/me gives Snail a "Ward Off Frenchmen For a Day" card.
I got the portal for it started up (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:Wings_of_Dawn_Universe), now my problem is where should it be accessed at for the everyday dude? Not everyone is smart wiki guy like AndrewofDoom, Black Wolf, or Snail.
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Maybe just link to the Wings of Dawn portal from the Wings of Dawn main page. That should be enough.
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Now I remember why I hate doing this. Knocked out the UEU Ray and the Star, somebody more artistically inclined can take pictures.
Patience for poking tables at a temporary end, more when I've played some FreeSpace to compensate/listened to WoD Mainhall3.ogg enough.
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Just a heads-up for Andy, I don't think the individual subjects like 'Cordi Monarchy Collective' have anywhere near enough information on them to warrant individual articles for each (they would be like 2 lines at most). Instead I'm linking them to the species article under the section about their society and government.
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A thumbs up for Snail's and Andrew's work on the wiki so far
:yes:
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Hey, I'm not doing this for free. There'd better be some "motivational" pics of Isa in WoD2. :P
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You drive a hard bargain, you have any idea how much danger is involved for those? :p
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No price is too much! :nervous:
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nice work :yes:
there's this little thing that might need fixin'
Likewise the Terrans did not expected that their first contact would be with 'space elves' but welcomed the encounter.
from: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Terrans_(Wings_of_Dawn) , The Terran-Cyrvan War part.
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It's a wiki. He you spot an error like that, go ahead and fix it. :)
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gotcha & done.
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No price is too much! :nervous:
Snail here has proven himself to be quite the sadomasochist.
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Uh, why else would Snail be chasing Isa?
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Great job with your Isa desires, Snail. You've given AndrewofDoom horrible, horrible nightmares about Isa abusing a poor overgrown relative of yours. You really should have been on #wod when that conversation happened.
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Now that sounds like a story that deserves to be told.
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Popcorn's out. Get on with that story!
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Anyone else going to hit the ships list, or is that all up to me for tonight?
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Anyone else going to hit the ships list, or is that all up to me for tonight?
We're all counting on you!
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Fair 'nuff.
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Popcorn's out. Get on with that story!
So a gastropod and a cnidarian walk into a bar...the cnidarian stings the gastropod to death. The end.
Anyone else going to hit the ships list, or is that all up to me for tonight?
Hey, I'll do something too!
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It's been the long time since something was edited.
So I did. I've edited the Nordera Battleaxe, the ZGF Talon, the LSF Skirmisher, LSF Challenger I and II and the Guardian Angel.
The Pictures can be considered as replaceable, if you have better ones, feel free to replace the stuff.
Hertak Armageddon and STTQ Broodlord (Mothership) edited.
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...Please crop your shiplab screenshots.
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Some more stuff edited (including "cropped" screenshots). Maybe I will start to work on the weapons.
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I just combed the "Ask a crewmember" thread for information of the species (culture, government, ect.) and have now a nice text file with a lot of data.
I was thinking about adding that information to the wiki pages of the species, but wanted to ask first before doing so.
I was thinking of making a new tab (or however it's called) somewere close to the bottom of the page. In case of the Humans above the timeline and for the other species above their ship-list.
I could also incorporate some of the information (especially the one about physiology) into the current articles, but I'm not sure just how "canon" the info from that thread are, even though they all come directly from Spoon.
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Good idea
The information is for the most part canon but may contain a certain amount of bias depending on the character's perspective (I wouldn't trust anything luna tells you for example :p). As long as the wiki page makes that clear, there shouldn't be any problems.
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Ladies, Gentlemen and other esteemed readers, I just made my first wiki-edits in my live.
I added info from the Ask a crew member thread to the pages of the Humans, Cyrvans and Fura'ngle. I tried to keep in line with the formating of the rest of the pages and provided links directly to the relevant posts.
Once I figured out how to do it, I'll add wiki-internal links too, for places were I referenced characters.
Edit: I figured it out and did it. Now all the mentions of other articles and characters are links to the page and place of concern.
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Nice
Good job on the wiki so far everyone, its really shaping up :yes:
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Interresting that three different people went over my Cyrvan entries with corrections, but not one found the spelling mistakes I made on the Terran page (which I hopefully corrected all by now... can someone good with english check please?).
Do I see a certain Obsession with space elfes there? :p
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Interresting that three different people went over my Cyrvan entries with corrections, but not one found the spelling mistakes I made on the Terran page (which I hopefully corrected all by now... can someone good with english check please?).
Do I see a certain Obsession with space elfes there? :p
*cough*
I wasn't done with the Terran article yet, because of...uhm, school! Not...obsession with space elves, honest! There's typos here and there, but it'll get fixed (eventually...~).