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Toady One

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Trying this out
« on: July 28, 2010, 07:46:25 pm »

It was a small population of voters, but it was also a large majority, so we'll try this out.  I'm not sure what it'll be used for or if it is redundant, but you are welcome to use this space.  If it turns out to be unnecessary or unused, we'll simply delete it later.
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Re: Trying this out
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2010, 07:48:56 pm »

Maybe it'll help fill up the wiki faster. Atm it's just at 62/100 complete or something like that.

Speaking of which, the combat section is still completely empty. There's not enough info about combat mechanics in DF2010 to add anything :<
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2010, 10:55:23 pm »

Shiny.

The usefulness could really go ether way.
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2010, 12:29:25 am »

I logged on, saw this and thought, was that there before? I guess not.
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Re: Trying this out
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2010, 03:46:31 am »

I think it'd be good if we could get some tips and guides condensed and formed in here, then posted on the wiki. Such as tricks on how to use the military and perhaps a sort of quickstart guide.
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Re: Trying this out
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2010, 05:04:14 am »

New sections are always great.
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Re: Trying this out
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2010, 05:15:03 am »

I seriously doubt it will be any useful.

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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2010, 10:25:27 am »

I think I'll prefer this to cluttering/hiding stuff in individual discussion pages. Hard to know until we see it in action, of course, but I like the theory.
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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2010, 03:34:30 pm »

I seriously doubt it will be any useful.

it must be made useful to become useful ^_^
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Re: Trying this out
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2010, 04:01:46 pm »

This could end up being a good center for myth-busteresque threads, rather than simply having one giant megathread dedicated to the job of testing speculations and inaccuracies on the wiki.  For example, some people are still saying that glass furniture is magma proof, but I've had a few incidents that show this might have changed in some way.
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« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2010, 04:36:42 pm »

I definitely think that the forum is a good idea. It's a lot less effort to look at this forum than to seek out and read discussion pages on the wiki, and it lets people much more easily see what people are talking about.
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« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2010, 05:48:21 pm »

It was a small population of voters, but it was also a large majority, so we'll try this out.  I'm not sure what it'll be used for or if it is redundant, but you are welcome to use this space.  If it turns out to be unnecessary or unused, we'll simply delete it later.
Thanks for setting this up Toady, I appreciate it.

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« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2010, 09:45:18 am »

OK, let's try some useful discussion.

I have been thinking that it would be nice to update the Character Table page (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Character_table) to use the same white-on-purple monospaced font of the Tilesets page (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tilesets#What_tiles_are_used_for_what)

It might even be possible to come up with a decent template that does for both pages.

So, anyone got any suggestions/objections?
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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2010, 10:18:56 am »

OK, let's try some useful discussion.

I have been thinking that it would be nice to update the Character Table page (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Character_table) to use the same white-on-purple monospaced font of the Tilesets page (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tilesets#What_tiles_are_used_for_what)

It might even be possible to come up with a decent template that does for both pages.

So, anyone got any suggestions/objections?

I think this could be a good idea, and the template you want is this:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Template:TST

Does that work?

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« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2010, 10:33:43 am »

OK, let's try some useful discussion.

I have been thinking that it would be nice to update the Character Table page (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Character_table) to use the same white-on-purple monospaced font of the Tilesets page (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tilesets#What_tiles_are_used_for_what)

It might even be possible to come up with a decent template that does for both pages.

So, anyone got any suggestions/objections?

I think this could be a good idea, and the template you want is this:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Template:TST

Does that work?
Yes, I know about the TST template, I haven't tried it yet in the character table.
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