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[edit] Kunark Raid Timeline

Any chance of having the Kunark Raid Flagging Timeline added to the story arc section? Story-wise, if you follow the quest lore it seems to fit between Swords of Destiny and Shadow Odyssey. --Senidryl 19:14, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I'd say no. The raid timeline is a story arc yes, but it's not the defining arc of the expansion like the others are (epics would arguably be that for RoK, and they're included in there). That and just about everyone can do at least some of the major arcs, whereas the raid flagging timeline is raiders-only. That part is already larger than the quest categories, so I don't think we really need it there. Just my 2cp. --lordebon 19:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
I thought it would need to be there because fits the description of a Major Story Arc that leads into the Shadow Odyssey story arc. Yes, it's raid only (believe me, that annoys the daylights out of me), but it follows Fiddy Bobick (a character who has been present in the Shattered Lands, Peacock Club, and now Kunark) being possessed by a creature from the void (precursor to TSO), and follows the plot line of Mayong Mistmoore, the Shissar Prophecies of the End of Ages, and the Greenmist (which has appeared twice in Norrath history). If this is only covering timelines that are possible by non-raiders as well, perhaps the name needs to be changed from Major Story Arcs, which I think the four quests in the raid flagging would qualify.--Senidryl 15:24, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Lore wise yes it is somewhat of a major arc. But those links aren't there for lore, they're for user's to quickly find the walkthrough for the major quest lines of an expansion. Maybe it could be titled differently, but the section isn't for lore purposes. In fact, most of the quests don't have the dialogue that makes up the lore anyway. I'd like to see some of that lore added (I'm a bit of a lore buff myself), but we don't currently have a good way of doing that in the articles while keeping them clean. Yes there's a lot of lore in them, but the short raid-only nature of them makes them not a good fit for that section of the main page, in my opinion. You can consider them a 'major arc' lore wise, but the main page isn't all inclusive, it's for quick and easy linking. --lordebon 18:13, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 40k

40k articles, nice :) -- Chillispike 13:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Yep! Awesome! I'm updating the article count at Wikia's Biggest Wikis page.--Kodia 14:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Vote on your Classes Spell Names!

Vote on your Classes Spell Names! a post from Aeralik
As mentioned in this thread, we will be going to a standard spell naming convention. Please follow the link below to vote on your favorite spell names for any class you play.

VOTE!

Just as a general disclaimer, the voting on spell names is not necessarily the absolute winner. We can choose another name if desired but hopefully that won't be an issue.
-- User:Chillispike (Talk) 09:38, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hijacking Ads

This would be a wake-up call hopefully to people to obtain and use some decent antivirus, firewall, and so forth. If you do end up with an infestation, I heartily recommend the really excellent removal protocol at Major Geek's Malware Removal Guide. --Sigrdrifa 05:49, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Agreed that really good removal protocol goes a long way. It's just super frustrating for us administrators because there's literally nothing at all that we can do about it other than forward along any reports to Wikia.com staff. Few people bother to report the problematic ad like we've requested. Honestly most people just say "You're stupid! I'm not visiting you again!" and leave. *sigh*.--Kodia 12:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
/shrug. Thier loss; in my experience the kind willing to leave that quickly don't really contribute. And yeah, people seem much happier complaining about an issue than actually dealing with it. =/ And a decent antrivirus is pretty much common sense for any comptuer connected to the internet; it's not like there aren't plenty of good free ones out there. Then again half of the stuff people fall for could be prevented with some common sense anyway.... It never ceases to amaze me what people will believe online that they certainly wouldn't believe IRL. --lordebon 12:52, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
What ads? I use Firefox and the Adblock plugin. McJeff 20:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Daily Void Shard Quest

I've come up with a way to automatically generate which quest is the daily double based on the current day. I'd like to put this on the main page, since it's a very commonly asked thing in channels (and that way folks don't have to dig in the void shard mission system page to find it). I was thinking a small box beneath the quick links (or maybe even above it?) with the current date and the daily double for that day. Let me know what you think. --lordebon 03:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I think we're about due for a front page revamp anyway. Your addition would be a great idea and I ran it past a few major guilds on my server and they all unanimously screamed "Oh heck yeah." So...my vote is to do it.--Kodia 22:53, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, I like the arrangement of the main page for the most part. Some of the stuff is duplicated and/or not that useful (A link to Category:Equipment comes to mind... like anyone is going to start there and go through 11k-some pages by alphabetical name). Having to still design to 800x600 limits some options since its so small horizontally (and thus makes things very wide on a widescreen 1080P monitor, for example). But yeah, we could probably revamp it a bit. One possibility would be to remove the right column (the quick links and the random image below it) and integrate it into the main layout. But again, designing to such a small resolution is tricky. But in general I think we should switch to a more 'dynamic' main page, at least dynamic in some spots. And the 'daily double' would be one major part of that. A small 'featured article' blurb might be handy too --lordebon 00:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I actually have a macro that spams: You can get the DD on a single button click! Make you a macro that says /browser http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/void_shard_mission_system#daily_missions -- People gripe at me about the macro, but mindless people asking every five seconds, "what's the DD 2day?" is way down. Having a macro like this essentially gives you a /dd command in game - one click of a button and voilá! You know what the daily double is. --Sigrdrifa 12:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
That's awesome. I love hearing stuff like this. Thanks!--Kodia 12:29, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't the macro be /browser http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Void_Shard_Mission_System#Daily_Missions ? -- User:Chillispike (Talk) 12:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

That's probably just a typo from them posting here. --lordebon 22:57, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the new box on the front page listing the current DD - can you make the title linkable to the DD list page? It'd be nice to be able to click through and see what's coming up. ty! 173.61.50.22 19:54, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

YOU bet we can do that. I'll fix it now. Thanks for the suggestion and you're welcome for the feature!--Kodia 03:11, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hot Zones!

Earn Extra Experience in Hot Zones!
It's a Hotzone weekend in some old-school zones!
Play with boosted XP all weekend long in some of the zones from the original EQII release!
-- User:Chillispike (Talk) 09:26, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Shades of EQ1, Batman. I'm now having flashbacks to Train-it-All Caverns and the Lake of Ill Manners. :)--Kodia 12:23, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
PS, Front page news updated accordingly.--Kodia 12:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hot Zone Weekend 5-15 through 5-18

Hot Zone Weekend 5-15 through 5-18

  • Greater Faydark
  • Butcherblock Mountains
  • Steamfont Mountains
  • Lesser Faydark
  • Loping Plains

-- User:Chillispike (Talk) 09:35, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

We need something that will show on the front page what the hot zones are and what the DDs are to sort of make it a destination place, don't you think?--Kodia 15:41, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
If hot zones are something they plan on doing often (and from what they've been saying, it looks like it) then I agree. I need to fix the DD template before it goes main-page though... {{#time:d|PST}} isn't working quite right... at least it doesn't seem to be changing the day at the correct time. More investigation is necessary. --lordebon 19:17, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
From time to time there where bonus XP weekends for the whole server.
Possible that hot zones come more often now, but i think it's still random and not a regular thing for every weekend.
-- User:Chillispike (Talk) 19:20, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Probably not every weekend, agreed. But they have said they have plans for it being more than just bonus XP which makes me think they want the 'hot zone' concept to be more often than bonus-xp weekends have been in the past. --lordebon 19:38, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] EQ2 Bonus XP Weekend for July 4th!

Commemorate the July 4th weekend with boosted XP in EverQuest®II!

Increased XP begins at 4:00 PM PDT Thursday, July 2nd and continues until 10:00 AM PDT Monday, July 6th.

Update: The link SOE sent in the email doesn't seem to go anywhere /sigh. but I found this info on the Official Forum, which mentions AA and tradeskill bonus only:

To commemorate the holiday weekend, we'll be turning on bonus AA and Tradeskill exp starting at 4:00PM PDT tomorrow Thursday, July 2nd and running until 10:00AM PDT Monday, July 6th.

For the UK servers it will run from 12:00AM (midnight) Friday July 3rd until 8:00PM Monday, July 6th for folks residing in London (presuming I did my conversions correctly).

Official Forum [1]

Eliziana 05:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New Lore Book DIsussing Odus

From Oh... I found something!:

To my fellow learned sages,

It is with much rejoicing that I have discovered writings and notes lost since before the Shattering. I believe them to be of immense importance especially to learning more about the past of Norrath, but also may hold the key to discovering more about the fate of my ancestral home, the continent of Odus.

However, I believe I have also uncovered a deeper mystery, one with potentially grim implications. It seems that some of our assumptions of the fate of Odus, and of the Erudites, may be shrouded in a veil of deception. I cannot be sure, but [_____] that there [_____] be lea(ding) (t)here.

Although I was able to deceive the Quellithullians of The Vaults of El'Arad, I believe that my very life may be in jeopardy. Thus, I must do as [_____] to retain anonymity. The tome that I am sending could be copied and given to the people of Norrath, but not openly so. If the Quellithullians hear that this information is getting out, then they may close the doors and no one will learn of the important facts.

I recommend you use other tomes that can decipher this. I have discovered another near the front of the Vault, and will attempt to glean what I can from it. Should I be discovered, I will hide my notes in the [_____] but will suspend it within a bubble.

In order to read the notes you will need a piece of a mineral that can disrupt spatial gravity. I believe that such a mineral exists on Norrath in small quantities, and may have been experimented on by none other than Varsoon himself as he researched an item of power known as the Glowing Black Stone. Seek out this item, and it could allow you to break my spell.

I will contact you again once I have more for you, although I can't be sure when that might be. Until then, be wary as those who wish this information hidden might be around you.

Sincerely, An Esteemed Colleague

--Sigrdrifa 12:14, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I think this needs to go in the Forum Lore Quests. I'd heard about it but I'd not seen it. And I'm pretty sure our guild leader got server disco on it and missed game disco by mere minutes.--Kodia 12:27, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
The actual book item is already wikified and categorized into Category:Forum Lore Quests. Also, the text above is taken from an image of a "burned up" piece of parchment (meaning it had lots of holes in it) on the post Sigrdrifa linked above. --lordebon 12:52, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes, the book is there but there's no step by step guide of the "quest" steps. That's what I was referring to.--Kodia 12:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, the quest is now labeled as Assistant Researcher's Notes because I couldn't think of what else to call it.--Kodia 01:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hot Zones?

How about adding a field for the daily hot zones once we have figured out the repetition scheme?

For now we could manually fill the box with the correct information, if that's possible

--Zarbryn 10:22, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

We'd considered it, but were originally told that it wouldn't be a regular thing.--Kodia 12:10, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
My understanding of it is that once activated it will be on all the time. But they also said it should be 'random' -- if that is true, then there will be no pattern to work out and thus no automatic thing to code. I'd say let it run for a week or two after it goes Live in the US, if it stays on and we can find a pattern then I'll code something up. --lordebon 13:31, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Excellent. Thanks for the offer, Lordebon. Would be nice if we could work it out. Hope we can. The skeptic in me says that there's some uber secret staff meeting at SOE where they say "hey, which zone isn't getting a ton of hits right now? Silent City? Let's make that the hot zone." And then it shows up the next time it changes.--Kodia 21:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Specifying width of table cells?

Is there a way to specify the width of a table cell? To Speak as a Dragon would be much more readable if the first three columns were all set to some fixed value, while the fourth column was allowed to size to the screen. I want the table column widths uniform, in other words. --Sigrdrifa 16:55, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

In the first row, for each cell you can add the width like this:
|width="100px"|This is the first cell||width="50%"|This is the second cell||width="80px"||This is the third cell
Basically, you can add any parameters after you start the cell (be it with | on a new line or || if it's multiple cells on one line) and then use a single | to designate them as parameters and after that | you put all the text. --lordebon 17:13, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

Actually you can do it to the header row and affect everything in the column. So, the answer is yes there is but with caveats. First, consider the browsers that people are using to view the information. While Internet Exploder (yes I'm biased against it) provides a great deal of our traffic, we have at least 5 other browser types to consider and each handles tables in a slightly different way. The in-game browser in particular is important. Second, consider as well how tables change (if at all) when a user is specifically not logged in. Now, in answer to your exact question, in the wiki tables on the quest you specified, say you wanted to make the Rune column a fixed width. In the table, you'd look for the line that was the header for Rune. (right now it's |'''Rune'''). Before that header information you'd place the size indicator and follow it with a pipe character. So, if you wanted the Rune column to always be 200 pixels wide, the line would look like style="width:200px"|'''Rune'''. If you'd like more information on the use of tables, I recommend the Wikipedia help article. It has lots of examples of how things can be manipulated.--Kodia 17:15, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I set the first three columns at 15%, that should give it the most flexibility on any browser. --Sigrdrifa 18:49, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Class Helms by Appearance?

Today I figured out all the beast-helm appearance hats I could think of, and it occurred to me that I'd also love to have a list of all the other "class helm appearance" type hats available. Does the wiki have anything that would make a grouping of these logical? --Sigrdrifa 18:27, October 14, 2009 (UTC)

Polar Bear Hats:

  • Fury/Warden, level 58, from Queen Zilina the Deposed on Gazer Isle in Tenebrous Tangle \aITEM -707868995 -589082078:Corrupted Crown of Verdure\/a (polar bear)
  • Defiler/Mystic level 62, from Oracle Tuunza in Sanctum of the Scaleborn \aITEM -1307458862 -761104822:Hood of Farseeing\/a (polar bear)

LON Classless Hats (level 1 cloth armor):

  • \aITEM 1371336608 -1820798740:[Classless Defiler Wolfhood]\/a (grey wolf)
  • \aITEM 131954678 1426194113:Classless Mystic Hide Cap\/a (brown bear)

Hats from Hoo'loh (level 67, all have a black bear appearance):

  • Mystic: \aITEM 498200851 1565838303:Hoo'Loh's Mystic Hat\/a
  • Defiler: \aITEM -1812635261 -775543768:Hoo'Loh's Defiled Hat\/a
  • Warden: \aITEM -1199783893 -95451776:Hoo'Loh's Warding Hat\/a
  • Fury: \aITEM -35317437 -1076470552:Hoo'Loh's Furious Hat\/a

Hats from Korgo the Vault Keeper in Vaults of El'Arad, Barren Sky (level 67 chain armor):

  • \aITEM -580745474 -108675:Gaunt Totemic Hat\/a (grey wolf)
  • \aITEM -1804682409 -294818374:Tribal Spiritist's Hat\/a (brown bear)

Relic Armor (level 67 chain armor):

  • \aITEM -721542952 -833733826:Helm of Clandestine Rites\/a (Mystic, brown bear)
  • \aITEM 1167467720 150792320:Acrid Sanguine Helm\/a (Defiler, black bear)
We don't have anything in the templates that do that, as appearance isn't something anyone has really tackled when it comes to equipment. If we want to start looking at appearances and making categories for them, they'll have to be added manually to each page or added as a parameter to the template. An alternative to that would be something we have mainly kept away from here: list articles, which are just lists of links --lordebon 20:02, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
I think the list would be great, even if it does have to be constructed manually, as long as it includes the pictures. There's a place for both. Though we have kept the lists to a minimum.--Kodia 01:15, October 15, 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking maybe a couple of categories, "Class Hats" then subcategories by class. Logical places to link to these would be from the main Class description page maybe, since they tend to list class armor sets. I'm considering and tossing around ideas, but right after I put together the beast-head hat list, I started considering where to get a wizzie-style hat for my conjuror (as opposed to the stuffed-bra-on-the-head conjy hat). I know I can go with the LON Classless Hats or the Station Cash Academy Fieldwear, but I am betting I can find a wizzie hat somewhere that she can use. --Sigrdrifa 05:27, October 15, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Ad with Malware

| People on the official forums are reporting that one of the ads is trying to install malware. I've asked for more details, but my blocker is preventing it from affecting me in Firefox. --Sigrdrifa 19:46, October 15, 2009 (UTC)

This isn't an uncommon problem on any wiki. We've inserted a link on the front page of the wiki that will help people, but many people come to us from directly in game. We can only point them at our ad policy as we have no control over which ads originally get displayed. We can only report them like users of the wiki can.--Kodia 21:26, October 15, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Spell Name update and the new template

Sorry if this is the wrong place, but can't someone make a server side javascript program or something that will fill the new spell templates with info from the old spell that is the same? Probably why no one is jumping into converting the spells to the correct names, since you'd have to redo all of it. Too much work considering these are computers and they are made for doing stuff like that. Not to mention all you'd need is the new name, since it can easly figure out what number the spell is, and I don't think the stats and crap changed, just the names. That would take out a good 80 to 90 percent of the redundant typing peeps would need to do. Nyder 01:20, October 22, 2009 (UTC)

It's not as simple as just pushing a button and "boom" they're converted. At this point, the names should have been mostly converted to the new format, if you know which classes have spells still in the old name let me know and I'll try to get them moved to the right spot. With that said, going from the old template to the new template is something that I plan on looking into Botting if possible, but I am still waiting on final approval for the bot. Once I have that I can start taking a serious look at seeing how possible it will be to have the Bot handle spell conversion. --lordebon 02:49, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
Bot approved. Wikia was kind enough to permit Bcrats to now have this ability, with certain restrictions.--Kodia 03:04, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
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