Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24146651-20150921211356

A few things have come to my attention while cleaning out the Forum boards.

1. (Just created now) The Space Waste board is cluttered up and most of its posts dating back to years ago. With your approval this board will be wiped clean.

2. by Thunder Luigi: The Dangers of "Fancy Leather Jackets" and Other such Catchy Things..



I am a subscriber to SkyDoesMinecraft, but I had no clue of the insanity behind this benign mislabelling. His fan base, stereotypically consisting of young adolescents, collectively spams this usage to no end, irking many (at least in the United States).

Just a warning to the Galaxy on Fire community, registered members or otherwise, don't abuse "Fancy Leather Jackets". Use it appropriately, and preferably only when necessary.

TO TRANSLATE: Fancy Leather Jackets have sometimes been mislabelled, causing unwanted rections (and unwanted fanboys/fangirls) to come to this wiki just to spam on the said mislabel. This may or may not need to be searched through.

3. by 8100DSTAR: CREATION: Quiz Page

Might sound stupid, but wouldn't it be a good idea to have a quiz page on the Wiki? For the more experienced players? There could be different sections, ranking in numbers, getting harder as they go up.

e.g.

Section One
Question One
 * Who did Keith meet after his jump through time and space?
 * a. Brent Snocom
 * b. Christine Hammond
 * c. Gunant Breh
 * d. Alice Paolini

Section Two
Question One
 * How many Cronus's accompanied Maxwell when he was testing Khador's anti-supernova missile?


 * a. 3
 * b. 1
 * c. 2

Section 3
Question 1


 * What the third planet in orbit of the sun in Aquila?


 * a. Tsoj Delev
 * b. Carme
 * c. Nepis

And so it goes on. What do you think? Giv's a reply showing your thoughts on this idea. Or suggestions. Or criticism. Or whatever.

4. by Thunder Luigi: On Category Pages

This is in no way aimed at anyone on the wiki, because everyone wants to contribute, but one of the major things that has irked me is the way we have duplicate pages--we have nearly the exact infomration on a regular page and a category page, for example.

Now, I may have mentioned at some point that I would like to be a uniform style of these kinds of pages, but that leads us to our first problem: How should category pages be used? On mother Wikipedia, a category page simply lists off the pages that have been tagged under the category, but I believe the subject matter this wiki covers does not contain enough information to justify having a general topic (for example again, the Berger company) and a category page that contains all pages that are relevant to it (Berger Converge, Berger CrossXT, etc.).

Therefore, I would like to propose that category pages contain the information that a regular article would have, so that:


 * Information is condensed, and an article can be chock full of information
 * Potential stub pages and short articles are removed
 * All of the pretty pictures can come together; the article and the pages that fall under its category can be separated by a gallery

There can be disadvantages to that:


 * There can be too much information. The closest example I can think up of is the ships page. Though I want to see as much information as possible regarding the games, there comes a point.
 * Organizational problems can be an immediate inconvenience.

Anyone serious about improving the GoF Wiki should look into this, and discuss! -=| Thunder | Luigi |=- 06:18, July 18, 2014 (UTC)

5. by Thunder Luigi: Who is willing to run some tests of probability?

NOTE: This is more of a request than a Wiki issue. Just wanted to bring it up.

For a time, there were a bunch of ideas I had to improve the information on this wiki. One of them goes like this:

1) Pilot your most powerful ship and mount only your primaries. 2) Pick any system and destroy 100 ships of either How you go about this is up to you, but you must only use primaries. Equipping secondaries will affect the data produced. Take care not to destroy asteroids, too.
 * the native faction
 * the opposing faction
 * or pirates

3) After you have destroyed 100 ships of a faction, dock to a station and record the commodities you looted.

4) Repeat steps 2-4 until you have three trials of the three groups listed above.

5) Repeat steps 2-5 at a different station.

From this data, if many people participated, I could make a list of what items could be looted from a particular faction at a particular probability. Problems of standardization at the next post...

6. by 8100DSTAR: A Feature Request

This is a weird one, but hear me out.

On the Club Penguin Wiki (a game that was a huge part of my life, may I point out; I don't just randomly go through Wikis for kid's games. Anyway...), there is a feature which I thought we could implement here.

At every either quarter, half, or full hour (not sure which one it is), an Orange Puffle (a creature from the game) floats across the page in a flying box. Yes, a flying box.

I've searched Google for the answer, and I've tried searching with developer tools to see how that was coded (becuase the Puffle does sine waves in its path, with dampening effects and everything), but I can't find out.

Does anyone have the CSS knowledge to make an image do that on this Wiki? We could have a Nemesis flying past every half hour, or something like that.

Shadowman, you seem to know quite a bit of CSS. Any ideas?

7. by Namj13: Update Pages Strikedown or Overhaul

There's a lot of small update pages often with just "This was the v1.1.7 update to GoF2 SD" or "This was the v1.1.7 update to GoF2 SD".

Pages like these do not help users, they simply take up space. Either these pages should be filled with relavent changelog information or they should be deleted, except for perhaps the DLC changelogs and the most recent one.

What do you think?

8. by Spectercollector

All right everyone, it's time to clean up. I want each active user to do at least 10 edits on stubs.

Thanks, Spectercollector: Operation Stub Slaughter

TO CLARIFY: You will not be forced to do this task. It's something that was brought up a long time ago that I think would be a good idea.

9. by Thunder Luigi: DELETION: Ship categories.

NOTE: Did this ever happen?

The categories "starter", "heavy", "ultimatum" (you mean ultimate, because ultimatum describes something completely different), and other such words do not describe much and can be subjective.

Also, I believe a "fighters" category is unnecessary when it looks like 90% of the pages there are under the "ships" category, as well.

Why.

-=| Thunder | Luigi |=- 06:39, August 9, 2014 (UTC)

10. by Cheese Ausar: Planet Categories

NOTE: Did this ever happen either?

I would like ask why planets are grouped into different categories (e.g. Gas Giants). I do know that the community is adding them based on the planets in our real-life Solar System. However, there's just no way to tell what a planet is made of unless you go into it - and of course it goes for games as well. What you think may be a Gas Giant in GOF might be another Venus.

What do you guys think? Should it be deleted?

11. by Cheese Ausar: OVERHAUL: GOF2HD category

This overhaul should be a pretty easy one. GOF2HD is the same as GOF2 just with sharper graphics, so shouldn't we delete it?

I'm worried about Autocomplete for blueprints though.

12. by Soldier Elite: Imbalance Between Information on Different Pages

Pages such as this look a lot nicer now that I've added a template and some information. And, to be honest, we should encourage more information on some pages. It could do with a bit of organisation. There's a lot of contrast between the amount of words on pages, and occasionlly you bump into some fancy leather jackets and absolute lack of information. I'm currently adding info on planets and systems that are missing it to try and fill in some of that imbalance.

Anyone want to help?

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I would add the Easter Egg Deletion to the list, but that's already being discussed. Have fun!

 ~NiveliKing~ 21:14, September 21, 2015 (UTC)  