User talk:Notmyhandle

Final Fantasy Tactics
Hello!!

My (user)name is drkelflord and i would like your help

with something.

You see, after touring this site and subsequently joining, I

realized that the Final Fantasy Tactics page has a great deal of pages

that are simply gone or missing(or never there)and i would like to rectify

that. If you or anyone else could help me with this i would be greatly apreciative

thank you for your time

sincerly--Drkelflord 19:42, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I would love to help you some time, but I'll have to pass until I can get my hands on that game. -- 01:46, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Image sourcing
I was under the impression that the sourcing policy applied to user-made screenshots etc. taken by others, not official content like box artwork. I've certainly never given a source for the latter myself. :/ Garrett (talk) 01:49, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Sakura Wars reply.
I'm sorry. I couldn't think of a way to add japanese localization names to this game. I thought adding a note is enough but in the end, it just doesn't work at all. Anyway, I got hooked up on Xenoblade Chronicles. I won't be editing for a while now that I'm trying to get everything from the new game. I took gamefaq notes, gamespot maps and a few other because the game itself is complex and big. So sorry for the misinterpretation back there. For now, I'm keeping my mind on getting through Xenoblade and checking the requirements on sidequests.

If you still don't understand, that's ok because mistakes becomes a common thing in my life now. For now, I'll chat to you when I have free time on my hands ok? Thanks.

Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 15:25, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Links
I'm sorry, but the links you put in my userpage are incorrect, as I left Wikia ages ago. To see the proper links, click to edit this page. Thank you, and sorry. Uxie  Lover  1994 06:53, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 *  -- 16:11, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Pokémon Taxonomy
Hi! Thanks for the appreciation of my Pokémon taxonomy. The idea started when some ignorant American said thing against evolutionary theory, and I thought that there was an obvious translation mistake: pokémons "evolve" the same way a child "evolves" into an adult, and what are called "species" are really "life stages". I actually never had the patience to clear any Pokemon videogame (nor any other breeding videogame: I prefer role-playing VG's), but I like zoology and taxonomy. --Abacos (talk) 09:03, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I wish to find a picture of the original Polywag/Polywhirl, with the mirrored swastika (that is a symbol of good omen, because it is reversed). Can you help? --Abacos (talk) 09:03, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Japanesu
I can understand several languages, but Japanese is not one of them. By the way, I agree with you: probably the Japanese versions use a more accurate term than the English ones: Japanese people are known for their precision ;-) --Abacos (talk) 09:29, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Clash of Ninja 2
I want to propose something about that CoN2 guide, and since you were the one that changed the level, I figure you know what you're doing. Is the sub-ToC really necessary? Strategies for the characters can be added on those characters' pages (especially considering how their move sets remain largely unchanged throughout the series) and dividing the game into story chapters really isn't necessary. The story mode is essentially Street Fighter with a bunch of text in between fights. The only major difference is the fights aren't randomized, and I'm not sure if that's enough to warrant having strategies down on every single chapter. The only basic strategy I can think of is beat the crap out of your opponent. :P I don't think each battle requires a strategy. A game like Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, where the bosses change phases throughout the battles after a bunch of QTEs, would need strategies for each chapter. Clash of Ninja 2 is just your average fighting game. Tell me what you think. :) -- Wario Talk 17:11, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry my response is so late. Between a defective computer and final exams, I couldn't respond as soon as I would have liked. Story mode strategies in one page sounds fine to me. I would think shared strategy pages could work (move lists don't change much across the games in the series - some combos from the Clash of Ninja games are even usable in the Ultimate Ninja Storm games) mostly because of the limited techniques available to the characters at that point in the manga/anime series (which would be built on in later games and added to the page), but if that isn't enough, strategy pages specifically for Clash of Ninja 2 could be done I guess. Now that my summer vacation is here, I'm free to work on the guide, but I want to finish the God of War guide first. That one is long overdue. -- Wario Talk 21:50, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Control Selector
See User talk:Najzere, specifically the end of the forum thread. -- Prod (Talk) 01:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, I don't see any images show up at all on that page. -- Prod (Talk) 01:41, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

The reason it isn't working is because of the visibility parameter in control selector and the fact that DW3enemy tries to force an image. So the NES and GBC controls are putting the monster name into "DW3 monster *.png" as normal, while the SNES control is trying to use  . The discussions weren't about the name of the template, but yes about presentation—control selector is a presentation template. It's supposed to be used in prose in guides, not in tables where each system should get its own field or column. — Najzere  ·  Talk  17:14, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Well I see you were in the middle of working on all that, so I'm not sure how much of the above is applicable aside from the prior decision to only use control selector in prose. :P — Najzere  ·  Talk  17:19, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I reverted all of my tests. I'm going to just simplify it into part of the table.  I tried and failed to make a duplicate control selector class that would modify a visibility css attribute rather than a display one, since they behave differently and I was hoping visibility would enable the images to load better.  -- 17:23, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Some Monster don't exist in NES so there is no Pic to show it. For example: Instead of Divinegon a red url will be shown. How should we solve that? I also want to ask you to use something different to mark Bosses, since bolded Text is diffult to spot from the other normal Monster Name. How about using color or so? Paco (talk) 17:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm working on it. -- 17:41, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, I made it so if you put the nes parameter in it won't display the image and it will add the "Does not appear in NES version" text to the notes section. Now we just need to move all of the SNES images. -- 17:58, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm not really a fan of adding site-wide js, and complicating a site-wide template, just to fit one guide... It doesn't need to be this complicated. -- Prod (talk) 16:21, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, nice work on the cleanup everywhere :). -- Prod (talk) 16:59, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

MapleStory guide reply
Okay, thank you for notifying. Will try my best to remove any old and update new ones.

Yeah, I was finding for those Header and Footer Nav..but I think I forgot. Thanks :)

Oh, that simplifies a lot of things. Thank you very much :)

I can't seem to delete the MapleStory/Walkthrough page. It's a redirect to the Quest page so it is not needed. Uglyface86 (talk) 15:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)Uglyface86

I was thinking of redirecting it to the introduction part..but since there isn't one, I think MapleStory/Towns will do. Uglyface86 (talk) 17:18, 5 June 2012 (UTC)Uglyface86

Never mind, you've found what I wanted to put :) Thanks :) Uglyface86 (talk) 17:23, 5 June 2012 (UTC)Uglyface86

DW3 NES Monster Pics
Can you please leave uploading Monster-Pics to me? I also need to cofirm any Name and rename it where needed. Thank You. Paco (talk) 18:48, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you done uploading? Now i don't know which Monster i need to confirm/capture/etc coz you added everything! You just gave me unnecessary more work to check everthing all over again. No thank to you. -.- Paco (talk) 19:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

DW3 trans monster names
Hey NMH. Again, I think it might be best to treat the translation of the monster names with a little more credibility. Consider who translated the game. DQ Translations is not just some run-of-the-mill translation group, they are hardcore DQ fans and enthusiasts. They are not going to come up with any names for monsters that don't in some way reflect the name of a monster that they don't think Enix themselves would have chosen. Considering that there will never be an official release of SNES DQ3, I don't think it's worth giving Paco a hard time about using the translation names. More than likely, anyone playing the SNES version is going to be using the DQ Translations patch, so if we don't use their monster names, it may confuse some of the players (although the pics will lend plenty of clarity). Given the reputation that the translation group has, I certainly feel comfortable using their names.  Pro cyon  00:51, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Megaman Battle Network 1
You said you have no prior knowledge of this videogame, right? Well, the in-game chip library assigns one to five stars to every chip: the weakest/most common have one star, the strongest/rarest have five stars. Therefore, a folder containing several five-star chips will be quantitatively stronger than one containing several one-star chips. --Abacos (talk) 12:47, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * All the attributes of the chips are listed in the Mega Man Battle Network/Battle Chips page. "Stars" is one of such attributes. Since I made the table sortable (I make every table sortable), it can be seen that five-stars chips are stronger than one-star chips. --Abacos (talk) 17:04, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The spelling like "07" is necessary, otherwse when sorting by stars you would get this order: 1, 10, 11, 2, 20, 21, 3, etc. --Abacos (talk) 17:24, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The sentence is definitely more clear the way you wrote it, I fixed it already --Abacos (talk) 17:24, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Our standard is sentence case; do not capitalize any words in a title beyond the first that are not pronouns
I'm not sure I understand. For every video game in this website (as well as in every English text), all the titles have nouns, verbs and adjectives capitalized, while prepositions, conjunctions and articles are small. Should I write e.g. "Ultima 5: warriors of destiny" and "Final fantasy"? --Abacos (talk) 02:51, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

The English Grammar Rules Say Otherwise
I don't see the point. Titles are titles, whether they are titles of sections or titles of video games. Why making a grammar difference? After writing two thesis in English I'm 100% sure that the English grammar rule is the one I stated above here. I know that schools are very bad in English-speaking countries, because they have to spend several years teaching the spelling of words, but you can trust an European who speaks (and writes) five languages :-) --Abacos (talk) 17:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Delete revisions
I don't really see the point of hiding these revisions. There's no sensitive info revealed, meaning that a regular revert should be good enough. -- Prod (talk) 01:16, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Erasing a vandal's work, permanently, is the best way to crush their view of success. I won't do it again. -- 17:26, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Spell classification
Well then, I think we can solve it with five categories:
 * 1) Spells that can only be used outside battle;
 * 2) Spells that can be used both during battle and during peace (they're almost exclusively healing spells);
 * 3) Battle spells that target the allies;
 * 4) Battle spells that target the enemies but deal no damage;
 * 5) Battle spells that damage the enemies.

Said this, we are just discussing about how to call them:
 * 1) Peace or non-combat (I prefer the positive idea of Peace: if it's not battle, it is Peace);
 * 2) Healing or restorative ("healing" is a shorter word);
 * 3) Support or buff ("buff" sounds funny, I mean it really sounds like the word "funny" in many languages);
 * 4) Debuff (I think we agree here);
 * 5) Attack (I think we agree here too).

If you accept the joke, I'm not surprised that "Peace" makes no sense to an American. Just kidding!!!

''You know, my classification arised when I was playing Ultima 4 for NES, where you can access almost thirty spells since the beginning of the video game and there's not even a distinction between black and white magic, therefore I needed to sort out all the magic that was in my hands. Years before I read Sun-Tzu, and his classification is Attack, Defense, Sabotage and Logistic. I modeled mine according to his, and because Ultima 4 is a video game about Virtues, I put the "virtuous" Peace (Logistic) first, then Defense/Support, Sabotage/Debuff and last the "un-virtuous and violent" Attack. ''--Abacos (talk) 21:44, 16 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok. I proceed to replace "peace" and insert the "healing" category in all the pages where I edited the spell list. They're about half a dozen. --Abacos (talk) 10:27, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm still not presuaded about "Non-combat" category, because it does not really say what the spell is for, it just says what it is not for. I mean, it's like "What are you doing?" "I'm not smoking" "Ok, but what are you doing then?"
 * Since all the "non-combat" spells involve either teleporting or removing obstacles on your way (obstacles like closed doors or darkness in dungeons or magic fields) or seeing where you are (map spell, locate spell), I would rather call them "Travel spells" or something like that. They are all spells that help traveling and moving around indeed. I would not call them "Movement spells" because they don't always imply the movement of anything (e.g. a Map spell or Light spells). --Abacos (talk) 14:07, 18 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid your last reply was a bit hasty. I don't want to introduce further categories, five are enough. I just want to give a positive name to one. "Peace" is too generic, "miscellaneous" is the most generic thing ever (it sounds like "I didn't know how to categorize these"), and I think "non-combat" is too generic too, because it's a negative label, as I outlined above. "Travel" describes well enough what all the spells so far called "non-combat" are about. We are still in the five categories above, just discussing the name of one. --Abacos (talk) 22:57, 18 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, I'll do it in the next days. --Abacos (talk) 23:20, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Exactly, "Antidote" in Dragon Quest 4 can only be used outside battle (and I think it is a wise strategy), therefore, according to the definition, it is a Travel spell. The same for "CurseOff" in Dragon Quest 3; moreover, this way all the Healing spells belong to the Pilgrim, while all the Travel spells belong to the Wizard. In the old classification DQ4's Antidote and DQ3's CurseOff would have been exceptions, buffer spells that cannot be used in battle; now they are included in a specific category: I think this shows that the system works well :-) --Abacos (talk) 16:59, 19 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I confirm: although it seems unusual, Antidote in Dragon Quest 4 can only be used outside battle. --Abacos (talk) 10:31, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

League of Legends
Hi, I noticed on your userpage that you like League of Legends. I've been working on a guide for Draven, and will do guides for other champions as well. Would you mind taking a look at it and maybe tell me what I can do to conform more to the wiki's style? Primordial Child (talk) 23:28, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for taking a look at it. And may I ask, why did you stop playing? Primordial Child (talk) 23:54, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

User page reply
Okay, thank you :) I just want to restart my user page. Uglyface86 (talk) 12:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)Uglyface86

Naruto guide
Hey sorry about the conflict, looks like we both jumped on that mess of a page at the same time and went different directions with it. Thanks for making those series navs, that was my next move. — Najzere  ·  Talk  17:53, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Dragon Quest 3 merchant
I expanded the description of the party in Dragon Warrior 3, explaining why I think it's good to have a Merchant at end game and a Thief only temporarily. --Abacos (talk) 11:46, 21 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Dragon Quest 4: I confirm Antidote can only used be outside battle, it's true. I was surprised when I noticed, but after all it's a sensible thing to do: if you cast antidote during battle the enemy can poison you again, and you just wasted one turn. --Abacos (talk) 19:52, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, I'm still learning all the functions and options that are available. --Abacos (talk) 10:41, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Ultima 4
Truth is, the text inside the NES video game has "DEX" and "INT" swapped and in the wrong places. I wrote it on in the section above the triangle. The triangle is right, and shows the mistake. --Abacos (talk) 11:46, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the heads up, I didn't really understand what those even meant before. YoshiSoy (talk) 17:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again! The compliment is greatly appreciated! YoshiSoy (talk) 17:50, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Ooops
Sorry about the messed up guide publishing / links. The Alpha Centauri section TOC doesnt really have enuff catagory pages to cover whats in my guide, so I wont try to break it into bits and add them to the existing pages. It only really works in its current format. I'll publish it whole somewheres. Thanks for the messages tho... DARogers (talk) 17:55, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Reply
Yeah, sure, I can help :) But, I don't play GMS anymore. I'm playing MSEA version. Sorry for the late reply. Uglyface86 (talk) 10:38, 28 June 2012 (UTC)Uglyface86

Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for the message. I'll keep it in mind. Keep up the advice and hopefully I'll become the best editor. Xenoblade Chronicles is going to be tough for me so it's going to be a long while. Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 10:04, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello! AirSharkSquad here!
I got your message!

http://strategywiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:AirSharkSquad&redirect=no

Here's the name of the game that I posted screenshots of!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpei_T%C5%8Dma_Den http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Genpei_T%C5%8Dma_Den

Genpei Tōma Den a.k.a The Genji and the Heike Clans

wip
Thanks for the explanation. One never finishes learning new things :-) --Abacos (talk) 17:25, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I suppose that sooner or later you will ask me to change "peace" to "noncombat" here too... :-P --Abacos (talk) 17:31, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

DW3 enemy template
Hey NMH, I really appreciate the effort you've been putting into this template, but I gotta say, and please don't take offense, but... it's just kind of a mess. For one thing, the GBC and SNES values will always be the same, there's one single value for both remixes. It seems like you could bridge the current template with the original design, seen in Dragon Warrior II/Enemies, where the two values live side by side. Just a suggestion. I never wanted to see that page get so night-marishly out of control. Trying to incorporate every single graphic style into it also makes it kind of busy. Anyway, do what you think is best.  Pro cyon  03:36, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I think a wiser approach would be to split the table. Don't try to cram the name information into it.  Set up a name table like


 * That's one table. Then the other table can be split between NES and SNES/GBC (or Original and Remix).  I think you'll save yourself a huge headache splitting the tables instead of trying to cram everything on to one table.  Right now the page looks broken.  Pro  cyon  22:46, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, just wondering if you saw my proposal for the blue Slime?  Pro  cyon  03:58, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Cool deal, just checking.  Pro  cyon  04:27, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Time Limited
Some classes in the game are able to be created only during a certain period or patch.

Thief XP chart
Check out this page and/or this page. In both cases, the last column is for the Thief.  Pro cyon  23:56, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank ya, buddy! -- 00:20, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Re: Kirby Super Star
Oh, the multiplayer mode in that game is just that a second player can play as the helper, and the sub-games allow for two-player versus. That's all. Wanderer (talk) 08:34, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Final Fantasy armor tables
I sorted them by price, because sometimes an armor with lower absorption has properties (elemental protection, cast spell) that make it more valuable. By the way, I'll write it there. Same for the weapons. --Abacos (talk) 15:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Image/File usage
Hey nmh, just wondering if there's a reason you changed Portal/Chamber_05 and a few other of those pages to have images with File: instead of Image: As far as I can tell from Guide/Images, Image: is what we're supposed to use. Is there some detail I'm missing? -- Ceegers (talk) 02:52, 28 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah, I see. Well we might as well change the guide to suggest we use File: then, yes? I can go ahead and do that if you want. -- Ceegers (talk) 21:19, 28 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Don't worry about it, I've updated it. Pretty overdue change, that. Thanks for helping out! -- 23:37, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Adding pages (part 2)
I've gotten down adding new pages to a walkthrough, but is there a way to make them appear on the main walkthrough page? See here - Walkthrough. I've added several new pages starting from here and changed the order, but nothing is different.

--Pokelover11 (talk) 05:47, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Also, can you block an IP? http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_FireRed_and_LeafGreen/Cape_Brink

--Pokelover11 (talk) 15:53, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Appreciate that. Glad to see an admin who's on top of everything.

--Pokelover11 (talk) 15:59, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

FF7 weapon "values"
"Value" and "price" are synonimous; I used them without making any distinction so far. If n/a is used, when sorting the table by price it is considered as zero, but the weapons that cannot be purchased have an extremely high value due to their rarity and should go after those with a price. If I use alphanumeric characters, all the column is considered text, an then the "1, 10, 11, 2, 20, 200, 3,..." glitch appears when sorting by price. I'm gonna try the ∞ (infinity) symbol or something else before moving out of the sandbox. --Abacos (talk) 16:49, 2 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation; English is not my native language, after all. Since those rare weapons are sold for 1 Gil and selling price is 50% of purchasing price, how about writing 2 Gil in the price column? --Abacos (talk) 17:15, 2 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I see, but I don't like it too much. I think that the sell-price column is redundant, it just shows half the purchasing price. I'd rather use one single column with purchasing prices and "n/a"s, and add a note at the top of the page saying that selling price is half of purchasing price, and weapons that cannot be purchased are sold for 1 Gil. How about this? --Abacos (talk) 17:34, 2 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, the "n/a" sometimes triggers the "1, 10, 11, 2, 20, 200, 3,..." glitch. I wrote "selling price is half of purchasing price" at the top of the page and written "2" in the price column for rare weapons that are sold for 1 Gil. Armors/bracelets are completed and moved to the page; Caith Sith and Vincent are still to come. --Abacos (talk) 19:40, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Ok, 0 Gil instead of 2. That's funny: it's exactly what it was until I modified it today :-D "Much ado for nothing" (W. Shakespeare) --Abacos (talk) 22:37, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Multiple versions of a walkthrough
Sometimes more than one person will post a walkthrough. There are many reasons why they might not be merged together. Suppose one is long, and another is short. Of course, they are in some ways similar, because they describe the same situation. But they might have no other commonalities. The question is, what should the headers for these two articles be? This is not a hypothetical situation; I raise the question in the context of a game walkthrough I am working on. Also, is this the proper place to raise this type of question?--VictorInThePacific (talk) 00:36, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Mario Party 4/Toad's Midway Madness Toad's present
Every character gets a different present. There's a chart on the Game Modes page. YoshiSoy (talk) 18:50, 5 August 2012 (UTC)