User talk:Prod


 * Archive 1 - October 16, 2006
 * Archive 2 - December 19, 2006

Please add comments at the bottom, much easier to find that way (or just press the '+' at the top of the screen).

Main Page Links
Hey Prod! There is a link back to the main page of guides anyway, just click the Table of Contents/Walkthrough bar. Phoenix499 11:57, 13 November 2006 (CST) Edit: Thanks about the skaters pages :)


 * Oh, I'll talk to him then. It's just that they are incrdibley uncessary and look stupid. The main page is the link left to the Table of Contents. I also don't agree with placing the tables of contents on the front page, and think that only the Indroduction, Infobox and External Links should be on the "Main page". I'll bring this up then. Thanks. Phoenix499 12:05, 13 November 2006 (CST)


 * Nah, not the ToC, I meant something like this, http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Feel_the_Magic:_XY/XX Where all the ToC and Walkthrough is on one page. It doesn't look as good, not as neat and there would be no point in havign the actual ToC bar if the links where all on the main page.
 * This has been discussed before, and the verdict was that the ToC in the All Game Nav is not visible enough for the front page, where people want to get somewhere quickly. Having the ToC on the front page eliminates the time spent finding the link to display the ToC in the All Game Nav, click it, then find the page for which you are looking on the ToC. --DrBob (Talk) 12:55, 13 November 2006 (CST)
 * Oh come on, thats a joke right. Can't be seen, can't be accessed quick enough. It's right there, infront of you! Oh well, rules are rules. It's just it looks very stupid. Maybe the decision should be raised again is all I'm saying. Phoenix499 13:12, 13 November 2006 (CST)
 * Just to make sure we're on the same footing: you think the tables of contents on the main page should be removed because you can access the table of contents through the "show" link on the All Game Nav, yes? The "show" link may be obvious to you, but it might not be obvious to a lot of other people, and it's a fairly small target (as things go) for people to click. A table of contents on the main page is a lot more obvious, and more book-like (which is basically what we're aiming for with these sub-paged guides). The table of contents accessible through the "show" link is more of a courtesy. --DrBob (Talk) 16:30, 13 November 2006 (CST)

Table of Contents
I have noticed that you are putting the table of contents for articles on their main page. I know it is for convenience, but why? To me it clutters the page and whats the point when there is the article Nav at the top of the page? 0-172 3:56, 15 November 2006 (CST)
 * It means that the ToC is easily visible to anybody (many guests may not know that there is a ToC hidden at the top of the page), and having it on the main page means that there's only one click from the main page to get you anywhere in the guide, rather than two (clicking on the ToC at the top, then where you want to go). For key navigation, this is important, as it makes things a lot faster. Besides, having a ToC on the front page of a guide fills it up, and gives a good at-a-glance indication of how well the guide is progressing. --DrBob (Talk) 00:22, 15 November 2006 (CST)

Firefox render problem
Here's the image you requested: Firefox Render Error. Note that I am using Firefox 2.0 on Gentoo Linux. Karimarie 12:48, 15 December 2006 (CST)
 * That's a problem which looks alarmingly similar to one I fixed with IE earlier. Regardless, it's almost certainly caused by a distro-specific bug in Firefox, induced by Gentoo patches, as it doesn't appear in vanilla Firefox on Linux or Windows, or the Ubuntu builds. What I would advise is that you use your user CSS to override the width for tables and therefore fix the problem. Something like "table { max-width: 98%; }" might work. --DrBob (Talk) 13:04, 15 December 2006 (CST)

Mega Man 7 Boss Guide
Your alternate formatting failed in terms of numbering the attacks. What was your purpose in a different format than what I had come up with? If it's just moving the "solution" section of each attack, you could simply indent or bold, etc. But I think it should be reverted to my section anyways, since yours shows the numbers that dont apply to anything (we could remove numbers completely if thats what you want). --Notmyhandle 19:24, 18 December 2006 (CST)

Geffen map
I'm using the in-game map names in order to be consistent with the content actually in the iRO game. Ragnarok Online/Maps/alberta is similarly named. Karimarie 21:28, 18 December 2006 (CST)

FF7
Just curious why you reverted my change on the FF7 main page. (Not upset or anything I just don't think it needs that huge amount of redundancy)--Argash 22:10, 18 December 2006 (CST)
 * With the sidebar ToC doesn't that qualify though? --Argash 23:23, 18 December 2006 (CST)

Heh
didn't realize there was a redirect there. BTW might be time to archive your talk page again :) --Argash 23:45, 18 December 2006 (CST)

Asphalt Urban GT
The title of the game has no colon in it. 0-172 17:45, 29 December 2006 (CST)

NFS Most Wanted Cars List
Thanks for Cleaning it up some, I hate Tables. lol WillSWC 23:59, 29 December 2006 (CST)

Jump Ultimate Stars

 * Good idea for cleaning up the series on the right sidebar. I think I'll just do what you did with the TOC though, instead of just bolding them, I'll use the big tag. Thanks. :) --Sakurina 15:37, 30 December 2006 (CST)
 * Actually, never mind that. >_> --Sakurina 15:40, 30 December 2006 (CST)
 * Regarding the userbox thing, I'm not too sure what the policy is, so I'm doing it the same way Wikipedia has recently adopted, keeping them in userspace. That way, useless random userboxes don't get created unless the user intends on using it on their own pages. I made it since other users will be joining in on the JUS guide over on the Abxy forums, and I wanted a way to easily see who's in and who isn't. I didn't know you were a sysop too, haha. --Sakurina 15:44, 30 December 2006 (CST)
 * Yeah, that bottom bar is confusing. The game itself isn't really linear at all, it's very free-flowing, so the next/previous thing varies from player to player. :/ Also, not having the game, there are some things I couldn't clarify right now. We'll leave it as is for now and whenever I figure things out, I suppose I'll be able to fix the next/prev page thing. --Sakurina 16:32, 30 December 2006 (CST)

RO Redirects
You can delete them. Karimarie 11:07, 31 December 2006 (CST)

Category:Final_Fantasy_IV_images
Hey man I discovered a problem last night and DrBob says your the man to help. For the details see this topic --Argash 17:38, 3 January 2007 (CST)

X-Plane
hello there,

First of all, bear with me as this is my first effort at putting some info on a page of this sort, i.e. a wiki. Most notable to me of your comments was that X-Plane may not be a game after all. I (and some more vociferous members of the community !) would agree, it is more accurately described as a flight simulation. It does have some online interactive capability but it is not a game in the sense of competition or score keeping, etc. I belive that when this wiki was first set up in was not here in the strategy wiki area; it got moved here sometime back by someone on the wiki side of things ? Is there a more appropriate place for this ? I expect that as I grow more familiar with this wiki business I will take more advantage of formatting, etc. At the moment I think you are telling me that identifying myself and perhaps x-plane.org is inappropriate ? An instructional/tutorial piece is what I am trying to get to eventually... thanks..

Need some help on two templates
Hey Prod, could you take a look at Template:OoT Skulltula & Template:Zelda PoH for me? The text color on links is staying in that blue color and I cannot for the life of me get it to change to something better suited to each templates color scheme. --Argash 12:15, 5 January 2007 (CST)
 * Thanks for the help and the feedback! --Argash 13:40, 5 January 2007 (CST)

Popups
I see from this diff that you got the pop-ups plugin working over here. That is by far my favorite plugin on wikipedia could you tell me what you did to get it working? --Argash 13:39, 5 January 2007 (CST)

x plane
thanks for the feedback, prod. I would be interested in being kept up to date on where this page might end up. I do agree that the move to strategy wiki was probably not appropriate. Twgin 21:19, 5 January 2007 (CST)

0-172 sysopness
He's asking to be a sysop on my talk page. I'm happy to let him be one, as I think he's improved a lot recently, but I wonder if we have too many sysops? Perhaps I'm not taking into account how many are inactive... --DrBob (Talk) 10:54, 7 January 2007 (CST)

Pkmn. stadium 2
Prod, I agree that the Poke Cup section of Pkmn. Stadium 2 needs a better layout. I think I may have a solution. If I chart the info., it should be easier. I already did it for the first section. Would you mind checking it out and telling me what you think? Thanks! Pokémon Stadium 2/Poké Cup --Wittj 15:00, 7 January 2007 (CST)

New to this site
I worked on a complete info guide on wikipedia, but they took it down because it was like a stategy guide. So I am starting to post the info here. The problem is I know nothing about the format, or what info is necessary and not wanted. I would think of a strategy guide having everything. Anyways, I'm working on Lemonade Tycoon, as you might have known. I have alot of data and can write whatever is needed since I have mastered the game. Could you give me pointers on what to change?

MapleStory Icon Filenames.
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/MapleStory/Towns#Icons

I was wondering if we should change the filenames for the icons to the official filenames from the data.wz. I would have done it, but I don't know how to change the filenames without uploading a new icon/file all together. -- Takiten 22:55, 14 January 2007 (CST)
 * Well on several sites that extract the data for the data.wz, they were able to unencrypt the filenames for the minimap icons too.


 * In GlobalMS and JapanMS, the minimap names are: Amherst.png AquaRoad.png Dungeon.png ElNath.png ElNathDungeon.png Ellinia.png Folkvillige.png Guild.png Henesys.png KerningCity.png Leafre.png LudiTower1.png Ludibrium.png MushroomVillage.png OmegaSector.png Orbis.png PcZone.png Perion.png Rith.png SouthPerry.png TestServer.png Wedding.png jipangu.png shouwa.png


 * Wedding.png is only in GlobalMS, Leafre.png, jipangu.png, and shouwa.png are only in JapanMS, and Village is spelled wrong in Folkvillige.png.


 * I believe that even in KoreaMS, that all the filenames would be exactly the same. Looks like a pretty good way to find out the english names of future towns. Notice Leafre.png for example.


 * I haven't the slightest idea what the Shanghai, YuYuanGarden, XiMenDing, and Night Market icons filenames are, since I don't have access to any extracted data from ChinaMS or TaiwanMS. As far as I know, KoreaMS and JapanMS don't use minimap icons for Shanghai, XiMenDing, or Night Market, so I don't know if they would be in KoreaMS or JapanMS current versions data or not. And obviously, I don't know the filenames for Mureung or Hundred Grass/White Herb either. KoreaMS and ThailandMS didn't make a icon for Thai Floating Market or Coca-Cola Town either so I don't think any versions has one for either. -- Takiten 15:47, 16 January 2007 (CST)

Super Mario Kart ToC
Prod, go check out what you changed. Maybe you have a higher resolution than I, I'm using 1024x768, but the right column containing all the tracks is too small to contain both inner columns in the same row (thus the spacing error). Can you remedy this please? --Notmyhandle 23:35, 15 January 2007 (CST)
 * Prod, I checked. It's a browser problem.  Firefox vs. IE7.  Damn...  I had it set for IE, then now its for FF.  They really need to standardize. --Notmyhandle 00:27, 16 January 2007 (CST)
 * So, shouldn't we go back to the code I had? It works for both browsers then, even though the code may be wrong.  It's just not fair to IE users ='3 --Notmyhandle 18:07, 16 January 2007 (CST)
 * Thanks. --Notmyhandle 18:18, 16 January 2007 (CST)

Shadow of the Colossus
Dunno really how to go about this Wiki talk thing, but anyway...

In response to your question, I'm not sure...each boss is kinda separate from the others but I don't think there's enough you can write for each of them to constitute it being a separate page. Another odd thing is that I've played the game myself and the guide at certain points are wrong...yet there's no way somebody could have made a mistake. I'll have to chase this up. If possible, could you get some opinions off other people? -- MutantJones 18:47, 16 January 2007 (CST)


 * I agree with you with the spoiling bit...this game likes to surprise you a lot with some of the rediculous sizes or challenges, so it's not really fair if readers only stuck on one boss accidentally wind up finding out how to do the next one too :P I assume all I need to do is change the page names, create a load of new ones, and fix the navigation and main page then? -- MutantJones 17:02, 17 January 2007


 * Looks good to me. If you tell me when you've sorted out the pages and moving of info (thankyou for offering :D) I'll look over it and make any necessary changes. -- MutantJones 16:45 January 18

MapleStory world
Took care of the transwiki for you. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions) 08:43, 18 January 2007 (CST)
 * I've moved it to MapleStory/World. --DrBob (Talk) 11:06, 18 January 2007 (CST)