User talk:AstonMartin22

Welcome to StrategyWiki!
Hello AstonMartin22! Welcome to StrategyWiki. Thank you for your contributions. If you have any questions, just contact a sysop through their talk page or post on the staff lounge, and they'd be happy to help. If you need help editing, check the StrategyWiki Guide. If you have a question about the content on this wiki, you can check out our staff lounge page. If you want to ask questions or hang out in IRC, we're usually around. On the other hand, if you have ideas for StrategyWiki, bring them up on the forums. Please remember to sign your name on, and only on, talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (    ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field as this helps to document all of your hard work. Feel free to delete this message from your talk page if you like, or keep it for reference. Happy editing! -- Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 14:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

BSP
Thanks a lot for your assistance in the guide, although there're some things you should be aware of - firstly, know that each image you upload has to have a prefix in front of it to distinguish itself from similar images of the same name - i.e to differentiate the Gyoraitei screenshot from BSM to BSP. Secondly, try to add only confirmed, substantiated information that has been tested - I don't know how you learned that the Tone has more armour and is in general superior to the Mogami and the Takao. I'm getting confirmation on that from the community manager now.

Finally, unless you're utterly sure it's the same, try to avoid taking stuff from the Prima guide preview. It's rather inaccurate - for example, it states the Gyoraitei still has its 5" gun from Midway when it was clearly removed. Also for ship armaments, don't add stuff from Wikipedia - the idea is to make a guide accurate to the game, not a guide accurate to history. I don't know if you did this already or not, but some of the data you put in seems a little flawed, like the high-angle guns for one of the Japanese cruisers.

Also, just so you know, Incline and I are working on the BSP guide, and we'd appreciate it if we managed to get in contact with you if you intend to work long-term on this guide, so as to divide up duties and work more effectively as a team. You can find me on IRC (make sure to say my name to get my attention) or just drop me a message on my talk page. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 15:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It's really hard to get armament info. I'm honestly going by what Midway says for the old stuff. If you have Midway, that helps a lot. It has a section on weapons. For example, it states that the Japanese triple-barreled machine gun was called the 25mm/60. Therefore, the Gyoraitei obviously has two of these, plus four torpedo tubes. That's how I got the armament of the Gyoraitei. Naturally, the larger the ship, the harder it is to get the armament for it. The only real way would be to do it the hard way and experiment on your own - see what guns shoot from where, and then classify them individually...or copy from Prima if the data seems accurate enough. One last thing: Please remember to sign your name on, and only on, talk pages by clicking [[Image:Wikisigbutton.png]] or using four tildes (   ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. You can change your signature in your preferences.

P.S: I thought you were copying from the Prima preview because the picture for the Tone-class is wrong in it. It's the same as the image you had as well. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 16:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The thing is, Pacific has drastically changed things around from reality. For example, the Betty carries a lot more bombs than it should, just so that it can be put on par with the American B-17. And I personally feel that stating a ship's real armament is outside strategywiki's scope - consider every FPS game referencing their game's guns and stating "Well, this gun doesn't carry as much as it should, or carries too much"...or saying "It's too accurate", "It's not accurate enough", etc.


 * For referencing your personal thoughts on the Invasion of Midway section, you can write in, "Some players find that [InsertStrategyHere] works as well." Just be sure to not reference yourself in the first person, as that's considered drivel here. Don't use any personal pronouns - "I", "we", etc. I also admit that I've always sought the gold medal on all missions, so I don't know which mission unlocks the extra unit. If you want to throw those in, go ahead.


 * Also, if you want my attention on IRC, say my name ("Arrow"). It makes a noise and flashes my window. It lets me know someone's looking for me. I don't look at IRC unless I know someone's wanting my attention. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 17:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Just get what you can and leave it at that. Worst case scenario, you can edit it later. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 14:07, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * One thing about numbers - try to spell the words if there are numbers right after them. For example, say a ship has "six 5 in guns" rather than "6 5 in guns". It just makes it clearer that you're not referring to, say, a 6.5 in guns and just forgot the period. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 18:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Wiki links
Hi, just wanted to let you know that if you need to link to a namespace which normally doesn't produce a link, you can use a colon at the beginning. So whereas categorizes the page as belonging to the Tom Clancy series, Category:Tom Clancy produces a link to the Tom Clancy category. Also, unless a category has the same name as a game, you can usually link to just the name through redirects, like with Tom Clancy. For categories that have the same name as a game, it may be faster for you to use the c template, like Ace Combat. - najzere T 17:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

The Month
I'll be away from the month, and be back in early to mid July. Go ahead and tackle the others - I'll deal with screenshots when I get back. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 18:06, 7 June 2009 (UTC)