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Welcome back

Good to see you bro ;) Procyon 15:28, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Likewise. Stay strong! --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 16:51, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Hehe, this seems to be your time of year ;) Hope you stick around, we miss you. Procyon 23:33, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Ahaha, that is really weird! I love how logs reveal personality/seasonal trends. I stopped playing games for a long time. Also while I've been away I've amassed tens of thousands of achievement points from flash games on Newgrounds. Then I got into League of Legends. Then I stopped playing games again... lol. But I'm hitting the consoles again since I got a bunch of new games for the GameCube. I have a love/hate relationship (see Addiction) with video games. :] I'm glad you guys are still around. I love this place, even though I'm a little rusty with the policies and such. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 01:45, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Honestly, your timing couldn't be better. We're currently reflecting on how well we've done at maintaining a community, and at the moment, I don't think we'd get a very high score. You may be one of the best people to help us out and provide us with some insight on how we can improve. Have a look at the last topic on Najzere's talk page and let me know your thoughts. Procyon 02:12, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Still on LoL? -- Prod (Talk) 05:12, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Nah. I quit last spring. I need to stay away from MMOGs. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 20:32, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: Images

Thanks for the help with the Category fix on my image, and for adding the Game-specific category for the rest of the images! I was wondering why even though it was spelled correctly ScreenShots wasn't being accepted as a listed category, but now I know it is case sensitive so now I won't have that issue anymore. I'm planning to add a few more images in the Terminology and Creating Songs pages over the weekend...as well as possibly an additional article on StepMania online once I get myself a bit more familiar with it. So now I can have all of the StepMania related images in their own category for reference as well as the other ones.

Thanks again, and I sure will!

Foxfire667 03:14, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Category game lists

It would be good to have a more formal guidelines, perhaps it is worth addressing in the forum? A new page on StrategyWiki:Guide advising what should or should not be on the "Category" pages, would be helpful.

The reason I replaced the list with the Template was because the system information (and in the case of Category:Grand Theft Auto the release dates) are available on the individual game pages. Additionally, as shown by GTA, the lists are sometimes forgotten about. The Template is shown on the Main game pages and updated more accurately, thus one edit is covering two pages. However the GTA list of games does clearly show the progression of the series and act as a quick reference guide. - Trevman 18:33, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Upcoming meeting

As a reminder, there is a meeting this Saturday, May 29, on IRC taking place at 2:00pm EDT (UTC -4). As always, agenda is available on the forums, so you may view it and suggest additions there. Hope to see you there! --Skizzerz 04:02, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Job Table with DB

For one job to create so much ugliness in the Jobs table, I don't think it's necessary to put the other DB advancements in, in that format. I put this together previously but was too lazy to put it into the full table, so think about doing it this way. -- Imjon 08:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

EDIT: Okay, there, I put it all in the same table. What do you think? -- Imjon 08:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

It's not a big deal either way, but the ugly version is more accurate. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
But... it's ugly. :p Also, what kind of order did you think of for the ToC? I honestly don't see any kind of pattern. -- Imjon 21:51, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
The left side is adventurers, which is alphabetized after Beginner. The right column is the others in miscellaneous order. They should probably be alphabetized. The current "logic" (lawl) is that since Aran and Evan are hero classes, they should be grouped together, rather than have Cygnus in between. I put Dual Blade parallel with Thief because it's a thief class... Yeah, right side should be alphabetized, I'll do that now. Lol. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 01:39, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oh, I see now. I'm just used to it going Beginner/Warrior/Mage/Bowman/Thief/Pirate because that's how it is in the data (000/100/200/300/400/500 respectively). I guess I'm just spoiled. :p -- Imjon 02:11, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, now we have to start thinking about our readers. I'm guessing that the original order was based on the progression of class development (beginner was made first and pirates were made last). This isn't obvious nor convenient to readers (or us). --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 02:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Image syntax

Oh haha, wasn't aware of that change. Thanks! Baejung92 (talk) 02:33, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

wz extractor

it appears maststef's website is down, but I can send you his wz extractor (version 3.4) if you're interested. --Skizzerz 02:36, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Zienth

Hi Notmyhandle,

How are you doing? It has been a while since I logged on Strategywiki. I want to let you know about this unregistered user that keeps undo-ing my revisions. This user in question is Zienth, we both got involved into a discussion about the skill names of a new race in MapleStory. He shows no proof that the 'translated' skill names are accurate. Well, Zienth says that I have to put them on a translator, but a machine translator is not reliable. A human translation is way more accurate and better than a machine translator.

I edited all the wrong names and translated them. But this user keeps reverting back... Could you do something about this?--Spadow 18:46, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Taken care of. Procyon 20:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

about images

Hi, Can I get some sprites off of The Spriters Resource? Most of the sprite sheets require the user to give credit... is this okay??--Dprather 01:11, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Kias explanation

I was wondering on any thoughts related to my comment regarding the kias in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as seen here. Sarujo 08:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

I replied on that page. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:54, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

reply to a question you asked.

Hi FlyXwing, what version of MapleStory do you play, EMS? Does the dropped tax (6%) only occur if a different player picks up the mesos? In GMS, if I drop 50,000 Mesos and pick it back up I don't lose anything. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 18:33, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

yes, it is when another player pick up the mesos. That player would only receive 47k mesos.(from experience with meso drop games)

It is mostly to encourage people to use the trade function, with less than 1% tax.(at least for 50k)

Also to deter hackers by using one computer, dropping mesos and picking it up. Not very effective...

15:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC)15:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC)~~

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. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 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. UxieLover1994 06:53, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

<archival record: this issue was solved by Moydow; discussion took place on Uxie's talk page> --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 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. :) --WarioTalk 17:11, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Control Selector

See User talk:Najzere#Dog's Life, 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 [[File:DW3 monster [[File:DW3 monster *.png|left]].png]]. 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. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 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 File:DW3 monster NES -.png 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. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 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. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 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. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Uglyface86 (talk • contribs) .

Yeah, I was finding for those Header and Footer Nav..but I think I forgot. Thanks :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Uglyface86 (talk • contribs) .

Oh, that simplifies a lot of things. Thank you very much :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Uglyface86 (talk • contribs) .

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. Procyon 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. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 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)

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)

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)

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