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[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah, that's something I should have addressed a long time ago. 

She's pretty OP by design, too, being made for a five year-old.  That's the only faction I've ever made from scratch all by myself.

[ete]

After removing all duplicates (so many duplicates) I have another 63 factions which are not duplicates still to add from all that (Apolyton+BU's+Kilka's+civ.org+cgn), and that's not counting the ones which may still be in development on the forums (Jarl's, Sigma's, Reefa's, ariete's, Green1's, most of whom have a set of 7+), or the three Borg factions I've cut it down to so far. That's on top of the 85 custom factions which I've added to the wiki so far.

There are a LOT of factions guys.

[JarlWolf]

Us faction makes are real bastards for that... sorry. Were like Irish Catholics using Viagra, we just don't know how to stop giving birth to the things.

[Sigma]

After removing all duplicates (so many duplicates) I have another 63 factions which are not duplicates still to add from all that (Apolyton+BU's+Kilka's+civ.org+cgn), and that's not counting the ones which may still be in development on the forums (Jarl's, Sigma's, Reefa's, ariete's, Green1's, most of whom have a set of 7+), or the three Borg factions I've cut it down to so far. That's on top of the 85 custom factions which I've added to the wiki so far.

There are a LOT of factions guys.

Haha okay so maybe we don't need to hold Faction making contests to expand our supply of these things.

I'll handle uploading my own custom factions once they're all done.

[JarlWolf]

After removing all duplicates (so many duplicates) I have another 63 factions which are not duplicates still to add from all that (Apolyton+BU's+Kilka's+civ.org+cgn), and that's not counting the ones which may still be in development on the forums (Jarl's, Sigma's, Reefa's, ariete's, Green1's, most of whom have a set of 7+), or the three Borg factions I've cut it down to so far. That's on top of the 85 custom factions which I've added to the wiki so far.

There are a LOT of factions guys.

Haha okay so maybe we don't need to hold Faction making contests to expand our supply of these things.

I'll handle uploading my own custom factions once they're all done.

Nonsense! Complete utter nonsense!

We always need more.
MORE!
MORE!!!!!!!!!!

 

But yes, lets make it easier for Ete, the poor man probably has migraines from the amount of catalouging he does: I know I couldn't do your job Ete. I'd go insane(er) from it.

[Buster's Uncle]

And a new faction drive is just good for raising interest in the community, and getting the word out.

But organizing what's available is super-important; probably a much higher priority.

[JarlWolf]

Yeah, I'll probably punch in some factions for the wiki before I get up and leave my home today. That and make something to eat, im damned hungry 

[ete]

I'm happy there's so many, it's just going to take a lot of hours to upload and check them all. And even though there's a lot, most have significant issues. I'm fixing some as I go (obviously accidental/non-functional bonuses, errors in the text file, non documented bonuses, etc) but that just slows me down. Glad to hear you guys are going to be helping by adding your own factions to the wiki (and keeping them updated hopefully).

Competitions to add more are still good, but let's include fixing existing factions in them.

Also, feedback on how this thing is organized would be great! What kinds of categories would you find useful? How could the layout of the faction infobox be improved? Do you see a way to improve the category structure?

But yes, lets make it easier for Ete, the poor man probably has migraines from the amount of catalouging he does: I know I couldn't do your job Ete. I'd go insane(er) from it.

I find organizing things like this to be a useful distraction from life quite often so I take on a lot of projects here and elsewhere, makes me feel useful and in this case I'd like to be able to use the finished product which helps motivation. Also <3 wikis. I've already found myself referring to the wiki datalinks consistently to check things.

[JarlWolf]

As for feedback: We could have factions that featured in AAR's as a category, as well as ones with backstory to separate them from ones lacking of or in need of filling in for backstory.

Also, we could have ones that have active creators if thats possible: Some of the people who made these factions are no longer actively making factions, or even playing AC as far as I am aware. Having that sort of thing would help lurkers and other people able to contact or request factions. Also having a list of faction creators would be grand: and to make it even better, have a way they can be contacted, whether its providing an email address or a link to a forum they actively participate in.

[Buster's Uncle]

Say ete, have you gone through the GotM team's work?  There's almost always a custom faction or two, most of them not unbalanced to fit the scenario.  I regret to point out that there's a second version of the alt. gender Spartans, BTW...

[Sigma]

You know what I think might actually be good? Making our Faction library more visible on the site and main page. As it stands to get to it you need to naviage through two Wiki pages, and that's assuming you know it's there. Maybe put a link to the wiki list right on the front page, and maybe another at the top bar next to GotM?

[JarlWolf]

Or some sort of tab in the downloads section or somewhere where its like "Faction Archives."

So people can peruse and dabble in it with ease.

[ete]

AARs: Can do that, hang on I'll set up some templates.

Backstory: Okay (probably via notice template), but need some guidelines on what counts as missing backstory because some are questionable.

Creators: Partially done already with http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Category:Factions_by_creator, and I'm adding a similar category for factions by artist. Separating by activity could be done, but I'm not sure about the category structure? Seems likely to confuse things or introduce a load of redundancy, though I could sort it so that active creators come up at the top? Or just have a page for active creators/artists which links to their factions? hmm.. or perhaps better would be Factions with active maintainer? That lets people adopt unfinished factions.

BU: I have not yet, I think I've got most of them from other sources but there probably are some I'm missing. On my to do list (or if someone wants to be really helpful and look through/send me a zip that would be good).

More visibility on the main site would be excellent.

[JarlWolf]

Maybe even have pages for the creators themselves? I am sure there is some amongst us who would like to post some contact information/information about ourselves, so people get to know us a bit if they want to work with us/ task us with making something.

[Buster's Uncle]

I find organizing things like this to be a useful distraction from life quite often so I take on a lot of projects here and elsewhere, makes me feel useful

Suddenly, I understand you a lot better.

You certainly are useful.