The AC2 Wiki

[ete]

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.

Individual pages is possible, but probably having a single page with a list of creators and their details would be more useful. You could make a userpage here: http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/User:JarlWolf and link to it from the list of authors though?

Also, AAR template ready, I added it to the CCs as an example: http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Crimson_Comrades

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.

Glad you feel that way.

[Sigma]

I wonder if there should be some kind of ranking system that we can sort factions by; not in terms of quality but in terms of design purposes. Certain factions like the AntiMind or most of Jarlwolf's factions are designed for high level play with fairly extreme faction options; whereas my set is designed to be approximately on the same level as the original SMAC seven.

It could be useful for someone searching for factions that will give them a beating, like the Comrades with their huge bonuses and relative lack of penalties or the Exterminatus, with their huge everything, or factions that are on a more level field, like my Technocrats.

[JarlWolf]

A joke factions category is also an option too. As for the list of creators: thats what I meant. You can click their names for further details/links to other pages.

[ete]

I wonder if there should be some kind of ranking system that we can sort factions by; not in terms of quality but in terms of design purposes. Certain factions like the AntiMind or most of Jarlwolf's factions are designed for high level play with fairly extreme faction options; whereas my set is designed to be approximately on the same level as the original SMAC seven.

It could be useful for someone searching for factions that will give them a beating, like the Comrades with their huge bonuses and relative lack of penalties or the Exterminatus, with their huge everything, or factions that are on a more level field, like my Technocrats.

Yep, that's vaguely my plan for the faction pack and the + symbol thing. Factions by default are uncategorized, and get a balance rating, number of + or -es, and category then are moved to the quality pile if they fit other criteria.

A joke factions category is also an option too. As for the list of creators: thats what I meant. You can click their names for further details/links to other pages.

Okay. Should jokes include things like the France faction or the Jedi faction? How about other factions which may not exactly be jokes, but just don't fit AC universe?

[JarlWolf]

Hmm. Maybe ones where its just like, canon friendly and the opposite.

By joke factions I meant ones entirely meant for humour: for example the Cannabis league.

[ete]

That should work well. Some borderline cases, but eh. We'll figure it out.

Also about the faction ranking thing, I was working on a massive faction ranking formula that takes everything into account (including stuff like the different SE settings at different stages of the game's interaction with faction bonuses).

sisko is on now and we're working on the software update, get ready for version 1.21! For you guys this probably won't change that much (actually, scratch that, we get to use the visualeditor. that thing is handy for people who don't know wiki markup.) but it'll let me do a load more cool things (yay modern extensions) and simplify some currently time consuming jobs.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes, maybe a category like Exotic or Specialty for all those factions that aren't really about being good factions, but a special interest, including -unless they're really good- national factions, joke factions, and things like that.

"Special Interest Factions:"

[ete]

hm, how about:
Alpha Centauri factions (better name?)
Fiction based factions
Joke factions
Other factions

[JarlWolf]

I'd propose:

Original Factons
Canon Friendly Factions
Special Interest Factions
Joke Factions


Or just rename AC factions to Original factions, and fiction based factions to canon friendly. (Fiction based factions in a work of fiction sounds odd.)

[ete]

hm, that should work. I'll think about it a bit more.

Also, the wiki is quite broken currently because we're upgrading. It should be back shortly.

[ete]

Still broken, uploading big thing directly over existing files because several things which should be possible are not working and other unexpected issues. Hopefully back online in a few hours. If you like watching errors change, feel free to refresh the main page, you'll see more errors than you ever knew existed.

[ete]

Back up but read only for now and still a bit broken.

[ete]

Should be all working now except logins. If you were already logged in, you should remain logged in, but don't log out until I fix it or you won't be able to get back on.

[ete]

tech to do list:
fix logins
assorted extensions
visualeditor
echo
SMW?

[ete]

Logins should work now, let me know if you're not automatically logged into the wiki or have any problems.