User talk:Lapoleon1821

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Hi again, I just wanted to make sure you realized that the main page as you found it was essentially a placeholder. You are quite free to completely redesign it. I'm here if you need any technical help. — Game widow (talk) 14:49, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * For me the most important part is a large table of contents. It makes it easier to fill the wiki once the beta starts and makes sure that we keep some consistency. I know that the rest is placeholder, but I'm not a star at thinking up nice designs. I'll see if other people on the forum have a good idea on what they want to see or I might steal some ideas from one of the other wikis. - Lapoleon1821 (talk) 15:08, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It's all good :) You can also point me to stuff you like on other sites and i can try to implement them here. Also, if there are aspects of the existing design here that you hate, let me know. nothing is set in stone — Game widow (talk) 15:10, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Heya, I got an account. And I still can't edit the main page. Could you change "Places of Interest" there to "Points of Interest"?

Also, have you heard of The Last Federation? It's an empire-building game played without an empire. The player gets a space monster instead. It taught me a few points about being a chessmaster, and I'm curious about how the Old Ones do on these.


 * 1. Be sociable. Your job is a social one. Doubly so if your position isn't. Triply if your goal isn't, like nuclear war or driving civilization away from enroaching on your woods. Even if you betray your allies, try to leave a polite letter and a few useful items they can't use against you. This can be an uphill battle if you haven't talked to anyone for three hundred years. Still, if at any point you fly into a rage because the humans you're travelling with enter the heart of the forest or dig up the boundary stones or do anything that you knew they were out to do, you deserve to go down in a boss fight.
 * 2. Get a hobby. Sure, you have angles. If you're at an opera, you can be there to worm your way into high society, please your contacts, and/or be somewhere else when the bombs go off. But you can also be there because you like opera. It brings you variety.
 * 3. It's alright to have everything collapse, leaving you to scramble to pick up the pieces. --Rauduskoivu (talk) 16:18, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll change it, good catch. At the moment I'm the only admin of this wiki, so that's why you can't change the front page. I've never played the Last Federation, although I have heard of it, maybe I should give it a spin.
 * As the primary admin, you are free to nominate anyone else as your backup (even several people if that's the case), so don't be shy — Game widow (talk) 14:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Developing the wiki
Thanks for the promotion.

I was thinking about what could be done to prepare the wiki for the beta people. Not coming up with much. I've worked on a few wikis, but generally by tweaking this and fiddling with that, not setting policies or dealing with the community(tm).

We've got a pretty nifty collection of information, with lots of opportunities for new editors to expand and meddle. We also have some tables to fill out or copypaste to other articles, further making it easier to participate. We don't have rigid style guides or acronym-filled rule thickets, and neither do we tut-tut new people who they toe out of line. The community portal could have a "post your editing questions here" section.

How can this wiki help out players and other readers? By being a reference guide, but I'd be for all sorts of content, even dumb, "your mother-in-law as an Old One" -style fun, as long as people liked them. In the meantime, we could have some material about things outside the game, like stretch goals and the URL of the press kit. I'm also thinking a glossary, first in alphabetical order and then by subject. --Rauduskoivu (talk) 23:13, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * If the two of you want to check it out, we have an extension called "Boilerroom" which allows you to add buttons to the right side of the editor screen which fill in default content, link infoboxes or standard section headings for articles. You don't have to use it, but if you are interested, i'd be happy to enable it for you and help you develop some content for it — Game widow (talk) 23:51, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I think that might be useful, especially once we have to add Statistic boxes to all agents, Old Ones etc. How exactly does it work?
 * It would be a learning experience for all of us, but you can start here. — Game widow (talk) 12:49, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey, I stuck the sources on one page. I left out a couple of small forum threads and what little news coverage the game has, but if you have other links, please add them in. --Rauduskoivu (talk) 13:08, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Since it´s just a game, and most information will be taken directly from the game so I don´t think it´s extremely important to create proper references to all bits of info. There's also going to be a ingame wiki (Civopedia style) which we can source for information. - Lapoleon1821 (talk) 09:08, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * True, but the page makes it much less painful to keep on top of the info. Is there anything I can do to prepare the wiki for the release of the mod tools? --Rauduskoivu (talk) 20:36, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * And what's this about feudal Mars? --Rauduskoivu (talk) 22:58, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It took me a while to comprehend what you meant, but it refers to this map: http://i.imgur.com/kRjZ7PF.jpg I made to find out how easy it was to add different textures to the editor. - Lapoleon1821 (talk) 09:08, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ooh, thanks. --Rauduskoivu (talk) 20:36, 23 April 2015 (UTC)