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Hi Tlosk, I think you fixed this for me once before, but my contribution history seems to have been merged with someone else's (ASHERON-Joe). Maybe it happened during one of the server moves? His edits are from 2007-2008. My edits start in 2009. Sorry for the trouble! --Jaguar 00:59, 14 May 2013 (EST)

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Would you do me a kindness please Tlosk and create an account for me on the acpedia wiki? will contributions be sorted over there do you know? I would actually like my user on here to be changed to Nevroth ...is that possible? if so, can you use that name over on acpedia and Arkalor if it's not possible for a change at this point.

also, what is happening with the loot pages, I noticed my old crappy tier pages have been relinked to in the sidebar?

thank you sir ---Ash 11:09, 13 October 2013 (EST)

Changes to the Quest Summary template Edit

Hi Tlosk,

I thought we could have a slimmed down and tidier summary table and keep reward info in the body of the page neatly in one section and do away with the repeated info in the table (I wanted to subcategorise by level req. also so players could just quickly find what quests they can access).

I read through the old notes back when the template was made and saw that the Lore & Dialog section was meant for lore and story info in addition to quest dialog, but I counted no more than 5 guides that had story info that people had taken the time to add (one was a half hearted attempt by me) - so I renamed it to just "Dialog". Some users have entered story elements in the overview section. I removed the gold text, as I really think it looks messy now and doesn't make the text that much easier to read to be honest - plus it would be so much easier to just copy and paste text and then use colons for indents/line breaks.

I used the name quest summary temp for the changes so as not to mess with new guides and then when I reached the most recent quests, I was going to move the template over to the correct name and then do a text replace on the guides.

Hopefully you don't hate my tweaks haha.

oh, Merry Christmas! ---Ash 14:11, 25 December 2013 (EST)

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+== Questions ==
+Hi Tlosk, I think you fixed this for me once before, but [http://ac.wikkii.net/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=100&target=Jaguar my contribution history] seems to have been merged with someone else's ([http://asheron.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/ASHERON-Joe ASHERON-Joe]). Maybe it happened during one of the server moves? His edits are from 2007-2008. My edits start in 2009. Sorry for the trouble! --[[User:Jaguar|Jaguar]] 00:59, 14 May 2013 (EST)
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-Hi Tlosk, I just got back from a few days away.  The spell table is file 0x0e00000e in the client_portal.dat file, and the component table is file 0x0e00000f.  There is some source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/acdev/ for reading these two files, and I can provide detailed descriptions of the formats and/or source code if you want it.  I've haven't updated the archive of the spell info yet, but I could do that pretty easily.
+Hi
-The tools I've created run on Mac OS X 10.5, so if you can use them I'd be happy to package them up for you.  I have tools to:
-* extract files from the data files, either as raw data or processed into wav files for sounds, jpeg or png for images, png for color palettes, and text files for everything else.  (It understands the structure, but not necessarily the meaning, of 99.9% of the files in the portal data file, and everything from the cell data file.)
-* generate maps (2041x2041 or bigger).
-* merge data files (good for creating a cell data file containing all dungeons and the entire outdoor area).
-* compare data files so that you can see what has been added/removed/changed.  (I seem to recall that there were a few minor changes to the models of some weapons in the last couple of months.)
-* one of the most fascinating is a model viewer -- not perfect, but you can view all models (type 01 files) or model groups (type 02 files).  I wanted to at least create images of the undiscovered rares for the wiki.
-I also had plans to semi-automatically generate dungeon maps directly from the data files, which was another reason I've spent the last few months visiting every dungeon.  (Also confirming their landblocks, coords, requirements for an updated big map of Dereth.)
+Would you do me a kindness please Tlosk and create an account for me on the acpedia wiki? will contributions be sorted over there do you know? I would actually like my user on here to be changed to Nevroth ...is that possible? if so, can you use that name over on acpedia and Arkalor if it's not possible for a change at this point.
---[[User:Widgeon|Widgeon]] 00:30, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
+also, what is happening with the loot pages, I noticed my old crappy tier pages have been relinked to in the sidebar?
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+thank you sir
+--[[User:Arkalor|-Ash]] 11:09, 13 October 2013 (EST)
-Great work on the spell pages.  I've updated the archive of spell info -- current version is at [http://www.codethecode.com/download/ac/ac-spells-2009-06.zip ac-spells-2009-06.zip], and I've put the link on my user page.
+== Changes to the Quest Summary template ==
+Hi Tlosk,
-The spell lists are slightly different: longer labels on the fields, and I'm including the spell ID now.  The caster effect, target effect, and target mask either come from http://www.decaldev.com/Protocol/tabid/77/Default.aspx (right side, Effect under Enum types, except the values in that list are off by one), or were a best guess after looking at all of the spells.  The text files are UTF-8;  you might notice slight changes with some apostrophes and dashes from the old version (for example, with Blackmoor's Favor or Mana Purge -- the data files seem to use Windows CP1253 character encoding).
+I thought we could have a slimmed down and tidier summary table and keep reward info in the body of the page neatly in one section and do away with the repeated info in the table (I wanted to subcategorise by level req. also so players could just quickly find what quests they can access).
---[[User:Widgeon|Widgeon]] 03:34, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
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-Updated for this patch: [http://www.codethecode.com/download/ac/ac-spells-2009-07.zip ac-spells-2009-07.zip].  I've added the spell stacking group identifier to the spell list.  Also added a file with wiki markup for the spell tables (type is left blank), with the spell groups categorized by what they buff/debuff -- not sure if this is any more useful than the raw lists.
+I read through the old notes back when the template was made and saw that the Lore & Dialog section was meant for lore and story info in addition to quest dialog, but I counted no more than 5 guides that had story info that people had taken the time to add (one was a half hearted attempt by me) - so I renamed it to just "Dialog". Some users have entered story elements in the overview section. I removed the gold text, as I really think it looks messy now and doesn't make the text that much easier to read to be honest - plus it would be so much easier to just copy and paste text and then use colons for indents/line breaks.
---[[User:Widgeon|Widgeon]] 04:13, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
+I used the name quest summary temp for the changes so as not to mess with new guides and then when I reached the most recent quests, I was going to move the template over to the correct name and then do a text replace on the guides.
-Hey Tlosk, I noticed that the key template has info for Quest and Patch introduced, but the frontend doesn't display this information on the article. Look at East Armory Key for example. Does some of the information need to be broken off into an intro tag, or does the key template itself need modification?
+Hopefully you don't hate my tweaks haha.
-[[User:Dekyos|Dekyos]] 17:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
+oh, Merry Christmas!
+--[[User:Arkalor|-Ash]] 14:11, 25 December 2013 (EST)