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Ships new to Discovery
The list of ships that are new in Discovery certainly does not belong into the Ships category as descriptive text.
If you look at the pages Fighters, Freighters, etc., you'll notice that they are split into stock and Discovery lists. Each ship new to discovery that has a page will have the 'Discovery content' Category set. I think that this list should be merged into those ship types pages.
Nodwick 11:16, 19 May 2008 (GMT)
I certainly agree. That's why the list is temporary. It might help us to determine what pages are yet to be made for the ships. I do think that we need this list somewhere but don't know yet where to put it. It doesn't seem to fit any of the current locations. The problem with not having the list is that new players dont know what IS the new ships. The Discovery Content category will have all ships as all ships have been changed in some way (for example the Defender - the only thing that has changed is the selling location - effectively the same ship as in Vanilla FL. --Chovynz 11:19, 19 May 2008 (GMT)
I think that the turret on the Discovery Defender is class 2 instead of class 4, actually. But I'm not dure and I don't currently have the chance to check it.
If you think that it's important and you don't think that it's viable to check the 5 Ship categories pages (fighters, freighters, transports, bombers, capital ships) - which are split by discovery/original freelancer already - then we could make a page for that. Might be a bit overkill, though.
Nodwick 11:32, 19 May 2008 (GMT)
Template Format
Saved for reference. Might be substituting. Depends on whether I can get the ship template working properly so that other people just put stuff in, instead of formulas. Use Edit
{ {Ship |SellName=Crusader |FullName= |Description=Known as the "crown royale" of the heavy fighter class, the Crusader is the cornerstone of the military and civilian authorities of Bretonia. Used largly to enforce the will of the crown, this ship is designed at it's core to deliver as significant a beating as it is able to withstand. Thus, the Crusader is an optimal choice for its survivability and also its offensive capabilities. |Class=Heavy Fighter |ClassLink=Fighters#Heavy_Fighters_2 |Guns=6 |Turrets=0 |Armor=2600 |Cargo=35 |Batts=20 |Bots=20 |OptWep=3 |MaxWep=5 |MaxShield= |Price= |Level= |Equip=Mines, Countermeasures, Cruise Disruptors / Torpedos |PlaceSold=Battleship Norfolk, Cambridge System |WeaponSlot1= |WeaponSlot2= |WeaponSlot3= |WeaponSlot4= |WeaponSlot5= |WeaponSlot6= |WeaponSlot7= |WeaponSlot8= |WeaponSlot9=
|}}
Minor edits
Please only set the minor edit flag for your edits when they are indeed minor, for example if you just fixed a link, added a link without changing the text, fixed typos / spelling / grammar etc..
If you add or delete something, please do not set the minor edit flag, that's misleading.
Nodwick 11:54, 19 May 2008 (GMT)
- Thanks. I wasn't sure. I presume you're talking about the "Is anyone getting lag?" bit in ooRP?
- --Chovynz 11:58, 19 May 2008 (GMT)
- I meant the list of discovery ships, where you marked the remove on the new ships page as minor (>1200 characters difference, though).
- Nodwick 12:05, 19 May 2008 (GMT)
How do I change the titles of pages? For example:
- Class 4 weapons becomes
- Class 4 Weapons
Chovynz 13:55, 21 May 2008 (GMT)
Pages going to be added
Weapons
Ships
- CSV
- Arrow
- Whale
- Luxury Liner
- Taiidan Bomber
- Liberty Assault Cruiser
- Advanced Train
- Arwing Light Fighter
- Barghest (Pirate Bomber)
- Border Worlds Transport
- Bounty Hunter Battlecruiser
- Bounty Hunter Bomber
- Bretonia Royal Liner
- Bumblebee (Kusari Transport)
- Challenger (Bretonia Bomber)
- Civilian Bomber
- Crusader
- Corsair Cruiser
- Corsair Dreadnought
- Dragon Battleship
- Dragon Bomber
- Dragon Cruiser
- Dragon Gunboat
- Falcata (Outcast Bomber)
- FireFly
- Galactic Miners Guild Miner
- Havoc Mk II Bomber
- Heavy Tanker
- Independent Mining Guild Gunboat
- Kusari Bomber
- Kusari Transport
- Lane Hacker Gunship
- Loki (Hessian Light Fighter)
- Mammoth (Liberty Transport)
- Nomad Light Fighter
- Nomad Very Heavy Fighter (limited access)
- Nomad Bomber (limited access)
- Odin (Hessian Heavy Fighter)
- Orca (Bounty Hunter Gunboat)
- Outcast Battleship
- Percheron (Bretonia Transport)
- Pirate Train
- Pirate Transport
- Praetorian (Corsair Bomber)
- Rogue Gunboat
- Scorpion Gunboat
- Thor (Hessian Bomber)
- Thor Mk II (admin ship)
- Viper Mk II
- Virage Very Heavy Fighter
- Waran (Border Worlds Bomber)
- Zoner Destroyer
Yay! I'm really looking forward to this, will make the Wiki much more valuable in my eyes. Will you make the CSV page in the formatting like the Defender?
While you're at it, maybe you can rework the Crusader and Rogue Gunboat pages? Those are in a different format and dead-end pages.
Nodwick 07:13, 21 May 2008 (GMT)
- Defender is the one to copy I take it? Chovynz 08:59, 21 May 2008 (GMT)
- Well, you can also take Liberty Gunboat if you want. But I suggest using the one that's closest to the CSV in terms of statistics - the Defender is closer than the Gunboat, that's for sure. Nodwick 09:50, 21 May 2008 (GMT)
Things to keep as templates
==Description== ==Selling Locations== [[Category: Commodities]]
==Full Name== ==Description== ==Statistics== *Ship Class: [[Fighters#Light_Fighters|Light Fighter]] [[Fighters#Heavy_Fighters|Heavy Fighter]] [[Fighters#Very_Heavy_Fighters|Very Heavy Fighter]] [[Fighters#Light_Fighters_2|Light Fighter]] [[Fighters#Heavy_Fighters_2|Heavy Fighter]] [[Fighters#Very_Heavy_Fighters_2|Very Heavy Fighter]][[Freighters|Freighter]] [[Transports|Transport]] [[Bombers|Bomber]] *Guns: *Turrets: *Hull: *Cargo: *Maximum Shield Batteries/Nanobots: *Optimal Weapon Class: *Maximum Weapon Class: *Maximum Shield Class: *Maximum Impulse Speed: *Power Output: *Power Recharge Rate: *Price: *Additional Equipment: [[Mines]], [[Countermeasures]], [[Torpedoes|Torpedo]]/[[Cruise Disruptors|Cruise Disruptor]] x2 None ==Handling== ==Weapons== * [[Class Guns|Class Gun]] * [[Class Turrets|Class Turret]] ==Places Sold== * [[Category: Discovery content]] [[Category: Ships]]
Editing format
Does it really need to have:
- Planet Manhattan, New York System, Liberty
Or can it just have:
- Planet Manhattan
Seriously. Tumble-Weed (ComLink) (Holocron) 08:02, 2 June 2008 (GMT)
Cancel my last. Igiss responded, your way is better. Tumble-Weed (ComLink) (Holocron) 08:05, 2 June 2008 (GMT)
Newcomer asking for advice
Hello!
I am quite new to this wiki and I would appreciate some advice. The price listed on ship pages should be the price of the hull only, or the ship and equipment usually sold with it? You edited the Cavalier price back to the "with equipment" price and I am not sure if that was your mistake, your intention or my mistake.
Also, one matter I addressed on the Fighters page - some vanilla ships are listed with their vanilla stats and some with Disco stats. I expect the Disco stats should be there, but I am not sure.
Another one comes to mind... The list of selling locations should be complete or some cut version thereof? I put a full list in Crusader, but maybe it is considered a spoiler.
Thanks in advance, MarvinCZ 13:05, 9 July 2008 (GMT)
- Hi! Thanks for contacting me.
- 1) My personal preference would be to use the full price. When I came here as a new person and saw some of the prices (CSV - $162,000), I saved up to that amount and then went to buy it. Surprise! I didn't have enough money (182,000). I had hoped to help other new players avoid that particular frustration. However, Igiss has said to use the Readme information. If you feel it should be the full price, feel free to ask Igiss to change his mind. Also if you spot any mistakes that I have done concerning this, feel free to correct them. I know some people have been using screenshots, which has the full price on them, and other have been using the readme (which seems incomplete to me). As for my methods, I use Datastorm and FLStats. I have found that using those two, I can input a huge amount of data very quickly. I have been using the Datastorm price. I don't know what the readme says, but in the ones I have checked...all of them were a different price to the price in Datastorm (and in the full game). And as I said before. Igiss wants the readme price used.
- (In short, please change the price if I have input the datastorm price on it.)
- 2) Vanilla stats should not be here. If you spot any mistakes please change them to Disco stats. I have been concentrating on getting the individual pages up. When the indiviual pages are all up I intend on going through the lists and fixing/updating as necessary.
- 3) The list of selling locations should be complete.
- Thanks. Keep up the great work!
- Chovynz 02:26, 11 July 2008 (GMT)
- Thanks for the reply, it was very helpful.
- But it seems I will have more trouble with the prices, because the vanilla ships don't have their stats in the readme. So yes, it really is incomplete. My way was looking directly into ini files for the price of the "hull", which is the same as the ship without equipment ingame (I checked on several ships). It seems the readme may also be out of date in cases. I looked at the Arrow and its readme price (1,744,000) is lower even than its hull price (1,814,000). In many cases the price in readme equals the hull price, so I will use that for the vanilla ships. I hope you won't mind.
- I understand your concern about the full vs. hull prices. I will have a better look at it, but I really think the readme and hull prices are supposed to be equal. I personally think the hull price should be included, it seems more precise.