loramin
09-08-2019, 12:20 PM
The wiki already has era information "templates". I listed them all here (http://wiki.project1999.com/Category:Era_Templates), but the basic idea is that you can add (say) "{{Classic Era}}" to mark a whole page as classic, or add "{{Warrens Era Inline}}" next to something in the wiki to add the text "Warrens Era" (with an era-colored background) next to it.
However, with Green coming we're going to have two different servers in two different eras, which means players will care a lot more about eras. I'm not sure those templates will be enough.
For instance, they don't work with the class spell lists: they add (say) "Kunark Era", but the spell lists say "Kun". So, I tried a couple of experiments to highlight era information more prominently, without using up much more space:
the original Ranger spell list (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ranger#Spells)
the era-colored spell list (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ranger/Spells_Color)
the era icon list (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ranger/Spells_Icon)
The first one keeps the three-letters, but adds a colored background (I just used the wiki's existing era color scheme: classic green, kunark brown, velious blue). It also adds "Cla" for all the Classic-era spells (the current list just leaves them blank).
The second one replaces the letters with "icons" I made from the covers of the various boxes. I really didn't want to make the spell rows take up much more vertical space, so I had to keep these icons extremely small, but hopefully they're still recognizable.
Anyhow, my question to the community is: which do you like best? Please try to be open-minded, and remember that era info will be more significant going forward. Also, if you have any further feedback, alternative ideas, etc. please provide them in the comments.
Oh, and one last thing: you'll also notice that all three versions have checkboxes to let you filter spells by era. I plan to add these to all spell lists, but to do so I need to redo those pages with new templates ... and I need the answers to this poll so I can finalize those templates first :)
However, with Green coming we're going to have two different servers in two different eras, which means players will care a lot more about eras. I'm not sure those templates will be enough.
For instance, they don't work with the class spell lists: they add (say) "Kunark Era", but the spell lists say "Kun". So, I tried a couple of experiments to highlight era information more prominently, without using up much more space:
the original Ranger spell list (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ranger#Spells)
the era-colored spell list (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ranger/Spells_Color)
the era icon list (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ranger/Spells_Icon)
The first one keeps the three-letters, but adds a colored background (I just used the wiki's existing era color scheme: classic green, kunark brown, velious blue). It also adds "Cla" for all the Classic-era spells (the current list just leaves them blank).
The second one replaces the letters with "icons" I made from the covers of the various boxes. I really didn't want to make the spell rows take up much more vertical space, so I had to keep these icons extremely small, but hopefully they're still recognizable.
Anyhow, my question to the community is: which do you like best? Please try to be open-minded, and remember that era info will be more significant going forward. Also, if you have any further feedback, alternative ideas, etc. please provide them in the comments.
Oh, and one last thing: you'll also notice that all three versions have checkboxes to let you filter spells by era. I plan to add these to all spell lists, but to do so I need to redo those pages with new templates ... and I need the answers to this poll so I can finalize those templates first :)