Wiki FashionQuest Just Got Even Better
 

TLDR
If you want to find items that are in 2-3 categories (eg. all Shaman-wearable, head slot items with the "Leather" fashion appearance) you can now do so at:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Item_Category_Search. BE SURE to read the warning at the top.


Details
If you missed it I added fashion categories to the wiki a few months back. While they're better than what we had before (nothing) they do have significant limits.

For instance if you want to see all the "Leather" fashion items in the wiki you can go to the "Fashion: Leather" category page. But what if you want to see all Shaman-wearable head-slot items that have that look? Until now, there was no real way to do such a "multi-category search".

(Side Note: A better way to solve this would have been the official wiki multi-category search extension, but I could never figure out who to bribe to get it added to our wiki, so you're stuck with my ghetto version.)

The wiki now has a new page, http://wiki.project1999.com/Item_Category_Search, which you can use to search for items across 2-3 categories. Continuing my previous example, you could use the page to search for the categories "Shaman Equipment", "Head" and "Fashion: Leather", and you will be given a list of only Shaman-wearable leather-looking hats.

However there is a big caveat: the search runs via Javascript, which means it runs on your machine, not the wiki's. To do the search it has to make your browser go to every page in each of the categories you picked (most categories have at least a few pages, and ones like "Shaman Equipment" have a ton). This means the search takes a few seconds to work, but more importantly it means that if your browser just looked up (say) 40 pages, from the wiki's perspective that was like 40 people all trying to get a page at once.

Because of this PLEASE restrict your use of this tool to one search every minute or two, especially for the next few days when there are likely to be a bunch of people using it at once. As long as everyone limits themselves the wiki should be able to handle this new tool without slowing things down noticeably for anyone.

In any case, enjoy the new tool and happy FashionQuesting!

Thanks I'll try PMing him directly. I was kinda hoping there might be someone else I could bother since the dude must get a million PMs a day, but I guess it can't be helped.

Nice! Good work!

Hmmm, the forums seem unusually slow all of the sudden. Since I'm not sure whether or not it is because of the new tool (the wiki seems just fine, but if it and the forums share machine the tool still might be to blame) I've temporarily disabled the tool. Will try again when things seem normal.

EDIT: The forums still seem slow even after I disabled the tool, so it doesn't seem responsible, but I'll leave it disabled for a bit to be safe.

You're doing good work, Loramin. FashionQuest = BestQuest, and this made it a lot easier.

Super Cool!
I love your work on fashion quest Loramin.

Thanks for the appreciation all. I put the search back up since the forums seem normal now (and since they seemed slow long after I disabled the search). If anything slows down again I'll disable it, but for now enjoy.

this is pretty awesome, thank you!

Question for you, Loramin: Who decides what "color" some of the armor tints are? For example, the Scaled Knight's Armor is labeled as "Scampi". What the hell color is that? Can we not say light red or dark red or whatever the heck it may be?

Reminds me of shopping for curtains with a female.

Female: I'm looking for a soft peach color. Not quite a natural beige or camel, more closer to a light apricot.

Me: Woman, what the actual fuck are you on about?

ftfy

Also none of those are even close to the same color, whoever you're shopping with is clearly color blind.

Pale Peach: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/12-0915-TPX
Apricot: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/15-1153-TPX
Beige: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-1118-TPX
Camel: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/17-1224-TPX