New Starting Player Wiki Plat Challenge: "Green Inc" Edition

[loramin]

It's time for another starting player wiki challenge! I've done these challenges before, and they are a great way for new players to earn a little starting platinum, while also helping the whole server by improving the wiki.

This challenge is going to be Green-focused (for obvious reasons), so there will be three Green-related things you can do to earn plat this time. You can combine them however you want, but each player can only earn a maximum of 1.5k plat from this challenge. To earn that plat you just have to complete one or more of the following tasks, and then post back here with links to your work.

#1: Per-Level Hunting Guide Entries: 500 Plat/Entry, 3 Max
You can add entries to the Per-Level Hunting Guide; these entries must be for spots BELOW level 40, and must be in classic (non-Kunark/non-Velious) zones. See http://wiki.project1999.com/Editing_The_Hunting_Guide for details.


#2: Add Locs to Wiki Maps: 500 Plat/Map, 3 Max
You can "loc map" any classic (non-Kunkar/non-Velious) zone which isn't currently mapped. You can also add a new map to an already mapped classic zone (if the zone has multiple maps and some haven't had locs added). See http://wiki.project1999.com/Adding_a_Loc_Map for details.


#3: Split a Revamped Zone: 1.5k Plat, 1 Max
You can "split" any revamped zone. This task has a bigger reward because it will be the hardest.

Over the years various zones have been "revamped", resulting in essentially two different zones. This happened in classic to places like Clan Runnyeye, to the planes of Fear/Hate/Sky, and later to Chardok/Droga/Nurga.

The problem is, when these revamps happened here everyone just replaced the old zone page with the new one ... but with Green we're going to want the old versions back. To make that happen someone needs to copy the existing page, and make a new page with the old name (or a name like "Plane of Hate (1.0)" for the planes).

Then they need to go through the NPCs/items on that page and remove all the ones from the revamp. Then they need to go back to the original (revamped) page, and remove any old ("v1") stuff from it ... and finally make sure both pages have links to each other at the top.

I should note that the way the wiki controls which items/npcs appear on a zone's page is controlled by their category (eg. if a mob has "[[Category:Clan Runnyeye]]" at the bottom of their code they show up on the Clan Runnyeye page). So most of this work will actually be editing the NPC/item pages to change their categories.



This challenge will last until next Sunday night (the 29th), so be sure to get your posts in by then to qualify (with links to your work). I'll contact all entrants via PM to coordinate the plat transfer. It will be easier if you can come pick the plat up yourself in EC tunnel, but if you aren't close by I can arrange for it to be delivered.

Happy wiki editing everyone!

[Dykriegan]

*Added onto / expounded the Befallen level 15-20 entry to include soloing, mobs and a note.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Dykriegan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

*Added onto / expounded the Befallen level 15-20 entry to include soloing, mobs and a note.

Looks great! I'll assume you want to keep going with the challenge and do more wiki work, but let me know when you are done and want to "cash out".

To be clear to everyone, I'm looking for new entries for the challenge, not just updates ... but that one was barely even an entry before, and now is full of details, so it amounts to a new entry being added [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Dykriegan]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Looks great! I'll assume you want to keep going with the challenge and do more wiki work, but let me know when you are done and want to "cash out".

To be clear to everyone, I'm looking for new entries for the challenge, not just updates ... but that one was barely even an entry before, and now is full of details, so it amounts to a new entry being added [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yep! Sorry, was going to edit my original post as I added more. I was hoping it'd count - if nothing else I felt like I made it better since the first one seemed like an afterthought and didn't seem to be accurate (pretty sure first floor of Befallen is mostly if not all green at 15).

Edit: Whoops, found I couldn't edit my original [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Added a low level entry for Kithicor Forest! And added a third for Gorge of King Xorbb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[loramin]

Yeah, the forum only let's you edit posts for like half an hour or an hour after you write them.

But all those Per-Level Hunting Guide entries are great! If you want to collect your 1.5k let me know (via PM) when/where you want to meet up, and if you want to try "loc mapping" a zone for that last .5k feel free to do that too.

As for everyone else ... see how easy that was? Help the wiki and make some plat!

[Gustoo]

Loramin is a good citizen

[Eggbell]

Does money get paid on green or pay at later date on green? I don't play blue.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Dykriegan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Added a low level entry for Kithicor Forest! And added a third for Gorge of King Xorbb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We have our first (1.5k) payout for this challenge: congratulations to Dykreigan, and thanks for helping the wiki!

Originally Posted by Eggbell [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does money get paid on green or pay at later date on green? I don't play blue.

My apologies: I'm not used to having to think about other servers. For one thing, Green doesn't exist yet, so that alone would make it difficult, but also I will not have thousands of k of platinum to give out on Green ... in fact, no one will, which is sort of a big part of Green's draw [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, all I can offer you is Blue plat. Not even a huge amount either ... but enough (and this is very much the point of the challenge) to help you get a start with a Blue character. If you're a caster you can use it to buy spells and some SoW potions (or save it towards buying JBoots), and if you're a melee it's enough to buy a decent starting weapon and some cheap starting gear in the tunnel ... or if you save up just a little more you could even afford an FBSS.

Well, actually I can offer one other thing: my thanks! Thanks a ton for mapping those zones and helping the wiki! You picked some slightly tricky ones too: Ocean of Tears was huge and the gird lines weren't exact, so that one must have been extra hard.

If you want to collect your hard-earned (Blue) 1.5k platinum PM me and let me know when you'll be on. But whether you do or not thanks for mapping those zones and helping the wiki!

Originally Posted by Benanov [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's not a challenge result per se, but I started the Cabilis newbie guide. It's not an urgent call on Green because, well, Kunark.

But it's a start. I just copied Halas as a template.

I actually saw that, and was super impressed (I also added some wiki links to it since it looked too black to me [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])! You're right, it's not part of the challenge ... but it is wiki work that will very much be of value to Green ...

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Anyone who completes a starting city player guide, like the existing ones for Halas or Kelethin, will also qualify for 1,500 plat in this challenge.

To qualify, a guide does not need to define how to get to the guild masters (though it would be great if it did), it just needs to include:

• The starting loc
• The location of the bank
• The location of at least one bag and one food/drink vendor (ideally the closest to the zone out ... and ideally all of them)
• Maps of both the starting city and it's starting mob zone(s), if separate (eg. Qeynos and Freeport have starting mobs inside the city zone, while Halas has Everfrost and Cabilis has several)
• Where/What to hunt (at least a few sentences just describing the basics a new player might not know)
• Dangers (again, at least a few sentences: most starting zones have some kind of dangerous monster that can interrupt the steady stream of low level ones, so just mention them and how to avoid them)
• Quest Shopping List: last but definitely not least (I think this will be one of the most important parts of the guides): list all of those quests where you turn-in stuff that drops from the starting zone mobs (plus any that are just "delivery quests" any new player can do)

Finally, this isn't a requirement, but please try to use more than just text: add images, links, the new loc template, etc. To use the new loc template, write (eg.): "{{Loc|Halas|139, 54}}" to create a "Halas (139, 54)" link that shows that loc. Use "{{Loc|Halas|139, 54|Halas Starting Loc}}" to make the same link, but with the text "Halas Starting Loc" instead.

Benanov, referring to the Cabilis one specifically, it looks like you have everything except:

• maps (unfortunately you'll need a bunch; to get them just edit the zone's wiki page and look for code that looks like "[[file:someMapImage.jpg]]")
• starting loc (just create a new Iksar and immediately type /loc to find this; you can use the {{Loc}} template to add it to the wiki [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])
• dangers - you have these, but I think it would be more useful to people if there was a "dangers" section under each starting zone, rather than just one for all of them ... what do you think?
• quest shopping list - I'm guessing there are more quests that could be on this list (and also maybe it would make sense to do it by zone too?)

But since I made up the rules after the fact, and since your guide does have all of the guild directions (which weren't required), I'll award you 1k now, and 2k if you make the above improvements (the extra .5k coming from the fact that you chose Cabilis, which has more starting zones than any other city, and thus requires extra work).

Happy wiki editing all!

[Benanov]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But since I made up the rules after the fact, and since your guide does have all of the guild directions (which weren't required), I'll award you 1k now, and 2k if you make the above improvements (the extra .5k coming from the fact that you chose Cabilis, which has more starting zones than any other city, and thus requires extra work).

I'll get cracking. Thanks.

[Eggbell]

Here is unrest.
http://wiki.project1999.com/The_Estate_of_Unrest

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