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[AoshimaMichio]

Step ahead of you: Piecewise the Basilisk.

[Nunzillor]

Ah, but where's the crazy rambling about gods part?

[Radio Controlled]

Ah, but where's the crazy rambling about gods part?

In your head.

[Radio Controlled]

Gonna record the poll results here so they aren't lost, but I'll remove them now to free up page space.

How do you decide what to purchase?

I only read the general armory entries to decide which item is best.
9
I read the pages of individual items to decide which item is best.
19
I just pick whatever seems coolest or most popular.
2

The poll was created at 17:12 on April 28, 2015, and so far 30 people voted.


What kind of writing style do you prefer for Armory entries?

Informative
13
Entertaining/funny
21

The poll was created at 17:12 on April 28, 2015, and so far 34 people voted.

Also, made a small thing (5 minutes work editing an existing image, it probably shows):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm thinking of maybe doing small contests where, for example, one can earn a token for the best propaganda poster, or for adding the best photo to a wiki page (to get it looking a bit better than just walls of text everywhere), or other such things. Thoughts? Good ideas for possible contests?

[Nikitian]

(I like the discrepancy between votes numbers. Pick up the phone.)
A few tokens for ARM anthem, sung and recorded. Fewer but still a couple if just the lyrics.

Also, a one or two-token job to skim through the archives and find all instances of people buying player-designed items. Let's say one token from Mission 1 to Defense of Hephaestus and another one from post-Defense of Hephaestus to present day.

Personally, I am not sure that adding all the photos and images is best for the wiki. At least the walls of text look dignified; we probably don't want a bizarre carpet of images everywhere distracting and, far worse, disgusting the reader. Fan-art is fine exactly because it's rare and it's directly ER-themed; I fear the flood of barely-related and far-fetched images.

[Radio Controlled]

Of course it shouldn't be a flood of pics, but a few per page, and not too big, adds flavor and make for more pleasant wiki usage, imho. And it can often use space that's empty space otherwise anyways. And superfluous images are easily removed as well.

As for pay, I kinda think that if someone wants to get paid from their designs, they should search it themselves! I mean, it's in their own best interest, and for 1 person to search for all the cases it happened would be a massive amount of posts to search (there's a lot of player designs already, and a lot of pw posts in the ship thread).

[AoshimaMichio]

Also, a one or two-token job to skim through the archives and find all instances of people buying player-designed items. Let's say one token from Mission 1 to Defense of Hephaestus and another one from post-Defense of Hephaestus to present day.

2 tokens to skim through ~30000 posts? That's really not enough.

[Ozarck]

For a start, if anyone wants to change the links to the map images of the Anomalous Planetoid in mission 99b into embedded images, that would, I feel, contribute some clarity and interest to that page. Much of the summary involves map related stuff, and the entire mission was map oriented, so it would work pretty well. I tried to put them on page, but for whatever reason couldn't get it to go.

[Nikitian]

Also, a one or two-token job to skim through the archives and find all instances of people buying player-designed items. Let's say one token from Mission 1 to Defense of Hephaestus and another one from post-Defense of Hephaestus to present day.

2 tokens to skim through ~30000 posts? That's really not enough.

Mostly I'd agree, but RC already set a guideline with the Mission summaries tasks and their rewards, and I think those are actually more lengthy and difficult to do than just sifting through a single thread.

And I really think we should do this in a centralised fashion, rather than let the tinker do the search himself. It's nearly the same amount of effort (the same posts to look through, anyway), and takes away the potential for abuse. As Piecewise put it, we all trust each other (maybe some don't, I dunno), but let's keep everything above reproach, shall we?

And finally, there's not really that many player designs. I've collected them all into a single category on the wiki:
http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Player-Designed_Item
21 design, so far. That's actually less than a fifth or tenth of Armory items (original list, provided by Piecewise, I mean).
A couple are probably missing, but a good estimate is that those weren't ever purchased. Not even each of these have been purchased, despite their official list inclusion!

[Comrade P.]

ARM anthem, huh? Interesting. No recording gear on this end though. No talent for composing original music, too. I can dig up some track and rewrite lyrics though. Probably.

[Radio Controlled]

Ozarck recently did a batch of mission synopsis's and summaries, and we agreed he'd get 5 tokens for it, because he told me how much work it was, and on reflection 1 token didn't seem enough. I might also change the reward for other mission summary jobs. Also, I ruled that one can claim the tokens when wanted, and that they're tied to the player, not char, to prevent people doing a lot of work and then loosing their reward due to char death.

[Nikitian]

Ozarck recently did a batch of mission synopsis's and summaries, and we agreed he'd get 5 tokens for it, because he told me how much work it was, and on reflection 1 token didn't seem enough. I might also change the reward for other mission summary jobs. Also, I ruled that one can claim the tokens when wanted, and that they're tied to the player, not char, to prevent people doing a lot of work and then loosing their reward due to char death.

Ah, then the reward should probably be increased accordingly. And wasn't that basically decided by Piecewise? Because I do remember talking to him about it, and him making that decision about player-claimed rewards, not character-claimed. Granted, the "deposit" approach of the reward collection was discussed by us here, not declared by him.

I still believe that doing this in a centralised fashion is far more efficient and proper than "each to his own" tinker-project reclaiming. I'm probably eventually going around to do it, but the amount of missions under the belt would probably prevent me from claiming any sort of reward (if it is ever offered), so I'm stalling off to let someone new earn the tokens.

[Ozarck]

I am likewise stalling to let someone else who is new claim the tokens. I probably wouldn't do the player designed one anyway, having already gone through so much in the missions. I eel like I'd be rewalking the same path. If I do anything like that, it'll be checking out Nyars artifacts. but likely I would do another mission chunk for the single token. The other mission chunks are much shorter than 5-9b was. And i didn't actually count mission 5 in my page count to R_C, because I only had to revise the synopsis, which I did based on the summary.

[Twinwolf]

It's been mentioned in the OOC thread, but I should probably mention here that I'm writing the summary and such for the 13-15 mission block.

[Radio Controlled]

Nav, I saw you moved the image. As I told people before, I have no problem with putting equipment pictures on their own page and not the armory page (even though I like them being on the armory page myself) but I'd like to know what the majority thinks before changing it. I'll change it back to how it was, and put a poll on the front page.