Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:08 am
I vote for page colour, which should work for everything bar Griff's page - which is clearly non-Vanilla anyway. Not so sure about standardising anything much else ...
Before you do that, I'd suggest you/we think about it some more...
Changing background colour seems rather drastic to me and may well affect readability for anyone with visual issues depending on how you do it (or be offset by someone using a particular 'reader').
A simple suffix (OXP) on the page title should be adequate to my mind and avoids the beginner's question of "why are some pages puce?". Of course it replaces it with the question "what the hell does OXP mean?" but that's much easier to fix with a hyperlink than a background colour is.
hiran wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:40 am
How about this:
- We keep the vanilla game documentation as is, and strip off any hints towards OXPs.
- Every OXP has it's own page (or redirect). This page obviously needs to contain such a text "Installation Instruction" or whatever, maybe close to where the game rating is located.
For the first point, just to stop adding oxp details to core page descriptions/main text would be a start. Things like the aforementioned rattle cutter and ophidian references have been there so long that we risk upsetting someone unnecessarily by removing them (in truth, always a risk).
Adding a link to an oxp is fine but do so at the end of the page or in some other way that it's not referenced as if intrinsic to the game or the page theme itself.
Likely something to consider is that if you imagine the 'top ten' most popular oxps, what percentage of players do you think will have installed all of them?
Of those who have, how many will care about consistency or use the wiki as anything other than an oxp bank?
If someone wants to install 100+ oxps then go for it but either that's a meticulously vetted set of mods carefully acquired over the months/years or an inconsistent (if possibly glorious) mess. The latter of which is not a state of affairs to aim for in a wiki however which should relate on some level to everyone's game and so the distinction between core and oxp becomes important.
I think when it gets to the stage where the oxp collecting player is thinking, "have I installed that?", then even they need it spelling out that something is from an oxp. If they've forgotten what they've installed then there's a fair chance they've forgotten the core game too.
So when a player wants to know why they've never found a space dredger (despite them being mentioned all over the place) then that page at least should be clearly marked as oxp.
The dredger is an example of why it's tricky to try to remove every oxp reference from every core page - the dredgers were in the elite manual
even if they never made it into the game.
Page colour I addressed above.
Griff wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:45 am
I'm not sure why the shuttle won't convert, i wonder if i've done something it doesn't expect when i built the model, maybe put an edge through a polygon in an odd way or something?
Total bane of my early modelling efforts
It might be me as I had the same problem with the sidewinder model and didn't try any others...
Griff wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:45 am
Thanks Griff, I'll give that a try!
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