To Do List (Apocalypse)

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Official Text

This is what goes after any UFOpaedia entry on every page that has one. Word for word taken from pedia.mt.

From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia

The format: italics to denote that it is not part of the text, double-space after the official text, no period at end. eg:

Something official text from the in-game UFOpaedia sourced from, word for word, pedia.mt file NO LINKS WITHIN official text example example example example example.  From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia

UFOpedida Pic Not Showing

typically: Error:Bin/Bash yadda yadda.

The Solution

The problem seems to be using |thumb| option in the image command line. I have found that using |frame| option instead will allow the pic to be inside a box. eg:
The following pic is:
[[Image:Facil-Build2x2-(Apocalypse).png|frame|left|THIS PIC is using "frame"]]

THIS PIC is using "frame"

The following pic is:
[[Image:Facil-Build2x2-(Apocalypse).png|thumb|left|THIS PIC is using "thumb"]]

THIS PIC is using "thumb"

Use frame instead of thumb in your code

UFOpaedia Image Format

Making pedia images uniformly.

• Cut pedia pic so that left and right edges do not have border colours (white edge typically). Helps to zoom in alot for pixel-perfect cutting. Top and bottom do not have border colours.
• Final pic size should be either 329x479 or 329x480. If wildly out from this guide you are not using original pedia pics!
• Insert text using Reticulan fontsize= 34 using an 'almost black' colour (see Pic Errors - Black Colour, below). Black (R0, G0, B0) cannot be used! To stop having transparent text, use (R5, G5, B5) as the font colour.
  • (R8, G2, B2) works if you still get transparent text.
• Align text by hand roughly equi-distance from top-left corner. Uppercase and lowercase is the same.
• Text too long? Take the grey bar, cut it then resize it 200% height only. Reinsert the new text bar to align with the top corner - no colour should show above with this double height bar. Insert text so that top-gap, middle-gap, and bottom-gap are approximately equal. Doesn't have to be perfect, but just look uniform.
• Save file as PNG 256colour (8bit). This is ideal vs quality whereas TrueColour (24bit) gives minimal quality increase at the expense of triple the filesize.
• Rename file as Type-Pedia-Name-(Apocalypse).png
  

Pic Errors - Black Colour

If a pic contains a black colour, that part will become transparent! Manually in-filling all black areas of pic with very dark grey could be a fix, but then its not the original pic anymore. This error seems unavoidable.

• example of bad pedia pic: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Brainsucker_Launcher&oldid=114818
  
• "Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: warning: ....etc." is solved
  
• Some pics have not been showing up properly since forever (2006): https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Personal_Teleporter&oldid=13076!
• Excessive black area in pic detracts, bucket-fill, 5% similarity really helps.
  • typical example

Confusing Wording

1.

Clarification: "Security Guards" wording should not be used anywhere.

• Building Security or Guards = note uppercase, these are the generic defence forces (not cultists, gangsters, police or thugs).
• Defence Force = any npc (except Corporate Thugs) who appears on a search/raid to defend the building against X-Com or Aliens.
  

2.

Clarification: X-Com Base Attack should be X-Com Base-Attack

• The hyphen denotes that an X-Com is under attack.
• If no hyphen, it may confuse non-english readers that is it an X-Com Base is that is attacking.

To Do

Pick One!

EASY

• Make an extra column in Locations to provide info on how many launch tubes are available for each building listed. THINGS taken for granted and soo simple, are easily overlooked!
• Add rating to org pages about alien infiltration speed. Building pages have potential to infiltration, not speed.
• Buildings: combat tactics and general building interesting features text In-fill to each building page.
• Keyboard Commands: NEED MORE key-combos although it still is a WIP. Format doesn't matter just yet, just list them for now.
• Alien Buildings: UFOpaedia pic for each structure with briefing screen (with text) which shows the target objective. DONE
• Facility: under-construction facility pic (only two needed: one of 1x1 and one of 2x2 facility) of in-game overhead view at lev3, placed somewhere.
• Exotic Artifacts: split into into two pages. One for alien equipment and the other for UFO equipment (armaments and devices) so that each part can be put under its relevant section. DONE
• Civilian Vehicles: same format with UFOpaedia pic + Reticulan fonts.
• Pics of various pant growths which have an effect of some sort.
• Complete org pages for SELF (pedia pic needs editing), X-Com, Alien

MEDIUM

• In-fill of X-COM_-_At_The_Start.
• Rewrite Hybrid Vehicles page or unlink it. It seems that vehicle pages are too convoluted and repetative. Consolidation needed so that one page only for each vehicle which should include -all- info on that one page.
• Agent Equipment: UFOpaedia new-version aka "UFOpaedia pic + Reticulan fonts" (no thumbnail error) pics to right of boxed official text for each page (gun and ammo). Consider UFOpaedia text for ammuntion as well.
• Agent Medals: Rewrite whole page removing boxed parts to be same format as other pages.
• Incendiary: Add an explaination somewhere about it. Either expand Damage Modifier page or within title page of Agent Equipment. DONE
• Tactics Page Links: fix each page with proper "previous: the page", "next: the page", "home: the tactics title" etc. links to make reading more fluid. DONE
• In-game UFOpedia has title pages for the subsections. Attempt to use those pics for completeness - not sure how yet!.
• Unlink humans, hybrids, androids pages that had wall-of-text and redundant stuff. One page not three!

HARD

• REWRITE alien gas page. What a mess!
• Infiltration Force Combined: Gather all information on each UFO's alien loadout and make a chart which combines them. Add it to: "infiltration page" or "title page of UFO craft" or "UFO incursions page" or its own seperate page.
• Alien Ship Technology: Propulsion, Energy, Control pages need alot of work finishing. UFOpaedia pic and in-game battlescape pics of each type eg: egg of fuel energy + bone barrier. eg: 4-aspect pic of control pedestal. eg: <there are no propulsion-things!>
• Battlescape Tactics: remove "Building Bombing" section from here and make a new page with in-depth info about cityscape style 'missions' so that battlescape stuff isn't mixed with cityscape-only stuff AND move "Illegal Flyer" newly added text from summary page to its own page (and expand it with info derived from Apoc'd).
• Orange Pad Timers: I've worked out so far (SH, Food chamber) that an alien spawns in -minimum- every 35secs ...but not uniformly. If somethin busy is happening then the spawn does not happen. Busy? Using alot of mind control on Sectoids and could manually delay a spawn 'at best' for 7minutes. So... TODO? 1.Check spawn times for each alien building. 2. Check spawn timer for each difficulty. DONE

EDITED SOLUTIONS

• Base Defence: (a base with all facs and allowing the hostiles to explore, edited with Apoc'd) find out where/what/why base invaders goto when in your base.

On-going Rewrites

• Aliens: multiple pages with the same stuff will be condensed into one major page each for each alien with a format that is easy to read and uniform across all alien lifeform pages. They will be heavily de-waffled.
• UFOs: pages with two almost identical pictures? Really? ...it will be done.