User:Tvol

Contacting Me

I'm hanging-out on the XCOM discord server if you want to chat directly or over voice (dependent on availability and what I'm doing at the time).

Useful Things

Regex pair to convert line breaks to HTML comments: \n(\s*)(.) >> $2 And back:  >> \n$1

Colours guide (for my own personal sanity and possibly yours; this should be formalized in CSS and not on a random page).

TODO

Templates

This is my todo list for templates. If you want to help me by doing any of this below, go for it. I won't mind. Really. Really I won't.

Roughly in order of priority.

To Create

CSS Strongly Recommended {{Style}} : Style templates for XCOM table and XCOMPsi table. Do so for rows as well. Do so for anything I touch in future. This is the entirely wrong way to do this. It should be handled by CSS classes, but since I don't have access to the CSS here will have to make do. These tables will not be portable between skins because of this (though no less so than the current versions). This could be handled by one switch function.
{{SPARK Tree (LW2)}} : Same as class and psi trees but for SPARKs. Remove SPARK option from {{Class Tree (LW2)}}. (No, do not create a parent template for these. They're too specialized.) Will require 12 columns (4 groups of 3 cols for the first line, and 3 groups of 4 cols for the remainder).
{{Stat Progression (LW2)}} : Throw-out the changing on demand for psi and just make three new tempates. {{Stat Progression (Psi)(LW2)}}, {{Stat Progression (Soldier)(LW2)}}, and {{Stat Progression (Spark)(LW2)}}. Convert {{Stat Progression (LW2)}} to instead be a switch function that calls the appropriate sub-template. Doing so should have the side benefit of reducing server load from parser functions.
{{Supplies}} and/or {{Sup}} : Supplies icon, inline-block.
{{Disambiguation}} : Disambiguation page.
{{Stub}} : Article stubs.
{{Back}} : Go up one level.
{{Sandbox}} : Mark sandboxes as such.
{{Candidate for deletion}} : Mark pages for deletion.
{{Subpage Handler}} : Check for various subpages and display links if they exist, e.g. /Info , /Sandbox. Also allow for manual addition of at least three subpages. (A line of inline-blocks in a div should work well.)
Templates that can be used to dynamically construct weapons with their appropriate mods. (That'll be a joy I'm sure. Overlaying one image on another is hard enough. It may not even be possible to do via HTML. Composited images and a stupid-huge switch function may be required. This is very low priority.)
{{Related}} : Link to related templates as a reminder to change the others when updating one. E.g., {{Class Tree (LW2)}}, {{SPARK Tree (LW2)}}, and {{Psi Tree (LW2)}} would be considered related to each other.

To Edit

{{documentation}} : Add link to /Sandbox .
{{TopBox}} : Make improvements.
{{Construction Notice}} : Make improvements.
{{No Direct Call}} : Make improvements.

Stat Progression (LW2)

{{Stat Progression (LW2)}}
If spark, remove will column

Ability (LW2)

{{Ability_(LW2)}}
Support inline use by inserting the name in front.
CSS Required : Display div with info text and invert colour of info icon when info icon is hovered over.

Documentation

Create documentation for:

Images

Upload Folders: Alerts, Corpses, DarkEvents, Equipment, Events, Facilities, Icons, POIs, Schematics, Research, Weapons.
Compose Todo and Shortcut icons and upload.

CSS

Anything here will require access to the site's CSS to do.

Fix {{related}} link colours.

Classes to Create

xcom2table : like wikitable but formatted with reasonable defaults for XCOM 2.
All classes in {{Ability (LW2)}}.
Classes for {{TopBox}} and all it's children.

Scratch Pad

Abilities Template

Aggression

inline

text

Active Tree

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Rank	Ability
Squaddie		Run and Gun Take an action after dashing.	Stun Fire your Arc Thrower to incapacitate a target.
	Raider		Breacher
Lance Corporal	Slug Shot Special shot for primary-weapon shotguns only: Fire a shot that pierces two armor and has no range penalties. Uses 2 ammo. Three turn cooldown.	Electroshock Your arc thrower disorients the target when it misses.	Lightning Reflexes Reaction fire shots against you have a significantly decreased chance to hit. The bonus goes down with each additional reaction shot you face.
Corporal	Trench Gun Special shot for primary-weapon shotguns only: Fire a short-range cone-based attack at nearby targets. Three-turn cooldown.	Arc Pulser Fire your Arc Thrower to incapacitate a target and damage mechanical enemies.	Close and Personal Confers +30 critical chance against adjacent targets. The bonus declines with distance from the target.
Sergeant	Killer Instinct Activating Run & Gun grants +50% critical damage for the rest of the turn.	Stun Gunner Your Arc Thrower now has a bonus to hit.	Fortify Activate to grant +20 defense until the beginning of the next turn. Does not cost an action. Has a 5-turn cooldown.
Staff Sergeant	Extra Conditioning Run and Gun cooldown is reduced by one turn.	Aggression Gain +5 critical chance for each enemy you can see, up to a maximum of 30.	Formidable Your gear includes an extra layer of protection, granting two extra points of Ablative HP and 50% less damage from explosive attacks.
Tech Sergeant	Hit and Run Once per turn, gain an additional action after taking a standard shot at a flanked or exposed target with your primary weapon.	Rapid Fire Fire twice in a row at an enemy. Each shot suffers an Aim penalty of -15. There is no cooldown on this ability.	Close Encounters Once per turn, gain a bonus action after taking a standard shot with your primary weapon at an enemy within four tiles. Close Encounters cannot be used after Run and Gun is activated.
Gunnery Sergeant	Bring 'Em On Gain +1 damage on critical hits for every two enemies you can see, up to a maximum of +8.	Close Combat Specialist During enemy turns, fire a free reaction shot with your primary weapon at any visible enemy within four tiles who moves or fires. Will not trigger if soldier is concealed.	Untouchable If you score a kill during your turn, the next attack against you during the enemy turn will miss.
Master Sergeant	Street Sweeper Cone-based shotgun attack that does bonus damage to unarmored targets. Blocked by heavy cover.	Chain Lightning Fire your Arc Thrower at every visible enemy who is capable of being stunned. Five-turn cooldown.	Lethal You do two additional points of base damage and one point of additional crit damage with your primary weapon.