User talk:Laradcroft/Treasures

Tracking treasures

So I've initialized two different tracking tools. You can use both (or neither)...or just one, depending on what suits your needs/is easiest to use.

Tool #1

• Pros: It includes maps and links to each location.
• Cons: It takes up twice as much space for two toons, three times for three, ...

Tool #2

• Pros: more compact, links only to maps.
• Con: somewhat harder to edit if more than 2-3 toons to track.

In either case, since they are setup, all you really have to do is update the date of when you visit. I'd start with the today's date... because there's no room for doubt about going more recently, but you can change it to when you last visited. (You can leave the UTC; for your purposes, it won't have any meaningful impact on your next visit.)

Feel free to post questions here if I've left too much as an exercise for the reader. Good luck. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 08:04, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

ok this may be a stupid question as i am still trying to figure out wiki, but how do i update the date in the fields and also my character name, and if i want to add a toon 3 table, how do i do so? I am not familier with this. thanks. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by Laradcroft (talk) at 22:10, 4 January 2012 (UTC). Don't forget to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~)!

To create the current time, type 5 tildes ~~~~~ (it would appear like: 21:27, 4 January 2012 (UTC) ). To create the table for a third character, copy the table, paste it below, and change the |character= to be your character's name. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 21:27, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

(Edit conflict)

None of this is intuitive/obvious, so keep on asking questions. If you don't understand, it's because I have done a poor job of explaining.

Click on the relevant edit link (either at the top or closer to the section you want to adjust), as you did for the talk page.

• The first tool is easier to edit:
  • Find character = to change the toon name.
  • [location] = to adjust the last visited date (where [location] is the short name for the explorable area.
  • Adding a third toon is as simple as copying the entire template, i.e. between (and including) the double brackets.
• The second tool is harder to edit:
  • The names are in the first several rows of code.
  • Each location is represented in the code by several similar lines of code: the first date underneath the name for the first toon and so forth.
  • You add a third toon by extending each row with the same kind of code (except for the toon name, which is presented in the code as a line of text).

Alternatively, to get things started, you can just tell me what you want to change/keep/remove, and we can work on teaching you maintenance later on. Our goal here is to make it easy for ANet to know that you've been careful about when to visit; it's icing on the cake if you become the next wikicode guru at the same time. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 21:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Your first edit

Well done :-) You seem to have a good handle on the basics, so you could go for advanced editing next: the second presentation allows you to display the prof (and the related color scheme). Based on your other posts, I'm pretty sure that Thief is a sin, but I bet Bonecrusher isn't a derv. You can substitute the various uses of d with the equivalent abbreviation for other profs: W, R, Mo, Me, N, E, Rt, P. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 02:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Whoot! I did it..yeah. Ok i am 34 acting like a kid. hehehe. This is become fun. I think I am getting the hang of this. I do have another question, how do i insert the current date when i access a treasure chest. I failed to ask that. Do i manually type in the date or is there a command code for this?Also, in the alternate view, how would i update the dates for each character if i accessed them on differet dates for each one? --Laradcroft 05:59, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Alex anticipated part of this (above): for dates, you type five tildes, aka ~~~~~, which will insert the current time (in the timezone you set in your prefs). I believe that this will work for the second tool (even though it doesn't ask for the time; I think it just ignores that bit, but if not, you can remove the time later). 3 tildes is your userID, 4 is userID + time stamp, and 5 is just the time stamp.

For the second version, you need to add a third column to each row by extending the code:

| {{Datediff|07:47, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}} || {{Datediff|07:47, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}} 

→

| {{Datediff|07:47, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}} || {{Datediff|07:47, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}} || {{Datediff|07:47, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}} 

You can enter a different date for each column (in this case, 1st column is the ele, second the sin, third is your ranger). {{Datediff}} is a template that calculates the number of days elapsed since the entered date. The two pipes, || separate the columns of the table. Each row is separated by a pipe-dash, |-. You can include extra white space around most of the wiki code without affecting anything, although there can be differences by adding manual linebreaks. But that's wikicoding 203, the next course.

There are other fancy things you can do with wiki pages: check out Alex's home page, also those for user:farlo, user:wynthyst, and other ppls. (I tend post analyses and tips and not much about my own toons — you can see that from my home page). You can borrow whatever stuff you see and ask for help from the specific person, myself, or at Help:Ask a wiki question.

It is kinda fun: I also feel like a kid with a new toy every time I learn something new about how this stuff works (and believe me, I know very little about this stuff compared to resident experts like user:poke, user:tub, and user:kirbman).

I thought someone had written a template for this that would also display what was found, but I haven't found it yet (so maybe I was just imagining it). Hey: if you get really into this, you might be the one to provide us with the snippet!

Gz again on figuring out how to replace the Dervish stuff with the Ele and Ranger equivalents. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 06:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I got it updated for my ranger and my other char according to when i accessed them last. I really appreciate all the help. This is exciting. lol. I look forward to learning new things. Thanks again. --Laradcroft 05:56, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 07:11, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Results?

So...now that you have gone through a monthlong wait, did you encounter any issues this time around? Or were you successful in looting at all locations? Did you get anything fun? – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 10:02, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

yes, waiting the 35 days worked. I got a few good weapons, and am now tracking several chars thanks so much. I have also discovered that if u chest a chest, i.e. issur falls on day 28, and it tells u nothing found, that it resets ALL your treasures for that toon. Or at at least I found this to be true when i tested it on another char as well. Not sure if it is supposed to be that way or if is was just some anomaly. Thanks again for everything. Laradcroft 18:20, 17 March 2012 (UTC)