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Title: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Denholm on April 16, 2008, 12:11:15 PM
Nice work on everything so far HTC, I'm certain this will be a good source of information. (Once its setup.) :aok
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Shuffler on April 16, 2008, 12:58:45 PM
Not sure if it is good or bad. Most info is on the boards. If a person won't search the boards what makes you think they will search Ah Wiki?

Wiki on the net is notorious for poor and misguided info.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Lusche on April 16, 2008, 01:06:42 PM
Edit wars! WOOOT  :D

Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Spikes on April 16, 2008, 01:08:22 PM
Pretty Cool!
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Pyro on April 16, 2008, 01:18:01 PM
You really thinks it's just as easy to learn about a subject by searching 2.5 million messages on a forum than it is by looking up the topic in a wiki?  Wiki's are a source of poor and misguided info but the BBS is not?  Can't say I agree but feel free not to use it. :)
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Spikes on April 16, 2008, 01:27:55 PM
Not sure if it is good or bad. Most info is on the boards. If a person won't search the boards what makes you think they will search Ah Wiki?

Take into consideration that the Search is fubar from the software change...
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: zoozoo on April 16, 2008, 01:58:02 PM
what is wiki?  :O
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: C(Sea)Bass on April 16, 2008, 02:00:40 PM
obviously there will be an entire section dedicated to the greatest AH member eva! TheCBass :rock
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: 2bighorn on April 16, 2008, 02:13:17 PM
Wiki on the net is notorious for poor and misguided info.

Still much better than any forum.

Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: hubsonfire on April 16, 2008, 02:35:07 PM
You really thinks it's just as easy to learn about a subject by searching 2.5 million messages on a forum than it is by looking up the topic in a wiki?  Wiki's are a source of poor and misguided info but the BBS is not?  Can't say I agree but feel free not to use it. :)

:lol

Cases in point- collision modelling, server capacities, arena splits, lag, cable pulling, arena caps, ENY limiter- all discussed at length here, while usually ignoring the facts.  ;)
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: smokey23 on April 16, 2008, 02:41:04 PM
this is wiki zoozoo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_High_(video_game) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_High_(video_game))
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Shuffler on April 16, 2008, 04:20:18 PM
You really thinks it's just as easy to learn about a subject by searching 2.5 million messages on a forum than it is by looking up the topic in a wiki?  Wiki's are a source of poor and misguided info but the BBS is not?  Can't say I agree but feel free not to use it. :)

As they say "Proofs in the Pudding".  :aok
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: MachNix on April 16, 2008, 04:51:12 PM
You really thinks it's just as easy to learn about a subject by searching 2.5 million messages on a forum than it is by looking up the topic in a wiki?  Wiki's are a source of poor and misguided info but the BBS is not?  Can't say I agree but feel free not to use it. :)

With out the BBS, I would have never learned that friendly troops reset the map room.  The wiki looks like a lot of work to keep current and accurate.  Hope it works out so we get a usable User’s Manual – if that is the intent.

<S>
MachNix
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Simaril on April 16, 2008, 08:33:40 PM
With out the BBS, I would have never learned that friendly troops reset the map room.  The wiki looks like a lot of work to keep current and accurate.  Hope it works out so we get a usable User’s Manual – if that is the intent.

<S>
MachNix


Ummm... is this true? There's no doubt that many say friendly troops reset the counter, but that detail is NOT in the definitive help files. As far as I know, only a building popping resets the counter.

And whether true or not, I'll use the question to point out what Hub said before -- LOTS of stuff that appears on the BBS (or in the conversations of self assured players) is simply incorrect. That will also mean that HTC will need to intervene in the Wiki discussions more directly than they sometimes do here.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Lusche on April 16, 2008, 08:40:08 PM
Ummm... is this true?

No it isn't.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Simaril on April 16, 2008, 08:42:16 PM
No it isn't.

Worth a chuckle. Love it when object lessons walk in the door and point themselves out.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: moot on April 16, 2008, 09:38:02 PM
It'd probably be better if efforts were made on a separate AH wiki.  Wikipedia looks like it has all sorts of red tape.
e.g. http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Main_Page
The Wikipedia page for AH would link to that page.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: ROC on April 16, 2008, 09:43:53 PM

Friendly troops improve the map room at the same speed and value as, say, dropping friendly bombs on a hanger.

Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: wantok on April 17, 2008, 12:39:34 AM
this is wiki zoozoo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_High_(video_game) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_High_(video_game))

That's not "wiki", that's Wikipedia.  (By the way, that article is going to be deleted some time unless we can come up with links to a few articles about Aces High from third party sites - e.g. reviews from big gaming sites, etc.)  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that runs on wiki software - just one example of a wiki.

A wiki is a collection of pages that are editable (often editable by anyone, or anyone that registers).  The system stores the full editing history of each page (so it's easy to revert to an earlier version after a page is vandalised).  Being very easy to edit makes it easy to keep up to date, and easy to add new pages about anything.

Wikis are a great way to store community knowledge and keep it up to date.  An AH wiki is going to be a real plus.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Denholm on April 17, 2008, 06:05:13 PM
:lol

Cases in point- collision modelling, server capacities, arena splits, lag, cable pulling, arena caps, ENY limiter- all discussed at length here, while usually ignoring the facts.  ;)
Your forgot sleepy skuzzy tripping over the cables by "accident". ;)
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Squire on April 18, 2008, 05:11:19 AM
Any advertising, information, or publicity is good for the game. Players=Money=Development. Bring on WIKI.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: rod367th on April 18, 2008, 06:30:45 AM
Can see it now guys going to wiki to type: Hit alt f4 for unlimited ammo etc.
Then type NOE  is 200ft or less, and so many other myths.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Lusche on April 18, 2008, 06:40:44 AM
Can see it now guys going to wiki to type: Hit alt f4 for unlimited ammo etc.
Then type NOE  is 200ft or less, and so many other myths.

But unlike a forum, it's much easier to correct.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: MachNix on April 18, 2008, 10:22:03 AM
But unlike a forum, it's much easier to correct.
But who gets to do the correcting?

Take pilot wounds in GVs fior example.  I have died to a pilot wound in an M8 but others think it was a bug.  This question is not that important but the only people qualified to answer on whether it is a bug or not are the people doing the coding.  I hope the people doing the correcting are those who really know and not those who think they know.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Denholm on April 18, 2008, 10:24:22 AM
...I hope the people doing the correcting are those who really know and not those who think they know.
:aok
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: Raptor on April 19, 2008, 12:04:19 AM
Interesting to search for Aces High on Wikipedia. Never done that before. Searched for Stephen Colbert and somehow people edited the Wikipedia image to put his face in it and changed the name to "Wikiality"
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: RATTFINK on April 19, 2008, 12:07:19 AM
You really thinks it's just as easy to learn about a subject by searching 2.5 million messages on a forum than it is by looking up the topic in a wiki?  Wiki's are a source of poor and misguided info but the BBS is not?  Can't say I agree but feel free not to use it. :)


Agreed!
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: OOZ662 on April 19, 2008, 12:10:24 AM
I hope the people doing the correcting are those who really know and not those who think they know.


The point in a wiki is that you need to cite the information you're looking to at the bottom or it will be reverted after a certain amount of time. Yes, edit wars erupt but if I remember right, the mods of the wiki have a way of tracking mass reverts.
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: RATTFINK on April 19, 2008, 12:13:39 AM
Especially when the Aces High II Wikipedia has a link to this vid.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI   under "S.A.P.P. Tactics for Field Captures Traininig Manual Vol. 3" LMFAO... what the heck???


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_High_%28video_game%29
Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: TequilaChaser on April 20, 2008, 07:18:24 PM
as mentioned before.......wiki  vs wikipedia  are 2 different things........

our Damned Squad have had a wiki in place for a bit..  we just sitting on the updating of it with all the info until we have it all together instead of a bunch of short place holders......

a individual wiki has nothing to do with wikipedia ......

http://www.damned.org

http://www.damned.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Title: Re: Looks like we're getting a Wiki.
Post by: OOZ662 on April 22, 2008, 11:40:55 PM
a individual wiki has nothing to do with wikipedia ......

That all depends on how its set up. Wikipedia could have nothing to do with Wikipedia if they wanted to.