External Military Report Page
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[edit] Talk: EMRP Suburb PagesArchives for External Military report texts by suburb. Talk: EMRP: Barrville |
[edit] IntroductionThis page is used to collect and display information about the status of buildings (and other conditions) in Malton as broadcast on 25.96MHz, a known active External Military channel. Reports are logged on the "Talk: EMRP (Suburb)" pages shown at left. The "EMRP: (suburb)" pages themselves include an area for summaries; when an "EMRP: (Suburb)" page is included on another page, this summary is the only part that is shown. This effect can be seen in an alphabetical listing of suburbs below, and is primarily for use on the External Military Report Map. For an explanation of the format and meaning of report summaries, see EMRP: Format and Meaning of Report Summaries, or the end of this page, or this page's talk page. If you have new reports to add, post them at EMRP: Reports to Process. Alternatively, you can update reports yourself by visiting the relevant suburb's EMRP page and also its talk page. Note that the information provided by 25.96MHz is (as far as is known) totally objective, extracted in a manner similar to that found on the games statistics page. This page attempts to keep the interpretation and display of said information equally objective, by directly translating frequently used descriptions into directly corresponding values. [edit] External Military Report Summaries, alphabetically by suburb
[edit] Format and Meaning of Report SummariesReport Summaries look like this:
"z" is the number of reported zombies, usually given as a number with some qualifier. Report texts generally include such things as "none" or "a couple dozen" or "approximately N", with N being values of 20, 30, 40, and so on. Over 100, the reports seem to round to the nearest 50. The summary should use abbreviations or mathematical symbols to be brief (4 characters or less) but also as equivalent to the report text's value as possible. For example, it is unknown if a report of "a couple dozen" zombies may actually mean something different than "approximately twenty", so 2dzn should be used for the former. In mathematic symbols, "~" means "approximately", so ~30 would mean "approximately 30". As expected, <100 would mean "under 100" but "<" and ">" tend to be confusing in this context, so 100+ should be used to mean more than 100, and 100- to mean less than 100, and so on. "i" is the level of infrastructure / intact buildings. This is graded on a 3 star system, with *** being no damage, and --- being the most damage possible. The phrases associated with these values are shown on the table below. "p" is the level of power in a suburb. The most positive possible report levels ("lights are on all over", for example) are indicated by A and F indicates no lights. The phrases associated with these values are shown on the table below.
Lastly, the broadcast date for the report that these values was extracted from is given. Clicking the date link will take you to a page specific to that suburb, which shows (on its talk page) an archive of all logged report texts and also allows you to edit and update the logged reports and extracted figures (please do so if and only if you have a new report to log). You can also post batches of reports at EMRP: Reports to Process. Note that the date a report was logged is not always the same as the broadcast date; some reports are extracted from Iwitness or External Military records, for example. |
