User talk:Morgan Blair/Archive1
Hi
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Project Mentor
Hey, I'm glad you folowed everything to the letter. Many people don't take time to read all of the instructions.
Go ahead and ask me any questions you may have about the wiki, anything at all. --Ducis DuxSlothTalk 06:01, 15 August 2007 (BST)
- Well, hey, you seem like you're pretty particular about how things are to be done (so am I, I just don't always know how to do things the way I want them to be done). But frankly, my biggest frustration on this wiki thus far has been trying to do things the right way, when a number of the examples that I have attempting to follow were demonstrations of the wrong way. Granted, there's a whole mess of pages, and even some of the simple things can be fairly tedious, so I'm not finding fault. But if I'm going to edit or add pages, I want them to be "just so" (consequently, if you review my contributions, you'll see that I've often made an excessive number of minor edits to the same page, 'cause I kept missing things in the preview that I wasn't satisfied with upon final review).
- I'm assuming that you'll be watching this page, or would you prefer I communicate with you by some other means? --Morgan Blair 18:37, 15 August 2007 (BST)
Vinetown/M.E.R.C.Y.
Greetings, Morgan. Just dropping you a note here for a status report. Vinetown is still in rough shape. Mitchem Mall continues to be in zombie hands, with many surrounding locations ruined. Many wounded citizens...afraid, and hiding in the dark. I'm back in the area manning the Bhore Monument RP, filling requests off the revive tool (I've resprayed the RP, pointing folks to the tool). I'm also repairing/recading locations I find that the undead have abandoned, and helping populated locations maintain their cade levels. While on the subject, I highly recommend Construction as the next skill to go for. While not a great XP generator, it's a key ability in helping to keep yourself alive and gives you another method of providing support for the local survivors. Be well, and continued luck to you. --Sister Rita 16:00, 18 August 2007 (BST)
- Message received, Morgan. That's excellent news! The Maver NT Building [79,58] in SE Edgecombe has been secure and powered for the past few days. I was able to acquire a good stock of syringes over two days there. For FAKs, Peter General Hospital [79,60] 2 blocks to the S of Maver in Crowbank has also been relatively secure, but has been having some difficulties remaining powered. There are several viable safehouse locations near both. Good luck, and safe travels to you. --Sister Rita 00:39, 19 August 2007 (BST)
- Hello again, Morgan! Thank you for the update. I'm currently at your location. Some rather significant news: I've set up the M.E.R.C.Y. forums for our group members to communicate with each other and our allies in a more secure manner. Granted, that means, well...just the two of us for now...but I'm hoping that we can increase that given some recruiting effort. Please follow the link above to the forums, register and follow the instructions in the Application forum. Once I see you've registered and posted, I'll adjust your access to include the secure M.E.R.C.Y. operations forum and allies areas (I'm not sure if you noticed on my talk page, but I'm currently communicating with the Army Control Corps about getting Vinetown some assistance in retaking Mitchem Mall..hopefully I'll hear more from them soon). Now don't get too excited, there's obviously not much on the forums yet, and I'm still learning the ropes of the system, but its a start - and I feel a step in the right direction. Look forward to hearing from you soon. --Sister Rita 05:14, 23 August 2007 (BST)
- Wow - you're quick! You should be cleared for the two secure areas. Let me know if you have trouble seeing them. --Sister Rita 05:34, 23 August 2007 (BST)
Thanks again for the revive. Been up to mass at St John's lately? --Issachar 10:27, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
SO i can free run into Mitchem from doddington towers?--DewarP 21:06, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Search Odds
great to see another investigator working toward unraveling the mystery of search odds. may i suggest you accumulate your searches, like those for the auto repair shop and tally them instead according to building condition? or would you allow me to do it? --Zokolate 14:41, 20 August 2007 (BST)
- Hey, go right ahead. I admit that I've been adding my results a bit piecemeal, but at first I wasn't quite sure how it was suppose to be done. Actually, might I suggest reworking the table altogether, so that, instead of designating the building condition in a specific field, the table itself is broken into multiple sections under which to enter the data? I'll try it out on one of the new pages I created for the specific fort buildings, and send you a link to check it out. --Morgan Blair 14:49, 20 August 2007 (BST)
- re: search page layouts. i thought it was a good idea until i saw the page. i've tried to accumulate previous search data on other building pages and it was a pain. however, i think i'd rather stick to the old style with a column to define condition. one, it is neater - if there were 5 tables for every time search rules were modified, the page would be quite messy! two, i don't think anyone would need to know search probabilities for buildings that were ransacked or ruined - i think these data sets are more useful for survivors planning on where the best place was to pick up a fuel can or generator for example, and not waste AP searching in ransacked/ruined conditions. --Zokolate 10:05, 22 August 2007 (BST)
Whoa search odds hey? Not many people have done them in a long time. Hmmmm ok well as far as I can tell, it seems like a fine way to do it. I think it would be best to go around and look for some of the older pages where people clump their search data together. Not sure where that would be. Maybe ask one of the older mods like Vista or Boxy.
Anyways, one piece of advice? Do the searches in blocks of 50. Makes yours and everyone elses lives easier when compliling the data and getting percentages out. --Ducis DuxSlothTalk 23:46, 21 August 2007 (BST)
er ok, mistake. anyways, it would be a rather lame effort at vandalism. surely i would put more effort into it if i really wanted to something evil ... =P --Zokolate 13:03, 23 August 2007 (BST)
Revivification Points
I'm not really a big coder, nor am I very familiar with the advanced template or content calling. Have a chat to Swiers about that. --Ducis DuxSlothTalk 11:04, 30 August 2007 (BST)
Sig
Nice sig. I like the colors used. Works well. --Ducis DuxSlothTalk 21:09, 30 August 2007 (BST)
- Thanks. --Morgan Blair 22:20, 30 August 2007 (BST)
Graphics
Hey, so a News and a "!" icon in the characteristic bubble style? Sure, I'll have a go at them over the weekend and put the results here. Well, that is, I'll try and get it done over the weekend. I think I know what you mean about the news graphic, I've already got some ideas floating in my head. Expect them soon(ish).--Sunil 09:29, 7 September 2007 (BST)
PS: I'm glad you liked my "icon" set.
Right, well the cat is now out of the bag. It's going to take me some time to come up with all these. I'm supposed to be working on finishing off my PhD any time that I spend awake so you're gonna have to be a little patient while I make all these up.--Sunil 10:20, 8 September 2007 (BST)
- Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about the request, I'm just in my last week of PhD right now - but still seem to find time to manage the MMS. Will get on to it when I can.--Sunil 23:08, 25 September 2007 (BST)
Primitives
I know I've been a bit slow, but I've managed to mock these up this morning. I'll have a go at the others a bit later when I get some better ideas (and better vector drawing skills!). Let me know if these are OK or whether you want them tweaking.
Monument location
Bulletin or news board
Warning or caution indicator
Barricade Status
News and updates
Generator Status
The generator status images are really good! I think the colours are good too. I like the tabs concept, the only issue I can see is that the lines aren't anti-aliased, they have jaggedy edges and they'd look a lot better if they were smooth edged. There's also a little inconsistency in the "shine" for the "low fuel" tab throughout all statuses while the other tabs don't have them.--Sunil 20:02, 13 October 2007 (BST)
Reply
Aaw, shucks...thanks. I'm glad you really like like them. I hope they were worth the wait. You're very good at picking out detail (eg. the "shine" beneath the post-it note). I'm not actually doing this professionally, my background is physics but in the last few years I seem to have picked up something for website design and simple graphics. I've been using Macromedia (now Adobe) Studio 8, Dreamweaver for web sites and Fireworks for vector/bitmap graphics work. I could really do with Adobe CS 3.
I got started on AquaNews - for the news announcements and am a little stuck. I'm not sure what to do for the main "newspaper" graphic, I had through of some sort of retro microphone but that would be very similar to the brown radio broadcast icon). I'll mock it up anyway and you can tell me if it is OK or whether you'd still prefer a newspaper.
I'm also a bit unsure as to what you mean when you want an Update icon, I'm not exactly sure what you're after, do you simply want a graphic of a pushpin or something similar that is small - about 50px square or smaller without the usual Aqua button style background?--Sunil 20:02, 13 October 2007 (BST)
PNG Files and other
OK, I'll have a go with the "retro" mic and see how that comes along shortly. The base colour I'm using is blue (but that may change). As for PNG file versions, yes, that is possible, but PNG files are considerably larger than their JPEG counterparts, (about 200-250 kb per image) so it is best to use them sparingly as you can easily end up with a page with Mb's of images if you use several PNG versions of the buttons - and not everyone is on broadband and not all browsers (staring at IE 6) support the alpha channel transparency on PNG images. Let me know which ones you specifically want me to export to PNG and I'll put them up.
On a wiki site I think it is just about impossible to make an image a link to another page other than it's own "descriptor" page (otherwise how would you update the image?). It can be done in CMS systems, but on a wiki - I haven't looked - I doubt there's a way around it. I don't know of one anyway.--Sunil 11:26, 14 October 2007 (BST)
Barricades (transparent background PNG)
Warning (transparent background PNG)
Entry Point (transparent background PNG)
Generator (transparent background PNG)
Here are the PNG files with the transparent backgrounds so you can overlay them onto anything you like. If you want them at a smaller size (to save on file size) then play with these first in your mock-ups and once you decide on the image size you need, just tell me and I can re-size and re-save and re-upload them again so people aren't downloading Mb's worth of PNG files.--Sunil 17:58, 19 October 2007 (BST)
Quirks
Dude, no idea. Maybe it's just a wierd quirk with the media wiki software. Let Kevan know under Bug Reports? --Ducis DuxSlothTalk 05:37, 8 September 2007 (BST)
Mystery
If the N.A.M. is what I think it is, you might be interested in this image. But I could be barking up the wrong tree. --Toejam A Stats Graph 21:55, 12 September 2007 (BST)
- Oh, no worries, I've never been too fussy about my userpages. --Toejam A Stats Graph 13:42, 17 September 2007 (BST)
Wut u do 2 recent changees?
Good work and hello.-- AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 03:29, 20 September 2007 (BST)
- Are you a robot? By the way, for all those spamtastic links, you're now a member of Assylum! Congratz!-- AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 03:36, 20 September 2007 (BST)
Nice sig. And yes, I almost always use the same header.-- AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 00:05, 17 October 2007 (BST)
Sorry for the Trouble
I fixed your page. I share UD access with my bro (plimoth) and he made the changes. Everything is back to what it was orginally. Sorry for the grief!--Moss12 00:24, 1 October 2007 (BST)
Cut it out
You are making a whole pile of double redirects --The Grimch U! E! WAT! 01:45, 2 October 2007 (BST)
- Furthermore, most of the redirects are a watse of wikispace. Stop making them. --The Grimch U! E! WAT! 01:46, 2 October 2007 (BST)
Re: Search Odds Variance
i'm calculating standard deviation for binomial distribution (which it in fact is if next search doesn't depend from previous), taking estimation as mean. the formulae is SQRT(k*(N-k)/N)/N, where k is number of found items in N searches. i don't say that this gives good enough probability of covering actual value in this interval, but it shows deviation --~~~~ [talk] 08:44, 10 October 2007 (BST)
- wikipedia:standard deviation, wikipedia:binomial distribution ;) --~~~~ [talk] 16:01, 10 October 2007 (BST)
Once again on those Factory searches you've done
I've used quite a lot of time to bring together a table. Now after looking at it i'm starting to think that your data added to factory Data, lit buildings (630 || 24 || 46 || 32 || 30 || 27 || 24 || 447 || L) might have been biased. The resulting probability is thought to be 25%, while this your line gives 30%. Stragne --~~~~ [talk] 12:04, 15 October 2007 (BST)
- Hm, i've calculated directly the probabilities for old post-gens, but pre-toolboxes data and it's also 30%. Hm... I start to think that generators in factories give better boost that generators elsewhere --~~~~ [talk] 12:10, 15 October 2007 (BST)
- I see. Well, anyway my question here is "success rate in lit buildings depends from building type?". As table shows... well, it shows that we need more data but also that values are quite different and "25% success rate" statement may not be true. It seems more like "with exception: 30% in factories" --~~~~ [talk] 14:00, 15 October 2007 (BST)
Out of curiousity
What purpose do you intend for Template:HiddenOpeningBraces and Template:HiddenClosingBraces? I'm just curious as to what function they might serve. Thanks! --Pedentic 03:53, 22 October 2007 (BST)
