GamerEscape Downtime
GamerEscape downtime
I like GE but the color scheme is too dark for my tastes. (Unless they changed it since the last time I used it a month ago)
Wiki? Bah! who needs it!
I just use the Leroy Jenkins Strategy. Run straight at mob screaming at the top of your lungs, learn it's moves and abilities before you die, change your set up and strategy based upon what you learned, and go back and kill it.(if even necessary)
It's really kind of refreshing and fun.
Yes, it takes more time to build pops, but the game isn't going away anytime soon.
I just use the Leroy Jenkins Strategy. Run straight at mob screaming at the top of your lungs, learn it's moves and abilities before you die, change your set up and strategy based upon what you learned, and go back and kill it.(if even necessary)
It's really kind of refreshing and fun.
Yes, it takes more time to build pops, but the game isn't going away anytime soon.
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^^^ (Edit: Creating a new page is scary and takes to long) That...
I have gone to correcting and adding things on GE since it was first split. IRL keeps from investing more time than that.
I am glad FFXIAH has the useful links to the items on GE and I set up a tinyurl.com/wikiff to quickly bring old/returning players to the GE wiki easily.
I have gone to correcting and adding things on GE since it was first split. IRL keeps from investing more time than that.
I am glad FFXIAH has the useful links to the items on GE and I set up a tinyurl.com/wikiff to quickly bring old/returning players to the GE wiki easily.
I will say I've been updating the Blue mage job trait page on GE and i sourced BG's wiki. While people tend to hate on BG, the usefulness of their wiki is limited to new(er) content, while GE is (not limited but tends to not get the new stuff till later)older content.
The biggest change that people should notice, is that on blu, is the DA/Fast Cast job traits are not the actual value listed on FFXIcylopedia.
Blu does get 'Fast Cast' but the amount is less then Fast Cast I, same for DA etc. We always assumed that it was what it was, but thanks camate for ruining that idea... ._.
But the whole point of sourcing the BG wiki is because like fusion said:
The biggest change that people should notice, is that on blu, is the DA/Fast Cast job traits are not the actual value listed on FFXIcylopedia.
Blu does get 'Fast Cast' but the amount is less then Fast Cast I, same for DA etc. We always assumed that it was what it was, but thanks camate for ruining that idea... ._.
But the whole point of sourcing the BG wiki is because like fusion said:
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However also keep in mind that there's only so much a small staff can do in terms of populating the wiki with information. The point of the wiki is (while being able to look up information) to share information. If the wiki doesn't have the information someone is looking for, they can find it elsewhere, add it, and source it.
since i got stuck having to use wikia again, I thought I'd post this workaround I just came up with for that awful fixed width layout. Did this on chrome, forgot where this code goes in firefox but it should work the same. Can paste this code in (userfolder)/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/User StyleSheets
adjust the widths for your monitor resolution
adjust the widths for your monitor resolution
Code
.WikiaPage {
width: 1600px !important;
}
.WikiaMainContent {
width: 1200px !important;
}
So what's been happening? It doesnt take over a day to pay a bill.
With the move to gamer escape, the launch of the official forums and the complete revamp of the game, i think the Wiki had taken a big hit in terms of number of users and editors.
There is still 2.0 to come, which will probably require yet another re-write. Its just going to take time, again.
(Just realised this thread is in the XI forum but my post still applies ^^)
There is still 2.0 to come, which will probably require yet another re-write. Its just going to take time, again.
(Just realised this thread is in the XI forum but my post still applies ^^)
Talanvor said: »
So what's been happening? It doesnt take over a day to pay a bill.
Unfortunately for these guys it does. Takes a bit to process the payment and then we have to wait for DNS to catch up -.-
We'll be back in the next day or so.
Seems to be back :)
In the beginning there was FFXI wiki and all was good.
The people were happy and all information was in one place.
Then there was a donation drive and the great overlords of the wiki were accused of lining their pockets with gold.
The BG community got very angry. They plotted to overthrow their wiki masters and made their own site.
Then a long time goes by, and the overlords of wiki decided to make their own site and used their great power of CTRL C and CTRL V and took it with them.
This is the great tale of why we have three FFXI wikis in the world today.
The people were happy and all information was in one place.
Then there was a donation drive and the great overlords of the wiki were accused of lining their pockets with gold.
The BG community got very angry. They plotted to overthrow their wiki masters and made their own site.
Then a long time goes by, and the overlords of wiki decided to make their own site and used their great power of CTRL C and CTRL V and took it with them.
This is the great tale of why we have three FFXI wikis in the world today.
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Gonna sneak this in here for you all- We've recently published a post on Gamer Escape regarding future plans for the website.
Gamer Escape: Looking Ahead
Last year we launched Gamer Escape- a network to unite all of our community sites under one roof. Since then, we’ve been on quite a ride which has had many ups and downs.
Today we’d like to tell you about some changes for Gamer Escape as well as changes we’re considering while looking ahead to the future of the site. We encourage you to leave your thoughts and feedback in our forums.
Gamer Escape: Looking Ahead
Last year we launched Gamer Escape- a network to unite all of our community sites under one roof. Since then, we’ve been on quite a ride which has had many ups and downs.
Today we’d like to tell you about some changes for Gamer Escape as well as changes we’re considering while looking ahead to the future of the site. We encourage you to leave your thoughts and feedback in our forums.
Quote:
It’s been about a year since we launched Gamer Escape, and it’s certainly been one of ups and downs for us. Given the recent site outages, we wanted to take this opportunity to quickly explain what’s been going on behind the scenes at Gamer Escape and what our vision is going forward. While we continue to have great aspirations for Gamer Escape, the fact that we are comprised of volunteers who help with the site in their spare time can always pose some problems. Everyone has different commitments, and at times the spare time that some are giving can dry up. This is what happened to Ganiman – one of the founders of Gamer Escape – who has decided to step away from the project – and with that we are certainly loosing a valuable contributor. However, while volunteer projects such as ours can encounter this problem, it can also have advantages. The beauty of a community based site is that when someone steps away, there are others willing to step up and fill in. And in Ganiman’s absence they have. Most notably, community members Icydeath and Calandra have stepped up and helped out with the back-end server and database details. They are looking at the code, the systems, the programs and just about everything under the hood – and we have been having a lot of discussions on IRC about how to do things better, be more efficient, and just generally clean up the site and make it more stable. Those discussions have led us to some planned semi-significant changes (or probably more accurately described as goals) going forward.
The most significant goal is to have a more integrated site and feel. So that instead of having (as we do now) essentially separate sites (i.e. separate home pages, separate wikis, and separate forums) for each of radio, Wakfu, FFXI and FFXIV – along with the “main” site – we would have a combined “Home” page so that all news is in one place. We will continue to categorize the news of course, so to get only the FFXIV news, for example, you’d just go to http://gamerescape.com/category/ffxiv/ instead of the current from http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com. Similarly, we would combine the forums to be in one location (http://gamerescape.com/forums/) – but we would of course have sections for each of the main games we cover.
Along with these notable planned changes are more aesthetic ones. A new look (nothing too too drastic), maybe some new functionality (maybe comments on home page articles) – stuff along those lines. Community members Kendash (http://www.designcave.com)and Fusionx are “hard at volunteering” and are designing, tweaking and generally working to come up with improvements to the UI of the site.
Finally, I wanted to give a well deserved shout out to some community members that have been just killing it with keeping the site and information flowing – namely our moderators Tahngarthor, Urthdigger and Rurounizanza and some recent crazy helpful wiki editors Jerynh, Psymia, Seedling, Squallleone, Malizia and Rosalie.
As a community we have people talented in everything – software design, graphic design, database maintenance, writing, comics, brute force wiki editing, podcasting, etc. Our goal is to allow people who do what they do, and enjoy what they do, to do it for the benefit of the community and on a topic they enjoy. It’s not for everyone – and obviously many people are just users of the site versus contributors – but we are always looking for people with a passion about the games we are covering to contribute and help out. So hop onto IRC, put up a post or a PM, or shoot us an email if you are passionate about the games we cover and want to contribute some of your talents – no matter what they are or how small – and help the community. In the meantime we will continue to press on.
- Gahoo
The most significant goal is to have a more integrated site and feel. So that instead of having (as we do now) essentially separate sites (i.e. separate home pages, separate wikis, and separate forums) for each of radio, Wakfu, FFXI and FFXIV – along with the “main” site – we would have a combined “Home” page so that all news is in one place. We will continue to categorize the news of course, so to get only the FFXIV news, for example, you’d just go to http://gamerescape.com/category/ffxiv/ instead of the current from http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com. Similarly, we would combine the forums to be in one location (http://gamerescape.com/forums/) – but we would of course have sections for each of the main games we cover.
Along with these notable planned changes are more aesthetic ones. A new look (nothing too too drastic), maybe some new functionality (maybe comments on home page articles) – stuff along those lines. Community members Kendash (http://www.designcave.com)and Fusionx are “hard at volunteering” and are designing, tweaking and generally working to come up with improvements to the UI of the site.
Finally, I wanted to give a well deserved shout out to some community members that have been just killing it with keeping the site and information flowing – namely our moderators Tahngarthor, Urthdigger and Rurounizanza and some recent crazy helpful wiki editors Jerynh, Psymia, Seedling, Squallleone, Malizia and Rosalie.
As a community we have people talented in everything – software design, graphic design, database maintenance, writing, comics, brute force wiki editing, podcasting, etc. Our goal is to allow people who do what they do, and enjoy what they do, to do it for the benefit of the community and on a topic they enjoy. It’s not for everyone – and obviously many people are just users of the site versus contributors – but we are always looking for people with a passion about the games we are covering to contribute and help out. So hop onto IRC, put up a post or a PM, or shoot us an email if you are passionate about the games we cover and want to contribute some of your talents – no matter what they are or how small – and help the community. In the meantime we will continue to press on.
- Gahoo
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There has been a lot of work going into the site this year. Wiki templates for FFXIV are constantly evolving to make things easier for both casual users and editors, the community has started to show some renewed interest in updating our FFXI wiki, and our Wakfu forums and wiki are sure to see some excitement with the launch of the game at the end of this month.
While FFXIV has been seeing a lot of attention on the wiki side, we haven’t forgotten about our FFXI wiki. We’ve already had a few talks regarding the possibility of updating certain core elements of the wiki and will be looking into them after other changes are made to various areas of the website.
We’re currently looking into combining not only the blogs, but the forums as well into single entities. This will keep things much simpler on our end and hopefully make it even easier for users to find their way around the site once we complete our new layout design. We are also currently re-evaluating Gamer Escape Radio and its various components such as the forums, radio stream, shows and podcasts. (on a similar note, it was announced that the FFXI podcast Limit Break Radio is officially on hiatus)
Gamer Escape is a website for the community, by the community. It exists so John can figure out how to complete Windurst mission 3-1. It lets Sarah add a guide for cooking that other players can benefit from. It lets people discuss strategies for new content. It allows everyone to read the latest updates and news surrounding their game of choice, and if they don’t have the time, they can download a new podcast episode and listen to it on their way to wherever they’re going in order to stay informed.
We’d love to hear your ideas for the website, no matter how small or large they are. The Gamer Escape staff is only a small group of people and there are only so many free hours in the day for us. However, we are a passionate group and we want to make the site the best it can be.
-Fusionx
While FFXIV has been seeing a lot of attention on the wiki side, we haven’t forgotten about our FFXI wiki. We’ve already had a few talks regarding the possibility of updating certain core elements of the wiki and will be looking into them after other changes are made to various areas of the website.
We’re currently looking into combining not only the blogs, but the forums as well into single entities. This will keep things much simpler on our end and hopefully make it even easier for users to find their way around the site once we complete our new layout design. We are also currently re-evaluating Gamer Escape Radio and its various components such as the forums, radio stream, shows and podcasts. (on a similar note, it was announced that the FFXI podcast Limit Break Radio is officially on hiatus)
Gamer Escape is a website for the community, by the community. It exists so John can figure out how to complete Windurst mission 3-1. It lets Sarah add a guide for cooking that other players can benefit from. It lets people discuss strategies for new content. It allows everyone to read the latest updates and news surrounding their game of choice, and if they don’t have the time, they can download a new podcast episode and listen to it on their way to wherever they’re going in order to stay informed.
We’d love to hear your ideas for the website, no matter how small or large they are. The Gamer Escape staff is only a small group of people and there are only so many free hours in the day for us. However, we are a passionate group and we want to make the site the best it can be.
-Fusionx
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