well ive been working on a little project for the past few weeks, and its finally ready for launch. charts, information, stats, photos, links… hopefully people will find it useful. this is only the first stage, more will be added to the site as time goes on.
constructive criticism is encouraged. what do you like, what dont you like? how could the site be better? please post your comments in this thread, and i will do my best to respond to them.
In unrelated news, the Disease of Machinery society is recruiting, so if youre interested in helping to maintain the website, or are just looking for a fun society to be a part of, please click here to view our about page. Feel free to PM me with any questions or comments about recruitment.
THANK YOU EVERYONE for the great suggestions, and the support!
Great work! Wow- beautiful layout, very easy to navigate, well organized… all of the information one could want on mobs, armor, weapons, mindforce, etc. etc… I have added it to my favorites and will let as many ppl know about this as possible :thumbup: Certainly, when new players post on EF wanting to know basic stats, info, etc, this will be a great website to direct them towards.
btw- let me know if you need stats on the Mux energy powerfist
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i coudnt find it that quick, but is there an option to see when a certain skill is unlocked?
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no, i havent added ‘when is a skill unlocked’ because that isnt ‘solid’ info… there is no ‘you get X skill when you reach Y level’… that IS something that can be added in the future, however… since we know ballpark estimates.
i want to maintain info that doesnt change, to keep site maintenance manageable. next to be added will be ‘mob resource drops’ like ‘atrox drop thin wool’ type of stuff.
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Great work! Wow- beautiful layout, very easy to navigate, well organized… all of the information one could want on mobs, armor, weapons, mindforce, etc. etc… I have added it to my favorites and will let as many ppl know about this as possible :thumbup: Certainly, when new players post on EF wanting to know basic stats, info, etc, this will be a great website to direct them towards.
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thanks! yes please spread the word, the site is here for everyone! take the info and spread it thru the community, thats where it all came from. the site would not have been possible without the hard work of many people before me.
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no, i havent added ‘when is a skill unlocked’ because that isnt ‘solid’ info… there is ‘you get X skill when you reach Y level’… that IS something that can be added in the future, however… since we know ballpark estimates.
i want to maintain info that doesnt change, to keep site maintenance manageable. next to be added will be ‘mob resource drops’ like ‘atrox drop thin wool’ type of stuff.
quick response, pretender!
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yes, drop resource list is nice.
maybe you can have some info on the new looted armor, (tiger, jaguar) what they loot from?
The site looks great. nice work.
Some suggestion would be:
a search function for navigation on the website
A blueprint sections for the crafters at heart
One suggestion for the charts: if you don’t have info on a particular stat, don’t just put 0 but display a ‘N/A’ or a ‘-’ or something. For some reason that always bugged me.
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One suggestion for the charts: if you don’t have info on a particular stat, don’t just put 0 but display a ‘N/A’ or a ‘-’ or something. For some reason that always bugged me.
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yes, i know what you mean. it bugs me too… the best solution would obviously be to have all the info, but thats not possible, so youre right, and NA would be good… ill have to figure out how to make that work. good suggestion, thanks!
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The site looks great. nice work.
Some suggestion would be:
a search function for navigation on the website
A blueprint sections for the crafters at heart
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yep, blueprints would be nice. the only thing holding me back is the new crafting system. once that comes into play, i will see what needs to be done.
clicking a blueprint and finding out whats needed to make an item would be totally sweet, i agree. that was an original idea to be integrated, but yeah if all that info switches around… meh!
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yes, i know what you mean. it bugs me too… the best solution would obviously be to have all the info, but thats not possible, so youre right, and NA would be good… ill have to figure out how to make that work. good suggestion, thanks!
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Assuming you’re storing it in a numeric field just store a -1, then when you pull the info out of the db do an if <0 check and replace it with whatever text you want. Looking at things a little more it might be nice if it was in a lighter shade than the rest of the text, it would make looking at things like the armor protection chart nicer, so you could more quickly see which armors protect against what damage types (tho that might be a case where you want the 0’s, you know that they protect a 0 value, it’s not a missing number)
Sorting the last two columns under FAPS is broken. And on that note it would be nice to be able to reverse the sort order on the column by clicking it again.
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yeah sorry about that, just fixed it. it was still looking for the temp domain, but now its live. thanks for the report! keep em coming! you guys will see things i dont, all part of the process…
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Assuming you’re storing it in a numeric field just store a -1, then when you pull the info out of the db do an if <0 check and replace it with whatever text you want. Looking at things a little more it might be nice if it was in a lighter shade than the rest of the text, it would make looking at things like the armor protection chart nicer, so you could more quickly see which armors protect against what damage types (tho that might be a case where you want the 0’s, you know that they protect a 0 value, it’s not a missing number)
Sorting the last two columns under FAPS is broken. And on that note it would be nice to be able to reverse the sort order on the column by clicking it again.
Oh ya, and I forgot your rep :thumbup:
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yeah i can do an if/else kinda thing to take out the zeros… it just gets a littl complex with things like melee, where they dont have ammo burn and stuff like that… gotta differentiate between what doesnt use ammo, and what just doesnt have info yet.
and the faps columns are fixed, thanks! keep the bug reports coming, im squashing them fast… and a reverse sort is something i should implement, just got lazy… but since you asked, i will =)
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It’s supposed to mean “i want rep” LOL.
Actually I found the glitch trying to write you a message of absolute praise on how cool I thought the site looked.
I love the random banner at the top. Very cool design.
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i know, i was joking. after i wrote that i went thru the site… yeah, im not much of a detail person, really should have had more people beta test… but hey! i work like mindark! heh heheh please marco dont read this… im just joking!
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gotta differentiate between what doesnt use ammo, and what just doesnt have info yet.
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that’s why you use a negetive value, something that couldn’t possibly occur in the real data, or you change it to a text field, but making it a negetive lets you sort by numeric value and have things end up in the right spots regardless. Though I would like to see items with missing values always sort to the bottom of the list, regardless of which direction you have it sorted
