Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

Summary:

Strikes are bad, mmkay, people?

Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

AsukaAE 18 Jul 2014 12:05

'Ello all. Recently, I have been noticing more strikeouts on character pages and such when characters are seasonals. Now considering this not a good practice at all, I'm here to start the idea of something else. (Because really, do you want to do that every season?)
Guard has already listed a possible idea of tabs every year, which would look like this.

2014

Source: South Map - Southern Lake
Element: Water
Alignment: Neutral
Rank: Apprentice
Note: Also see Slime.

2015

Apply next year info here.

So before give the approval to this, I want to get your opinions and ideas.

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It's just a bunch of Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Whimey….Stuff.

Last edited on 18 Jul 2014 12:05 by AsukaAE Show more

Re: Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

GuardMice 18 Jul 2014 12:24

I think it looks better than strike-throughs and more efficient. I think the most recent year should be first so its the first thing someone sees. I think only the source should be in the tab since it's probably the only thing thatll change from year to year.

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Last edited on 28 Jul 2014 08:11 by GuardMice Show more

Re: Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

The Jop 18 Jul 2014 19:27

That would be great so people could distinguish a character's locations by years, but it needs a way to show that it is no longer there, so we don't give people the wrong information. Here are Hina's tests for this that he did a while back: Source Format Test 1, Source Format Test 2, and Source Format Test 3. The best idea seems to be the third test since it has a rare tag; everything else makes it seem like it is still there if its location is under the tab of the current year.

Also, what do you want to do on the location pages to show that rare/seasonal characters no longer spawn there? Maybe a separate list of characters that used to be there instead of crossing them out?

Last edited on 19 Jul 2014 21:00 by The Jop Show more

Re: Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

GuardMice 27 Jul 2014 23:32

We've decided to go underway with this project. We're going to be changing every Seasonal character's format to this. If you would like to help please edit accordingly. Thank you.

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Re: Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

The Jop 28 Jul 2014 07:20

Shouldn't we put rare tags under the tabs to show that the characters are no longer available there?

Last edited on 28 Jul 2014 10:03 by The Jop Show more

Re: Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

GuardMice 28 Jul 2014 07:57

I agree completely. I will add this to the template, thank you The Jop.

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Re: Handling of Rare/Seasonal Characters

The Jop 28 Jul 2014 07:58

Whew. Thank you.