User talk:Macbeth/Battledome

Notes

Did you see my response to your icon question? It might have gotten buried in my spate of game article changes. Also, if you redo the one-player battledome challenger template, I hope you're ready to redo all my weapons tables to match. - Emerald Osprey 13:14, 26 August 2011 (CDT)

Chill, chill, I'm just experimenting ;). Re icons, you do make a good point, and it's certainly easier to show variable icons as we are currently. There is also the matter of technical limitations - we'd need to install something like the loops extension (and the variable extension, and the parser functions extension as well, probably) to make the icon template we currently use print multiple icons anyway. We could have multiple icon templates for different icon quantities, I suppose, but that's not a very elegant solution.

On the other hand, counting may be an issue for large numbers of icons, but for Neopet abilities, there are never more than about three of one icon type together. We could also make the mouse-over tooltip give the icon quantity in long form ("3 x Earth"). I guess what I'm saying is that there's a lot to consider. Don't take this experiment as a decision on The Icon Question, it is only that - an experiment.

I was mainly just looking at the ability tables, thinking that if we are going to tabulate them we should probably tabulate all the fields (i.e. attack and defence columns, instead of saying "Attack: xyz Defence: abc"). I also thought that they'd look better with a gold border like the colour used in Template:Infobox neopet, rather than the battledome arena colour.

The scarblade/koi warrior tables were just brainstorming their layout. Their designs aren't massively dissimilar to the current one anyway, just a little more compact - I don't think they'd 'clash' with the weapons tables though?

I was thinking we may need a separate plot challenger infobox, too, to make it more tailored to plot challengers. Maybe different ones for different plots.

It's all just experimenting and prototyping at the minute, which is why I am messing around with them here and not on the battleinfo template page. --Macbeth 14:35, 26 August 2011 (CDT)

Okay. Sorry for freaking out. Looking again at your BattleInfo template, I guess it doesn't clash with the weapons tables all that much. - Emerald Osprey