Talk:Ability

Formatting thoughts:
Do you think that each individual ability should be defined on this page or just linked to it's own where it is discussed individually? ---Galactus


 * You mean as in Advantage, Trigger, Reaction, etc.? Each one should really have its own page, in my opinion.  There's very little that all the abilities have in common... and that's basically that they all appear on the same part of a figure's base. --Phil
 * I mean to of course keep them broken down into their appropriate ability types here; trigger, reaction, etc., but if we should also detail what each does specifically in addition to listing all of them on this page. A good number already have their own pages, and we'll eventually see pages that just detail "trigger" "advantage" and the like too.  ---Galactus
 * I personally think that each unique ability needs to only be defined on its own page. Defining them here just doesn't make sense... however, a list of them might be appropriate if I'm just trying to research different kinds of advantages/reactions/actions/etc.  I'm not sure if I'm getting away from your central question though.  --Phil
 * I actually went and looked at the page in question. I think we should slim it down.  Have a brief description of each type (i.e. Reaction - Reactions occur when the figure with the reaction is hit by an attack) but then just a bullet point list (possibly in 3 columns) of all the abilities that fall into that category, with each linking to its own page so that we can maintain links to rulings and such on a case-by-case basis. --Phil
 * That sounds good to me. If we continue to list them alphabetically, as I think we should, should the listings do so down each column or across each row?  ---Galactus
 * I checked and it seems it should go down each column. I'll apply the proposed format to one section here to see what we think.  ---Galactus
 * That's what I'd like... the major question I have is how hard will it be to insert something into the middle. Will we have to go line-by-line and fix them all? --Phil
 * I just applied the edit. It does not look like it will go line by line and adjust them all.  What we could do is make an SOP (standard operating procedure) to list X per column.  Granted this will still mean that each time new abilities come out the page will have to be retooled to keep it alphabetical, etc. but wikis by their nature need that kind of maintenance so I don't see it as a big deal.  ---Galactus
 * How many times can we reply to each other before we end up with a string of single-characters along the side of this page? Also, the maintenance probably won't take long or be frequent enough to cause trouble, so I think this is our best bet.  Can the table be made to take up the full width so that it looks more uniform?
 * Lol, I dunno, I suppose it depends on the size of your screen and the display resolution you are using. :)  I agree on the table width.  I'll try to see if I can even it out. ---Galactus
 * Looks like you figured it out. Looks much better.  ---Galactus
 * lol, yup, already did it. Even got the rows cells to all align to the top so it looks more uniform.  I imagine we could probably setup a template for this somehow.  Also, due to the nice big monitor I have at work, it's going to take a little while to get the text compressed over there.
 * Yeah, same here, wide screens ftw. I'll make a new template... perhaps call it Listing Template?  ---Galactus
 * Sounds fine to me. Now, are our templates actual "wiki" templates?  I saw something about those on the editing tips, but didn't know if that's more or less what we were using or not.  If not, how hard do you think it would be to put some together for things like stats?  They didn't look too awful when I glanced at it.
 * No, these aren't actual wiki templates, just simple formatting templates. The real templates are a bit down on my to-do list.  But if you'd like to figure them out and show the rest of us how-to I'd love it.  ---Galactus
 * I'll mess around with it. Probably just do a couple stat templates for units/monsters for now. --Phil (AKA the guy who always forgets to "sign" his edits)
 * Excellent! Keep us posted.  I'm sure there will be a great many more people here soon who join the no-signing club, haha.  ---Galactus
 * Testing something I saw on the help pages... Prowland 21:18, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * BWHAHAHAHA! I can just enter '~ X 4' and it "signs" things for me.  Prowland 21:18, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I wanna! Explain! ---Galactus
 * Enter the ~ character four times in a row... like so Prowland 21:33, 2 March 2010 (UTC) (unfortunately that put my name there...)
 * ??? ---Galactus 21:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * !!! ---Galactus 21:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * :) Prowland 21:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * By the way... I've got a partial template for unit stats. The hard part is going to be doing conditional tables. e.g. the brawl stat is blank or 0, we want to do something different than if it's a real value.  If I can get that figured, I think the unit stats and monster stats will be easy. Prowland 21:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)