User talk:Mason11987/July 2006


 * This is an archive of Mason11987's talk page. If you'd like to bring an issue up again, bring it up on the current talk page. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 05:16, 31 August 2006 (PDT)

Editor awards
i think we should have awards such as most contributions, best contribution award ect. like the the gold star daxx gave you, what do you think? --Trex1117 17:56, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
 * Well, there is a list I have access too...


 * 1) Mason11987 (1950 Edits on 695 pages)
 * 2) AdminBot (774 Edits on 554 pages)
 * 3) Hydromancerx (428 Edits on 53 pages)
 * 4) Yossitaru (355 Edits on 193 pages)
 * 5) Jaleho (298 Edits on 174 pages)
 * 6) Daxx (286 Edits on 159 pages)
 * 7) Samog (268 Edits on 127 pages)
 * 8) Zorlac (190 Edits on 112 pages)
 * 9) The Arbiter (156 Edits on 33 pages)
 * 10) Huggkruka (154 Edits on 1 pages)
 * 11) Kmr (143 Edits on 58 pages)
 * 12) Oozemaster (103 Edits on 67 pages)
 * 13) Luminar (78 Edits on 35 pages)
 * 14) AndreasBlixt (78 Edits on 37 pages)

But I really don't think I deserve some kind of award. Especially something that was "official" or anything like that. The best contribution thing is extremly subjective and I think Daxx's idea of a star (like how wikipedia has barnstars) was very nice of him and would be a nice way of honoring some of the many people here who have made useful as well as informative contributions. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 22:32, 9 June 2006 (PDT)


 * There is also the chance that someone could end up spamming minor changes just to look good, which wuldnt be a bad thing as long as all the changes were useful, but if someone went around changing the gramatical structure of sentances back and forth that wouldt be all that productive, still, vandalism seams to be kept in check round these parts


 * Also true, and I am trying my damndest to keep it under control, and the site owner user:zorlac has changed some setttings to make vandalism harder. We have also promoted user:daxx, user:kmr, user:Yossitaru and user:samog to do clean up as well when they can. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:53, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Cant just anyone clean things up by comparing the history and reverting it to what it used to be? -- Jmaci 21:24, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Yes, but when 15 seperate IPs vandalize more then 50 different articles/templates/categories in the span of an hour or so, it is still a task to clean up the mess. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 21:30, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

Spore at NeoPets
I'll let you put this where ever it goes, but there is now a NeoPet Guild about Spore. However, you do have to join NeoPets, or allready be a member. Neopets Spore Space Neopian Guild --Navenfaux 18:48, 27 June 2006 (PDT)
 * I had a name at one point, but it's not letting me log on. I might check it out if I get a chance sometime, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:36, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

I'm also thinking about making one myself. I think the one I found is nice, but I'd like to give making a guild a try. --Navenfaux 20:51, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

I joined --Trex1117 16:47, 3 July 2006 (PDT)

Re; Summary for the naucean
"I want to put up the naucean for a Creation of the week but I need a good summary (couple sentences maybe, up to a paragraph) to be put in here If you could do that, that'd be great, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) ∞ 05:26, 5 July 2006 (PDT)"

I filled it in. It is ready now.

Hydro ~
 * Sweet, thanks, it will be week 32 I believe :). Which is in about a month. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 14:47, 5 July 2006 (PDT)

Lego Quandry
Hey there. I've discovered something very fun, but almost does not have anything to do with Spore. Other than building. Return To Blocklandis this great game, where you basically build with Lego's. It gives you a lot to work with, diffrent environments, and you can either build yourself or play with others. I know this isin't Lego Wiki, but I'd like to share the link. Just as a keep-occupied game.

OH! I'll have to get the link, but someone made a Creature Editor by themselves. And there's a new photo that has surfaced. Dare I be the first at Spore Wiki to know these things?!? lol --Navenfaux 03:10, 11 July 2006 (PDT)


 * I do know of the creature editor although I haven't been able to get it to work or I would have put it as a news story. But what is this new photo? -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 07:03, 11 July 2006 (PDT)


 * And I'm downloading RTB now.

Here is the direct link to the new photo
 * Image:Hammerback.jpg
 * Thanks, RTB is pretty cool, hard to be new at though. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 11:19, 11 July 2006 (PDT)

Just a heads up... you can change peices in each category by pressing the numbers agan... ctrl a and you can put more base plates down...  Once you get the hang of it it's fun. I'm building IN the volcano. Ok... since this is NOT Lego Wiki, I'll stop talking about it. Email (or NeoMail) me if you have any questions. --Navenfaux 12:30, 11 July 2006 (PDT)
 * lol, I will. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 06:37, 12 July 2006 (PDT)

YouTube Spore Challenge
Here's my Challenge! Soon, I will be putting up a Spore music video on YouTube (as soon as I get it done). I'd like to challenge all of you to make one yourself. I don't have any rules. You don't win anything but time filled. As Soon as I put up the video, I will let you know the link, so that you can make a video reply. I use Windows media maker. You can use anything you want. --Navenfaux 00:39, 13 July 2006 (PDT)


 * That's pretty cool, when the video is done I'll put it up as a news story if it's pretty cool :). -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:38, 13 July 2006 (PDT)

If I can download the Jump on it song, I'll make a video :) That was the song that went perfictly with the Spore video. --Navenfaux 11:14, 13 July 2006 (PDT)

Thanks for the Welcome!
Thank you for the welcome, I appreciate it. I look forward to collaborating with you.
 * no problem :). It's kind of my thing, hope to see you stick around.  O, and to sign your talk page messages, use four tildes ~ . -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:52, 14 July 2006 (PDT)

Standards
I've noticed that all the various pages that link or make reference to the phases of developement use different capitalisations. As a rule I've been going with capitalising the first letter of the stage (as it is a noun), but not the "P" on phase. Is there some sort of preference here or what? If there is, I'll start changing them whenever I come across them.


 * Well.. the pages for the phases are actually categories, and these are them and the code that makes them:


 * Game phases <- Game phases
 * Tide pool phase <- Tide pool phase
 * Creature phase <- Creature phase
 * Tribal phase <- Tribal phase
 * City phase <- City phase
 * Civilization phase <- Civilization phase
 * Space phase <- Space phase

-- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:52, 14 July 2006 (PDT)
 * This seems to be displaying strange...you can just edit this page to check out the code for it then [[Image:Smile.png]].
 * Na, I mean when one page references one of the game phase pages, say if you were reading something about the tide pool phase, and it linked to the creature phase it might say something like "Creature Phase", where as in other places it might be see nas "creature phase" or "Creature phase". I'll go off the links you set out -- Jmaci 21:56, 15 July 2006 (PDT)
 * O, well in general they shouldn't be capitalized, except when regular writing would demand it (beginning of sentences, ect.) . -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:53, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

61.125.75.208 spamming Porn
I found today in my Naucean (In Game) which was not even made yet the page full of Porn. I made it into a blank page again but then foudn that it did it to one of Daxx's post too See link below for all the one he added porn to.

61.125.75.208 Spamming Porn http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=61.125.75.208

Hydro ~
 * It's been another round of vandalism that we've gotten, I've mopped it up, thanks for the notice though. Too bad I have to work and I can't be here to check the RC all the time... -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 14:45, 15 July 2006 (PDT)

Sheer Excitement!
I found something! Dude! There's a new bar! Go to Spore's website, and there's a picture of a planet. The thumbnail image doesn't show it, but there's a bar in the lower left hand corner. It looks like the condition of your ship, the sporeapedia thingy, and some other stuff. Check it out, and dissect it. I'm sure everyone will :P. I can't even finish my own article about Maslow's Needs. How lame is that. But at least I gave a heads up to something you all didn't know. If you did, just let me have this one. Let me think I'm the first lol.
 * Do you mean this image which we've had here since june 2nd? And also dissected on the statusbars page? [[Image:Wink.png]]-- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:46, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

Nope... The other planet in Spore's gallery. I'll stlle for new picture credit, if it is new. --Navenfaux 11:10, 16 July 2006 (PDT) Nawy. The planet allready shown in a gallery.,,,, blah. You have a picture to delete in Category:Space phase images, I swear... on of these days I'm going to have hot info. Oh well. WAIT! Ha! Mine takes up less bytes! Sweeet.


 * Smaller isnt always better; Im sick of never being able to find a decent quality spore video to download, I swear it'd be easier to get my hands on the game itself. Think quality over size
 * Definitly, space isn't an issue really here, so if there is a better quality version, we want it, even if it's big. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 20:13, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Im curious about that, is there some sort of max limit we have to upload things? I dont actually HAVE anything to upload, but the nerd in me keep pestering me to ask -- Jmaci 21:20, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Max filesize? I know I get a warning when I upload stuff above a certain size, but I can just ignore that.  You may or may not be able to ignore the size limit.  I'm not sure.  If you can, then you aren't really limited at all, except by common sense. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 21:30, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Ty. But I guess that means that no one will upload a beta of the game here for us. Common sence tells us that would take too long to be bothered with it, not to mention the rest -- Jmaci 21:34, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Well, we have the 2005 GDC video, so I if there is a beta, I can assure you it will be here for download. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 22:00, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

"Game" pages
I'm sorry to bother you, but what are the pages that have (game) for and why is this person http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=202.234.131.166 writing numbers in some of them? --Lualmoba 21:01, 17 July 2006 (PDT)
 * The reason they exist is explained here and that person is a now banned vandal. Give me about 15 minutes and let me know if I missed any, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 21:08, 17 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Thank you. I think you should remove the template of the hut editor from the to do list. Unless you think it needs more work. Lualmoba 21:51, 17 July 2006 (PDT)
 * It's editable by anyone, when I get a chance, I'll redo the lists with the new categories. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 22:30, 17 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Technically speaking, since the game isnt out yet everything should be in the To Do list :) -- Jmaci 17:04, 18 July 2006 (PDT)
 * My to do is more of the things that can be done when I get a chance. Not things that are dependent on info from maxis. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 20:17, 18 July 2006 (PDT)

E3
Should E3 be written as E3 or as E3? I have seen it written different ways in different pages. And I offer my help in changing all the pages I can to the right way. Lualmoba 23:23, 18 July 2006 (PDT)
 * E3 is preferable, but it should always link to the E3 page, as in E3 E3 . -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 11:44, 19 July 2006 (PDT)

"An UFO" or "a UFO"?
Once again I have another question :). Shouldn't it be "an UFO" instead of "a UFO" since "u" is a vowel? Almost all articles I have seen say a UFO, so I was just wondering. --Lualmoba 19:52, 20 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Well it's not always "a" before words that start in consonents, and "an" before words that start in vowels. It's "a" before words that start in consonent sounds and "an" before words that start in vowel sounds.  So "hour" which starts with the "ow" sound is said "an hour" while "UFO" which starts with the "you" sound is "a UFO".  So in short, it's "a UFO". -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 20:51, 20 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Oh, OK. Thank you. -- Lualmoba 10:21, 21 July 2006 (PDT)
 * More specificly, shouldn't it be an IFO, since it's identified? They really aren't unidefntified flying objects.... Zorlac
 * Will uses the term UFO to describe it, and the E3 demo specifically noted a UFO editor, not an IFO editor nor a spacecraft editor :). -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 22:20, 30 July 2006 (PDT)

fan club
mason can you make an anouncement on the fromt page about the fan club on yahoo, i dont know how :( --Trex1117 07:24, 25 July 2006 (PDT)
 * It's one of the quirks of the news system I'm trying to fix up, it should be smoother to add stuff when I change it a little. Oh, and msg up. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 09:15, 25 July 2006 (PDT)

Starship dimentions
I found an interesting link to a collection of fictional ships. I thought you would like to put it somewhere, as to give ideas for ship and car models. It's pretty cool. Starship Dimentions --Navenfaux 07:17, 31 July 2006 (PDT)
 * That is especially cool, I'm going to find somewhere to put it, and maybe on gamingsteve as well if you haven't already. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 07:42, 31 July 2006 (PDT)

XBox360 Game
I just checked out Viva Pinata for XBox 360 at gamespot, and it seems like Spore for children. I thought this could go under the games link. If you want to check it out to decide, here is the link... (watch the Official Movie 1) Viva Pinata --Navenfaux 10:51, 31 July 2006 (PDT)
 * I can see where you're coming from, so I'll throw it on the links page. Although personally I think that game looks really stupid :). -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 11:48, 31 July 2006 (PDT)

Well, it's like Animal Crossing... which is also stupid, and very addicting. Stupid or not, I'm glad they finaly have a few games that my neices can play. I'm going to play it when my brother gets the game. --Navenfaux 14:08, 31 July 2006 (PDT)

News
Is there any way to only show say, the 4 most current news posts? It's getting way too cluttered and the creature of the week is getting shunted aside. Zorlac
 * Next to the word recent news at the bottom of the news box is an edit link that allows you to edit the recent news, and you can remove the dates you don't want to keep. But no there is no automatic way of doing it.  I normally remove an old one when I add a new one, but I sometimes forget.  -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 21:37, 31 July 2006 (PDT)