User talk:Crythias

Reply to How long to keep playing?
I semi-feel the same way as you - I have 4 towns ( 3 with no corruption and 1 more level to go on the newest town ) on the 3 established towns I pretty much am the main contributor to the Saw Mill and luxury resource - still playing catch up on the 4th  to the others that  donate - for the most part I log in - look to see if my upgrade is done ( most of the time it is not since they take about 24 + hours now ) and my researches take 17 + days to research  *Sighs* so I mainly inspect and wait  then log out and  go to work or check the wikia on my days off - I am Hoping they will add the new buildings soon to the game and do their  re-balance as well - then there will be a lot to do here at the wikia - redoing the pages ( just about every one of the buildings will have to be redone when that change occurs -- anyhow I don't mean to ramble on - but I do know how you feel - but only you can make that decision ( Morph on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 03:42, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Recommend / Vote for new staff
Click here to see / recommend / vote. -- ( Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 22:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Palace Changes to include research reduction information
Hey man that was a GREAT idea on how to include the Research bonusus information for the charts - this way we can include the newer buildings when they are implemented as well without making the charts super huge - again Great job on a Great idea - Thanks! ( Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 15:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

The idea of adding the numbers into the chart (up / down) like this is ok on the smaller charts but when you get  30 of them up / down we are talking long charts - and if the new buildings reduce the costs more  then we are talking  4, 5, 6, or more numbers to the list  - thus increasing the length of the chart greatly - we can do it and just put the header as a footer  for easy Identification  I guess - so I say yeah lets go ahead and try it for now - we can always go back and change it later ( for now do not remove the mouse overs you have already there - just incase - ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 02:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The only problem with using Academy/Pulley Academy/Geometry and Academy/Spirit Level is ( I just know this is going to happen ) someone is going to not go to the right research page and see the wrong information and then post how wrong our charts are and such - to me that idea in general won't realy solve the problem of getting the correct information when you want it - I honestly do not know how to solve the problem - all Ideas have their  PRO's and CON's -- ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 03:39, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * All I can say is Lets try it and see how it works out the worst is it does not help and we delete the new pages and try something else!? Right? RIGHT!! -- ( Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 03:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

New Logo
Thanks for the new logo - that meets the new Wikia specs -- ( Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 05:07, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

New Cooked template
Can it be moved (renamed) to Raw? the reason I am asking is because later we might still add the  pulley sub pages and such - I would like to use that formula to have mouse-over that show the Raw numbers and the other discounts other than pulley or whichever research page we are on - aka one will be Raw for the Main page to cover  Raw numbers  a modified version will be Pulley, Geometry and SpiritL and so that we don't go and put Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 19:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yep 1000 on main page with hovers showing Pulley, Geometry, and Spirit level,  then later (not now) 1000 shows Raw Geometry and Spirit level and 1000 show Raw, Pulley, and Spirit Level etc -- all for future use -- ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 19:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree on short names - Raw, Pul, Geo, Slvl ??? - yeah I been experimenting with it a little and clicking on "Show Preview" to see how it worked -- and I accidentally clicked on "save page" and then undid it when I seen what I did -- ( Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 19:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Spl will work -- ( Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 19:52, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I just realized what you said about not passing comma's -- that would mean the Raw page would look like this  1000 or 10000  etc ??   and the passover would have comma's ?   can we pass a 2nd parameter    for the conversion and  for the main display with comma's ? never mind - I misread your statement -- !!!!
 * I did find 1 little, bitty, tiny, tiny flaw in the template ( the round 0 function causes it to round .5 or higher to 1 when it should be 0) thus making a few numbers just off  by a whole 1 number  --  I can just now that in the mouse-over notes on the page like this


 * The Research bonuses are not shown directly in the following chart. These bonuses are shown by hovering your mouse over the individual resource numbers in the chart ( P = Pulley G = Geometry and SL = Spirit Level ).
 * Due to some numbers not dividing evenly - the mouse-over number might be off by 1 in a few places.
 * This is not a big deal at all - for the convince the template is making - Good work on the template too btw -- ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 20:15, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Looking at your changes shouldn't it be something like this ?? 0

Yeah I see that - no matter where you put it  trunc  hates the { symbol  --  I think we have to go with  Round 0 and put disclaimer  -- ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 20:46, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry I was not meaning to rush you -- you can have all day -- I was just saying ( from my attempts to put trunc in different spots ) that it looks like we would have to use round 0 ) -- I was thinking about that too on making a template for the main disclaimers -- ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 21:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I think you got it - I checked on a new page ( and the numbers matched with the mouse-over numbers ) -- Good Job - ( Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 22:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

New Templates for us to use
We now have Pul, Geo, and Spl for the formulations (unfortunately without some If statements they are off by 1 less then the correct number because the number we are feeding it is missing the decimal that was left over from raw thus making them short a tiny bit -  hey do you think by adding  a small +.4 or such would work ? --!!!!

We also have new Expansion disclaimers as well for the pages that use the above templates Expansion-Pul, Expansion-Geo, and Expansion-Spl  at the moment these have the  disclaimer of being off by no more than 1 less than the actual correct number  in them  until we can fix them (I hope) - ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 02:16, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I got it now -- I went the reverse way ( we enter the reduced number ) you are saying we enter the Raw number and just change the Display to show the Reduced number like it does with the formatting  by adding commas  -- I key it  10 it shows in mouse over   Raw = 10  Geo = 9 Spl = 8  and it displays in grid  9 for the Pulley number - I got it now - easily fixed -- just recopy the Raw data and change the display to  *.98 .96 .86 perspectivly and  make it show raw  in mouseover  -- I got it now -- ( Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 02:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Small problem with the formula in the Display

<span title="Raw number: 0 With Geometry: 0  With Spirit Level: 0">0


 * I copied the formula from inside the span to the display section and it not like it -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucinda Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 03:09, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I seen your Soft cap and liked how you did it - good move - don't have to see  that long text message in the chart anymore - good work on that one as well
 * On the Academy page ( I modified my Expansion-Raw with wording  to the effect of "if the chart below does not match your in game chart and you don't want to  mouse-over the numbers to see what the next level is going to take then ......  click Pulley Chart Geometry Chart or Spirit Level Chart and copied the whole academy chart to the  Academy/Pulley page and changed the # to #  so that page ( if I did not miss any ) is done as well - It works great - I just need to modify my Expansion-Pul, Expansion-Geo, and Expansion-Spl with the same links as well (have to use a parameter) to go between charts ans back to Main chart easily -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucinda Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 05:18, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the codes
I have a book for HTML 5 but not all of the codes in Wiki follow the same patter / codes in HTML - so I was slowly figuring the &#code; anyhow thanks again for the references and for some of the codes you did as well - ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 01:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Naming of towns
I left a message on Scaremonger's Sandbox page I would  use his plot1 plot2 plot3  locations  for the actual page names for the towns  and use the plot1 name for the name of the link ( so they can change their name of the town and not create more pages  on the wiki  like this plot1=Morph   so the link would be a subpage of the island /plot1 or such  if that will work

as to the order  so far the Island pages are  going  Island / Country / Server    I would expand on that and add /plot to the list

Aughaos/uk/Alpha/plot1 or such

Tell me if this formatting is better on mousover or not
( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 00:53, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Time
Ahh you are online now I see -- I been trying to get the Years to pass a variable over to TimeSec and get it to make sure the Seconds are from 0 - 59 to no avail - I even been looking at the parser page you gave me a link to  and  was experimenting with the #ifexp   command when it gave me a error when I tried to save it -- I see you did a few experiments while I was looking it up -- the main goal is to  us the Years template on the pages to convert the  1000000000  days into  Years  Days   I did the Hours and Minutes  only for later  when will need to show  Time reductions when new buildings come out - but  again  I am terible with formulas in wiki -- I can do it in Excell -- I know the formulas   but cant  translate them to work her  -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 00:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I orignaly had it all in Years - if you look at the history you can see what I did -- but I could not get it to work at the time -- so I thought maybe I had to pass the variables thru a seperate template to make it work -- and still cant get it to wokr  ( If can get it all in 1 template  Years that would be great -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 00:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * right now it is s=seconds m=minutes h=hours d=days -- I am been experimenting with s  to get that to work then can modify it for minutes  hours days and then years -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 00:33, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The Final result if you look at the Years is to show the Years Days hours minutes and seconds it takes to build a building using the 0 command like we did with building materials  --  buildings will eventualy  reduce the buildtime of them   -- I will be using  the TimeHour TimeMin TimeSec templates to show the reduced amounts ( if we get them to work mathmatical formula wise ) with the reduced amounts -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 00:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I figured it out on the how to make the formula for all in 1 template ( wont need the Sec Min Hour Day templates  -- you convert all to sec ( then multiply by modifyer if applies   then start with years ( figured in seconds - subtract that from the  TOTAL seconds -- and so on and s on like this  I think

-- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph  on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 01:46, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Input Parameters = D H M S
 * Total Hours = H + (D x 24)
 * Total Minutes = M + (Total Hours x 60)
 * Total Seconds = S + (Total Minutes x 60 ) x Reducer amount when it applies
 * New Years=Trunc| expr: (Total Seconds/60/60/24/365)
 * New Days=Trunc| expr: (Total Seconds/60/60/24) - (365*New Years)
 * New Hours=Trunc| expr: (Total Seconds/60/60) - (New Years*365*24) - (New Days*24)
 * New Minutes=Trunc| expr: (Total Seconds/60) -(New Years*365*24*60) - (New Days*24*60) - (60*New Hours)
 * New Seconds=Trunc| expr: Total seconds - (New Years*365*24*60*60) - (New Days*24*60*60) - (60*New Hours*60) - (New Minutes*60)

Islands etc
I've started a project page on the Forum so we can get the design sorted out. Scaremonger 20:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Not Talked in a while
Yeah I was on vacation for 2 weeks - so was online alot and was able to spend a good portion here - but now back at work so I get few hours a day if any to play game and help out here - I dont know what to do to make the Years template work - I have the formulas there but it does not work - I think I might go and delete it untill I get a better grasp on Templates with #expr: commands and stuff -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Morph   on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 15:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Images
Here lately Lukebbuff and Hardstyle have both been uploading many images that are non ikariam related, not used in the wikia and are uncategorized. Chupchup or Crythias has sent Hardestyle a message about using his images or they will be targeted for deletion - I sent him a message stating they need to be at categoriezed as well - I sent both messages to Lukebbuff. -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph  on <font title="Morphgnome">Eitrigg | Contribs | Talk ) 02:01, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Admin Status changes
I have recently had to change the protection status of the List of unimplemented buildings page to locked-sysop status because Registered users were defacing the page as well.
 * As a result I have made Scaremonger and User:Chupchup into Sysops so that they can still edit any page that is protected.
 * I have also made Robin Patterson in to a Bureaucrat so that there he or I can do whatever is necessary to correct the problem.

( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph | Contribs | Talk ) 02:30, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Stdsummaries and the MediaWiki:common.js file
I coppied the information from the page tht talks about the js file in to the MediaWiki file and now the summaries work - thanks for the info - all is good now -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph | Contribs | Talk ) 04:54, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Anything that uses that uses java script or whatever .js is for has to be loaded by the browser - so the info had to be put into the common.js or into wikia.js  depending on something ( I dont know the something ) but I had copied fromother wikia's info dealing with the different .js files  in past - that is how I got the Hide function to work on the charts - granted they dont work Superbly but they work now  as do the summaries now  -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph  | Contribs | Talk ) 05:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Changing side bar
Go for it - I have made a few changes in the past experimenting with it - I have no problems with the changes you did there - anything to make it better - unfortunately Robin can't see the bar - he is not using the Monaco skin MediaWiki:Common.js ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph  | Contribs | Talk ) 04:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Here are a few links that may be of interest to you:


 * Sitenotice
 * Monaco Category List


 * Monaco Footer Links
 * Monaco Footer Wikia Links


 * Monaco Related Communities
 * Monaco Related Related Communities2
 * Monaco Sidebar


 * Monaco Toolbox
 * Non-Monaco Sidebar ?


 * Non-Monaco Nav Links ?
 * Browser Header

Have fun (Within Reason of course) -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph | Contribs | Talk ) 16:36, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Huricane Ike
Lets just say if your name was Ike - you would be hearing a EAR FULL of not so pleasent words about right now -  He took out our power 2 hours before he hit land ( midnight my time - he hit land at 2am Saturday morning )  and I live about 50 - 75 miles North of where he hit land - we just now got phone / internet ( DSL ) services up today with no power and still no water yet - we been running a Generator for last 5 days ( off / on ) to keep refrigerators going and such - no computer since was no Internet till now - so I problably have 5 ANGRY towns ingame  because I could not get online to go to vacation mode or to send wine to my towns so they are Not going to be happy - they do not expect to get power to my area until October 5th, 2008  (hopefuly sooner though ) - so for next few weeks do not Mention the name I    E    E  - we are NOT good friends at moment - but on the positive side - we had no trees on our house, are in great health still, and now got internet - oh yeah no means to get fuel yet  since no power to run the gas pumps without driving over 50 miles to Houston, who is just now getting some power, or another 50 miles north from where I am  because there is no power for 50 miles north of us either -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph  | Contribs | Talk ) 03:48, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * All is well - Generator for power ( have to get gas every few days ) but no power lines / trees on my house - FEMA has P.O.D.'s ( Points Of Distribution ) where we can get Drinking water and M.R.E. (Meals Ready to Eat) for food and Ice - so we doing ok -  Phone lines / D.S.L. is up so I can get online some now - slowly getting better  - health is good  I am alive - that always seems like a good thing - I will  live another day -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph  | Contribs | Talk ) 18:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Forum on Blocking Anonomouse edits
Please view this forum Vandalism - Why allow anonymous editing? and give your view / ideas -- ( <font color="#306ac9" face="Lucida Calligraphy" title="Ikariam Bureaucrat">Morph | Contribs | Talk ) 15:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Admin's Slate
Admin's Slate - A page to contact admins in general for requests/notifications/etc, and have admins post the same, instead of individual people's Talk pages, or using the forums (watercooler and Help don't seem appropriate).

I'm unsure if this exists in some form already or not.

The above page is a sub-user page, so it's still in development. Please comment on it in its Talk, if you're interested, and even if you're not, please say so. I don't want to add a page nobody cares about or would use. ~ by Eliria 17:29, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Help for Eliria?
Please have another look at Forum:Vandalism - Why allow anonymous editing?. Robin Patterson 07:00, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

for Template:Lock-Registered
Hi Crythias, could you please change the text in Template:Lock-Registered from *If you have not already done so and you want to edit this page. Please register here. or login.

to *If you want to edit this page, please register here if you have not already done so, and login.

or something along those lines, please? Thanks. --Joshua Issac 20:39, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ok done. --<font face="Lucida Calligraphy">Crythias (Contribs | Talk) 23:48, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Question about a deletion you made
i was wondering why did you deleate the hetre page i am kira 16:18, 19 May 2009 (UTC)lightball20

look this is what happens when i search for hetre and click on the red hetre on top i see this above the box for editing 22:51, 3 August 2008 Crythias (Talk | contribs) deleted "Hetre" ‎ (content was: 'http://images.wikia.com/cybernations/images/a/a6/Hetre_small.PNG ')

i will do my best but it wont look good because i just started playing Lightball20lightball20

When you search for hetre up top it will say: you searched for hetre: and hetre will be in red click on the red

ok i made a new page for it but it is not very good because i currently have to go off what i have remembered because i am on a school computer and the district blocks both the game and Hetre's forum. i will fix it up in about 1 and a half hours.

MapData template
I've made a template to hold all the island map data so the data can be used in other templates. The good thing is, if you change the data, all the pages referring to it automatically update. The problem is, they have changed the island data in Patch 0.3.1. Should I bother and update the data and other templates or just give up? You can check it out on Aughaos. The whole map is drawn with just one template call... rmedic 10:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Spam
Hey, can I spam my talk page? 007bond00555 04:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Island ID numbers
My first stumbling steps into editing a wiki. I did create an account in the name NeilNeil then got around to editing the ID numbers. That went so well it never occurred to me I had forgotten to log in. My IP address at the time was 24.77.205.26. It would probably be better to replace that with my account name but if I tried to do that I'd likely create more confusion than I removed. I'll leave it for someone else to change. Sorry about that.

Neil