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Mon, 02/02/2015 - 23:36
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking

I've been wanting to do something about these pages for a while now, and have gone and done things! Before I bulldoze the rest of the prize box pages with this format, I'd like feedback on how the following pages look:

Solstice Prize Box
Hunter Prize Box
Nemesis Prize Box

Reasons:

1) the Costumes (Groups) page that I maintain is, well, annoying to maintain, but people like the visual impact. I figure that most of this page is actually encompassed by prize box releases, so why not just do the visual impact on the prize box page? Anything not prizeboxy is generally taken care of with categories and on individual costume pages, as well as the sortable column on the main costume page. This would also remove the "need" for pages like Costumes (Recolors) and Accessories (Recolors), which I've already redirected to "recolor."

2) prize boxes tend to have too much individualized, circumstantial information to cram it all into a single list. Putting prize boxes on their own individual pages with calendar and content info doesn't seem like a bad idea. It's work, but it's copypaste work for a lot of them. This has been debated in the past, but things change as the game moves on. But I also care. So here I am on the forums again!

3) trying not to use weirdly formatted templates. I've generated about a billion of these trying to make things look "just right," and ended up just using the "gallery" format. It's easy to plug-n-chug this, just use a text replace program function to replace "Hunter" with "Surge" etc. and then copypaste into the new page. One issue I see is the horizontal width, but I figure, if you want visual impact...don't browse on a tiny monitor? Or just sidescroll? another option is to try and organize things by subgroups/sets but eh. The large number of whitespaces also bother me - anyone have a solution that isn't a super complicated weird template? EDIT: I have thought about it, but I am too tired from swatting off tentacles to do it tonight. Still want to hear ideas.

4) provide a sort of "true" advertising. IMO, news images are awesome, but can be...misleading. Like what even is this helmet. I want a Prize Box page to essentially be a visually prettier, integrated-via-links version of the type of post Thalia makes, without us having to update things if sensitive information like billing/odds change. All we have to do is pop in and add something to the calendar section and perhaps expand the gallery, and modify the main prize box page as needed.

I plan on doing something similar with lockboxes, if people like these changes.

Tue, 02/03/2015 - 06:39
#1
Bopp's picture
Bopp
looks good

Based on a brief viewing, the pages look good. I don't know or care much about these boxes, so I can't comment much more than that.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 17:57
#2
Fehzor's picture
Fehzor
I don't usually post here and I'mma let you finish, but-

OMG I like it but you should put hearts and flowers.

Also the charts for their odds would be nice. Like, fitting those onto the pages in such a way where you can compare them all would be perfect.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 22:47
#3
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking
Fehzor

Odds are sensitive, near billing-class information and are a hassle to update and the world would come to an abrupt end if an editor enters the values incorrectly. We try our best to maintain links to Thalia's posts. See This Thread for a similar discussion. The desire for this information is high. As an editor, I don't want to touch them :P

Perhaps we could just do tiers like UVs? like the stupidrare stuff is "maximum!" and the rarer stuff is "very high" and rare is like medium? idk.

Appreciate the feedback!

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 02:38
#4
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking
:|

I just don't like the gallery stuff.

I will...attempt to merge gallery function with...% chance data. And warnings. Lots of warnings.

EDIT: How's the most recent version of the Solstice Prize Box page feel? I'll be generally updating the box pages with this, but suggestions/tweaks can be made easily, so don't be afraid to speak up and out and whatnot.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 13:58
#5
Fehzor's picture
Fehzor

Yeah that would do well. My original thought was to have something like "Odds- June 2012", "Odds- December 2013", "Odds- Whenever" instead of just "% slot". The idea would be that players could go on and see exactly how they were taken advantage of when they purchased the first box, or how good of a deal they got the first time around. This kind of comparison would be quite useful.

First box

1 Variant Ticket - 45%
2 Variant Ticket - 23%
3 Variant Ticket - 10%
Crest of Summer - 7%
Crest of Winter - 7%
Sunshine Aura - 2.5%
Snowfall Aura - 2.5%
Crown of Winter - 1.5%
Crown of Summer - 1.5%

Latest box

<1% chance for one of the following:
Wings of Summer
Wings of Winter
3% chance for one of the following:
Crown of Winter
Crown of Summer
5% chance for one of the following:
Sunshine Aura
Snowfall Aura
14% chance for one of the following:
Crest of Summer
Crest of Winter
45% chance for a 1 Variant Ticket
23% chance for a 2 Variant Ticket
10% chance for a 3 Variant Ticket

...................

As you can see, people buying the box first got a much worse deal as they gave up their 1% chance at greatness.

But what you did works pretty well and I'm quite grateful that you're doing this. So thanks.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:10
#6
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking
Burp

How's the format on the Polar Prize Box page feel? I generally only want to use this format for boxes that have drastically changed contents (compared to other boxes so far) - the pages would take a while to load with data that is mostly repeated copypaste. We could just put more warnings all over the place about "boxes and how they're consistently blahblah so watch out for the future"

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 09:16
#7
Bopp's picture
Bopp
looks nice

It looks nice. I agree about listing yearly contents only if they've significantly changed.

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