IGN launched Planet Fallout
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Hey. Some guy is going nuts with copy pasting info from the Vault. We're working on stopping him and reverting the changes.
God is Dog backwards
Mildly Dipped
Briosafreak said:Ausir said:
the wiki is open for everyone now, so although the staff knows best by now, those things will happen. Just point them to us, and we'll fix them.
I like the postcard generator, it's really insane
And yeah I'm helping out in running the place, two other guys from the staff come regularly to NMA, and when we agreed to help out there were made enough guarantees that it wouldn't be a project against the established community, but instead something that would add to what is being done, and that seemed fine to us.
Any doubt ot suggestion pm me, or use Meebo on my blog, or email me, or post on the PlanetFallout forum, I'm always open to listen you to guys and girls.
What was your reasoning for creating a second wiki when the Vault has been up and running - independently - for years, and doing the job perfectly well?
To me it seems a little disrespectful. If it was Bethesda, fine, but a member of the fan community...
Maybe Ausir sees it differently.
Ausir said:
Yeah, but too obvious lead-ins to off-topic discussion.
POOPERSCOOPER said:
Hey, if it means less Fallout 3 fans going to NMA and DaC and going to Planet Fallout instead, I'm a-ok with that.
Ausir said:
Sue them.
Mr. Teatime said:
Y'know, I thought every IGNPlanet site had a wiki, but 'pon checkin' it doesn't.
Regardless, it looks like a GameSpy initiative.
God is Dog backwards
Mildly Dipped
Fair enough re: the wiki. Still, I know it'd piss me off, especially if I'd put as much into TV as Ausir has, and given how it's almost certain much of that work's going to make its way uncredited over to the IGN site. Hopefully TV will remain the more popular and definitive source.
Seymour the spore plant
Still Mildly Glowing
Wow. I don’t know how reliable this wiki of theirs is with this stuff, but some of the info in there is nauseating to say the least:
The goggles… they do nothing? Instead we have baseball caps and bandanas increasing perception? I guess we can all stop hoping that Bethesda will try and put some sense in their magical clothing system.
Come on, "the power of Mentats"? Plus, 5 points for two stats a fix is plain abusive. Makes me wonder if they removed the 10 point cap.
Planet Fallout Wiki said:
The goggles… they do nothing? Instead we have baseball caps and bandanas increasing perception? I guess we can all stop hoping that Bethesda will try and put some sense in their magical clothing system.
Planet Fallout Wiki said:
Come on, "the power of Mentats"? Plus, 5 points for two stats a fix is plain abusive. Makes me wonder if they removed the 10 point cap.
Mr. Teatime said:
I'm thinking it will.
Still, IGN has a lot more money to throw about then - say - The Vault or NMA.
Seymour said:
Wikis are never 100% reliable. If they list item stats, you do have to wonder where they'd be getting them from.
Planet Fallout Wiki said:
Someone's been playing D&D. SPECIAL stats are abbreviated using two letters.
lol.
Seriously, if this info is correct, Fallout 3 is even worse than I'd have thought
Magic potion day!
Seriously, if this info is correct, Fallout 3 is even worse than I'd have thought
Magic potion day!
I'm pretty sure all of this info was taken from released videos, so the chances are these items were hacked for the demo
Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
Incognito said:
Yep, we won't be sure until end of October, when the game is released and the new info and features on the site show up.
And that wiki copy/pasting was made by one guy that went a bit nuts, we're still trying to fix that. It wasn't the staff Ausir.
Briosafreak said:
I just finished reverting that stuff
Black said:
To have more noticeable effect? I don't know. I do know, however, that PC was hacked for the demo. I can see them hacking items and weapons as well.
PaladinHeart
Mildly Dipped
I have no doubt that the maximum of 10 on the SPECIAL stats has been increased for Fallout 3.
Then again, I could be wrong. Bethesda is pretty good about not allowing the stats in The Elder Scrolls go beyond 100 without magical equipment. Although allowing Power Armor to increase your strength beyond 10 would be an improvement IMO. You might argue that the strength of the power armor is only so much, but wouldn't it work both ways? I mean a person with 6 strength goes up to 9 but a 7 strength goes up to 10. Why wouldn't the power armor make everyone have a strength of 10? Knowing power armor is in the game always resulted in me having 6 strength because I knew more would simply be a waste of points. 8 is good for the perks.. but you can always cheat and use a little buffout.
Then again, I could be wrong. Bethesda is pretty good about not allowing the stats in The Elder Scrolls go beyond 100 without magical equipment. Although allowing Power Armor to increase your strength beyond 10 would be an improvement IMO. You might argue that the strength of the power armor is only so much, but wouldn't it work both ways? I mean a person with 6 strength goes up to 9 but a 7 strength goes up to 10. Why wouldn't the power armor make everyone have a strength of 10? Knowing power armor is in the game always resulted in me having 6 strength because I knew more would simply be a waste of points. 8 is good for the perks.. but you can always cheat and use a little buffout.
a cap does keep the sun out of your eyes, as well as keep empty brass from hitting you square in the face. so in its very own way it increases perception (or at least counters negative perception effects).Seymour the spore plant said:
that said, the rest is a load of dried brahmin bullocks.
as for the postcard thing? it got blocked by my ABP on firefox. and well, it didn't turn out to be that great really. don't get what the fuss is about.
@ Briosa: you'll need around the clock staff checking the wiki if you don't want a shitload of copy pasta from Ausir's Vault... and not to mention a bunch of copyrighted stuff.
it probably would be easier to work with a system that only updates after admin approval.