Proposals

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General/Ongoing

  1. Help clear the Maintenance Reports for unused/broken/wanted items!
  2. Check out and verify Did you know?#Unverified claims
  3. Look for pages that need help and report them here (e.g. unreadable color scheme, missing info)

Factory

  1. Go through the 1.7 changelog and commit all changes to the wiki
    • Clear out Special:WantedFiles
    • Go through all campaign scenario heroes (see Template:Campaign hero table)
    • Add the Airship
    • Add the Ancient Altar
    • Add the Hero Camp
    • Add probability of occurrence of spells in Factory's Mage Guild
    • Update the creature "parade" map below due to the new and updated creatures.
      • Not sure a newer version of that pic was released? --Legate (talk) 21:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Update Movement with movement give/take/set/replenish/nullify event information
    • Add campaign maps to Forged in Fire
    • Draw Factory's square-based build tree
    • Redraw Conflux build tree for hota (Conflux: Upg. Magic Lantern now requires the Garden of Life, but does not require the University of Magic)
    • Look into these (from changelog):
      • Hit-n-run ban built into HotA: in two-hero combat, the attacker is forbidden to retreat in the first round of combat after casting a spell (The Diplomat's Mantle allows ignoring the hit-n-run ban (only for surrender).)
  2. Add all extra graphics & fixes that are necessary
    • Add improved Archery specialization icons (I may have uploaded this already? still should check)
  3. Update Town Comparison and creature comparisons (See List of creatures (HotA)).
  4. Update AI Value with Factory units
  5. Add images of Factory dwellings for unit pages and External dwellings table (HotA), and images of Factory creatures on the adventure map.
    • Possibly redo the Visiting scheme images for Factory dwellings. They're slightly lower quality than the other images on the page, although it's hard to tell. MurlocAggroB (talk) 06:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Deus Ex Machina has different start/end cutscenes depending on which bonus you choose. Not sure if the text is the same, but the cutscenes are definitely different.

Specific

Community Requests

  1. Write tips on campaign scenario pages (212.112.111.20)
    • Sometimes there are tips on the main campaign pages under User Commentary. (e.g. Dragon's Blood)
    • I've noticed there are a bunch of strategy/tips on https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Tunnels_of_Ice. Should/Can we cite/copy that info here or leave a link to them?
      • The CC BY-SA seems like a very open license. I would just add attribution using the appropriate link (to the edit summary)

Research/Explain game concepts

  1. Breath Attack could use a diagram of how it works (specifically when attacking straight up or down)
    • I found this, but I have no idea the accuracy or completeness. --Legate (talk) 03:43, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
      • This may be affected by Mechanics and Engineers as these are the first 1-tile creatures with a breath attack.
        • ANECDOTE: I did notice a...bug? nuance?...with attacker's Engineers attacking in the down-left direction vs. a 2-tile enemy not hitting the expected second tile. --Legate (talk) 16:11, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
          • Actually, this is related to the pic just above. In the pic, top row, second from the left, I expected there to be a 2nd red arrow going in the down-left direction. The diagram does not have one, which matched the in-game behavior I saw. --Legate (talk) 15:32, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
  2. Obstacle Penalty could use a diagram or explanation of how it works. Is it everything inside the ring wall? Does obstacle penalty disappear when the wall goes down?

Content: Page Creation/Updating

  1. Design a new main page. Save it on [[your user page/main page]] so we can see it. Candidates:
    • Phasma / Makiki
    • I won't have time to make a mockup before the new year, but what if we used one of the blank main menu screens from Category:Loading Screens, Box Art, Menus (e.g. File:AB Mutare.png) and added our own icons (e.g. Creatures, Spells, etc.) over on the right? --Legate (talk) 14:15, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
      • If anyone like this idea, feel free to take it and run with it.
      • Nice mock-ups on discord, Phasma.
  2. Map Editor could use a bunch more info or link to a map editor tutorial.
  3. Create a Campaign Editor page.
  4. Can scenarios have multiple loss conditions? Many campaign scenario descriptions are worded this way (e.g. Fall of Sandro). Is there a way to look this up in-game or in the map editor?
    • Yes they do have multiple loss conditions, but using both the SoD and HotA map editor on Fall of Sandro, I can't find anything that causes this. Guess we'll have to look into it as to how it's done, but yes, some of the maps definitely have a couple of loss conditions. → Phasma 01:39, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
  5. Single scenarios: Add all the timed/object events like seen on the campaign scenarios.
    • I know this is a huge task. Figured I would just put it here for if we run out of other stuff to do in the future :) --Legate (talk) 15:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

File upload/editing

  1. Upload all original (and HotA) images, preserving the names (as they are in the game data). For now we kind of have it started with the category:misc pictures. But it could probably be organized better (maybe call it the game data category instead). Once this is done, anyone who wants can browse these files and turn them into redirects for more appropriate names once a use for them is found in the wiki.
    • Is this complete? Can you make a list of what still needs to be done? --Legate (talk) 15:25, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
    • I'm thinking maybe do this once mapron (Vlad) finishes updating his tool to 1.7. –imahero 02:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
  2. Add the remaining map files.
  3. Add the campaign map pictures for each campaign scenario (on the screen where you select the level bonus before the cinematic plays). (Page: e.g. Groundbreaking)
    • Looking for (with the current level colored in and previous levels covered in slashes), not (base pic with nothing colored in)
      • HotA now has an official campaign editor, so you can make screenshots there.--Archer (talk) 17:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Status: roe, ab, sod, hc, hota
      • HotA campaign maps still need right-click text.

Template work (advanced)

  1. Most of the the victory conditions should include 'or defeat all enemies'. Investigate and fix Template:Scenario, Template:ScenarioVars table and Template:CLevelsRow
  2. The campaign maps might be a little big. Is there some way to hardcode the size into Template:Scenario without updating every single campaign page? --Legate (talk) 20:37, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

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