A New Type of Profile - Locations

[Antvasima]

Okay. That is probably fine then.

Should we call the page "Standard Format for Location Profiles" to follow the pattern for all of our other instructions pages of this type?

 

[Colonel_Krukov]

Yes, makes sense

 

[The_Impress]

Standard Format for Location Profiles

Insert a landscape picture that represents the location, preferably in its entirety, or an iconic shot in lack of a better option. Standard size is 400px aligned to the center. If the best available image is vertical, its width should usually be around 365px, and the alignment should be to the...

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Done

 

[ElixirBlue]

May I add 2 examples, Japan (Godzilla) and Mushroom Kingdom (Mario Bros)?

 

[The_Impress]

Examples to what section?

 

[Colonel_Krukov]

I don't think Japan is going to be allowed, unless it deviates a lot from the real world equivalent enough (Not knowledgeable, just saying). You could maybe do a Monster Island profile though.

 

[ElixirBlue]

Examples to what section?

* Locations deemed too mundane and similar to real world locations, will likely be deleted on a case-by-case basis.
** Japan (Godzilla)

* Locations with extremely inconsistent structuring with no canonical reasoning for such, are not allowed
** Mushroom Kingdom (Mario Bros)

Suggestions for examples that could apply for a location profile.

* Death Star (Star Wars), The Leaf Village (Naruto), Hyrule; Ocarina of Time (Legend of Zelda), Space Colony Ark (Sonic the Hedgehog), etc

 

[Colonel_Krukov]

Jeez, is that massive pic really needed. lol

 

[Colonel_Krukov]

Can we post profiles, or do we need to wait a bit first?

 

[Valiant_Abyss]

Question: would an example of the classification section be something like "Alternate dimension"?

 

[The_Impress]

* Locations deemed too mundane and similar to real world locations, will likely be deleted on a case-by-case basis.
** Japan (Godzilla)

* Locations with extremely inconsistent structuring with no canonical reasoning for such, are not allowed
** Mushroom Kingdom (Mario Bros)

Suggestions for examples that could apply for a location profile.

* Death Star (Star Wars), The Leaf Village (Naruto), Hyrule; Ocarina of Time (Legend of Zelda), Space Colony Ark (Sonic the Hedgehog), etc

I mean I think we already have enough examples, but go for it ig

 

[Bobsican]

Also some things over the page:

If the location in question is basically a place such as entire universe with nothing to really add cosmologically speaking, what would be inserted in the "Location" section that wouldn't just be redundantly saying its name?

It also bugs me a bit that all sentences at the bottom end with a "." except:

• Please refrain from creating profiles for real world locations, as most of them are very mundane

(...)

• Locations with extremely inconsistent structuring with no canonical reasoning for such, are not allowed

Also, this has a weird wording:

• If a Location is better represented Profile Format, such as a Weapon or a Character, then it is best to pick them over the above stated format.

It should be something like this instead:

• If a Location is better represented in another format, such as a Weapon or a Character, then it is best to pick them over the above stated format.

The above is a bit more explicit and grammatically coherent, maybe some basic ideas could be also mentioned over in which scenarios another sort of format would be appreciated more, such as "sentient" places generally fitting more as a character profile, it would also be nice to know where to draw the line between a civilization profile and this.

 

[The_Impress]

Also some things over the page:

If the location in question is basically a place such as entire universe, what would be inserted in the "Location" section that wouldn't just be redundantly saying its name?

It also bugs me a bit that all sentences at the bottom end with a "." except:

• Please refrain from creating profiles for real world locations, as most of them are very mundane

(...)

• Locations with extremely inconsistent structuring with no canonical reasoning for such, are not allowed

Seems minor tbh

Also, this has a weird wording:

• If a Location is better represented Profile Format, such as a Weapon or a Character, then it is best to pick them over the above stated format.

It should be something like this instead:

• If a Location is better represented in another format, such as a Weapon or a Character, then it is best to pick them over the above stated format.

The above is a bit more explicit and grammatically coherent, maybe some basic ideas could be also mentioned over in which scenarios another sort of format would be appreciated more, such as "sentient" places generally fitting more as a character profile.

Oh yeah that sentence is messy because iirc I wrote it half one time and the other half other time.

 

[Antvasima]

Standard Format for Location Profiles

Insert a landscape picture that represents the location, preferably in its entirety, or an iconic shot in lack of a better option. Standard size is 400px aligned to the center. If the best available image is vertical, its width should usually be around 365px, and the alignment should be to the...

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Done

Thank you for helping out.

I have added a link to the page to the wiki navigation bar.

 

[Antvasima]

* Locations deemed too mundane and similar to real world locations, will likely be deleted on a case-by-case basis.
** Japan (Godzilla)

* Locations with extremely inconsistent structuring with no canonical reasoning for such, are not allowed
** Mushroom Kingdom (Mario Bros)

Suggestions for examples that could apply for a location profile.

* Death Star (Star Wars), The Leaf Village (Naruto), Hyrule; Ocarina of Time (Legend of Zelda), Space Colony Ark (Sonic the Hedgehog), etc

That seems fine to add to me.

 

[KieranH10]

Why are some of the rules from my draft missing from impresses version? I only added what I found was agreed on this thread so whatever is in that list of rules should be.

 

[Antvasima]

What rules are you referring to? I can unlock the regular locations format page for you to edit if you wish.

Standard Format for Location Profiles

Insert a landscape picture that represents the location, preferably in its entirety, or an iconic shot in lack of a better option. Standard size is 400px aligned to the center. If the best available image is vertical, its width should usually be around 365px, and the alignment should be to the...

vsbattles.fandom.com

 

[KieranH10]

There's a few in the draft that I noticed were missing a couple days ago but was unable to comment at the time as I was preparing for a holiday. Which I'm currently on, so unfortunately I'm unable to edit wiki pages properly for a couple weeks as I'm on mobile.

Stuff regarding how to handle profiles that fall under two types of format such as the death star, dooms hell, and ego the living planet have been blatantly changed to supposedly completely disallow them. Which wasn't agreed and the solution was to merge the page formats in a case like that. Similar to how Hell (Doom) is currently a civ and a character profile in one. Multiple examples of this were given in the op and it was agreed that it worked.

There was also some other stuff I believe that was different in the list that I cannot think of right now, as I'm still on mobile. I will check again later though.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. Is somebody else here willing to help Kieran with editing please?

 

[KieranH10]

Basically anything in the OP draft (excluding the rule regarding civilians and inhabitant being outside help, which was unfinished anyways) was agreed in this thread, so if they're missing from the current page, they should be added.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. Is some staff member here willing to help out with evaluating that, and applying the edits if necessary?

 

[The_Impress]

Stuff regarding how to handle profiles that fall under two types of format such as the death star, dooms hell, and ego the living planet have been blatantly changed to supposedly completely disallow them. Which wasn't agreed and the solution was to merge the page formats in a case like that. Similar to how Hell (Doom) is currently a civ and a character profile in one. Multiple examples of this were given in the op and it was agreed that it worked.

• If a Location is better represented by another profile format, such as a Weapon or a Character, then it is best to pick them over the above stated format.

The rule is already there, examples you can provide, personally I didn't put any yet because I feel like ALOT of them need re-evaluation.

 

[KieranH10]

That wasn't the agreed rule.

The agreed version was that it was fine to merge the formats if necessary and make a hybrid of sorts. There are examples of how this would work in the OP and many agreed that it worked well and wasn't messy.

It is how we currently treat Hell (Doom), and that works perfectly fine with no complaints, and is a much better solution than splitting the profile. Or simply not making it into either a character or civ profile.

 

[The_Impress]

That wasn't the agreed rule.

The agreed version was that it was fine to merge the formats if necessary and make a hybrid of sorts. There are examples of how this would work in the OP and many agreed that it worked well and wasn't messy.

Let's discuss this then.

It's a nonsensical rule that leads to a VERY fugly profile and cluttered to shit.

Not to mention this sounds VERY exploitable to get random verses to higher tiers.

I don't know who agreed to this, but this is VERY wrong.

In summation, this is a VERY bad rule version you're talking about.

 

[KieranH10]

The profiles look fine and work well. Once I get home from my holiday many people, including staff agreed that the example profiles in the OP will be examples for the rule. So you're simply wrong when you say they look "fugly"

How would you get verses to a higher tier through this at all?

I disagree with that.

I believe it's fine and works. It's worked with Hell for about a year now and absolutely nobody has had a problem with that. Nobody else has shown issue with the examples in the OP either except you.

 

[Antvasima]

For the record, if what is being suggested is to merge different profile formats so tiers can be added to locations, for example, I strongly agree with Impress.

 

[KieranH10]

It would simply be a better solution than making separate profiles for the same thing. I believe you have agreed with this too on this thread Ant. It's been done before and has had no problems from anyone. It would only apply to those profiles that actually need it such as those mentioned already. Obviously giving any random location a tier is stupid and unnecessary, but some do need one as they're characters too. It's all in the OP.

There's also the rule that impress added about structures that vary between incarnations (such as the mushroom kingdom). That was still being discussed and was not a concluded rule. But was added anyway for some reason.

Overall I don't believe this thread was nearly concluded and has been rushed along if I'm honest. So now we have to play catchup before too many profiles are made with the wrong rules. We already have a green hill zone which I don't think would fall under imps current chosen ruleset as it's a similar case to the mushroom kingdom.

I'm on holiday so haven't the time to be completely active. But I want to continue this discussion.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, if you are only talking about sentient locations, that are both individuals and places of potential fights, such as Ego the Living Planet for example, I suppose that might make sense, but in that case it is likely better to give them one standard profile page and one location profile page instead.

 

[Armorchompy]

I disagree, I think fusing them is way more logical, making two pages for a character under a different light would be really weird and go against how we currently treat things such as sentient weapons

 

[Bobsican]

If we're going to "fuse" formats, we're going to need an standard for those at the very least, letting users do as they please leads to inconsistent pages with questionable at best formatting.

 

[Antvasima]

Bobsican is correct. I still prefer my suggestion though.

 

[BigSmoke4269]

so, uhh, a profile for central park would be allowed, right? it's relatively mundane, and it's literally a real place, but according to sba most of our fights take place there.

 

[Bobsican]

Bobsican is correct. I still prefer my suggestion though.

Well, my suggestion is still compatible with your suggestion in any case, namely just doing as a standard that this kind of cases just would get ported into multiple profiles, with the main difference between each one being the format used, a character profile indexes the stats of it, the civilization page lists the stats of the inhabitants (if any), a location page lists the characteristics of the place itself and so on.

 

[KieranH10]

Bobsican is correct. I still prefer my suggestion though.

there's no need for a format, just sections from each format are to be on the page. It's pretty easy to know what goes where since most profiles share some sections anyway. So just added them relative to one another.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, my suggestion is still compatible with your suggestion in any case, namely just doing as a standard that this kind of cases just would get ported into multiple profiles, with the main difference between each one being the format used, a character profile indexes the stats of it, the civilization page lists the stats of the inhabitants (if any), a location page lists the characteristics of the place itself and so on.

So you agree with me about multiple types of pages then?

there's no need for a format, just sections from each format are to be on the page. It's pretty easy to know what goes where since most profiles share some sections anyway. So just added them relative to one another.

I think that it would unavoidably turn messy and incoherent without set standards to use. My apologies.

 

[KieranH10]

We can have standards and rules for it yes. But an entire new standard format page seems like too much to me, it's not many rules to follow.

 

[Bobsican]

So you agree with me about multiple types of pages then?

I think that it would unavoidably turn messy and incoherent without set standards to use. My apologies.

I'd rather have some semblance of standard than not (And so I entirely disagree with the stance of KieranH10), and I'd rather there only being a single page per "being", rather than dividing them almost redundantly for some extra details that would be within most formats anyways.

However, if we're going to aim to index the information that would be covered in multiple formats regardless, I'd rather your suggestion of making multiple pages with separate formats in lack of better options.

 

[KieranH10]

It is becoming difficult for me to keep up with this thread reliably while I'm away.

There's still a lot more that I feel we need to do before everything is ready and complete. I don't know why this thread was rushed along and many things were changed at a moments notice in the new format.

It's making the thread feel messy and we're getting profiles that don't follow the current rules being uploaded, and some are being denied that shouldn't be.

Please give me some time to get home and compile a new thread or something. I have solutions but cannot get them across well over mobile.

I believe this should be closed personally.

 

[Antvasima]

Isn't it better if we just wait for you to get back home and post your solutions here then? Otherwise most of the members who have responded to this thread will likely not notice your suggestions.

 

[KieranH10]

Keeping this open will result in discussions I'm unable to keep up with. I'd rather be there for the discussions as I've genuinely put a lot of thought into this subject for many months now. I'd at least like to have a say in those discussions, which i may not if I'm not here for them.