User talk:DocTrain

Welcome
Hi, welcome to TrainStation Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the User:DocTrain page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Casey.dill (Talk) 01:27, July 5, 2012

Hello. I'm new to editing Wiki pages and you have made a number of edits so perhaps you can point me in a good direction. I have edited a number of pages buildings/themes and when I logged in today they table color schemes had been altered making them hard to read. I have a little familiarity with editing HTML but a little lost when formatting in a wiki. Do you have any good sources for me to look at to see how I can correct the presentation?

Thanks in advance Mhommer (talk) 04:17, July 12, 2012 (UTC)

Your adding a lot of templates to the cars which look great! Do you have the graphics for the cars as well? If not I would be happy to start filling them in behind you. Just don't want to step on your plan.

Mhommer (talk) 22:31, July 13, 2012 (UTC)

DocTrain - I was trying to add some info on one of the train sets an noticed a small issue. Some of the set have the same name as the locomotive. So I am going through the table and compairing it to the mesuem and where the set name matches the locomotive name I am adding (Set) after the name for the train set page. Hopefully this will help cut down on confusion with the locomotive pages.

Mhommer (talk) 15:52, July 15, 2012 (UTC)

For each car I use the daylight 'preview' screen to get the largest image. I take a screen capture tool to grab just a few pixels wider that the actual car. I than process the image with Adobe Photoshop and the 'Magic Wand Tool' and play with the tolerance. Most of the time between 16 and 10 does the trick. The tool allows me to mask off the background and clear it. It takes me less than 2 min to capture, edit and post a photo so I really don't mind adding the photos to pages after you create them if that is easier.

Mhommer (talk) 00:23, July 16, 2012 (UTC)

I sent an email to the last user with Admin credientials that logged in but I have yet to receive a response. (http://trainstation.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers/sysop) I'm not sure if there is another way to get added as admins if they current admins are inactive. I also wanted to make some changes to the CSS metadata files and reorganize some pages as well.

Mhommer (talk) 19:54, July 17, 2012 (UTC)

Another good link: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Adoption_requests

Mhommer (talk) 20:44, July 17, 2012 (UTC)

Need your opinion on the best way to proceed with tables. Take a look at the Cement section of the cargo cars. I put in two tables, one for what is in the store and the second for everything else. How do you feel about using this format for all section to help keep things a little cleaner and better organized? Also I combined the Notes and Unlock columns to help provide a little more room in the table overall. Thoughts?

Mhommer (talk) 03:00, July 19, 2012 (UTC)

Great work on the locomotive page and passanger wagons adding all the differect sections. The table of contents at the top look really good with how you have used the headers to divide every thing up. I made a few adjustments to the tables just trying to get them to fit on the page whole and not have the contents of individual cells wrap in the wrong spot (like the coin or gem graphic showing up on the next line).

One point of consistancy I wanted to ask your opinion on - should we use a coma or not for large numbers? (Example: 1,000 vs. 1 000) The games does not so I have not been putting in the comas but a lot of the tables already have the coma in there so before I make any changes just wanted to know your thoughts on what looked / worked so things are consistant through-out.

Mhommer (talk) 16:56, July 22, 2012 (UTC)

No word on the adoptions status yet. Maybe I leave an update request on the page tomorrow.

Sets - I've kinda adopted the standard of only adding '(Set)' after the name when the set name is the exact same as the locomotive. For the most part trying to keep the exact spelling and case as in the game. I find it just makes creating multiple cross reference easier to remember so i have been adjusting them to that standard as I come across them.

Acheivement page looks great. I have captured the graphic for some of the more recent achievements I have accomplished but I don't have any for the earlier ones. I'll upload them later if you want to figure out the best way to link them in.

Mhommer (talk) 02:46, July 24, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, message number two for the day. Again teh acheivement section looks fantastic. I uploaded a screen shot of one of the acheivements. Marble Deliver 4 star.png

Not sure how best to use it. I don't know if you can just link to the graphic or add a column 'screen shot' or 'award' or whatever looks and sounds good. It's too big to put directly on the page I think but the table look really good so I will defer to you on how best you think to incorperate the screen shot or maybe just not use them at all. Let me know and I will upload the rest that I have (not that many unfortunitly).

Mhommer (talk) 04:17, July 24, 2012 (UTC)

With the acheivment graphic I'm not sure about the fact that it pushes the table so far over that is doesn't all show so maybe we just leave them off for now. I don't have very many of those screen shots anyway so it would be very spotty.

I like the way you have broken out the acheivement pages. They are long as it is and it keeps them managable to work on and read.

Mhommer (talk) 00:59, July 25, 2012 (UTC)

Adoption
Hi. I've given both you and Mhommer admin and bureaucrat rights. Good luck with the wiki! -- Wendy (talk ) 04:10, July 26, 2012 (UTC)

Congrats!
They made us both admins! I did a little poking around this morning and added some things to the menu (Special Wagons and Levels) and deleted one page that was bad. In general though we should probably try and take advange of some of the pre-built pages such as "Candidates for deletion" and just figure out the best way for us to keep in sync so we don't step on each others projects. I'm thinking exchanging emails might be a little quicker than leaving talk messages. Let me know your thoughts

Mhommer (talk) 12:08, July 26, 2012 (UTC)

From the scratch page I like a combination of the two. I like the tighter presentation of the list of requirements from the old table but like the split row approach of the new.

Mhommer (talk) 00:24, July 27, 2012 (UTC)

Diet...
I seem to have put George on a pretty heavy diet. So far I've reduced his size by 7,809 bytes, and I'm not finished. --Koppa Dasao frelangi kazelangin na 19:46, September 29, 2012 (UTC)

Trainstation Templates
I see you've tried to add a couple of templates to the template category. Please continue, but use instead of a link. --Koppa Dasao ƒłелањі каселањін на 16:37, October 1, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the Berlin correction, I forgot about the 20% discount from the Stock Exchange. I wonder how many other prices I have screwed up because of that. . . . Mhommer (talk) 16:18, October 4, 2012 (UTC)

On the locomotive template, could we try abbrevating Dispatch as Dis. and Power as Pwr and maybe drop the power graphic? That might help shrink some of the column widths to get the table to naturally appear within the page boundries. Just a thought. Mhommer (talk) 17:35, October 15, 2012 (UTC)

Please add this template to you follow list. For info check out this blog post. --Koppa Dasao ƒłелањі каселањін на 21:40, October 19, 2012 (UTC)

Dual wagon capacity
Actually, the template was correct, but now you've messed it up, again. The template shows the total capacity where each cargo gets the bonus, giving a total of 1 cargo extra (+100%) + each of the two bonuses. It's the mathematical equality of the explanation in Cargo Wagons, and it is the way the dual wagons placement in the train workshop are calculated within the game.

I expect you to revert your edit, as it is erroneous. --Koppa Dasao ƒłелањі каселањін на 16:16, November 28, 2012 (UTC)