Category talk:Locations

Is This Page Formatted Properly?
I'm not sure if this category looks right... I think a better way of organising this page would be to have location articles grouped into the six subcategories listed.


 * Cities
 * Outposts
 * Missions
 * Arenas
 * Explorable Areas
 * Hall of Heroes Areas

Just to clarify, I mean we have 6 seperate categories, and each category is part of the locations category

Also, I was thinking about what information a location should contain, such as which continent it belongs to:


 * Ascalon
 * Shiverpeak Mountains
 * Kryta
 * Jungle Area (?)
 * Underworld (?)
 * Desert (?)

But that might be tricky, since it's hard to say exactly where each location is. Some things are fairly obvious, The Breach is obviously part of Ascalon, but what about Yak's Bend? Is that Ascalon or Shiverpeak? And things get more complex when you get to Kryta...

And then I started to think about places like Fort Ranik. It is a location, so it should have information about who's there, what you can buy there and what connections there are etc. but it should also have information on the mission itself. Should there be 2 seperate pages for that? Fort Ranik (Mission) and Fort Ranik (Location)? Since every co-op mission is also a location then you would have to do this for every page. I would have to double check but I'm 90% certain that every mission has the same name as the starting location in the quest log.

Sorry about the long post!!

- LordBiro

Are they called "Explorable Areas" by the game literature? I'm almost positive I've seen them referred to as "Adventure Zones"... Nunix

Also, you can see from how I did the Outposts how I think we should break things up as far as continent/region; that's basically the order you encounter them in, with maybe an "Underworld" or "Elite Instance" tacked on at the end (you can hit them fairly early, but probably aren't ready for them yet at that point). As summary, that's: Pre-, Post-, N. Shiverpeaks, Eastern ("main") Kryta, Jungle, S. Kryta (Riverside, Cay, Fishermen's Haven), S. Shiverpeaks, Desert. You could break Post- up a bit more with "Above the Wall", and Maguuma really has that dry dusty plateau area as it's gateway as well but I'm not sure what I'd call that. Nunix

also-also: yeah, seperate pages for same area is fine, because Fort Ranik (Mission) would really refer to: "The mission map/zone that you access via Fort Ranik". MOST mission zones can only be explored when you're actually in the mission, so I think this is fine. And while you can buy things in Fort Ranik (Post-Searing) from merchants, there are of course no merchants to be seen in Fort Ranik (Mission) Nunix

All of the following are locations, but there is a location tree of the world, it would make a nice cateegory tree of sub-categories:
 * World
 * Regions (pre-searing, Ascalon ... [maps to see Region borders] )
 * Explorable Areas (including pre searing catacombs, underworld and fissure)
 * Missions
 * Outposts
 * Cities
 * Arena types (team,HoH,random)
 * Arena Areas (all maps of the above)

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What's going on?
I'm really confused by this page. It seems that all the locations have been filled in in the article part of this category... I don't know why :P hehe. Since this is a category, we don't need to list links of every location do we...? - LordBiro/Talk

To clarify, my point is basically, if a location is in Maguuma Jungle, then should you link to it under the heading Maguuma Jungle, or should you just put that location into the category Maguuma Jungle, and then ptu Maguuma Jungle into Locations? I don't think that we should have both on the same page. Maybe a seperate browse page for the category would be useful, like Wikipedia Browse would be better. - LordBiro/Talk 09:58, 25 May 2005 (EST)

Combination of Category and List
I'm going to seperate the category and list info on this page, and move the list info to Locations. If someone opposes this just say so :) LordBiro/Talk 21:00, 5 Jun 2005 (EST)