User:Xeeron16725

Guildwars Characters
Neither character (click the names for more info) has any expensive armor or weapons since I am not willing to waste any money on good looking (but otherwise useless) items.

While I did give every PvE part of the game a try at least, I have never been into Gold farming or doing other farming a lot. The Canthan Elite Missions are something I still look forward to, but I am burned out with the rest of Canthan PvE, since bringing all my four characters through the storyline. A lot of my time is spend in PvP, either guild matches (if my european-american mixed guild manages to get both parts of the world online at the same time) or the other PvP parts apart from Heroes' Ascent, which I have stopped playing a few months ago.

Guild Wiki
My first field of interest on the wiki was expanding the (then) very poor PvP section. By now I am mainly concerned with the rapidly developing builds part. Apart from that, I got into the deeper workings of the wiki by thinking about help pages, the issue of Votes or categorizing. If I am not busy doing any of those, I am usually found checking the talk pages of various articles.

April 1st 2006
The new upcoming Guild Wars expansion Guild Wars Miners and Traders is announced. Thanks to all who helped (in true wiki-tradition) to evolve even aprils fool jokes into better aprils fool jokes.

Wikifatigue (part 3)
We live in a RPG world, so there needs to be three of everything, even wikifatigues.

So after more than a month of discussion, a vote and more discussion, we are exactly where we started from regarding builds. Having to choose from either ignoring comments and simply wait out disagreement (and continue as usual after things have calmed down) and trying to do things right and establish a policy, I choose to do the later a month ago. Now I look back and think, "Why?". Of course I thought a bit about the reason for the failure to implement a policy: Where there not enough people thinking about it? Hardly. Tons of people contributed and many different proposals were raised. But I failed to see that the wiki structure is deeply undemocratic. Not only because people think that "voting is evil". Rather because one basic but fundamental element of democracy is missing. A democracy does not work because there is a majority. It works because there is a minority that is willing to follow the majority. The consenus demand of wiki policies contradicts that notion (which is why it was a very bad idea to try to get a builds policy in the first place). Instead of getting people to try to agree on the idea most agree with, this gives a de facto veto to every small group. As long as someone objects a policy can not be implemented. This gives policies a huge inertia: Unless it is already in place, it is extremely hard to change.

Which brings me to the downside of this: It is much easier to change a wiki by rushing ahead and implementing something without questioning others, rather than discussing it first and trying to reach an agreement. Note how all builds now have voting tables and how the authors vote does not count there. Is the current voting table the best one? Maybe, but there are definitly many people that disagree with it. Is it correct to discount the author's vote? I can think of several reasons why it should not be, but it was never really discussed. Both are instances of a small group of people implementing something without discussion, causing a precendent that evolved into standart procedure which evolved into defacto policy. By contrast, the discussion on builds policy figured plenty of proposals which are superior to the current way things are done, but none got implemented, since not everyone could agree on which exactly should replace the current one. So due to inertia the current one continues, despite the fact that there are several proposals, which are better (for almost everyone).

So, one month late, I have come to the conclusion that others have come to much earlier: Ignore all the talk about policy, disagree every once in a while with those ideas I dislike a lot and simply continue business as usual. Trying to do the right thing is a waste of time.

Name: Xeeron
The name Xeeron was made up by me, ages ago, when I started to play my first internet game, Magestorm. I wanted a name that is easily pronounced in both German and English, a short one and hopefully a unique one. It is not totally unique anymore, but 75% of the Google entries are mine, which I consider good for a 6 letter word.

It has since become my Internet pseudonym on boards, wikis and various games. Both the family name Tencteri and the names Sanare and Sangui are derived from latin (despite my hate for that subject back in school, lol).

''The link leads to a page I set up in rememberance of my first guild in Magestorm, which died long time ago. It is designed after the Magestorm UI, with mostly ingame grafics being used.''

Guild: Strike Force (SF)
We are a rather old guild (by internet standarts) founded more than 7 years ago. Having migrated here when our home game Magestorm began to die, we are now based in Guild Wars. Many are old Magestorm players, but we picked up a bunch of talented new players during the Beta weekends. Most of us play a lot of PvE, however the main interest of the guild is in PvP, whenever we manage to get both the European and American members online at the same time, we can be found fighting guild matches. The guild is rather family-like, with only about 20 active members, and has a distict drive towards spontanious crazyness. Apart from GW, some of us are Beta crazy, testing out whatever new game is available, or we have fun with a quick round of gunbound. Heart and soul of the guild are the message boards.

Notes to Self

 * Need to learn to use minor edit, must not edit late at night.
 * Must not sit and click on Recent changes every 30 seconds to check whether something happened. Unhealthy. Addiction. Bad.
 * NEVER again use a monster like Tomb of the Primeval Kings maps for a category name. You will regret it!
 * Ok, so Guildwiki does log me out when I take a bit longer to click on save page. Bad wiki!
 * Googleyournamewhilebeingbored reveals: Guildwiki > all other pages I visit.
 * If looking for templates, go here: Category:Templates
 * Before doubting your memory and recreating an entire article, look for Upper Case Articles or lower case articles of the name.
 * When searching for RGB codes the next time: color codes

Todo

 * Rework Written build evaluation
 * Go over Greven's List and implement the build policy
 * Change tested to something better (favored?)
 * Implement the new builds policy when finished (move builds to proper category, write article, update help articles)

Rate-a-Build
Please test and vote on new builds

Tested (favored):


 * 1) (your vote)

Unfavored:


 * 1) (your vote)

==Discussion==

Subpages

 * User:Xeeron/E/R Farmer
 * Top 5 of signs telling you that you play too much Guildwars