Talk:Armor Collectors (Crystal Desert)

Armor collector structure
I'm thinking about how to restructure the armor collecors. We have a few options, that I can see:
 * 1) One big list, as it currently is on the Armor Collectors page.
 * 2) Big lists, seperated by "area", governed primarily by how the maps are split up and the general feel and flow of the game (ie Beacon's Perch is Ascanon, Yak's Bend is Snow area)
 * 3) Each collector on his own page, categorized as Collector and/or Armor Collector

I'm leaning towards #2, and am contemplating how to section this up. People care about 2 things: "what do I have?", and "what do I want?". The first answer would be "Fetid Carapices" and the second would be "A new chest piece, I am getting beaten on here!" Both seem an equally valid way of approaching organization.

Any input? Adam

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Yeah, I think the best way to approach your first point would be to have a link on Fetid Carapices saying which collectors will want them. In this case option #3 is preferable, since it will be easier to link from fetid carapices to a particular collector (or several individual collectors).

I don't know about the second point. At the moment we don't have any kind of sections on weapons or armor, so it's hard to visualize exactly how someone would go about looking through the wiki for better armor, other than by trawling through a long list of collectors. In this situation #1 is the preferable choice, since they can search through the page more easily than they can search through several different sections.

Perhaps instead of a simple disambiguation page we could have something more complicated, using a series of subcategories? I don't know. It seems like for now #2 is probably the best choice, but in the future we could look at other options to improve organisation. - LordBiro 22:16, 19 May 2005 (EST) - Here's what I'm thinking, as I look at the other collector data I'd like to integrate into the Wiki:

Have a page for each collector item. On that page, include any collectors and their stuff. There will also be links to the mobs/species that drop each collector item. Each collector item page will be categorized as "Collector Item". If there is a collector who gives armor for that item, we will categorize it as "Collector Armor" through the armor template. Adam

Terminology
Just to clarify, is Ascension or The Ascension the best term to use for describing the desert area? - LordBiro

I've just been using "Ascension" Adam

Why not "Crystal Desert"? someone-else