Talk:NPC Template

Regarding NPC Categories

The basic categories I'm using atm. Feel free to make suggestions or criticism I am by all means a WikiMedia beginner.

[[Category:NPCs]] (the top level category)

[[Category:Serbule NPCs]] (within a given zone)

[[Category:Crypt NPCs]] (within a given dungeon)

etc.

Note that I have started using these categories with DynamicPageLists in the Zone articles! Thus adding a new NPC to Serbule NPCs category will automatically show up under "Friendly NPCs" of the relevant Zone.

NPC Likes

So here I figured at first I would make categories to help search. However a simple search of the wiki eg "prepared food" will show the articles, including relevant NPCs. So hmm.

But perhaps this could be of use later with the DynamicPageList tag? So we could have a table of all sorts of items and a dyn. page list (inline) of all NPCs that fall under.

For simplification purposes, I am currently using Likes always even if it says Loves in game, this is to avoid having separate categories for what is essentially the same (the further distincton is probably overkill).

Sometimes I have to make a call and simplify for example "Loves Skulls of All Types" can be simplified to "Likes Skulls" so in case there are other variants they will all fall under "who gives favor for my skulls?".

[[Category:Likes Snail Shells]]

[[Category:Likes Jewelry]]

etc.

Proposed Changes

Should we have a category or some other notation for NPCs who will/won't talk to players in beast forms? Karunama (talk) 01:54, 7 October 2014 (CDT)

I don't have Beast Forms gameplay experience, but it makes sense if it is not super obvious in-game. So you mean like eg. the Suspicious Cow in Eltibule? Well if we have a category something like "Beast Form Friendly NPCs" then we can make a DPL (DynamicPageList) listing within Beast Forms. But... is it the case that some talk to spider but not wolf, some talk to wolf but not cow , etc? (I don't know). If not, then the category makes sense. Next we could potentially add that to a future Template:NPC infobox eg. "Talks to Beasts" yes/no. Until then, we can add it to the NPC pages so we don't forget. I think it would fit in the intro text? Another sentence "John Doe talks to players in [[Beast Forms[Beast Form]]" as it will be high up the page, and it won't clog most pages (I think it's limited to a few NPCs). We could also add a section only on relevant NPCs. I prefer the extra sentence so we don't needlessly lengthen the NPC pages for this small info. In time, we can move this info to the "NPC infobox" (another sidebar "info card" thingy). But either way is fine. Cheers --Gorgonzola (talk) 04:48, 7 October 2014 (CDT)