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Originally Posted by soronil
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So there are hundreds of cultural tradeskill recipes that were added some point later, and not at the era periods you currently have. Even non-cultural stuff, like fine plate armor, and some jewelry recipes. There were multiple patches in kunark and velious changing tradeskills adding stuff.
If a recipe is added 1 month before Velious, a "Kunark Era" tag is pretty useless.
Since the current plan seems to be monthly patches, I think "Era" tags are pretty useless. Those groupings may be fine on live where you've got 20 expansions, but when there are only 2 expansion, "Kunark Era" and "Velious Era" are way too vague.
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Thanks a ton for this! However, here are a few more relevant details. First, the wiki has more eras than just the expansions:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Category:Era_Templates.
Second, those hundreds of tradeskill recipes ... and for that matter most recipes/items/NPCs ... I understand Nilbog will be
patching monthly, and my memory sucks, but I really don't remember it being like:
January we add mummies, 2 hats, and the iron pot recipe. February we add one gnoll in Blackburrow, the disease resist jewelry recipes, and the posky isle 1 quests. March ...
Stuff generally came out in clumps, no? Like a new zone (eg. Fear) comes out, and then the Fear NPCs and the Fear items come out then too? There might have been some fixes made a month later or something, but A) I'm not sure Nilbog is truly recreating every line of every patch note, and B) I don't think it will be the end of the world if new Fear items and ones patched a month or two later are both in one "Fear era".
Maybe tradeskill recipes don't come out then, but didn't they too mostly come in very big clumps, not "drip drip"? The reason I'm focusing on this is, I really think it's going to be A LOT harder to flag everything in the wiki by patch than by era (eras are half done).
If some small percentage of content did come out between eras, I don't think the wiki requires a massive overhaul of literally almost every page. Again I think it's ok if ... for instance ... a bunch of tradeskill recipes came out a month after Fear (or the Hole, or Chardok 2.0 or whenever) and we just say "they're in that era". Or maybe we just add notes "comes out one month into Fear" on important pages that aren't clear cut ... but mostly still group by era?
So I'm really trying to suss out ... does all of the above seem logical, or is it truly going to be "new stuff every month" ... and enough that the wiki will be significantly less useful if we try to make things massively easier on ourselves by grouping into eras?