Talk:The TattleMaster

Writing Articles

See The TattleMaster/Writing for information on how to add articles, and some of the color codes used for the TattleMaster.

Layout questions

There are to be two "columns" of news for the paper. I am assuming that the larger column will be used for longer stories, and the smaller column for shorter, bullet-point-style items. (Although not necessarily bulleted, if you know what I mean.) The longer items will have places in the template for a title, date, story, and author's name/signature. The shorter items for only a date and news item. Does that sound about right for those items? --Indirik

Yes, that sounds pretty good. -- Gsklee 06:11, 10 July 2007 (CEST)

Also, do you envision the main root page The TattleMaster being the active story page, like the TRL, with old news being archived to subpages? Or should the root page just be an intro page, like the II, with each "issue" being a separate subpage? (I prefer the root page to be the active page, but that's just my preference.) --Indirik

I think the root page should be used to display most recent news entries, so, the TRL way. -- Gsklee 06:11, 10 July 2007 (CEST)

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Looks spectacular =) -- Gsklee 14:52, 11 July 2007 (CEST)

Thanks. Is there anything else you think you might need? Any additional templates for special types of announcements, stories with different types of content? --Indirik

Content

Very cool thing. I was waiting for the first OOC newspaper to show up. If you want an exclusive interview or something like that... yell. :-) --Tom 20:20, 13 July 2007 (CEST)

I think Gias is going to be doing the writing on this one. I think he just wanted help getting things set up to start off. I'm not sure if he wanted assistance with articles or not. I'd be happy to help, if he wants it. --Indirik

Certainly, more editors would mean less tasks for each. -- Gsklee 10:28, 14 July 2007 (CEST)

Looks neat! OOC Habap 00:55, 19 July 2007 (CEST)

New Header?

Well, I am not sure whether we need to make a new, "formal", header to replace this current one. I think it's looking good. -- Gsklee 16:35, 21 July 2007 (CEST)

Well I was fiddling around with a load of designs on photoshop and in the end. I came up with a pretty simple one I've gotten pretty addicted to for some reason.

OOooh, I couldn't help but add a pretty glossy BM earth I made!!!

-- Shenron 24 July, 2007

Roleplay Color?

I just tested this on Beluaterra... the roleplaying message type didn't have a different color... are you sure this is implemented?

It usually takes a little time to get implemented. My guess it the main turn change is when these things take effect. I too tested it without a result, wanted to see the colour for myself, since I can't seem to find the bug tracker request and the search fuction doesn't work for me... -Chénier 23:56, 21 July 2007 (CEST)

Although this is called a "news"paper, whatever are being reported here may just often be ahead of the actual happening of the events. -- Gsklee 12:11, 22 July 2007 (CEST)

I can understand that, but it seems like the feature request on the bugtracker simply vanished... I can't find it anymore to check the colour. -Chénier 16:44, 22 July 2007 (CEST)

http://bugs.battlemaster.org/view.php?id=3290

The default view for the bugtracker is to filter out Closed reports. In order to see a report that has been Closed, you need to set "Hide Status:" to None. --Indirik

Haha, I realised a few days back that I had set my filter to "religion". ;)

Didn't realise that it stayed on even after closing the window. -Chénier 20:35, 24 July 2007 (CEST)

Stripping Titles

Actually, that change has been in the code for quite a while already. The bug is probably a misunderstanding, the guy thought the ruler couldn't refuse duel challenges, but the reality is that two duel challenges (death and surrender) are automatically created. --Tom 16:41, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

I guess it just takes time for some of these to get noticed, especially if the feature is rarely used, or it isn't announced anywhere. --Indirik 16:58, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

"...stripping a noble's titles now allows" - Well sorry, this is apparently not true and I don't think it is proper to give wrong reports. -- Gsklee 03:13, 28 July 2007 (CEST)