User talk:Ath

RE: Robin & Drunken F00l's Valve Rocket Launchers

Hey, sorry for any inaccuracies. The community would probably want to see those videos as they're very interesting to "normal" players as an inside look on some rarities. It's one thing to describe something and a different animal to actually see it in action. Perhaps a separate page for the Valve Rocket Launcher might be appropriate? -Object404 16:08, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

The problem is not all of the Valve items in existance have the stacked attributes, some don't even have the "Flying Bits" particle attachment; so it could be misleading. Having a page just for Robin's Valve Rocket Launcher doesn't make much sense either. I think it's better left as is for now until a fitting usage arises on an existing page, if someone really wants to see an example they can do a search on YouTube. ~ Ath 16:19, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey Ath. While it's true that Robin and other Valve members can probably spawn any weapon they want and mod the attributes, as having been seen in public servers outside of beta, the item is now actually a little more like Blizzard's unique items with lore. I know that isn't the point of TF, but with the recent additions of the item system + tradables, the MMORPG-zation of the game is now a bit unavoidable. Anyway, it does add flavor to the game + lore.

As heard in the chat of the public game video below with Robin in, some of the players thought Robin Walker was a myth like Saxton Hale :)

Version 2.2b

Didn't it add the cool Wiki linking too? :D  – Smashman _(talk) 18:26, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Oops! I'll add that now. Ath 18:28, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Kill notice crit

Hey, I'm not sure the MediaWiki software allows background images to be defined like that, however, if you add a class to the div I can edit the main CSS page and define it with the background there. seb26 [talk] 20:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

That doesn't work either Seb. I tried that.  – Smashman _(talk) 21:02, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

You did it wrong, crit means the style is applied to <crit> tags which don't exist. .crit means anything using the class "crit". seb26 [talk] 21:08, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I did? Whoops. Thought I did .crit.  – Smashman _(talk) 21:12, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I've done a little research and the problem behind background-image/etc not working is the result of a "HTML Attribute sanitization" feature; If overridden it should work as intended, but doing so could possibly introduce security issues. Solutions to my mind could be protecting the template from non-authorised editing and setting an exclusion on it, or adding a rule to the Wiki's master stylesheet with the relevant CSS and assigning the killicon-containing span the relevant ID, this would be very hacky though. Probably better to go with my original idea as outline on the template's talk page. Ath 21:21, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

proper_name

They added it? Nice! See? They do listen.  – Smashman _(talk) 22:38, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Indeed! I sent an email to Robin about it the other day and he replied. Already got it implemented in TF2B too, so I'm very happy. Ath 22:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

TF2B for iPhone

Yo. After Hideous dropped the bomb on tf2b for Android, I figured the best way to implement it on the iPhone without access to a Mac, some Obj-C skills and the SDK, it might just be easier to do it in something like jQTouch. Thoughts? ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 15:31, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks promising, I'll have to take a closer look myself as I've not really kept up with mobile devices. I'll point Hideous here and see what he thinks as he's the "phone guy" somewhat. Ath 15:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

He told me he was too lazy to look at it :P. I'm not big on JS myself, but I got an app of some sort done with it, at least. ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 15:37, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll see if I can "twist his arm" so to speak. My current phone is a Nokia N73 which hardly ever gets used as is, so I've got some catching up to do first. Ath 15:45, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Sounds gooood. At least he has an iPod to test on. ;) ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 15:47, 4 November 2010 (UTC)