Rant about planned site content
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:59 pmHi there, your co-administrator here speaking. I need to let off some steam.
In a couple days it's Phantasy Star Cave's 10th birthday, and I was to create new sections for the site and add some content. But I'm a great procrastinor, had an exam, and ran into difficulties. I've tried to contact Missagh, but he doesn't respond. Makes me wonder if we are going to get phpBB3 on time.
Task 1: Phantasy Star 20th Anniversary art section
This one has been planned for something like half a year now. The problem: all the credits are in Japanese. skymandr stepped up to translate them.
He did a big chunk of them, then vanished. Months later, yumpoptart offered to help, but skymandr wanted to finish it. I poked yumpoptart from time to time on the progress (as skymandr didn't reply to PMs), but there is no response. Last I heard, the translations was almost done.
The basic lay-out is already taken care of, and I've downloaded all of the art in the meantime. So I'm really only waiting for the translation now.
Task 2: Expand Phantasy Star Online section
I'm still not sure what to add. Adding Episode II's story is a given, but what else? The new classes, probably. But I'm worried that I'll just end up copying content from other sites.
Task 3: Phantasy Star Online: Episode III section
I have most of the cards donated by CARD-Revolution.com from years back. Then I noticed that I don't have the Story Character cards. And where am I going to get all the card descriptions with their abilities? Not to mention that some descriptions are wrong. I'm not going to copy PSO World's database.
A sub-section about the Characters shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong. I've searched, and searched, but character art is hard to come by. When you do find some, there's an ugly site label on the character, or it's low quality. Most of the time, if you find some, it's Break and Sil'fer.
Task 4: Phantasy Star Universe section
Characters section shouldn't be hard. There should definitely be a section on grinding, as it has changed from PSO and can be confusing. Other than that, I have no idea. PSUPedia covers the game very well already.
In a couple days it's Phantasy Star Cave's 10th birthday, and I was to create new sections for the site and add some content. But I'm a great procrastinor, had an exam, and ran into difficulties. I've tried to contact Missagh, but he doesn't respond. Makes me wonder if we are going to get phpBB3 on time.
Task 1: Phantasy Star 20th Anniversary art section
This one has been planned for something like half a year now. The problem: all the credits are in Japanese. skymandr stepped up to translate them.
He did a big chunk of them, then vanished. Months later, yumpoptart offered to help, but skymandr wanted to finish it. I poked yumpoptart from time to time on the progress (as skymandr didn't reply to PMs), but there is no response. Last I heard, the translations was almost done.
The basic lay-out is already taken care of, and I've downloaded all of the art in the meantime. So I'm really only waiting for the translation now.
Task 2: Expand Phantasy Star Online section
I'm still not sure what to add. Adding Episode II's story is a given, but what else? The new classes, probably. But I'm worried that I'll just end up copying content from other sites.
Task 3: Phantasy Star Online: Episode III section
I have most of the cards donated by CARD-Revolution.com from years back. Then I noticed that I don't have the Story Character cards. And where am I going to get all the card descriptions with their abilities? Not to mention that some descriptions are wrong. I'm not going to copy PSO World's database.
A sub-section about the Characters shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong. I've searched, and searched, but character art is hard to come by. When you do find some, there's an ugly site label on the character, or it's low quality. Most of the time, if you find some, it's Break and Sil'fer.
Task 4: Phantasy Star Universe section
Characters section shouldn't be hard. There should definitely be a section on grinding, as it has changed from PSO and can be confusing. Other than that, I have no idea. PSUPedia covers the game very well already.
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