Guide Index Project

[KnightSoul]

CoH is back, but we're often stuck using guides that have been banished to Astoria [glow=purple,2,300]the Wayback Machine[/glow].  Someone has to step up and provide an index for the new materials being written, so I'll suck it up and do the job.  But before I get started clacking away at the keyboard, I need to figure out formatting and make several other decisions.  That's where you, true believer, come in.

 

1) Format:  Should I just crib Zombie Man's old formatting and sub divisions?  If no, please demonstrate or link to alternate proposal.

 

2) Greytext placeholders for subjects with no guides?  Highlight links like I did above?

 

3) Link to off site guides or not? (Link to Zombie Man's archived index will be featured regardless.)  If this is a yes, I will need others to feed me the links.  Indexing 5 pages on the forums here is doable for one.  Searching the whole web isn't.

 

4) What was the format for linking to a specific post within a thread again?  I'm an idiot.

 

5) Do all guides deserve to be indexed?  There are some very small, very specific guides that I'm not sure how to index yet.

 

6) I won't be indexing builds, even popular ones.  But if others do, I'll treat those as guides and give them their own section.  They're simply too prolific for me to link every one individually.

 

7) Would anyone want to mirror any of this?  We never know when CoH will once again be gone to the Americans, and having a backup somewhere in case the homecoming forum poofs would be nice.

 

8 ) Should I keep a section for threads/conversations that while not intentional guides are good resources?

 

9) Add a section for CoH culture?  Guides to the lesbian mother father you won and stuff like that.  You know, for the kids.

 

Don't expect this to pop up overnight.  I won't start till I get some feedback here, and then I'll probably still bring formatting examples round for more feedback.

[_NOPE_]

AWESOME! I'd love to see this.

 

 

1) Format:  Should I just crib Zombie Man's old formatting and sub divisions?  If no, please demonstrate or link to alternate proposal.  YES

 

2) Greytext placeholders for subjects with no guides?  Highlight links like I did above? YES

 

3) Link to off site guides or not? (Link to Zombie Man's archived index will be featured regardless.)  If this is a yes, I will need others to feed me the links.  Indexing 5 pages on the forums here is doable for one.  Searching the whole web isn't. YES

 

4) What was the format for linking to a specific post within a thread again?  I'm an idiot.

This is how you do it:

 

5) Do all guides deserve to be indexed?  There are some very small, very specific guides that I'm not sure how to index yet. Why Not?

 

6) I won't be indexing builds, even popular ones.  But if others do, I'll treat those as guides and give them their own section.  They're simply too prolific for me to link every one individually. Sounds good to me

 

7) Would anyone want to mirror any of this?  We never know when CoH will once again be gone to the Americans, and having a backup somewhere in case the homecoming forum poofs would be nice. I can mirror if you want, on my server. I'm already parsing Dev posts...

 

8 ) Should I keep a section for threads/conversations that while not intentional guides are good resources? Why Not?

 

9) Add a section for CoH culture?  Guides to the lesbian mother father you won and stuff like that.  You know, for the kids. Why Not?

 

[KnightSoul]

Thanks.  I'll be starting the data entry now, hopefully have an outline later today and a first pass up in a day or two.

[KnightSoul]

Here's the first outline.

Section links are obviously blank, but there because I'm formatting, from a text document even.

Under Construction!Please direct replies and questions to this forum post until such time as the orange title is removed.

 

Seriously.

 

 

This is an index of Player Guides, for players, by players.  Thank you to everyone that contributes.

This is a resurrection of Zombie Man's pre-shutdown Guide to Guides.  You can find The undead Guide to the Guides  (Zombie Man 4-21-12, I23) on the web archive.  Its full of all the pre-shutdown guides that countless players wrote and an excellent resource.  This Index will be focused on the material written for the I26 Homecoming servers.

 

[glow=yellow,2,300]Mirrors to be found at <placeholder> and <web.archive placeholder>.[/glow]

 

Information on contributing is in section one, the first linked post.

This post contains the links to the Index subsections below, allowing quick navigation to the links to the guides.  Click the header to be on your way.

I. Introduction: The Guide Index.

 

II. Before You Start -Preparing to Play

Manuals, New Player's Guides, Account Information, Overviews.

Homecoming - What's new with City of Heroes

Homecoming Account Info

Beginner Guides

Tips

Guideposts for long range planning

Lingo & Slang, Translations from Gamer to English

Character Creation

Names and Titles

Rolling Role-Players

Origins

Alternative Characters

Costume

Hero/Villain Planners

III. Archetypes, Powersets, Powers and Builds

Guide to Archetype and Powerset Guides

Heroes (Blaster, Controller, Defender, Scrapper, Tanker, Kheldian)

Villains (Brute, Corruptor, Dominator, Mastermind, Stalker, Soldiers of Arachnos)

Pool Powers

Travel Powers

Other Pool Powers

Ancillary/Patron Pool Powers

Specific Powers & Character Concepts

What Archetypes Can Do

Powers used by Several ATs

Character Concepts

In General

Incarnate System

General

Incarnate Powers and Slots

IV. Operating Your Game - How To Make Things Go

Commands

User Interface

Binds & Macros

How To Bind & Macro

Binds for Specific Purposes

Travel Binds

Remapping

V. Communicating With Others

Playing Nicely

Know Where and How to Speak

Understanding One Another

Sying it With Style

VI. Combat Mechanics

Introduction to Combat

Defense, Accuracy, and To-Hit

Damage, Experience, Rewards and Leveling

Health and Endurance

Other Combat Mechanics

Control, Aggro and Strategy

Pulling

Managing Aggro

VII. Foes

Combating the Environment (PvE)

Giant Monsters

ArchVillains and the Hero class

Foes in General and other Specific Foes

Combating Other Players (PvP)

VIII. Missions

Contacts, Difficulty, and Missions in General

Mayhem and Safeguard, Schemes and Policebands

Specific Missions

Trials, Raids, Events, and Task/Strike -Forces

Hero Content

Villain Content

Shared Content

Respecification Trials

The Hamidon Raids

Lord Recluse Strike Force

Miss Liberty Task Force

Ouroboros and Flashback

Going Rogue and Praetoria

Alignment System

IX. Teams, Groups, and Bases

Teaming

How to form a team

How to run a team- leader tips

Team Strategy

Knowing Your Teammates Capabilities

Voice Communication

Super (Villain) Groups and Bases

Creating a group

Creating a Base

Base Salvage and Crafting (Not applicable in the Homecoming fork.)

X Powers -Enhancements and Respecification

Enhancements

Respecification

XI. Inventions - Enhancements, Recipes, "Loot" and the Market

Inventions in General

Invention Salvage, Recipes, and Drops

The Consignment Markets and Economy

XII. Other Game Systems

Badges

Setting Badge Title

How to Get a Specific Badge

How to get a Specific Badge Set

Badge Lists

Badge Trackers

Arena and Gladiator

Day Jobs

Mission Architect

XIII. The In-Game World - Tale of Three Cities

Background, Storybook, and Lore

Areas and Zones and other Places

Finding Yourself

Hero Zones

Villain Zones

Praetorian Zones

Shared Zones

XIV. The Out of Character Experience

Community History, Customs and Culture

Leading by (Bad) Example

Comic Books and "The Industry"

XV. Looking Under the Hood - Advanced Mechanics

3rd Party Customization (maps, graphics, sounds, fonts, icons)

Screenshots, Demos, Videos

Computers & Peripherals

Homecoming Development

XVI. Getting Help and Other Resources

Official Channels

Using the Homecoming Forums

Other Websites with Guides and Further Information

[justicebeliever]

When I click a header, I get - "about:blank#blocked" in the address bar and a blank screen

 

I love that you are taking this on KnightSoul...thank you so much for doing it - +1 Inf

[KnightSoul]

When I click a header, I get - "about:blank#blocked" in the address bar and a blank screen

 

I love that you are taking this on KnightSoul...thank you so much for doing it - +1 Inf

That's because they're empty links.  There only because I'm doing all the forum code markup manually and it would have been a pain to clean out the text for the example.  They'll get filled once I have all 17 pages blocked out and ready to post.

 

I've decided I'm coloring all the section headers yellow.  Not sure what else might look good on the forum background for other uses.

[_NOPE_]

You could use my BBCoder to make your life easier...

[KnightSoul]

You could use my BBCoder to make your life easier...

I could, but this gives me an offline copy in simple text.  And I'd have still left dead links in there as placeholders so I don't forget to insert them when I post the Index.  I won't have urls until then.

 

Cribbing from Zombie Man's Guide to Guide has made me realize, it would be great if I could get individuals to manage each AT's Index separately.  That would allow those sections to be updated more frequently and let someone with passion for that AT choose which discussion threads are worth including with the outright guides.  If someone went silent, I'd find a new caretaker for that AT and link to the replacement too.  (And if I vanish, anyone willing to do the work can copypasta everything I leave up.)

 

 

I'm looking for caretakers for each Archtype's Index.  If you want to be the Hetman for your favorite AT, speak up and I'll put you on the master list.  If someone has already started one, let me know about it too!

 

Did I miss anything in my outline?  (Other than Sentinels under ATs.  Corrected in my docs.)  Is there anything specific to Homecoming that should get its own section that I haven't included yet?

[justicebeliever]

I saw the main post - looks good...thanks again

[KnightSoul]

Its up and ready for submissions.  Thunderstorm is passing through, and I lost internet once in the middle, so I may not actually get guides linked into it right away.

[KnightSoul]

So.  Much.  Typing.

[KnightSoul]

Its up and done.  Well, done until someone points out an obvious mistake.  Or I fill in those <placeholders> for mirroring.

 

Annoyingly the forum software works fine with copypasta'd tab, but using a tab manually makes it freak out.  I'll have to go fiddle with making everything pretty another day.

[justicebeliever]

So.  Much.  Typing.

 

Another +1 Inf...you are a trooper!

[justicebeliever]

Its up and done.  Well, done until someone points out an obvious mistake.  Or I fill in those <placeholders> for mirroring.

 

Annoyingly the forum software works fine with copypasta'd tab, but using a tab manually makes it freak out.  I'll have to go fiddle with making everything pretty another day.

 

Just scanned it - look's great with room to grow...FWIW - Posts 17 & 18 on the thread are duplicates of 15 & 16.  If you can't delete a post, you might just want to clear out 17 & 18 and reserve them for some future need or add-on...

[KnightSoul]

O, I'll look at that.

Edit: Fixed.  I hope.