Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

The reason I'm a bit... well, disappointed, is that I sometimes start small storylines, usually sci-fi, which never get finished - but I thought here it could easily go on.

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

And it will go on, don't worry. THis is proportions, remember, we're on turn 380 and still pootling about in light cruisers. I am, anyway. BEsides, we're in no rush to finish the game. The AI isn't pressing us, so we could continue as we are for ages. I mean xenology has to be getting on for two years already, anyway, right?

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

I know it's still going on. I meant that I thought I could place story posts here every now and then, and then later add new ones with the data from other story posts.

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

Archived copy on SEnet has been updated.

http://www.spaceempires.net/home/content-13.html

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

Yay Fyron.

Xenology has also been wikified: http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Xenology
All other authors of any se4 fanfic anywhere are advised to wikificate your stories.

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

Isn't it "wikify"?

You'll need a few more links, though, and a sampling of some of the writing might also persuade people who are new to SE to read the story.

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

Actually, the proper term is "wikificalisationate".


Links where? And how would we decide which extract(s) to include? You wouldn't want more than 2 or 3 extracts at a hundred words each.

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

Excuse the dumb question, but why not post the whole stories on the wiki? Does text take up that much space?

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

Not a dumb question. It was discussed, and decided against. I forget the reason why...

Geo, I believe you were involved in this: http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p..._of_the_galaxy

Fancy filling in the article? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Re: [OT] - Story thread: Xenology Resurrected
 

Multipage articles are clumsy. A lot of the stories are extremely long (such as Rise of the Remorhaz Society), so they would either add a massive load to the database and the user when viewing the story as a single article, or would add a lot of articles for each story. We can already see how the FAQ is making things look ugly... Maybe if that can be sorted in an elegant manner, adding the stories to the wiki could become feasible.

Also, you have the fact that I don't particularly see the need to have the same massive blocks of text in two separate databases on the server. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif