Utility: Official release of the unofficial Dominions 3 Wiki

[zzcat]

Both wiki/Ancient_Presence and wiki/The_Citadel_of_Pyriphlegeton raises database error.

[lch]

Originally Posted by zzcat

Both wiki/Ancient_Presence and wiki/The_Citadel_of_Pyriphlegeton raises database error.

Thanks, this is a bug in the Semantic MediaWiki extension that I am using. I've prepared a temporary (ugly) fix for this and will hand the bug report upstream.

[lch]

To silence scruples, the Dom3Wiki server is running fine, the reason that the site can't be reached since yesterday is that some technicans seems to have b0rked the networking for the whole building. When I was passing the distribution room yesterday, while the net was still working, I saw a couple of technicans in front of it, talking about what to do, apparently they managed to kill the Ciscos with whatever it is that they did.

[lch]

There will be another scheduled power cut in the building some time tomorrow, so the Dom3Wiki might be unavailable over the weekends. Enjoy your weekend, everybody!

[TheDemon]

Ever since the outage I am unable to modify any pages and get a Internal Error when I try.

[lch]

Thanks for the feedback. I already had to employ a really weird hack to make the Dom3Wiki work with the database extension again, it seems that there's some PHP bug that is causing this. I'll revert to an earlier version.

[Viajero]

I ve browsed through the thread and do a search with the key word "protection" here, but could not find anything just yet... reason is this:

When I browse units descriptions in the wiki for the most part I find the protetcion value to always be much less than the actual one we see in game.

I'd presume the protetcion shown in the wiki is the basic one, without taking into account the armor of the unit?

[lch]

Yes, the values being displayed in the Wiki pages are base values without factoring in the modifiers through armors and weapons.

[Viajero]

Cool, thanks. I also guess that there are technical difficulties in the database or the wiki that prevent showing the in game actual displayed protection instead then?

[lch]

Originally Posted by Viajero

Cool, thanks. I also guess that there are technical difficulties in the database or the wiki that prevent showing the in game actual displayed protection instead then?

The technical issues are that the armor is being stored as armor values for its parts in the data and I was too lazy to find out the correct formula to calculate the protection value that the game displays, especially how it behaves if a unit is wearing more than one piece of armor at the same time. I do agree that the displayed information in the statboxes in the Wiki is very lacking regarding this and the corresponding encumbrance values.