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Feel free to point out any obvious errors, seriously! and I have been looking at this document so much that it's hard to register errors haha Thanks for pointing that out, this'll be fixed with the next push I do!
, you included information for artists seeking to create Custom Wearables; could you add something in for the newbie who is discovering how to buy such wearables?
This just occurred to me while I was looking through my vault - any plans on mentioning the vials that give you the 2014 zombie skins during Survival only? I'm not sure if this is a too holiday specific, but it can be pretty surprising to see what it does to your HA if you don't know, or if you are expecting the skin, why you may not get it.
Hi, I'm here. I know I forgot (a couple times, even after remembering to look). I'm very forgetful lately due to stress or whatever other crap LOL
So here are my suggestions after another read through.
Random event question You repeat the question in the answer but you don't do that to anything else. I would just take that out and put the answer. (A random event... yada yada) "This could just a short..." -- could be just or could just be? Either way, missing "be." Also, you put Tempest is active for ~15 minuntes. That should be minutes ;3
Gold accounts I guess I didn't catch this the first time. You say you can purchase a month up to a full year at a time, but I'm pretty sure I buy 1 week GAs mostly ;) (also why is the 1 week GA last on the GA page? lol I never understood that)
Billboard I am probably being picky but I would capitalize: DeviantArt, Etsy, YouTube.
Chance Machines I would do these in bullets for easier reading. Also, is the Spooky Chance Machine still around? You mentioned Lumi.
Games/Quests Maybe we should mention Item Hunt? I dunno lol He is technically a quest. Also, I would put a break after the Oracle quests before the Blue Building quest paragraph. Lastly, WSQ were mentioned as an abbreviation but there is no explanation of what they are (and how Wizard gives double the tokens, or others give out more items).
Holidays You forgot the [*flower=USERNAME] code.
Pets Now that pets is at the bottom, I'm not sure if the jump link to CSC is needed (though if someone did click ahead to pets without reading through the FAQ, they might need that XD). I'll leave that up to you LOL
Annnnd I think that's it! I mean I can get more suggestions on grammar but it's very easy to understand without nitpicking that :) Great updates!
I have a few changes, some of what you brought up is covered. But your other points are great too!
(wait is flower an actual thing for vesnali for sCode? if so I def need to add it to the actual sCode page)
@ Amber Maybe not.. I thought it was. I swear I just saw it on someone's page (they had the whole list lol) Maybe it's not flower. One sec.
[edit] Nope, no code. She had used the url sCode plus the user sCode after xD
HI AGAIN, EVERYONE!
and I have added a lot of the suggestions on the thread. We've also had some very helpful users go through and comment about the grammar/spelling errors.
This is your last chance to make comments/suggestions/etc on everything. I'd like to get this added to the help page / put it on the news / etc this weekend. So if you see anything missing, needing more info, etc, ping me! :)
Under the quest buff question in the games section, it may be worth mentioning that you can only do one extra quest per day (even if you get the RE more than once).
Also with the hexes question in the wardrobe section, what about a mention of the snowball overlays that are thrown during winter and the zombie cures that have temporary overlays? They're not "hexes" like the Morositde ones, but they function in a similar way and I've seen a few people ask on the help and questions forums about the snowballs and wondering what weird thing was suddenly on their HA.
[edit]Also the kiss marks during Survival for the hexes.
Good points, ! Will add that later tonight (with mention of the snowball shield thing for snowballs as a chance to not be hit).
The very first link, Status Page, does not work. The second 'site update' link (lowercase) gets a nginx error. The Cash Shop Loyalty Card link doesn't take you to your card so you can see your stamps, but the Loyalty Shop. (the loyalty shop link works fine) The Mini-Mod link does not work. The forum image link (lowercase) gets a nginx error. The Rules Center link (in regard to Inappropriate names): this should go to the proper section instead of the whole rules. New users will never find it unless it occurs to them you have used the proper name of the section and this faq is informal. Vanya link gets a nginx error The link to the Potion Lottery has a weird s in the upper left corner at the very top of the page. Hmm, going there from the News Page link also gets this, so this may not be a link error. Maybe I bought all my sP slots so it gets me a blank page, but the Millionaire Center link about buying petslots goes to the wrong page otherwise, there's nothing there. It's not a weird delay like the Minion Zoo has. Clothing Rack link gets 404 nginx Oops that's a lie ALL the shop links here give that errror
The very first link, Status Page, does not work. FIXED The second 'site update' link (lowercase) gets a nginx error. FIXED The Cash Shop Loyalty Card link doesn't take you to your card so you can see your stamps, but the Loyalty Shop. FIXED (the loyalty shop link works fine) The Mini-Mod link does not work. This links to the mini mod section (aka the What is a Mini Mod question), it works the same way the links at the top (they're anchored) The forum image link (lowercase) gets a nginx error. FIXED The Rules Center link (in regard to Inappropriate names): this should go to the proper section instead of the whole rules. New users will never find it unless it occurs to them you have used the proper name of the section and this faq is informal. Vanya link gets a nginx error [B]FIXED[/b] Maybe I bought all my sP slots so it gets me a blank page, but the Millionaire Center link about buying petslots goes to the wrong page otherwise, there's nothing there. It's not a weird delay like the Minion Zoo has. FIXED Clothing Rack link gets 404 nginx Oops that's a lie ALL the shop links here give that errror FIXED
, It's an incredible piece of work, I think. Thank you so much, because I know how valuable I would have found this when totally new, and still do. I do still wish you would add something for the newbie who is discovering how to buy custom wearables because I was that newbie ... knowing not to hit the backspace button was something I had to learn the hard way. blushes
Under spoilers to keep it tidy and hopefully not overwhelming.
Typos/Missing Links/Odd phrasing
•'You can also smelt you sP for some points.' I can't believe I'm doing this in a non-troll way but ... **your
• 'Potions only change the color of your pet while eixirs' **elixirs
• 'This can be any combination of quests (e.g. 2 wizard, 2 cynthia, and 1 pete)' **Cinthia
• 'Every 5 levels of challengers is of similar dificulty,' **difficulty
• 'If you are caught trying to trade or sell pet' **pets OR **your pet(s)
• 'Elixirs for the most part come in colorfill colors,' Adding commas. 'Elixirs, for the most part, come in' + Add consistency between 'color fill' and 'color fill' which I think sounds like a crayon-marker hybrid.
• 'The Alchove is a zombie only area underground' / 'we keep the names and rerelease them' I'm a FOOL with hyphens but I think these should be hyphenated
• 'then maybe pet spotlight is for you!' Is 'pet spotlight' not meant to be capitalized?
• 'What is a Gold Account? [blank], or GA,' Is this meant to be a blank space? • 'you normally will receive a verbal warning before an official [blank]. ' **official warning • '[blank] quests are meant for beginners and you cannot have over 500,000 sP to do her quests.' This should link to Sarah's quests • 'You can find the Battle Coliseum on both the games page and on the Sacred Lands map!' Add a link to Sacred Lands? • 'Zentu, which can be obtained from the Bathhouse in Shengui Guo.' Add a link to Shengui Guo
• 'For a one-time CSC charge, you can exchange names between two of your pets. You need to pay each time you do this.' You could probably eliminate half of this? Something like, 'For [cost] CSC, you can exchange names between two of your pets.' It's not one-time if you can do it more than once. :) • 'Be aware that if you joined Subeta at 3:00 pm on May 5th, you have to wait for 3:00 pm every May 5th to get your Loyalty Box!' "Be aware" is ominous wording. I feel like this sentence could simply start at 'If you joined Subeta at...'. (Unless you were going for ominous! It's perfect if y'all were going for that.)
As an overall point, there's a general lack of capitalization that I'm not sure if it is purposeful or not. Will this be changed later or is it remaining?
Clarifications
• 'You can buy 1, 5, 10, or 25 slots at a time.' Everything else seems to state whether or not something is purchased with sP or CSC.
• 'Please be aware that you CANNOT trade or sell pets. [...] you risk being warned and/or frozen.' Maybe clarify the difference between trading and transferring pets? Since you can transfer pets to other users, it feels similar enough to trading that I imagine some people could get confused as to why one is okay and the other is not, especially when there isn't (?) a monetary investment involved in either. (In looking into this, I realized I don't know a thing about pet transferring myself! Perhaps a link to a guide if there is one?)
• 'This includes in your shop till.' I know my FIRST post was about Sarah but my shop till did not affect my ability to do Sarah's quests either. Only on-hand and vault sP seem to matter unless the system has been changed or the one in place is being a glitch.
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• Keep 'pew pew battle battle' as text that comes up when you hover over so We All Know.
Also maybe some sort of mention about the forum stars, how many posts you need to get each one, etc. I've seen a few people ask about that recently as well.
(show example for name, maybe for Keith) -> is this supposed to be a picture, or a link?
Some names are harder to ping than others. Did you want to explain bracket pings? Knowing about this might change how folks pick their name, so maybe mention this in the names choosing sections?
You warn of Bhakoru turning into a Kumos in the pound. Do Bumbii do something similar?
Avatar is naked-> does the Tutorial give clothes out anymore, is this broken?
Thanks for the suggestions, guys! I'm going to be working on them over the next few days (my weekend ended up being a lot busier than I thought so I didn't have time to flesh these out). I am going to go ahead and add it to the help page, even though I'm still editing it a bit. Once it's done and good to go, I'll do a news post and put it other places! :)
I didn't see anyone mention this: In "What is the pet zapper and what does it do?" it mentions that it can change your pet's gender. The zapper doesn't change gender anymore.
I forgot the reasoning behind why it was removed. It has been sometime now as I've zapped loads of pets and not once had their gender changed by it.
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It is still a thing, I double checked the code when I was doing that section! :)
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I've done a lot of the changes you suggested (I haven't pushed it yet so you won't see it until I do later). For the lack of capitals, it depends on what you mean! In some cases, like pet species, we don't do capitals. I've gone through and fixed names of NPCs and what not, though!
I meant lack of capitalization such as 'deviantart pages, etsy shops and youtube channels.', which I actually noticed had already pointed out before I did. :x
I was silly to not actually take example of what I meant! Looking back over (which I probably shouldn't do so soon after waking up), I noticed that the color names are capitalized in some places but not others. 'dusk or cream have the same pose as common' are all lowercase but immediately after, the other pet colors are capitalized again. Steamwork is both capital and non-capital in the same line so I think this is where I was getting confused! Do the pet colors lay subject to the same no-capitals rule as the pets themselves? Or at least the color-fill ones?
I swear I remembered some site holiday names not being capital but my eyes aren't working with me I am so sorry