Template talk:Weeklies

General discussion

What do people think of something like this to track the automated tan familiar tournaments? Bia's posted the schedule. --Ponytailguy 08:59, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Oooo look at the widdle-iddle itty-bitty tiny icons! As long as it's correct, it looks good to me. --Guppymomma 09:18, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Really like where it's going, but 2 minor things: 1) Any chance those icons could be made about 5px larger in each direction, and use better anti-aliasing? They're a bit difficult to differentiate at that size, and the rumble icon looks...fuzzy. 2) It'd be great to combine this template with the winner/familiar type as well. --Rixation^(t/c) 09:26, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Re:Icons, I'll get on that... Re:combining tables... how?--Ponytailguy 09:33, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

In my head it looks good, but not sure how this would come out in practise. Instead of using the ocean name in text, use colored backgrounds in each cell (using the "official" color codes from here). So for example, using the same date/time layout, under 1AM Sunday, you would have the swordfighting icon, a monkey icon, and the winner's name, with the background for that cell being light-blue for Cobalt. --Rixation^(t/c) 09:43, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

And would you be the one updating it with the winner's name every eight-odd hours, so it would be there until it falls off the charts since keeping old schedules is kinda... pointless? ;) --Ponytailguy 09:53, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Nope. But I was assuming it would be easier to keep up with 1 table rather than 2, since the respective tan familiar page will have to be updated anyway. Meh, *shrug*, just a suggestion. --Rixation^(t/c) 09:59, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

The Swordfighting Tourney on Cobalt on the first starts at 8pm PDT, as it's the first in the line up for the following week. I also added the dates the table is valid for. --Dragonlilly 09:30, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

That work any better?--Ponytailguy 09:33, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Does what work better? I don't see any note that the last tournies of every week are actually part of the new week. I'm sure there will be weeks when it isn't like that, but for the first three weeks at least, the Saturday evening tournies are actually three hours later than the template states.--Dragonlilly 07:55, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

Very nice. I was attempting to do a per ocean schedule here, but I think this is much prettier. The three times should probably be included as a variable to avoid redundancy in templates. And I think the second Cobalt swordfighting tourney should be included in the table; it's easier to find the information that way and it's a situation that will come up more often than it doesn't.--Fiddler 09:35, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

I actually like how you have divided each up like that, it may not be pretty, but it works. I think I'll try to do one for Midnight, if no one beats me to it. :)--Dragonlilly 07:58, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

I was trying to play around with it. I think maybe having the icons aligned to the left, with the ocean labels in the center could work. Maybe have a column for icons and column for ocean names? Just my thought to make it look even better than it does. Nice work though --Sagacious ^(talk) 09:38, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

I'm standardizing icon size as 20x20 pixels, so you can align everything to the left and it'll still look uniform. Just need to find the rumble piece. (Or someone can get it for me... I'm having trouble finding it in my media folders. Everything else is uploaded.) --Ponytailguy 09:42, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Dates

Can we get rid of the extra zeroes in "July 02" and the like? It's not really necessary. Thanks! --Barrister 13:32, 20 June 2006 (PDT)

Those are from Excel. I'll look into it. (I had a tough enough time getting it to stop using five-digit Excel dates and start talking at me in English ;)) --Ponytailguy 13:34, 20 June 2006 (PDT)

Kerix's applet

Not to discount the work that has gone into this template, because it's great, but what do you all think of simply linking to Kerix's java applet as posted here? It not only includes accurate times for each tan familiar tournament adjusted for your local timezone (with no broken end-of-week rollover issues), but lists all other automated tournies as well. Plus, it doesn't require manual updating like this template does. Just a thought to save the admins time. --Rixation^(t/c) 08:07, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

Unless we can get Kerix's applet hosted on the wiki, I think it'd be best to keep this template (it's pretty low maintence, requiring three new parameters per week, and I think it's a bit more at-a-glance than Kerix's) and have an external link to Kerix's applet. --Yaten ^talk 08:20, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

Not all browsers can run applets. If you could actually make it into a stand-alone .JAR, that would be great; if not, those of us without applets need something. --Behindcurtai 01:04, 19 July 2006 (PDT)

Just FYI, I think PTG has it set-up to easily be auto generated in excel for copying/pasting to the template here. --Guppymomma 09:27, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

Speaking of the applet, it would be good if someone that uses it & is more familiar with it made an article for it as a third-party tool and popped it into the Familiar schedules category as well. Thanks! --Guppymomma 07:54, 27 July 2006 (PDT)

Done. Well at least it's a start. --Rixation^(t/c) 11:08, 27 July 2006 (PDT)

Time wrong?

PTG, is it me or, for the 2nd week you've got up there, should the times be 4am, 12PM and 8pm, not 4am, 12am and 8pm? Aethera21 07:52, 28 June 2006 (PDT)

Yet another alternative link: Web calendar

http://my.calendars.net/puzzle_pirates From my post here: Fooling around with a free calendar that gives it in a more standard looking format. I've imported all the tan familiar tournament dates from Orsino's spreadsheet, but haven't finished selecting the correct category to get everything colored right. I'm happy to go through and do the categories if folks find this useful. Yes, it's yet another link, but this one doesn't require being able to run applets. --Guppymomma 21:08, 19 July 2006 (PDT)

There are a few spots where I think midnight (as in the time, not the ocean) tournies have been futzed a bit. I'll look into it tomorrow. --Guppymomma 21:27, 19 July 2006 (PDT)