User talk:Noudess

Welcome

Thanks for all your recent contributions - they look good! --Ravhin 17:58, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I like to contribute when I can.

Note on common mob drops

It has been my "unofficial" policy not to include (a) common vendor trash (Jade Earring etc) or (b) research components (runes, words, etc) on mob drop listings. As I clean out some of the older additions to the wiki I have generally been deleting these things. For two main reasons: one, when they are added to the drop list by my scraper I have little faith that such drops are correct on p99. In particular, for spell research components, these are haphazardly assigned to various mobs in the EQEmu database (which the scraper uses), but that whole system was revamped by the p99 devs to make such drops globally random from the right kinds/levels of mobs. This is why I change the long drop lists on these items to "Random drop" like Words of the Suffering.

I generally hold the same philosophy for Kunark spell drops - as almost all of them are random from the right level of mob. I would however include all "unique" items from that mob or type of mob, i.e. fire beetle eye from a fire beetle, or bone chips from a skeleton, even those are very "common" and not special items.

I won't stop you if you want to keep adding such things to mob drop lists (I assume you are finding these ingame), but you should know the drop listings for these types of items will never be complete on the wiki due to the above. --Ravhin 15:25, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Mob picture filenames

One more comment (and thanks for all your help!) - it would be best if you stick to the naming convention for pictures of mobs. If they are used on other pages this is how they will be found. The convention is "npc_name_here.png" with all lowercase, no symbols, spaces replaced by underscores. For example, "Gizan T`ryxx" would be "npc_gizan_tryxx.png". --Ravhin 15:34, 28 November 2012 (UTC)