User:Zeno/QuestGuide

Contributing Quest Writeups

Template

• Use the quest template as a guide
• Take a look to a finished quest page and use it as reference

Content: Header

• For difficulty, use the following text to describe the difficulty stars: "1 star", "2 stars", "3 stars", "4 stars"
• For quest giver add the NPC link
• For location, specify place and region using links for both
• For next/previous quest, use the quest link or the "None" text if doesn't apply

Content: Quick Walkthrough

• Use list format this way:

* step 1

* step 2

* ...

* step N

Content: Detailed Walkthrough

• Describe the full quest with detail
• Use your writing skills to entertain the reader
• Add images to show where to go, who to talk or what to do
• Add screenshots of the dialogs

Content: Enemies

• Add templates of the main quest enemies
• Add links to other possible enemies as additional information

Content: Logbook

• Add logbook images! Always!
• If the logbook text is too long, as as many screenshots as needed
  • This should mean two screenshots, needing three of them would be strange
  • If more than three are needed, ask first in the forum!!

Content: Notes

• Write any notes here if there's any additional information to be mentioned

Categories

• Use the proper category tags that match your quest
  • General quests should be categorized as quests as well as side quests
  • Chain quests should be categorized only as chain quests
  • Individual quests in chain quests should be categorized only as quests
  • Class specific quests should be categorized only as class quests
  • Main campaign quests should be categorized either as light campaign quests or shadows campaign quests
  • Ice and blood quests should be categorized as ice and blood quests
  • CM quests should be categorized as community patch quests

Images

• Use frames according to the template
  • Single screenshots should be framed
  • Related map and tabmap screenshots should be framed toghether (see template!)
• Use 1280x1024 resolution if possible
  • Try to keep when possible the same aspect ratio
  • Do not use portrait clipping, will cause half of te page to be empty!
• Do NOT change the shown size specified in the quest template
  • You should remove the size tag only if the size is exactly the same
• You can clip your images down, but don't clip too much
  • 800x600 is ok for map and tabmap images
  • 1024x768 is ok for general camera images
  • dialogs must be clipped to their exact size (like this one)
• Images must be saved in JPG format (65-75% quality)
  • This can vary depending on the image, apply common sense
  • Images should not be bigger than 200 Kb
  • Images can be GIF for dialogs
  • GIF means max.256 colors: use it wisely!