User talk:Mathmagician

Multiplayer LAN connection offline
Ok i've never done this so i'm sorry if this isn't the way to post this stuff. I just got this game abou 2-3 days ago and i want to play with my friend offline since we dont' have the internet, but when i type localhost into the IP so we can connect it doesn't ever fully connect. We just sit there with it saying "connecting to server" for hours. =( I'd really like some help with this, we can listen to each others music and stuff so i know its not the networking.

Danakun 20:04, March 4, 2012 (UTC)Danakun


 * Hey, I've never actually played Terraria multiplayer on a LAN before, so I'm not particularly knowledgeable in that area. I only play single player / occasionally online. Even if you can hear the music, if it just says "connecting to server" forever then there must be some networking issue, either on your end or by fault of the game. Terraria's multiplayer isn't exactly perfect. The only specific thing I can think of is that localhost may not be appropriate for LAN (depending on your set up), you may have to use your friend's internal IP if connecting through a router.


 * Dzylon or Pathogen may be be able to help you if you send them a message, as they are almost certainly more knowledgeable than me in the area of multiplayer. I would recommend making a blog post at User_blog:Danakun about your issue and then sending Dzylon and Pathogen a message to get them to comment on your blog. Also, if you make a blog, A LOT more people will see it as compared to a forum post at the Help Desk.

Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 20:48, March 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, you could do a bit of research on the Terraria Online forums if you haven't already. For example, threads such as this one may or may not be helpful to you: http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/how-to-play-terraria-on-lan.35069/ . I'm sorry I couldn't be of much help.


 * Thank you for your reply i'll try that. I've done research on it already but found nothing but the "localhost" thing for the IP. I'll start a blog but i'm not really sure how to do stuff like that. I rarely use sites like this and blog and stuff. Again though Ty for your reply. ^^b Danakun 21:07, March 4, 2012 (UTC)

Useless Video
Hey math can I or can you remove the video on the Dungeon Guardian page? It's that vid for the Skeletron Prime and it has no reason to be there...

Furiion52 02:16, March 5, 2012 (UTC)Furiion52

Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 23:09, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's useless? Sure there are other bosses in the video, but the dungeon guardian is certainly in there. In any case, we don't want to be removing any videos just yet. Let's wait for the video policy to go live, which it looks like it will be fairly soon. Once that's in order, we'll use the video discussion page to talk about outdated/incorrect/misplaced videos etc. There are quite a few outdated videos, and we'll certainly be listing those and suggesting replacements soon.
 * Ok yeah I see... It's just that I meant that it's a Dungeon Guardian page and so it should have a dungeon guardian video but we can take care of that later. Thx anyways :D
 * Furiion52 23:14, March 5, 2012 (UTC)Furiion52

version question
I was wondering why the items that are in the collecters edition are in the 1.1.2 category. Isnt 1.1.2 that last bugfix that added multi-language support? Also 1.1.2 is not in the main Nav menu. I just need a little clarification thanks!

P.S. looks like putting the poll on the main page was a very good idea!

Dak47922 talk contrib count 16:50, March 5, 2012 (UTC)

Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 23:09, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Replied on your talk page.

I kind of goofed.
Could you delete this for me? http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/File:Chest_Antibody.ico the image is messed up & doesn't show. Koggeh

Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 23:09, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Taken care of

Vandal
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:88.159.208.137 griefed the Home page Koggeh

Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 23:09, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Taken care of

OK :D
OK. It's just that I find putting in catorgories for similar items is pretty useful. I mean some of the disambugation pages (I think thats what they're called I don't remember!?) don't contain everything. Like the one I did for the meteor there was no other page like it so yeah... Anyway I'm definetley listening to your advice and I'd love to listen and do whatever I can. (I have no idea why my font is like this)

Oh and off topic since your a math genius I need help... what is the formula for the volume of a sphere :) Furiion52 03:04, March 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * I fixed your font =P. Also, the formula for the volume of a sphere is: $$V = \frac{4}{3}{\pi}r^{3}$$

Now about categories:
 * Category pages shouldn't look like Category:Meteor does. They should look more like Category:Craftable items. It's kinda silly to say "the pages in this category are..." because the entire point of a category is that it keeps track of that by itself. You just write a brief, general description of the category.
 * Category:Wings is unnecessary, because only Demon Wings and Angel Wings are in the category, and those 2 pages already link to each other. I'm not saying the category should be removed... I'm just saying I never would have made it in the first place.
 * Category:Meteor is not very descriptive. A better name would be "Items requiring meteorite."
 * It was decided previously that we don't want categories based on which materials are required to craft the items in the category, because it's too much work, creates too many pointless categories and clutter, and there's a better way to link items which require the same ingredient. By using the templates at the bottom of the page. For example, go to the Star Cannon page. At the bottom you'll see a collapsible table titled "Items Requiring Meteorite" which should already contain all of the relevant links.

About disambiguation pages:
 * This is a disambiguation page: Wings. It's entire purpose is NOT to give information, but to give a list of possible links to click on. For example, someone searching for "Wings" in the search bar may be looking for either Angel Wings or Demon Wings, so when they find the disambiguation page, they get links to both. Here's another example of a disambiguation page. Their purpose is to disambiguate a topic and guide readers to the appropriate resource.

Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 08:52, March 6, 2012 (UTC)

OOOOOOOK then... thanks a lot for the info get rid of them as they are useless I now see that :( Sorry I just thought it would help.-- 23:05, March 6, 2012 (UTC)Furiion52

Reborn Mod
Hey the Reborn mod is fast approaching release date and we haven't quite decided where to house info. We have a wiki ready if we need to use it. Does this wiki still have any interest in housing the info on the mod? let me know when you can. later Math.HeroGaming 07:06, March 6, 2012 (UTC)

Hey Math. Yea we are ok with hosting the mod info here. To be honest the mod is going to be the closest thing to an official update as possible. We have been taking feedback from the developers of Terraria from the start. I basically found the 9 most talented modders in the community and had them team up on a group project. I am useless when it comes to modding but they are all genius level.

I think this wiki would still be a good home and since the mod is more of a community thing we will be patching it around community feedback. Whatever you guys wanna do we have another wiki ready if you guys don't want to handle the burden and I will just direct people there. If you guys do host the info then we should have a few of you guys beta test for us so you can give feedback. If you guys think it will confuse people I understand and we will fire up the other wiki. You could always have some sort of stub at the top of the articles telling people that it is part of the Reborn Mod. Also what did you think of the name? It was a tough one to pick but I felt it made sense in light of red quitting.--HeroGaming 09:35, March 6, 2012 (UTC)

Reborn Mod & Nominations
I put my opinion on the Reborn mod blog page. And also what's the plan on wrapping up this round of Nominations? Sorry I know you are very busy.


 * Dak47922 talk contrib count 16:04, March 6, 2012 (UTC)

offer.
I probably wanted to make our ideas were in this fashion. I'm sure it would be great =) wip-mod-idea-proposal-to-create-a-unique-mod-for-mod-support-terraria-servers-with-friends Dr.elisey 19:49, March 7, 2012 (UTC)

P.s sorry Dr.elisey 19:49, March 7, 2012 (UTC)

Vandal.
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/86.163.255.171

also http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/2.39.181.153

Koggeh

Reborn mod
Hey, i have a question well questions

1. when will it be released

2.where would i get it

3. and does it actually have new bosses or bosses with the same name but different appearences

i would appreciate if you answered my question please do

Donoman 22:37, March 6, 2012 (UTC)

Bureaucrat
You've probably seen that I've given you the bureacrat rights. With just one "neutral", the agreement seemed clear enough. Of course, it's going to take some care on your part to make sure this works, especially until there are more bureaucrats to give the group a balance. But I've been impressed with your skills and fairness, so am confident you will do this well! My advice is to keep doing what you do, consulting the community and being sure to be fair and to show that you are being fair. I'm still available of course, and am happy to discuss anything you need help with. And I would also suggest that you keep working on getting more admins (and bureaucrats). Developing a good team of calm and cooperative admins is a key to keeping this wiki stable. If there's someone else who comes to mind, let's get them nominated! Congratulations on the new rights, and thanks for all your work to help this wiki -- sannse http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog)  23:01, March 6, 2012 (UTC)

Congratualtions!!!
Congrats Math on becoming a bureaucrat!! You definetely deserve it!

23:29, March 6, 2012 (UTC)Furiion52

Mod Header Template
Heya Math, just in case we begin hosting mod details (Whether it just be for the Reborn Mod, or for other mods too) I've created a template on the ForTesting wiki that could be of use on those pages. I'd love to hear what you think ^ᴗ^ Thanks. Edit: Also I forgot (silly me) Big ups on becoming the wiki's new B-crat, you deserve it!

Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 06:03, March 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for going and making a template. I imagine we'd want to update it with a fancy image or something, but it looks good so far. Thanks for the congrats too ^^

I stuffed up big time!!
I was uploading a pic to this page when I pressed publish it came up with this???

I can't undo it can you plz? I'm majorly sorry :( http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Gold_Shortsword

08:37, March 7, 2012 (UTC)Furiion52

Possible Vandal
Hey there Math, this guy seems to be a bit of a suspicious character. Thought I'd report him to you after he made several questionable edits to various pages. Thanks ^ᴗ^

Needless page
Thanks for deleting that page but it came back http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/THE_POTABALL_GUIDE it was made by http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User:CJPC

Chat
I'm in chat, if you wanted to discuss the mod.

Reborn Mod
Hey Math, the team took on a few new members and in the process 2 members left. The mod is going strong and we are still in balance testing for the week. I don't feel like back mouthing them because they did a very good job while on the team so I am gonna just keep it light hearted. For the sake of clarity it boiled down to 2 things, one of which was taking donations for the mod. Red was agaisnt this from the begining so it is not happening and the second thing was the enchanment system they had worked on was not working well in balance testing so the majority of the team decided to take it out for this patch until it was balanced right. This got a couple people upset because they put so much work into it. So we lost 2 memebers who are upset right now and may still come back. We took on new members and the team is still huge and the mod is almost done. I just wanted to clear things up.HeroGaming 22:14, March 7, 2012 (UTC)

Also I am gonna stay out of the blog post about this so the wiki can make up their own mind. Also this project is becoming semi open source after its release what we are going to do is release all the files that you make the mod with before they are encrypted so that the community can continue development no matter what happns to the team. This is great because we can continue working on the mod with our team and if someone in the community is better so can they. It really is a community mod. Any who just wanted to clear that up. It is a team mod but it is the communities after release. We don't own it the community does.HeroGaming 22:19, March 7, 2012 (UTC)

Hey We are just going to use another wiki i think? Didn't mean to go so much back and forth. The team just wants to start adding info now because we are on recipies. maybe we will merge it over later? who knows we took on some new members after a couple left. i think 3 left now out of the 10 but the new memebers are moving even faster. I dont know they just want to start working on crafting right now because we tested balnce and have a general idea now. All the hallowed ore is done. I just know how long things take to happen here and i dont want to leave them hanging. We are so close to being done and this is kinda the last bit. I know we lost some team members but it is back and forth and we just couldnt have donations for the mod. I guess its just best for you to see the release and how it goes fom there and then you guys can make up your minds. Again sorry for all the drama.

later math.HeroGaming 02:41, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

LOL Ok so we hve almost worked out all team issues and i think the team has mostly worked things out. I dont know if you guys wanna see us do our first update then decide that is cool but i just wanted to let you know that all group issues have been worked out.HeroGaming 07:58, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

Question
Hello again. I just became the Lead Admin for the Starfarer Wiki, a much bereft and unloved wiki. I thought i'd ask you for some tips on making a good Wiki with a large userbase. Also I have wanted to get into F/SN Zero but have been a little scared. Does it do credit to the original series?Lordgiza 18:23, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

You want to talk?
Hi. Koggeh has made me aware that you wanted to talk to me. Ill be on steam at some point today to message me if want!


 * Dak47922 Talk  19:00, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

RE:HERO
Hey Math, the team is not against other mods. We are strongly against mods that take our content though. Basically the 2 guys had made a thread saying that they were releasing the whole teams work and we had to have admins step in to stop that. It has all been handled by the admins and they have signed releases stating that the will not be releasing Reborn's content without crediting reborn. So if they release a mod it will be reborn with a few things that our team thought was not good for balance They will be taking donations which we are against. (The team funded the little money we needed for hosting to keep from asking for more than we needed) When the 4 guys left 1 immediately came back and so did another yesterday. So really only 2 left. 1 of those 2 was hindering our progress and now that they are gone we are able to build the system the way it was intended to be built from the start.
 * 1 Click installer.
 * Auto updates.
 * No donations.
 * No hosting on shady websites that ask for surveys and pay the person who uploaded the file.
 * Only works if you have a legit copy of terraria. ( I am sure someone will make bootlegged reborn.)
 * Balanced content with weapons that don't break the game by being too powerful.

We fought very hard back and forth about these issues and we lost a couple members due to sticking to our guns. We really do want a mod that isn't trying to make money and is simple to use and installs with progressive content added at least 2x a month. The bottom line is for a few they thought these weren't big issues and for the majority of the team they are the biggest issues. We have taken on new coders who are far more talented and have good motives. I am perfectly fine with other mods being on the wiki. The team though didn't want someone taking all of our hard work and publishing it under a joke name and then getting it published to the wiki. Again sorry for the drama and we are looking forward to release day.

HeroGaming 01:44, March 9, 2012 (UTC)

Wikia Banner - Revision 2
Hey man, sorry this took so long for me to get done, my essays at school have been taking so long to type out. Hope you like it though ^ᴗ^

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5cV41Yg7luA/T1l6GypsdXI/AAAAAAAAATg/2BV8Rvaxjlw/s640/Wiki%2520Banner_Revision%25202.png


 * Well, under your and Dzylon's instruction, I darkened the shadows behind the text. I don't exactly like the look of it per se, but I do think it makes the text easier to read. Also, if I may, I'd recommend against resizing, mainly due to distortion ^ᴗ^

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xVo6_hNuKQY/T1mdOyPTtYI/AAAAAAAAAUg/g9v84UBy0sc/s640/Wiki%2520Banner_5th%2520Revision.png


 * All done! Ready when you are, and no changes to the imagemap :)

Reborn
Well we are going to announce the release and give the download link as well as instructions (very simple instructions). You guys can host on the front page if you want to but don't feel obligated. A lot of youtubers are going to be playing the mod so that's where we believe the mass of the downloads are going to come from. we are just planning on doing the release and using the wiki we have set up atm. If you guys change your mind great. We are just gonna be online and answering lot of comments and helping people with any issues we missed. (IF) we missed something major we are going to use the auto update feature to fix it asap. not silly little bugs but if there was something causing people to lose a weapon or not open chest we would hotfix it. (we have never had either of those. they are just examples of major problems)

We are sticking to the 10th because we are done with what we needed for patch 1. we are going to try and surprise people with the second update a week early but we will see. Right now all we have to do is crafting recopies and adjusting drop rates for certain things. We are trying to balance the new hallowed ore tier for cost of ore per dps.

No matter what you guys decide it will work out. This is just a community mod. if you wanna use it on the wiki then we are happy if not no big.HeroGaming 05:09, March 9, 2012 (UTC)

Does this Wiki have a live-chat PM system?

New Background
Hey, I noticed you put that new background into place. It was something of a "rough draft", so if you have any thoughts or recommendations, please let me know. Thanks!


 * Also, I saw that commenting is not present on mod articles. Is this deliberate, or does the custom namespace simply not allow it?

Continue help with Installing Reborn Mod
Sorry that I left the chat for a while. So... leave a message on my talk page showing the steps to install the Reborn Mod. I have a copy of my Worlds and Players files in a new folder with nothing else in it.

Orion76 02:56, March 11, 2012 (UTC)

Hey thanks for the heads up =D I enjoy helping out at this since im playing and editing/creating pages at the same in the wiki makes it kinda cool. Ill keep posting stuff up and thatnks again for the box thing. I had an idea that it could be the templates but since i didnt wanna mess up well i didnt try =/ anyways if anything let me know and yeah ill put it up there (by that i mean the code lol)

PrakatusPrime 03:43, March 11, 2012 (UTC)

Math
I cannot use the wikia chat but may be able to use a different chat. If you have PSN send a friend request to thekingofgames13 (Yes the name sucks I didn't make the name.) Koggeh

Image DB
Hey, you can lock the page. It can be found here: Mod:Image Database. I'm taking a *short* break, and then I'll add the rest.

CHAT???
If you can make it to the chat plz do :D

Furiion52

Hey Math, I tried to get on the chat but it wont let me. It says I do not have permission to get on it. If it because i keep comeing and leaving that is because sometimes when im on the chat everything frezzes and for others i leave and come back but im not doing it on purpose. So can you please figure out what is the problem and why i cannot get on thw chat. Thank You.Flamer125 02:31, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

hey forget my last post I didint check my talk page before i wrote you.Flamer125 02:39, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

Crow342 06:05, March 12, 2012 (UTC)crow342Crow342 06:05, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

Im gonna use you in one of these pictures okay?

Please reply back so i can have permission to post it.



Thank you!

FanArt
As you can see, the Fanart page has been getting a little out of hand. You locked it, so I would like to propose the following changes:
 * Decrease gallery image size so that there are four to five images per row, instead of three.
 * Divide the page into three sections, in this order:
 * Traditional Media, for paintings, drawings, and complex synthetic images (ex: here and here)
 * Terraria Creations, for structures and in-game pixel art (ex: here)
 * Paint Creations, for simple computer generated images/sprites (ex: here and here)


 * Also, several parts of the background were bothering me, so I made some changes.
 * http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/terraria/images/2/29/Wiki_background_v2.png