Template talk:Hireling

I'll be glad to help by adding pics (or more) when you're ready. Wyoh is looking good. &rArr; meander (Contribs • Message • Email ) 23:21, August 7, 2018 (EDT)

I think the template is about ready to be both useable and useful. If you are summoning hirelings regularly, it may be worth taking the relevant pics and sticking the names of them here (e.g. Althea: Hireling_Althea.jpg; Hireling_Althea(Bar).png; Hireling_Althea(Orb).png) so anyone can then update the hireling page.
 * Hopefully then we can get all the hirelings updated with relevant info, so people know who is useful to use and when... and who is just a make-weight for increasing dungeon difficulty. There's so much stuff that's not in the wiki about how certain hirelings behave and what they can/can't do that I hope we can start capturing now &rArr; Glmfw1 (Contribs • Message • Email ) 07:12, August 8, 2018 (EDT)
 * Why wait 2 years until someone decides to do an overhaul of the template to make it useful, then make arbitrary decisions about what users will find useful, just for the sake of making changes to the template, then not actually make the full changes to the template required to make the arbitrary changes actually function properly. &rArr; Glmfw1 (Contribs • Message • Email ) 10:36, August 8, 2018 (EDT)
 * The Examine window for hirelings will vary significantly for hirelings depending on what ship's buffs and spells are currently active, so doesn't provide any useful information that isn't provided elsewhere on the page. The hotbar image has a small image of the hireling, thus hirelings can be identified purely by the appearance of the image on the hotbar (if multiple hirelings are summoned), so is very relevant information to include on the Hireling page, especially for people who have not used the hirelings regularly before &rArr; Glmfw1 (Contribs • Message • Email ) 10:42, August 8, 2018 (EDT)
 * Who's making arbitrary decisions about what users will find useful? I removed the hotbar because it is redundant, not because it isn't useful.  I don't know what you are talking about "then not actually make the full changes to the template required to make the arbitrary changes actually function properly", so you'll have to be clearer of what wasn't working.  I didn't say examine window, I said description, as in what the contract says when you read it.  Ship buffs have no affect on how the contract reads.  The small image on the hotbar is the icon used in the contract, we don't need a screenshot of the hotbar for that, just the icon from the contract (which should be uploaded if not already existing, I  actually already started setting that up. &rArr; DDOstream (Contribs • Message • Email ) 11:12, August 8, 2018 (EDT)


 * File names shouldn't have disambiguating terms if there is no need to DAB. So, following DDO:File naming policy, the file names should be Althea.jpg; Althea (orb).png; Althea (desc).png - no "Hireling" prefix and make sure there is a space between the hireling name and any, lower case, disambiguator. Also note that others may use either *.jpg or *.png for any of the images per the policy. &rArr; DDOstream (Contribs • Message • Email ) 11:16, August 8, 2018 (EDT)