Lots of Exploration Badges

[GuyPerfect]

Near the top - Tons of new Exploration badges, all of which need articles and screenshots and all the old badge and zone pages need to be updated for the accolades and new badges.

I've already done Perez Park and Boomtown and am preparing to upload my pictures for Dark Astoria, but doing every step myself is a lot of work with very slow progress, so I'm asking someone else to pick up the ball and help out with this.

I'll be going around the zones grabbing the badges on one of my characters anyway, so the pictures, text descriptions and how-to-gets can all be taken care of on my end.

What I'd like someone else (or a number of people) to take care of are the following:

For each new exploration accolade

• Article needs to be made
• Description is the same for all of them save for the zone name.
• Document How to Get with Hero and Villain titles as applicable.
• Update the CIT badge number according to CIT's badge list
  

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For each new exploration badge

• Article needs to be made
• Leave Description blank--I'll handle that.
• Leave Location blank save for "Its coordinates are (X, Y, Z)" according to the Issue 19 Badges article.
• Update the CIT badge number according to CIT's badge list
  
• I'll fill in the rest.

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For each old exploration badge

• Update with a link to the accolade

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For each zone

• Update Exploration Badges with badge boxes for new badges

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For all badge articles

• Need redirects from "_____" to "_____ Badge"

[Sekoia]

For all badge articles

• Need redirects from "_____" to "_____ Badge"

I can have SekoiaBot do this quite easily. I'll run it periodically over the next week as articles get created.

[GuyPerfect]

Actually, all of this can be automated if you wouldn't mind doing some work...

You can accomplish it pretty simply with the following algorithm:

• Download CIT's Accolade and Exploration lists to generate a list of badge names and corresponding CIT IDs
  
• Download the Exploration section of the Issue 19 Badges article to generate a list of zones, the badges added within those zones, and the locations of those badges. These are the "New Badges"
  
  • Zone name is specified as the sub-section header (begins with "===")
  • The badge names and coordinates are the lines beginning with "{{Location_Row" within the sub-sections
• Download The Accolades section of the Issue 19 Badges article to get a list of exploration accolades and the zones they belong to
  • Badges appear one per table row (begin with "|-"), and only the first row is not needed
• Download the Exploration Badges sections of all detected zone articles to retrieve the list of "Old Badges"
  • Some zones do not currently have an Exploration Badges section. These need to be added directly following the Neighborhoods sections
• For each zone
  • If 8 Old Badges are detected, skip to the next zone (they're already documented)
  • Create an article (with redirect) for the zone's accolade badge using the template provided below
    • Links to both Old and New badges should be provided and alphabetized. Only worry about one list using the Hero titles for now
  • For each Old Badge
    • Add the accolade to the Accolade or Accolades section of the badge's article
      • If no Accolade or Accolades section exists, add one directly before the Supergroup Badge section
  • For each New Badge
    • Create an article (with redirect) using the template provided below

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Accolade Template

Code: [Select]

{{Image|Badge_tourism_hazard_accolade.png}}
__noeditsection____notoc__
== Description ==

{{Missing}}

== Merit Reward ==

Upon acquiring this badge, a character will earn 5 [[Reward Merits]].

== How to Get ==

Obtain the following badges:
{{Howtoget_start}}
#BADGELIST#
{{Howtoget_end}}

== See Also ==

* [[Badges]]
* [[Issue 19 Badges]]
* [[Hero Accolades]]
* [[Villain Accolades]]

== External Links ==
{{CIT Badge|ID=#CITID#}}
{{BadgeHunter Badge}}

[[Category:Hero Accolade Badges]]
[[Category:Villain Accolade Badges]]
Replace #CITID# with the corresponding CIT ID
Replace #BADGELIST# with 8 lines following this template:

Code: [Select]

{{Howtoget_item|badge=#TITLE# Badge|icon=Badge_tourism_hazard.png|type=Exploration|howto=[[#TITLE# Badge#Location|#ZONE#]] {{coords|#X#|#Y#|#Z#}}}}
Replace #TITLE# with the badge's title
Replace #ZONE# with the zone name
Replace #X#, #Y# and #Z# with the badge's coordinates

Exploration Template

Code: [Select]

__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__

{{Image|badge_tourism_hazard.png}}

== Description ==

{{Missing}}

== Location ==

Its [[coordinates]] are {{coords|#X#|#Y#|#Z#}}.

== Accolade ==

{{howtoget_start}}
{{howtoget_item|center|icon=Badge_tourism_hazard_accolade.png|size=54px|badge=#ACCOLADE# Badge}}
{{howtoget_end}}

== Supergroup Badge ==

{{howtoget_start}}
{{howtoget_item|center|icon=Badge_sgitem.png|size=54px|badge=#ZONE# Beacon Badge}}
{{howtoget_end}}

== See Also ==

* [[Badges]]
* [[Issue 19 Badges]]
* [[Hero Exploration Badges]]
* [[Villain Exploration Badges]]

== External Links ==
{{CIT Badge|ID=#CITID#}}
{{BadgeHunter Badge}}

[[Category:Hero Exploration Badges]]
[[Category:Villain Exploration Badges]]

Replace #X#, #Y# and #Z# with the badge's coordinates
Replace #ACCOLADE# with the corresponding accolade's badge title
Replace #ZONE# with the zone name
Replace #CITID# with the corresponding CIT ID

[Aggelakis]

Don't upload any images. Blondeshell did that already (look in the recent changes to see my edits of your badge additions.) In fact, Blondeshell has been doing most of our new-Issue badge updates the last several updates.

[Sekoia]

Actually, all of this can be automated if you wouldn't mind doing some work...

The badge redirects, I already have a script for and can just run it so it requires no time investment. The algorithm you outline is doable, but would require a chunk coding time, which I don't really have, and it probably wouldn't save all that much time in the overall scheme of things. So I'll have to defer the rest to someone else.

[eabrace]

Exploration badges for Perez, Boomtown, Dark Astoria, and Striga are now complete.  Approx. 84 of those left to go.  Then the Accolades.  Then the zone pages need to be updated with the new badge info...

[Aggelakis]

Updated Perez, Boom, DA, and Striga. Perez and Boom accolades were already there. Added DA and Striga's accolades.

Will follow along and assist where I'm able.

[eabrace]

New Crey's Folly and Firebase Zulu exploration badges added.  I also went back and added the new accolade to each of the pre-I19 badges in DA, Striga, and Crey's.

[Aggelakis]

I was going to get to the zone lists and accolades, but then I got caught up playing with the new Mids'. :p

I will see if I can fit it in before work tomorrow, otherwise tomorrow night.

[GuyPerfect]

Don't worry about it; I already grabbed 'em. I wrote a program to help me out, and got all the accolade and exploration badges added, updated the existing explorations with links to accolades, and updated all zone pages with the new exploration badges.

I did this because I wanted to play with Eabrace last night and he refused because badges weren't done. I tried to remind him that he pays for a game, not a job, but he wouldn't listen. (-:

The following still needs to be taken care of:

• Exploration badges need text descriptions and how-to-get descriptions
• Redirects need to be made for all new badges from "_____" to "_____ Badge"

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The following zones still have badge articles that need info:

• Cascade Archipelago
  
• The Chantry
• Abandoned Sewer Network
• Sewer Network
• Terra Volta
• Eden
  
• The Hive
  
• The Storm Palace
  
• The Abyss
  
• Monster Island

[GuyPerfect]

The [Abandoned] Sewer Network badges will probably need maps not unlike Dark Astoria. To say "This badge is 687 yards NNENE of the Skyway City Sector marker" won't be terribly helpful due to the complexity of the zone layout.

[Sekoia]

Redirects need to be made for all new badges from "_____" to "_____ Badge"

Done.

[GuyPerfect]

I've just finished documenting the following zones on the wiki:

• Monster Isle
• The Abyss
• Eden
• The Hive
• The Storm Palace

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However, I did not add their information to CIT.

[GuyPerfect]

All exploration badges are now documented on the wiki. Not sure about CIT.