User:Senrigan

= My Other Pages = (Mostly for testing wiki markup and remembering interesting snippets.)

User:Senrigan/Test

Active editors on this wiki: This wiki's total registered users vs active ones: ' vs '

Impose an FPS limit on the game to reduce CPU/GPU load: I only know about the AMD utility since I run an AMD card. I presume it's the same case for Nvidia. Works for me; the game was consistently loading my gaming rig pretty high, seeing laptop-like temps was really annoying. With RadeonPro imposing an FPS cap I saw that go down to regular PC game load values.
 * Nvidia cards = Nvidia control panel
 * AMD cards = RadeonPro (this utility is a free download)

= About =

Almost didn't buy the alpha - I generally try to avoid unfinished games due to burnout (get tired of them before the full-featured actual retail release comes out), but I heard only good things from friends who got it so I decided to take their word for it. Was very pleasantly surprised; this isn't much like many alpha releases I've seen as a developer myself. This feels more like a beta, albeit still missing a bunch of stuff - so I suppose that does technically qualify it as an alpha :p

I picked this username at random btw, so if you're looking for a person with the same username from a different website it's not me. Sorry. The names I wanted were already taken - strange, that, considering how uncommon (if short) they were. I'd have suspected bots but can they even get past the kitten-matching captcha? Shrug. Anyway, if you got anything to ask or say to me just hit up my talk page.

- Senrigan (talk) 04:39, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

= Which Wiki = There are 3 wikis. The other two are http://www.cubeworldwiki.net/ and http://wiki.cubeworldforum.org/ - the former appears to be locked from editing (well, you need to register, and registration appears to be on hold so effectively it's locked), while the latter appears to suffer an influx of bots (check out the Recent Changes page and browse a few of the entries - if you've hung around wikis for any significant amount of time you'll know what you're seeing).

This wiki seemed dead though, heh, considering previous activity pretty much slowly just grinded to a halt by the end of last year, 2013. While cubeworldwiki.net has articles that look much more complete, for some reason it seems to load slow at times. Cubeworldforum seems to be still attached to the whole social media thing, yeah no thanks. Eh, I'm all for sharing info but I came here just for a wiki, not to likewhore and sign up to "follow" yet more things I don't care about. I don't see any navbox templates and similar things either, and the high article count makes me suspicious they're simply counting everything including user and talk pages, and given the amount of bots I saw on the very first page of the Recent Changes list alone I suspect a lot of that activity is just plain old garbage.

Also, I've been a gamer for a long time. I've done the whole guides and FAQs and wiki articles before. A decade ago I might have been happy to be one of those no-life 1,000+ post members of various forums, but eventually I realised that crap was just a waste of time. The best thing about wikis is that you can update when you feel like it, or simply wait for someone else to pick up the slack when you don't feel like it. No obligation, unlike writing a FAQ (I really hate those half-assed, unfinished ones that get posted to sites like GameFAQs then the author disappears). With a wiki if you get bored you can just quit, and someone else will (presumably) pick up from where you left off. Or wipe out your half-assed crap and start anew. Shrug. Point being you don't need to slog at it if you don't feel like it, and eventually shit will still get written (unless the whole wiki tanks). Of course it's better if you don't simply half-ass stuff, but at least with a wiki your work won't be forever "to be updated later" when you move on to different things.

Finally, in defiance of common sense and decent organisation habits, I've decided to post more info here rather than up top where it should logically go. As you've probably guessed I'm not young anymore, just a couple years shy of 40 actually - I'm a developer from the take-things-apart school of thought, I grew up on BASIC and Z80 assembler spaghetti code with an unhealthy dose of pen-and-paper AD&D (2nd Edition) thrown in later. That said, even I find wiki markup to be rather appalling. Editing this wiki has been rather enlightening at times, actually, even though, say, reading wiki markup documentation occasionally makes me feel like committing vehicular homicide. Hmm, that reminds me, there's supposed to be a Carmageddon kickstarter coming out this year soon. Welp, later.

- Senrigan (talk) 02:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Things have been really quiet lately. Well, not much change from before I signed on, heh. The game hasn't updated though, so that's understandable, and I've run out of things to mess around with, short of another overhaul. I suppose the various images can be updated and reorganized, but I haven't been playing the game much either, haven't taken any screenshots recently. Things will probably remain this quiet until the next game update, which does sound fairly big. Not to worry though, it's likely the other 2 wikis will see the brunt of the first wave of changes; I think it's better to wait a bit until things have settled down and confirmations made from player observations, rather than rushing to update just because "FIRST!!1!". Until then, ta.

- Senrigan (talk) 00:57, 3 April 2014 (UTC)