User talk:Apprentice125

Archive 1 (October 2011 - November 2014)

RE:
No problem :) RainingPain17 (talk) 20:08, December 2, 2014 (UTC)

Re:
Danke schön, mein Freund. It is good to be back. :) 23:08, December 4, 2014 (UTC)
 * Absolutely no problem at all, you two deserved it. 23:16, December 4, 2014 (UTC)

Re
Thanks AP. I knew of the private beta for some time and was wondering when they would release the footage. -- 00:08, December 5, 2014 (UTC)

Infoboxes
Hey thanks for fixing the infoboxes which mysteriously turned white as I didnt have the time to do it myself. Speaking of it, did you change the infobox text color to black? If so can you change it back as black is impossible to see on a dark grey background. -- 04:17, December 5, 2014 (UTC)

Re
Its fine. For the background though we will need a vote on it to make it official. Wish I could help with it but Ive always had problems with backgrounds. -- 07:29, December 24, 2014 (UTC)

Hey!
Great work, you're making the wiki look awesome! 20:46, December 31, 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, man. About time for a Hardline background. 21:13, December 31, 2014 (UTC)

Favor
Hey AP can you create these remaining trailer pages for Heroes? You can find the videos here. -- 18:38, January 2, 2015 (UTC)

Countdown to War
If I gave you access to Countdown to War, AP, would you be able to add information regarding it to the wiki? Let me know if you can. -- 05:44, January 11, 2015 (UTC)

Hardline Map Names
Whered you find them? -- 03:56, January 13, 2015 (UTC)

Re: High Tension
@dirtydeathdog (Visceral Developer) seemed to indicate it had on Twitter. 19:39, January 14, 2015 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks! I've been rather inactive lately but I'm trying to keep up on new information now... 19:46, January 14, 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, yeah I talked to him yesterday and got that in order. 20:28, January 14, 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm able to and planning on attending. Sorry you guys can't make it. 05:14, January 15, 2015 (UTC)

Yo
Jorge contacted you via email about the upcoming event right? He originally asked me but I refered him to you since I cant go do to having no leave in the USAF at the moment. -- 23:32, January 14, 2015 (UTC)

Reply
Hello, Apprentice125! Uh, thanks for the welcome to the wiki! Personally, I want to contribute here as much as possible, however, don't worry, I don't see the need to be a moderator or admin or anything. :) The reason why I joined was basically to fill in the many blanks on the wiki, and considering that I am an avid BF4 player (believe it or not I actually don't own it, but I play it all the time at my friend's place, but I'm working on building a gaming PC of my own), I want to fill them in as much as possible to help others looking for info! Thanks so much, and I really appreciate it!

FSMPastafarian (talk) 16:18, January 21, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Thanks!
Roger that! Thanks so much, really appreciate it. Also, uh, one more thing. When creating that flag-chart template as seen right beneath the equipment template on flood zone, what template is there to create that chart, or how do I even do it? Thanks!

FSMPastafarian (talk) 17:16, January 21, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Technical Problem
Hey, Apprentice 125, so, while filling in what equipment the combatants have in Conquest on Caspian Border, but when trying to create a redirecting link for the M1161 ITV, it claims no such article exists. Could you check it out? I have no idea what's up. Thanks, and stay frosty.

FSMPastafarian (talk) 20:12, January 22, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Weapon License?
So........? -- 07:23, January 25, 2015 (UTC)


 * Hua. I would remove the hyperlink for it however as that doesnt deserve a page by it self, aside from mentioning it in an article sonewhere. -- 07:40, January 25, 2015 (UTC)

Silk Road Rush
Hey, Apprrentice, I just had a question about the Rush gamemode on Silk Road after the September 2014 patch. I'm not sure if you could help with this, but how much did Rush on Silk Road change after the patch? I'm unable to find out because I'm building a gaming PC for BF4, so I essentially can't play it :I sorry, mate. Thanks though!

FSMPastafarian (talk) 16:02, January 27, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Or, hold on. All I need to know is what are the vehicles used by the defenders in the 3rd stage?

Silk Road
Hey! So, uh, hope I did a good job with finishing up Silk Road. Does it look like anything's wrong with it/needs work? http://battlefield.wikia.com/wiki/Silk_Road

FSMPastafarian (talk) 22:12, January 28, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Re:
Alright, let's do that! I was wondering if I should post some event footage (highlight reel) on a wiki channel, or make a personal channel to do so. 00:36, February 2, 2015 (UTC)

Really Just Wanted to Say...
Nice job on the new background for the wiki! Mess With The Best, Die Like The Rest 01:36, February 2, 2015 (UTC)

Giants of Karelia
Yo! hey, I just had a quick request: could you possibly find the map overview for Giants of Karelia, and I mean map overview in the sense of this: http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131129020827/battlefield/images/thumb/9/98/Battlefield_4_Flood_Zone_Overview.jpg/500px-Battlefield_4_Flood_Zone_Overview.jpg

Regarding Giants, I can't find one anywhere for it. Thanks!

FSMPastafarian (talk) 22:57, February 3, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Hardline Assignment project
Hey AP I have a job for you. We now have access to all 257 Assignments for Hardline. Can you add them to the Battlefield Hardline Assignments page? After its all said and done, we'll decide if we need to or not on how to divy up the page like we did for BF4 assingments. You can find a video of ALL 257 assignments here. You'll need to get the images off Battlelog, however though Ive also asked Bela94 to obtain the images as well. -- 02:50, February 4, 2015 (UTC)

Sure thing, I'll give you the login. Email me at alexkrusemark27(at)gmail.com 06:12, February 5, 2015 (UTC)

Giants of Karelia
Yo! Thanks for adding the commander resource things - I forgot to add them after I revamped the descriptions XD Also, have you been able to find a map of the general area of Giants of Karelia? If not, no worries, take your time. I'm just unable to find anything wherever I go :P stay frosty!

FSMPastafarian (talk) 12:55, February 6, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Favor
I am unable to access my labtop ATM to change the css. Can you change Bela94's username color to that of a TU? Thanks -- 22:05, February 6, 2015 (UTC)

Only In Battlefield Video Errors
The "Only in Battlefield" videos for BF4 have seem to have been removed from the wikia. Can you reupload them for the respective pages? -- 03:01, February 15, 2015 (UTC)

Hey
Any thoughts on this concept? (obviously the colors themselves can be changed to look better) 21:39, February 16, 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah I agree about darker colors, and grouping together is good as well. It could possibly be applied to other games, but Hardline has lots of faction weapons while other games only have a few, and Hardline has a clear Blue=Cops and Red/Orange=Criminals theme, while other games it would be harder to associate a color with each faction. What colors do you think would look good for "Default" and "Assignment"? I just used white and gold but we could change those. :P 23:05, February 16, 2015 (UTC)


 * Alright, I'll mess with it and see what looks good. (Oh, and feel free to copy my sandbox code to yours if you want to mess with it.)


 * Btw, do you know if we can get rid of the purple fill-color in the infoboxes and navboxes? it really doesn't go with the Hardline theme. 23:16, February 16, 2015 (UTC)

Color
Hey, seems the color is in some templates but not others. It's in the code of each one, rather than a global setting. "background:#3C3E4A;"

- Template:Infobox/specialization

So they will have to be changed individually. 23:38, February 16, 2015 (UTC)


 * If you want to go around removing it from each template, that would be helpful. 23:48, February 16, 2015 (UTC)


 * Hmm, if the background color is deleted on navboxes like Template:Weapons/BF3, it defaults to while rather than gray. So we need to type in the hex-code of our background gray. 23:59, February 16, 2015 (UTC)

Nice job! you're better at this than I am. 00:11, February 17, 2015 (UTC)


 * Hmm, the background is default gray now, but we don't have border between sections. Seems like the white makes up the border between sections, making it look at lot better. It'd be better to set the default BG to white, and key in the grey for each box. 00:13, February 17, 2015 (UTC)


 * Yup, that works. Now we've just got to change each navbox back. 00:29, February 17, 2015 (UTC)


 * Nice work! Goes a lot better with the new theme. I would have done more of it but I handed off the computer. Now for us to find colors for the WiP...? 01:24, February 17, 2015 (UTC)

Final Stand DLC map overviews
Yo, Apprentice! Have you made any progress finding the map overviews to the four Final Stand DLC maps?

FSMPastafarian (talk) 22:43, February 16, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Yeah, sure thing! also, sorry to hear you were in the hospital. You okay? What happened? ;-;

I finished adding the text updates to Giants of Karelia, and I will add map layout photos soon. And regarding Operation Whiteout, don't expect me to delete anything, because looking at it, Patch is doing one helluva job there. I may just add a few details he left out and add on to the text. :P Stay frosty!

FSMPastafarian (talk) 19:03, February 19, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Licensing Images
Alright, I got the previous message, and thanks for the heads-up. Just a quick question. How do I exactly license an image, because when I looked I couldn't find a clear explanation. :P sorry, I sound like a total noob. And just to be clear, you found the map overviews for the Final Stand maps? Where? Stay frosty

FSMPastafarian (talk) 18:05, February 21, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Hey, finally got the hang of licensing the images, and I did it for all of the ones on Giants of Karelia. I'm looking for images of map layouts for Operation Whiteout, and I've found all but ones for Obliteration and Defuse. I'm not worried about the Defuse one, cause no one ever plays it. However, could you find a map overview for Obliteration on Whiteout and upload it? Thanks, mate. Stay frosty!

FSMPastafarian (talk) 20:42, February 21, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

Chat
-- 01:39, February 22, 2015 (UTC)

:D
Yo! Thanks so much, man! You just did me a huge favor! :D hope it wasn't too much of a hassle though ;) thanks to that roadblock being fixed, I'm gonna finally add the map layouts to Op. Whiteout and then I'm moving on to do work on Lost Islands. :D THANKS! Stay frosty.

FSMPastafarian (talk) 16:14, February 22, 2015 (UTC)FSMPastafarian

They Must Know!
Going to sleep for work in the morning but maybe you can write a story on this. REMEMBER! It is vital you SHOOT THE LIMBS OFF or YOU WILL DIE. Thanks be to the Marker for We shall be whole again! -- 04:43, February 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * Also -- 04:46, February 26, 2015 (UTC)

YouTube Channel Recommendations
Your free to add my Battlefield videos to the Wiki channel. I also recommend adding Official Battlefield videos to the channel playlist. -- 04:27, March 9, 2015 (UTC)

RE:
You're right about the Hardline dirt bikes, both the cop and criminal bikes are KLR650 models, so they should be on the same page.

I haven't been able to identify the criminal helicopters yet, I was looking through some helis the other day, but no match yet. At least we already know the models of the police choppers.

About that couch - Visceral devs mentioned it when I was at EA. Apparently it is an Easter Egg "vehicle" which can be entered and "driven", and can allegedly be found somewhere on Dust Bowl. 19:51, March 9, 2015 (UTC)

Re
Go for it. Ill be pocking it up tomarrow as well during my lunch but I probably wont even touch SP until this weekend. Until then hold down the SP Fort! -- 04:12, March 17, 2015 (UTC)

Hardline Images
Can you pull out the Premium and Special Battlepack images as well as the XP Boost images and put them on their respective pages? -- 03:46, March 18, 2015 (UTC)

New Hardline Videos
I uploaded a few Hardline videos to my youtube such as trophy walkthroughs and a Dead Space Easter egg. Feel free to use them! -- 09:24, March 21, 2015 (UTC)

4K renders
Hello :)

I made this winrar archive with 4K renders compressed with PNGGauntlet for minimum filesize.

Feel free to download http://www.megafileupload.com/1K0b/Battlefield_&_Call_of_Duty.rar

Maxwell123 (talk) 14:43, April 12, 2015 (UTC)

Hardline Gold Knives
Can you add the Hardline gold knife images and information to the Knife/Battlefield Hardline page? -- 21:24, April 13, 2015 (UTC)

Re
Yeah, Ill probably ask for it one of these days. Since my PS4 is connected to my youtune account, however, it may just be easier to add videos to the channel rather than upload them. -- 04:52, April 14, 2015 (UTC)

We've Gone Black
You alive? -- 04:49, May 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * The Hardline and BF4 DLC map pages could use some work. Also, yes the background is black. I know Wikia has been doing some changes to their format but this is the first time Im seeing our background missing. -- 05:56, May 22, 2015 (UTC)


 * Appears that the background is working once again.... -- 06:13, May 22, 2015 (UTC)

1942 Aircraft Picture Mission
Can you add all these pictures to their respective pages on this website? If you see anything else on the website feel free to add it. -- 04:36, May 23, 2015 (UTC)
 * BF Vietnam too if possible -- 04:50, May 23, 2015 (UTC)

Transport Helicicopter of BFHL IRL FOUND!
Found the IRL counterpart of the Transport Helicopter (Battlefield Hardline)! Turns out it IS a Black Hawk but it ISNT! Its actually the Sikorsky S-70 which became the original Black Hawk!. Its more or less the civilian variant. -- 05:09, May 23, 2015 (UTC)

M16
Hi there,

Around a week ago I added some categories to the M16 page. They were then removed with no explanation. Now, I'm sure the user had a perfectly good reason why he did so and as a result I would like to know so I don't re-offend and get myself blocked. I realised as an admin you may be able to shed some light on why the categories were removed. I'm merely asking out of respect, please do not block me for enquiring.

Thank you :)

Slow Reader (talk) 14:48, June 22, 2015 (UTC)

Oh ok. that makes perfect sense. Thank you! :)

PDNB

Slow Reader (talk) 10:07, July 1, 2015 (UTC)

Re: L96 Rename
Negative. Until it is changed in the vanilla version of BF4, it should stay named as such. A note on both pages is acceptable though. -- 04:08, July 29, 2015 (UTC)

Chat
-- 02:44, July 31, 2015 (UTC)

TemporaryLeave
USAF is sending me to Florida this Friday for a week until August 14th so I'll be gone and unable to perform any admin duties in the meantime. Its up to you. -- 21:47, August 2, 2015 (UTC)


 * Nope -- 03:53, August 3, 2015 (UTC)

Portable Infoboxes
We’re reaching out to a few of our top communities, hoping to get you on board with the migration to the new infobox markup. And we have tools to help!

Why we’re doing this

Simply put: Most current infobox structure translates very poorly to mobile experiences, and indeed any device that doesn’t use desktop-style displays. On desktops and laptops, they often look amazing. The problem is that Wikia’s traffic is trending mobile.

There is an important graph from our forum post about infoboxes a couple weeks back, and I want to share it here as well:



Mobile is the future. Not just for Wikia, but for the web as a whole. Take a look at the recent trends and future growth predictions for mobile traffic - it's staggering.

We partnered with the Wikia community to create this new markup to make sure that your hard work can be displayed on mobile devices (as well as any future technologies) easily and without any new coding conventions. It’ll take some effort up front, to be sure, but we’re here to help, and the work you put in now will pay for itself tenfold in the future.

Tools we’ve designed to ease the process

We’ve enabled two new features on your community. One is a tool for migrating the “old” infobox code to the new markup. It identifies templates on your wikia that look like infobox templates and places a box on the right rail of the template page. When you click the “Generate draft markup” button in this box, it opens a new tab containing a draft of your infobox using the new markup.

The second is a new feature on Special:Insights that will highlight which infoboxes on your wikia have not been migrated to the new infobox markup. It’s fairly intuitive - you can click on the infobox title link itself to see the old markup, or simply click the “Convert!” button on the right, which performs the same action as the “Generate draft markup” button.

This is our help page for the new markup. I’ll help get things rolling by converting a template or two as an example if you’d like me to, as well as watching this forum post for any questions.

Knakveey (talk) 23:04, August 13, 2015 (UTC)

Back


After surviving the hot and humid lands of Florida for a week I've FINALLY returned! In other news the new background and theme looks great! Think you could get a header for the theme to go at the top of the page? It appears as a black bar when scrolling all the way up on the page. Im in the process of updating myself on past events for the week. Keep me posted. -- 01:44, August 16, 2015 (UTC)


 * Notice it? -- 03:06, August 16, 2015 (UTC)

Criminal Activity Masks
Can you get the Criminal Activity masks to put into the table on the Headgear page? -- 03:36, August 17, 2015 (UTC)

Image Mission
Can you make this image transparent and then replace it with new image on the Survivalist page? -- 16:54, August 17, 2015 (UTC)


 * If its not too much trouble, can you also add the three Bounty Hunter coin images? -- 17:09, August 17, 2015 (UTC)

Twitte Widget
Ill take a look when I come back from Chicago tomarrow. In the meantime a COD Wiki or Staff member could take a look. -- 13:33, August 22, 2015 (UTC)


 * Turns out I no longer have the rights to edit the Widget or any other. Makes less sense since Im the one who created it in the first place. I'll have to have staff look into it.


 * Fixed! -- 22:30, August 25, 2015 (UTC)

Robbery Scout Helicopter
Do you know what vehicle that is on Battlelog for the Scout Helicopter? We already have a disambig for it so preferaby we dont want to make a page for that name. -- 02:06, August 25, 2015 (UTC)

RE: Videos
No prob, man! 16:20, August 25, 2015 (UTC)

Portable Infobox Complete
Hi Apprentice125,

The infobox conversion you asked me to do has been complete for some time now... Just was a little busy and forgot to reach out to you!

You can see it live on this page here;

http://battlefield.wikia.com/wiki/AK-47#Battlefield:_Bad_Company_2:_Vietnam

and you can approve the draft and make it the standard infobox for weapon infoboxes here;

http://battlefield.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Infobox/weapon/Draft

Let me know if you have any questions,

Knakveey (talk) 20:03, August 25, 2015 (UTC)

:P
Ah beat me in the editing conflict did ya :P -- 01:36, August 26, 2015 (UTC)


 * YOU WIN THIS ONE AP!!!! -- 01:39, August 26, 2015 (UTC)