User talk:Iceblade

Iceblade, maybe you would like to make a wiki entry for Forgotten Worlds that is linked from the Ultima IX page and then links to your website. We'd love to have your project entry on here. Dungy 09:01, 29 December 2010 (PST)

You mean Forgotten World?--Tribun 09:41, 29 December 2010 (PST)
 * Yes, that's what I was looking for. Wonder why it wasn't already linked to.  Thanks Tribun! Dungy 10:16, 29 December 2010 (PST)

Looks good IceBlade! Dungy 14:28, 29 December 2010 (PST)

Too wide!
Iceblade, some of us are poor folks who don't have big fancy monitors. Keep those tables under 800px or so, and they should be readable for 98% of our viewers. Dungy 17:04, 16 February 2012 (PST)
 * Another option is to not set any width at all. That's usually my preferred choice, and then the tables automatically resize to fit people's screens.  I think that approach works best in this case.  Also, try to keep those light blue headers.  They're used throughout most of the wiki, and I'm trying to keep consistency between pages.  I like to have all the tables on the wiki have the same cell spacing and borders.  It's no good if we change it all over the place.  Dungy 17:33, 16 February 2012 (PST)

Ultima IX NPCS
Would you be able to take screenshots of Sir Robin and Commander Hayes? I was never able to get those NPCs to appear the two times I played Ultima IX. Dungy 19:37, 22 February 2012 (PST)


 * okay on Sir Robin, but Commander Hayes isn't an NPC. I think he is just a corpse that appears, maybe. - User:Iceblade 20 minutes later

Anything else from Ultima IX
Anything else from Ultima IX I need to place into my umbrella? - Iceblade March 1st, 2012

I'm back
My prospectus is basically finished, so I should have some more time available for my various projects including that U9 transcript.


 * Okay, so I wasn't as energetic and available as I thought I would be. But, after moving to a new apartment and major internal progress with FW, I'm suddenly feeling more energized. Hopefully, I can get the transcript finished out by Christmas. - Iceblade Oct 16, 2012


 * Welcome back! -- Fenyx4 05:40, 17 October 2012 (PDT)

Your Road Maps
An interesting idea you have with your road maps of Ultima VII cities, but it makes the maps too crowded and hard to read. My tip: put them into the Trivia sections as a bonus, since they basically are a bonus. (I leave the Britain one in its place, since there is another map as well) I'll do so now, but felt I should inform you first.--Tribun 05:18, 4 January 2013 (PST)


 * Not sure I agree with relegating the street names to trivia. Though they might be relatively obscure, they are still legitimate pieces of information.--Terilem 21:23, 4 January 2013 (PST)

Covetous
Since you wrote of the hidden treasure trove in Covetous, could you add a screenshot?--Tribun 14:06, 20 January 2013 (PST)

Icons
As you might notice, I added the icons for Ultima IX in Armour Values. However, I'm not exactly happy with how they look, so if you can manage a quality upgrade, feel free to do so.--Tribun 07:52, 24 January 2013 (PST)


 * Yeah I see what you mean. Whenever you need icons from U9, just let me know.  We have a tool that extracts textures very easily, so it doesn't take long at all to get a whole bunch of them.  Finding the icons can be a bit tedious though. - Iceblade 07:55, 24 January 2013 (PST)


 * Good work! They now look much better!--Tribun 15:29, 24 January 2013 (PST)

Back to Fixing UIX the game and the articles about the game
So what needs doing? Internal formats and dungeon solution I know, but what else is lacking? NPCs all looking good? Need better icons or did I correct all of them already? - Iceblade (talk) 00:42, 30 December 2016 (MST)

My unofficial Ultima timeline
Hi Iceblade. I completed my personal version of the Ages of Darkness timeline, i.e. a timeline without plot flaws and 100% chronological order (unlike the official one). Give it a look and let me know how do you like it! --Abacos (talk) 06:39, 8 February 2017 (MST)

Need some Ultima IX screenshots
Hi, I remember your offer to make Ultima IX screenshots. Now I do need some. For one I need really good close-ups of all the items in the museum (since these things do look quite different from what they used to), and I also need best-quality spell icons (the ones from the belt), since the current ones vary greatly in quality and often are blurry.

Is that possible for you?--Tribun (talk) 20:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Shouldn’t be a problem. —Iceblade (talk) 01:32, 5 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Uploaded the spell icons, and replaced some of the icon references. There are still some that need to be replaced. --Iceblade (talk) 07:08, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * These spell icons look really nice. Sadly I don't currently have the time to replace the old ones with these on the pages that use them. What I did do was to restore the icon for Daylight which you had overwritten with the fireball icon after uploading it (most likely an accident).--Tribun (talk) 13:19, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replacing all the old icons and also putting the old ones into the deletion category. Btw., looking at the articles about spells reminds me how messy they are and that many still are just bare bones. I guess that's my next project after all the other articles I raised to an actual standard (you wouldn't believe how much bad layout was dragged along for years). I think the sheer amount of work I did in the past few weeks is kind of insane, isn't it?--Tribun (talk) 20:07, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * No kidding. Lots of tedium just to get the spell icons done. I'm going to see if I can get semi-good screenshots of those museum items. Hard to avoid the cursor appearing. --Iceblade (talk) 20:11, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Since you seem to like U9 screenshots, I thought I'd make a suggestion: a lot of U9 shots of characters aren't as good as those from other games. No doubt, this is because best image that you get from any encounter w/most other games is a portrait, but there are a lot of grainy, wide-angled shots of characters in U9, when a portrait would be better. Some could even be improved w/a little Photoshopping, if so inclined. The Ultra-Mind (talk) 13:28, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I write because after the great job with the spell icons, I do need your help again. After re-doing all the shop table to include the actual icons, I do have the problem with Ultima IX, that a number of item icons are missing. "Category:Shops in Ultima IX" can show you, which icons are missing in the respective shop tables. I hope you can help me there.--Tribun (talk) 20:23, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Need your opinion
Im testing a new location infobox and new location picture with Britain. Please tell me what you think of it and compare that to the old location pictures. I felt that it's about time the location articles get cleaned up. --Tribun (talk) 20:32, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Edit: The discussion is now in my discussion page and I have produced a good map, but we do need your input before I start to go all out.--Tribun (talk) 14:28, 17 May 2019 (UTC)