User talk:Cysidus

The new units I think they should give us
They should give us genesis sephiroth angeal the one wing angles  Genesis X (talk) 21:44, 2 July 2016 (EDT)
 * I'm afraid FF7 character haven't been introduced even in Japanese version, so you would have to wait for a long time --Cysidus (talk) 22:32, 2 July 2016 (EDT)

My opinion too make game better in the future
Aww man :( but if they do...before they drop any unti they should drop a scene from any final fantasy game or movie so we know what timeline they coming from Genesis X (talk) 22:38, 2 July 2016 (EDT)

Revision of my 'usable by'
Why did u delete my addition? It is a useful feature for checking who can use a specific weapon (like for the new mace to be able to go to the mace and check who can wield it) also what do u mean by unscalable? This was a lot of work and I think is very helpful. It is the equivalent to who learns what ability in the ability section also ... ManuS (talk) 13:43, 31 August 2016 (EDT)
 * It's completely unscalable, there will be hundreds of additional items and units. It makes no sense to edit it right on the individual page itself. When the equipment are categorized you can edit it on the category page. --Cysidus (talk) 14:10, 31 August 2016 (EDT)

What do u mean by categorized? I mean aren't they categorized? If you know a better place to put the info please just use it and copy paste it. it took me like an hour to do what i have done so far. it is a lot of work to go through all the equipment for each 4*+ unit for each equipment category and i figured people care being able to check for powerful items ot see who can use them like the new mace for example. ManuS (talk) 14:13, 31 August 2016 (EDT)
 * I meant wiki category page like, each equipment isn't categorized yet. --Cysidus (talk) 14:16, 31 August 2016 (EDT)

I don't fully get what you mean. but sure i can see the problems with the way i did i just didn't knew a better way. just please do not simply delete the data i created but copy paste it for the category section. it is really annoying to go over the many units to sort them by weapon types. ManuS (talk) 16:14, 31 August 2016 (EDT)

Trying to follow the 'to do' list.
I would like to continue to contribute to cleaning up the wiki but I don't know what you're looking for specifically in terms of your to do list. Any details you could provide will help me optimize the time I spend editing. Thank you. Treafa (talk) 21:39, 31 August 2016 (EDT)
 * Sorry I didn't realize the to do list was outdated, I'll update it today with more detail. --Cysidus (talk) 22:02, 31 August 2016 (EDT)
 * I should've been more clear and so I apologize. I meant when you write 'Vortex of Trials, add more info and a guide', what specifically do you want included? There isn't much more to include expect for data on how to fight the boss, but they each have their own page for that. I dont mind putting in time and effort to help the wiki along (in fact, i love helping) but I see a few people have had their content removed because it isn't aligned with your vision for the site. Just looking for something to be tasked with a much more narrow focus instead of guessing what you are intending.
 * Hmmm, "add more info" is everything else pertaining to trials. Small flair description on what is vortex trials, information on reborn boss that you need to fight them in farplane before appearing in trials, and their limitation (no friend, etc). Current bosses are weak enough that a paragraph or two can convey the entire strategy, but later bosses are much more complex. So I'm thinking they warrant their own strategy page. --Cysidus (talk) 03:56, 1 September 2016 (EDT)
 * I'll whip up what i can then. One more question on formatting. Across the site, specifically when dealing with explorations and dungeon references, the links either display like this Dwarves' Forge Exploration or this Dwarves' Forge/Exploration. Which is the preferred style so i can align them and then spread the formatting word.
 * That is still being considered, and will probably replaced entirely. Currently you can simply use Dwarves' Forge/Exploration --Cysidus (talk) 19:56, 2 September 2016 (EDT)

undoing the damage reduction change for sentinel and the likes
the fact that it reduces damage by 50% rather than giving any buff is much more proven from what has been tested and can be observed than the weird #50% DEF/SPR buff that someone apparently came up with without any concrete indication ro evidence for it other than the character taking less damage (since there is no buff application animation, no change to current stats when holding the unit nor anything else. especially given the damage reduction has been observed to persist for the rest of the turn which would make a buff to DEF/SPR even easier to check and also would be indicated by the accompanying symbols like other buffs. it likely just does what guard does just like the tooltip of sentinel and the observations/testing people did implies). at worst put it up with a questionmark behidn it to require further evidence which is likely still better and more correct information than what it says currently. not sure who changed it to what it currently did but i have not seen any evidence provided with the change for what it says and it is not even flagged with a  ... ManuS (talk) 14:43, 4 September 2016 (EDT)
 * That was taken from data-mining, and I trust it more than what the tooltip says, considering the mistake in some cases. If it's not proven otherwise please don't change any mechanics. When it does, it needs to be changed by admin since ability description appears in many pages, any slight change will make mass-replace not work on that case. --Cysidus (talk) 15:01, 4 September 2016 (EDT)

hm so they read out the game code or what? ah ok sorry i did not know about this. i guess one could do the math to see if +50% to DEF/SPR would have the same effect which is unlikely tho given that these buffs normally only apply to base stats and they are too low to cut damage taken in half just by adding 50% to defensive base stats. ManuS (talk) 17:08, 4 September 2016 (EDT)

Final fantasy brave exvius earth key #11
Heyho, i just want let you know the guide for the named key is hard to find with this informations. This wiki is very nice so i want to tell you how to find it more easy with just 2-3 screens.

http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=4duff.jpg

http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=fsukk.jpg

I send this screens to cuz i dont know how to past it.

Best regards

Lemolas Lemolas (talk) 08:52, 9 September 2016 (EDT)
 * I've added more detail to the quest guide. --Cysidus (talk) 08:58, 9 September 2016 (EDT)

Guides
Can I make a guide page for Which 'equipment to keep' here? I feel like the wiki would be a great place to post this. I will make sure that it will be factual and objective. --Chippou (talk) 09:40, 11 October 2016 (EDT)
 * Yeah that's fine. If you want, you can also use google sheet and embed on the wiki, whichever is easier for you. BTW to make sprite appear it has to be inserted in Template:Sprite first. --Cysidus (talk) 10:10, 11 October 2016 (EDT)

I tried making a unit xp guide for the current event dungeon. I put it in the talk page. Please let me know if you think it is suitable to put or link in the event page for others to see. If not, what should I change?--PotentPortentPorter (talk) 18:44, 8 January 2017 (EST)

Horrible treatment of new editors
So yea, one night I decide to be a good guy and contribute my knowledge to the wiki. Spend a few hours at it, adding lots of data that WILL be useful to many players. This includes not just information about chaining. But critical data like if a skill can crit, and the number of hits it does - which affects many aspects of the game.

Apparently Umuzu disagreed with having more data on the wiki. I guess he wants it to be as sparse and unhelpful as possible, no idea why. Perhaps to look very vague like the games data itself. Makes zero sense for a wiki, but sure, I'm the new editor here, he was kind enough to explain he didn't like my chain delay data and deleted it. Fair enough.

He suggested I re-do all of my work related to chaining, and put it on a separate page. I very may well have done that, if that was all he removed.

That's not what I'm put off by. What's the really horrible thing here, is the fact he didn't just erase that. He summarily undid ALL of my edits those past few hours. Without any care or thought ot review what he's doing, He simply decided i'm not a good editor for the wiki based ONE thing he didn't like and REMOVED all of my data. Proper etiquette is to remove the data you explained you feel doesn't belong, not summarily delete all of a users work simply because you dont care or are lazy.

I put back a couple of the ones that had far more data than that, (well they all did, but these two pages in particular), and yep, like the great person he is, he very quickly edit warred to quickly removed them again. He also used his sysop powers to edit the summary logs where I explained the data I was adding was different then the data he disagreed with - like a good editor would.. Which is absolutely abhorrent behavior. There's zero cause to edit such logs. I've been a sysop on gaming wikis for years, and I know exactly what those tools are there for. Using them to hide new users explanations and summarily remove all of their edits is absolutely not the intended purpose. Good, helpful editors with good wikiquette provide good edit summaries. They prevent issue such as this.

For others who do care about the finer details of the game, here's some critical facts you can perhaps some day get added if the admins are not in the mood to not summarily delete all of your edits:
 * Barrage cannot crit. Since critical hits are huge part of this game, and becoming more and more as units gain things like Delitas +40% critical passive. Knowing weather skills can or not, is nearly as important as the multipliers themselves. This was deleted several times, and never explained why, other then because the editor doing it was lazy and abused the admin undo tool, rather than cleanly remove the information he explained he didn't like. People have screens that can display more than 2 lines of text on the screen at once. They come to wikis for the data the game doesn't show them. Deleting everything but the bare bones is rather foolish.
 * Barrage is not the only skill in the game that hits more than once. I added data for several skills about this, yet they all get deleted. I mean if you believe such data is irrelevant, why does barrage even list it hits multiple times? I read something about "Consistency" in umuzu post.. You're just going against that by doing this.
 * Multiple hits are also important to know for drop checks, as all non-basic attacks only do 1 drop check per hit, so multi hit skills matter a lot. A skill like Crushing blow, a 3.2x skill, is simply superior to a skill like soul eater, another 3.2x skill, (and yea self damage, but it's just an example to illustrate a point). Why is superior? The readers will never know because you deleted the number of times it hits. Hint: Same as the other skill page that still has the number of hits listed.

Anyways not that you seem to care, since you also undid my very helpful, informative edit of the Barrage page without any fair explanation in the edit summary - again appears as you also did not read it and just didn't like my chain information. But yea, your complete disrespect for my work, has lost the community an editor with many years of gaming wiki experience. You have an admin friend that obfuscates logs and summarily kills off new editors hours of work without reading it. Without discussion. Without explanation of why with any adequate thought. Not a great start to a community. Make the wiki private if you're so stubborn and set in your opinions, save everyone some time. --Axer (talk) 06:29, 19 October 2016 (EDT)
 * This wiki is not a blog, there are set of rules for editing and for the structure of the page to prevent it spiraling out of control. --Cysidus (talk) 07:14, 19 October 2016 (EDT)

I dont know who I should be asking but: I would like to volunteer to rank units. I have made a crontribution before and would like more responsiblity.
 * Please check the reddit post --Cysidus (talk) 01:34, 4 December 2016 (EST)

Snow for #2 Tank
Unlike Demon Rain he can also counter magic attacks, has even more hp and much more defense/spirit. Add that to his Draw Attacks and his unique materia to raise def/spr and he is currently only out tanked by Cecil. TuffHunter (talk) 10:38, 11 December 2016 (EST)

Gil to track exp in dungeon chart
I thought it was a good idea to add a gil column to the experience chart. Each exploration has a limit on how much gil you can recieve each time you enter. So therefore by knowing how much gil you have obtained you know when your done and have reached the maximum amount of exp when you reach the max amonut of gil Vaisnava777 (talk) 14:13, 16 December 2016 (EST)
 * It's more of a separation of concern. The page is meant to be a quick look, while the individual pages are in-depth. --Cysidus (talk) 11:26, 17 December 2016 (EST)

Some details to improve
Hello! -First when you have time update the summon simulator 😊 -Second and is an idea, when buying lapis create some better offer ... something like; 1000 lapis + 1 rare summon ticket 5000 lapis + 5 rare summon ticket 10000 lapis + 10 rare summon ticket I think it would increase sales even more -Finally in Japan there is an event of 1 free summon a day so maintains more active people but I think that with placing a summon of noctis or lightning for some days people will be more excited. Something like; The return of the 5 stars for a few days !! NagashiHD (talk) 00:25, 24 January 2017 (EST)


 * lul, now I could be misinformed here, but I'm going off on a limb by saying Cysidus isn't a gumi employee/creator of FFexvius. Also I tried adding  for you so that it came out the way originally written. --Zyga (talk) 00:51, 24 January 2017 (EST)

What a mess! Everything is in English and I find it difficult to understand everything but thanks for the information and it's a shame to not be informed t.t

I would like to suggest adding more information to the Farming Guide. Specifically because I know from experience that data tables can be skewed due to having too much data from older content and not enough data from newer content as well as the fact that some people prefer specific farming locations which can also skew the data to certain dungeons. I suggested adding Mysidia Tower - Exploration as a good place to farm higher level and lower level items such as Light Megacryst (you can also get Lightning, Wind and other Megacrysts as well as Megacite), Farplane Souls (Stolen from and dropped by Heimdaler, Goblin Mages and Wizards), Life Orbs and Ores (like Mythril, Gold and Silver) on the "Guide to Farming" talk page but my request was immediately denied by a non-admin due to this being anecdotal and not data based as well as that the page is mainly for information farming specific items individually. I feel a guide for farming should not only have information regarding individual mats but also helpful information that may not have supportable data due to this being newer content. Also, I would like to suggest adding content to the Expedition page regarding the Relic Award Achievements which was also denied by the same non-admin editor. --Rrrof711 (talk) 06:13, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

World Map Page
Could you please remove Grandshelt Isles, Lanzelt and Kolobos Isle from "Unwanted new pages"? So at least we could have there very basic links to Dungeons and Towns? What the point of having Main Page link to the World Map article, that only consist of 6 links 3 of which are broken and nobody can edit them? Thank you. -- Bloodhit (talk) 14:18, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean by that? It doesn't belong anywhere and anyone should be able to edit it just fine. The page simply doesn't exist because nobody created it yet. --Cysidus (talk) 14:34, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't have problem editing Dirnado page, but when I try to edit Grandshelt Isles it gives me "This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: Prevent creation of unwanted new pages" error. Login didn't help either. -- Bloodhit (talk) 15:12, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * It's likely auto-detected from your edit, it doesn't matter what page it is. I'll update it, but it's low priority right now. --Cysidus (talk) 15:34, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Lost editing privileges after merger!
I attempted to add a link to my video for the new event, and was advised that the action was automatically disallowed. I was able to contribute before the merger with Gamepedia, so what would I need to do in order to get those privileges back?
 * A new account need to have a minimum of 3 edits before being able to post external links. --Cysidus (talk) 08:44, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

I noticed that for Patches, the added effect of Bear Charm is explained right there on the page. The Bear Charm page is also a redirect to Patches. Anyone who looks up Bear Charm would want to know what item the effect is found on, and anyone who looks up Patches would like the added effect explained at the same time. Since Bear Charm is unique to Patches, it makes no sense to split these two up into separate pages. I'm going to replicate this kind of note & redirect for all Added Effects I see that are obviously unique to a single item. What do you think?

Added Effects unique to a single item
I noticed that for Patches, the added effect of Bear Charm is explained right there on the page. The Bear Charm page is also a redirect to Patches. Anyone who looks up Bear Charm would want to know what item the effect is found on, and anyone who looks up Patches would like the added effect explained at the same time. Since Bear Charm is unique to Patches, it makes no sense to split these two up into separate pages. I'm going to replicate this kind of note & redirect for all Added Effects I see that are obviously unique to a single item. What do you think?
 * The entire item pages are being planned to be overhauled, but this is not highest priority right now so it might take some time to do. --Cysidus (talk) 01:41, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

IP blocks
Hello, Pcj here from the GRASP team. I noticed in the past you have used infinite global block to combat vandalism from IP addresses/users who aren't logged in. Per "Blocking users" on the help wiki, the standard for IP address blocks is two weeks, as IP addresses are dynamically assigned (and the smarter vandals/spambots use proxies/VPNs to show a false IP anyway). It would be preferable to only use two weeks, or short of that, at least make the block only local to this wiki. I'll be unblocking users whose blocks are past the two week limit. If there are any problems with that we can address them as they arise. Thank you. --Pcj (talk) 20:01, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize the last option is the global block, that wasn't my intention. Probably should have it left unchecked by default. As for the 2 weeks ban, people who got banned that short will just come back to vandalize again, without realizing they are banned. If you can, please change them into local block or reduce the ban length, but still long enough for average player to quit the game, like 6 months. Thanks. --Cysidus (talk) 05:37, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I think in that case they'll find a way to come back regardless of the block. If they come back now you can certainly re-block them for longer, and GRASP will be watching the wiki to help stop vandalism where we can. --Pcj (talk) 16:11, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Tooltip
Hello, Mercurialthegamer here. I'm browsing the gamepedia and stumble upon this wiki and saw the tooltip thing on the effects of the weapons. I'm a total noob to wiki editing stuff and just started last month. Anyways, can you give me some guide how I can implement the tooltip? I saw the tooltip image you uploaded and from there I can say that there's a lot of work to it to make it work. The background, the info and the icon looks like it was called rather than uploaded as a single image. Anyways, please help. Thanks! --Mercurialthegamer (talk)
 * Hi there. We are using Lua Module for the page that gets called into a toolip. You may want to ask User:CodeHydro for more info about them. --Cysidus (talk) 18:53, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Search suggestions
Hi there, do you know if search suggestions (the drop down list below the search box in the header) ever worked on this wiki ? I don't recall and a user has sent in a ticket about it. I know the suggestions work on Special:Search, but not in the main search box in the header section. And if this did work before, do you recall when it stopped working ? — Game widow ( talk ) 13:13, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No it has never worked. I've reported it before on Slack. --Cysidus (talk) 13:55, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for the confirmation. I'll see what i can do — Game widow ( talk ) 13:56, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

FR translation
Hey there, i only just noticed that this project is fairly advanced. Did you want to have a French wiki spun up? — Game widow ( talk ) 18:48, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * FR translation is currently inactive and outdated. I'm not sure making a FR wiki now would be a good choice, but it could generate interest. --Cysidus (talk) 13:25, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The choice is yours. If you want to try, i'm happy to spin it up — Game widow ( talk ) 14:50, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I think we'll try to finish some automation tool first so we won't have any redundant effort. --Cysidus (talk) 16:59, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me :) — Game widow ( talk ) 19:56, 19 February 2019 (UTC)