Category talk:Items
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Someone needs to put the actual Items into own pages or maybe even their own categories. eg. each scroll page into [[Category:Scrolls]] --Cliff Burton • Marco 21:47, 20 April 2011 (CEST)
- already happend. --Cliff Burton • Marco 21:48, 20 April 2011 (CEST)
Would it be meaningful to create a sub-category for "Special Items", defined as A) only being available in Special Shops, and B) having special prices (no Charisma discounts)? --deCarnac 18:24, 23 March 2012 (CET)
- Makes sense, but maybe in a filter way. Keep the item in it's parent category as well, explained there (which you might already have read) Talk:The_Eternal_Aubade_of_Mystical_Treasures#Up-to-date_item_list. --Cliff Burton • Marco 03:19, 24 March 2012 (CET)
Sub-category ideas
I have been thinking about the sub-categories for items. Just a few years ago, all items could easily be placed in the three sub-categories potions, scrolls and gifts. But several of the "new" items don't fit in any of those. Adding new categories will benefit from pre-planning, so here are some suggestions for a system with two types of sub-categories. Names of new categories below are only preliminary suggestions.
As a side note, in-game items all being in [[Category:Items]] as well as in a sub-category may or may not be justified. In favour: it is a convenient way of saying it has "item properties" (appears under possessions in-game) while presenting a link to all other items.
Availability-based sub-categories
These are based on where the item can be purchased. We should be able to define them in such a way that they are mutually exclusive, and each item will belong in exactly one of them. Of course, these definitions inevitably have a cross-dependence with how we define shop types.
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[[Category:Scrolls]]— available in Scroll Shops (Scrolls, apparently excluding Scroll of Bondage) -
[[Category:Potions]]— available in Potion Shops (example: Vial of Holy Water) -
[[Category:Non-specialties]]— available in Magic Shops but not in Potion/Scroll Shops (Dandelion, Red Rose, Black Orchid, Scroll of Bondage, Wooden Stake, Ring of Resistance, Diamond Ring) (note on category name: Magic Shops are referred to as "non-specialized shops" [1]) -
[[Category:Rarities]]— available in one Special Shop only (example: Ixora Cluster) -
[[Category:Event items]]— not available for purchase
Use & effect-based sub-categories
These describe effects and properties of the item, they span across other sub-categories, and items can belong in none or several of them. You may call it filter categories.
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[[Category:Weapons]]— used to harm other vampires (example: Garlic Spray) -
[[Category:Flowers]]— wilt and age with time (example: Red Rose) -
[[Category:Durables]]— have in-game effects without being consumed (example: Scroll of Accounting) -
[[Category:Gifts]]— essentially lack in-game effects (example: Diamond Ring)
Any given item would then be in [[Category:Items]], exactly one availability-category, and zero or more effect-categories. What do you think? --deCarnac 15:36, 5 April 2012 (CEST)
- Excellent plan. Engage! --Cliff Burton • Marco 00:19, 5 May 2012 (CEST)
