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08/01/'21
Gaia Reborn
Gaia Reborn, the hottest MMORPG of the last decade, has seen millions of players experience its unique world - a combination of fantasy and reality. When Gaia Reborn was a game, one goal was to make the game world a one-half scale model of the real world. This pursuit was known as the Half-Gaia Project, and it is one of the aspects which led to Gaia Reborn becoming such a popular virtual world. With regional servers having unique areas, quests, cities, and monsters, it wasn't uncommon for people to create alternate characters on other servers to experience what felt like an entirely new game.
Ten years after the game's launch, millions of players have joined and created countless characters across the many servers. Now, with the release of the latest expansion, Pioneers of Arcadia, many are getting ready to begin new adventures in the new Italian server, exploring the new region corresponding to Italy, known in Gaia as Italia. Characters would have to start from fresh in this new world, but Italy would finally get its own piece of this world.
Countless players created their characters, logged in with excitement fueling their hands as the cursor swept across the screen, and then... darkness... Everything was black, and as their eyes opened, the players found themselves in the streets of an unfamiliar city. Looking around to survey their surroundings, many players realized this city was not so new after all. While desolate and ruined, the architecture conquered by vines and greenery, this city was unmistakably Rome, but at the same time, it was not. Finding themselves in the bodies of their characters, trapped in the world of Gaia Reborn, players are left to adapt to their new reality in this fantasy world.
Axey quietly listened to Maruem. Of course, the bard hadn't expected the guild to be instantly ready to be registered. "Guildsh reqwired owning a home in the old sehrver, right? Ish hat alsho a re- rek- neshesshary here?" he said stuttering. There goes my streak. And I was doing so well so far. he thought to himself while Maruem mentioned something about meeting a strategist. "Shtrategist? Ish that like... an ackshual job in thish world?" he asked Maruem while tapping the "accept" button on his user interface. Last time he had checked, those were reserved for armies back in medieval times. "Anyway, meeting you back in one week shoundsh good to me."
The bard nodded to Parcis as he made his exit. "Have fun!" he said with a wave as the man vanished before returning to pat his bird's head and looking back to his fellow adventurer "Well, all thish guild shtuff ashide, how've you been thish pasht week?" he asked while the bird let out a happy chirp. "Sheemsh like you've been busy."
Word count: 174 Total word count: 1219 Tags: Maruem
"Well, I suppose that answers that question then." Maruem thought as he looked at the friend request on his UI from the noble lander across the table. He stared at the little notification as Axey asked if he knew whether guild housing was still necessary to own a guild in this new world. He was not sure, but he thought for a moment and then replied to the bard. "I couldn't say for certain, but even if it isn't required per say, it would still be great for all the members to have a place to call home."
Maruem had asked Parcis if People of the Land could even send friend requests, and his answer was simple. Wordless and efficient one could cal it. He lifted his hand and pressed to accept the incoming friend request. He watched Axey do the same as the big pink axolotl asked him if being a strategist was an actual job here. It was nice that his fellow adventurer saw him as a source of experience and information, but he wished he could answer the questions with more certainty.
"To be completely honest, I couldn't tell you though I should think so, it seems the People of the Land have organized military and armed units, so it stands to reason that they have someone guiding those movements. I just know that my friend was the best strategist I could have asked to work with back in Archanea, as well as being unmatched as someone I could truly trust. That being said, if the role of strategist is not something that really existed here as a job, than it will now that we're here. I'm certain that I am not the only adventurer who appreciates the value of a great mind guiding a force's movements."
Parcis began to speak in preparation for taking his leave. Maruem was not sure whether he should be insulted or not by Parcis' words. So in other words, things were par for the course with his interactions with Lord Parcis. The noble had expressed that there were surely more interesting folk out there whom he had every intention of meeting. The man had a silver tongue though, clearly, as Maruem could not discern if he had intended his words as meaning that there were more people out there who were interesting like Maruem and Axey had been, or if there were people out there who were more interesting than Maruem and Axey had been.
He finished his goodbyes with a time limit. "One weeks time." he had said to Maruem, along with the expectation that he be notified about a guild name before their meeting if Maruem thought of one. He wished that Axey not die again, and then departed by castling with his parrot. At first Maruem had been confused by the lander's disappearance, but his experience with Gaia as a game, and the sudden appearance of the bird allowed him the resources and experience to discern what had happened. The parrot soon disintegrated in a burst of purple. And with that, Maruem and Axey were alone, with a tavern of some confused patrons who had seen the flash of purple and some others who had noticed the man disappearing.
Axey turned to Maruem and put all the guild business aside, just as Maruem was internally debating whether to name the guild "The Radiant Sentinels" or "Astra". He was asked by the bard how he had been for the past week, adding that it seemed like Maruem had been busy. "Well..." Maruem paused before answering. He did not like burdening others with his difficulties, but he had been working in recent years on thinking of it less and burdening and more just sharing and being honest.
"To be completely honest..." he continued with a smile, though his face wore hints of weariness too. "It's been a tough but rewarding week overall. The first few nights were a bit rough especially that chilling rain on the second night, but i started to pick up odd jobs after that, and while there were a couple missteps along the way with some landers, overall it was some great experience and I even think I made some friends. I do hope others have fared better than I though, but even if they haven't, I hope my guild can be a new home for them, a warm and safe place for us to grow stronger to protect this world and each other. Though I'm still lost as to what to name it. Sorry, I know you dropped the topic of the guild, and here I am bringing it back up."
Maruem took a sip from his glass and asked the bard the same question. "How about you, how has your week been, it seemed you make some musical friends?" It had not been very long since Axey had came blasting through the door with a group of musicians all having a jolly good time together.
Word Count: 831 Total Word Count: 7769 + 831 = 8600 Tags: Parcis , Axey Notes: Sorry, I promised reply yesterday, but here we are. Hope you enjoy :>
Thought Color = 6543af (formerly: 9e63c5) Dialogue Color = 2c00bd (formerly: 5c0086) Tracker:Maruem's Book of Friends
Welcome to the help dialog for the Custom Mini-Profile Creator plugin!
Click on any of the tabs above to go through the plugin configuration process!
You can access this menu at any time by clicking on the icon in the bottom right bar (may not be applicable if you're on Forums.net), or you can disable the welcome window and/or the icon by going to Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator and changing the Show Help option.
This step is essential as it gives the plugin everything it needs on the page to get as much profile information as possible.
To make the profile variables work you'll need to add a new line to the very end of Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile and paste the code below on it. The code should be placed completely outside of the mini-profile, so if you're using the default mini-profile template this will be after the very last closing </div> tag. This needs to be done on every theme you have the plugin enabled on as the template is theme-specific.
If your mini-profile template is already customized and you've hit the variable limit for your template you're free to remove any lines from the code below if they contain information that you don't plan on using. For example, if you have no plans to ever add a user's IP to their mini-profile for staff reference you can remove <div class="mp-info ip">$[user.ip]</div> from the code and everything else will still work just fine.
Once you've added the HTML from the Layout Templates tab you're ready to move on to building your mini-profiles. If you want to get going and try some out now or you're not very adept at HTML, CSS, or Javascript, worry not! This plugin includes some examples for you to try out. You're free to skip to the Custom Profile Fields tab and read over this tab later when you're ready to build your own.
Here's a quick rundown of each of the components in Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator:
Name This is the name you'll be adding to your custom profile field dropdown once you've finished coding the mini-profile. Pretty self-explanatory. Make sure this name is unique from every other name you use for your mini-profiles or you'll end up overwriting the earlier ones in the list.
HTML This is the HTML that will go inside your mini-profile. You can use just about any HTML tag here so long as it's appropriate for where the mini-profile is showing on the page. Please refrain from using <style> or <script> tags here. You have the next two sections for that! Also, remember that mini-profiles can show multiple times on the same page, so you shouldn't add ID attributes to any of your elements here. Two elements on the same page cannot have the same ID per HTML standards.
CSS This is where you'll place what would normally go in your forum's style sheet or what would normally be between <style> tags. Try to code your mini-profile's HTML in a way that will allow you to target it specifically with your selectors. For example, you can surround all of the content in your HTML with a <div> element with a class and target that class and its child elements specifically with your CSS. That way you don't accidentally target every mini-profile on the page with CSS that was meant for the one you're building. One more thing: The forum theme's CSS still applies beforehand, so your mini-profile may look right in one theme but not in another. The best way to circumvent this is to define as many styles as you can to override the theme's CSS.
Javascript Anything that normally goes between <script> tags will go here. This one's a bit tricky since you'll obviously want to target the custom mini-profile specifically. Luckily there's an easy way to do that. In your statements you can use the $(this) variable to target the mini-profile if you're coding using jQuery. Otherwise, if you only plan on using standard Javascript you can target $(this)[0] instead.
Once you've finished building your mini-profiles it's finally time to add them to the Edit Profile page for use! To enable selection of custom mini-profiles you'll first need to add two specific custom profile fields in Members > Custom Profile Fields in your forum's admin area:
Mini-Profile Theme
Staff Mini-Profile Theme
Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles that are designed for member use. You can set the Who Can Edit option for this field to Staff With Power if you only want staff to be able to choose mini-profiles for users. Otherwise, if you want members to freely be able to choose their own mini-profiles you can choose Members and Staff With Power.
Staff Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles designed specifically for staff use. This field is completely optional.
Set the type for both of these fields as Drop Down Selection. Click on the (View/Edit) link to add mini-profile names to each of these fields.
If you've just installed this plugin you should have three different mini-profiles already installed by default: Example 1, Example 2, and Example 3. You can add these to your dropdowns to test them out and see the plugin in action.
If you're having trouble getting this plugin to work despite following the instructions in the previous tabs you may want to check that each of your themes meets the prerequisites below in Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile.
First, ensure that opening tag of your mini-profile template includes the $[miniprofile_class] variable in its class. On the default ProBoards theme it should look something like this:
<div class="$[miniprofile_class]">
Next, make sure that the default {foreach} loop for custom fields is present inside your mini-profile. It doesn't need to be visible, so you're free to add it inside a hidden element if you don't plan on displaying it or if it would mess up the appearance of your own custom template.
Beyond that you can do whatever you like to the mini-profile template for the most part and it shouldn't negatively impact the plugin.
The following is a list of available variables for use in the HTML section of the mini-profile creator and their definitions. Adding any of these to a mini-profile will generate the content described in its definition in place of the variable so long as the information that variable outputs is visible to you.
To reference your forum's custom profile fields you can use $[user.customfieldname], substituting "customfieldname" with your custom field's name. You'll need to type the name in all lowercase with no spaces and only use characters A-Z and 0-9.
For example, Mini-Profile Theme becomes $[user.miniprofiletheme]. This will output the value of the custom field. In the case of this example, it'll be the name of the mini-profile theme you've chosen in your profile.
IMPORTANT NOTE: These will only work if you followed the steps in the Installation tab of this window on each of your themes. Any themes that do not include the template code specified there will not have these variables replaced in the mini-profile.
$[user]
User's display name link.
$[user.age]
User's age (if visible to you).
$[user.avatar]
User's current avatar.
$[user.badges]
User's list of badges.
$[user.birthday]
User's date of birth (if visible to you).
$[user.color]
Hex color of user's group. If user is not in a group this will return inherit.
$[user.custom_title]
User's custom title.
$[user.email]
User's email (if visible to you).
$[user.gender.image]
Image associated with the gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.gender.text]
Name of gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.group.name]
Name of user's current display group.
$[user.group.stars]
Star images associated with user's current display group.
$[user.id]
User's numerical ID.
$[user.instant_messenger]
User's list of instant messengers specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.invisible]
Returns 1 if a user is invisible. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.ip]
User's IP address (if visible to you).
$[user.is_online]
Returns Member is Online if user is currently online.
$[user.is_staff]
Returns 1 if a user is designated as staff. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.last_online]
Timestamp showing when user was last online.
$[user.likes]
Number of likes this user's posts have received.
$[user.location]
Location specified in user's profile.
$[user.name]
User's display name in plain text.
$[user.personal_text]
User's most recent status.
$[user.posts]
User's post count.
$[user.rank.name]
User's current posting rank.
$[user.rank.stars]
Star images associated with user's current posting rank.
$[user.registered_on]
Timestamp showing the date/time the user registered on the forum.
$[user.registered_on_short]
Condensed version of user's registration date.
$[user.social_network]
User's list of social networks specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.username]
Outputs the user's login username in plain text.
$[user.warning.bar]
User's warning bar (if it exists).
$[user.warning.level]
User's current warning level (if visible to you).
$[user.website]
Website specified in user's profile.
You can utilize the $(this) variable in the Javascript component to target the mini-profile <div> element. For example, if you wanted to add a class to the mini-profile you can use:
$(this).addClass('class-name-here');
Profile variables can also be used in the Javascript component in this plugin. In Javascript the value undefined is used to signify that a value doesn't exist for the variable you've specified. With this in mind you can use profile variables in Javascript conditional statements within the plugin similar to how they're used in the actual layout templates section of the admin area.
if(variable) will only run if the variable you specify has a value.
if(!variable) will only run if the variable you specify has no value.
Example 1 (variable has value):
if(user.group){
$(this).find('.group').show();
}
If the user has their group displayed in their profile the above Javascript would make the HTML below visible if you had it hidden with CSS.