User blog:NFSKutski/Status Update - Week 12/2013

Head Admin NFSKutski here giving you another Status Update each Sunday morning of what is going on the NFS World Wiki. So first of all I'd thought that on Monday 25th at around 01.00 AM UTC I thought of enabling something neat. What it is you will have to wait and see.

But alright. Let's get back to business.

Image Update
As mentioned in my blog post I will be removing all Unused Files on the Wiki as I mentioned this Wedensday. So if you still haven't downloaded all the files that you need then you have to do that urgent as you will only have 1 day left for this. And also do not come later to me and ask what happened to your file(s) as I have been giving you an 5-day notice.

Performance Sections
This is my main concern. On my Sandbox21 I have created an example of what is a good performance section and what is a bad performance section. The problem with the Performance Sections are right now is that there are too many comparsions and where sometimes like Handling is just describing how another cars handles.

Now this is no longer acceptable for me and in order for us to grow and become a wiki you can rely on then Car Comparsions needs to stop.

But of course Comparsions isn't the only thing. 1 thing that I have been noticing a lot recently is that the performace sections are getting more and more opinion based and for me it feels like it has been escalating a bit.

If you've seen my Sandbox21 then you may see what I'm talking about. But of course Lamborghini Reventón isn't the only page. This that was featured on Lamborghini Estoque which was the latest car released is just simply not acceptable


 * "For a 4 door saloon that should weigh about 1,8 tons, it's definitely light and has a go-kart feeling about it when cornering with it."

The whole sentence is just totally based on opinion.

Retunes
One thing about retunes is that cars that had been retuned shouldn't be given a new section but instead just replace the old performance details with new one's. Reading the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 just made me confused. And also about that page. What the heck is the definition of "acceptable acceleration"?

Guidelines
As you can see the performance sections doesn't really serve its purpose (at least for me). So what I will have to do is to write some guidelines about Performance Sections so that we don't return to this.

Also do note that basically all pages on the Wiki will have to be rewritten so we need to help each other to manage these 150 pages.

New projects?
Well. Main Priority should now be to rewrite the sections. And since Easter Holidays are just around the corner I think we will have a lot of time for editing these pages.

Also I made a little new Testtable for Visual Customization on Sandbox20. Might become easier for editing. I don't know if I will make this live yet.

And Camera Views. That can wait. Lets just take care of these two things mentioned above and focus on them.

How did it go with the Biology test?
Well. No questions about Flora. What a relief. I think I managed it pretty fine to be honest. And for the biology lab test I just think I nailed it. I feel good about that.

Anything in NFSW?
Nah. Just gonna farm for some additional cars. Next up will be Ford GT40 MK.I. I need something to use for the free Ford Vinyls that Fox gave.

Music
Well. Modestep and Dirtyphonics in an awesome collaboration named Los Angeles. Check it out now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYI79tRUF8