Why wiki is so useless?

[Fenix-Ф]

It has no info about Korolov Shipping, about missions and consequences, for example.
Info about weapons and Tinkers is outdated too.
Errrrrrr...

Forum look to be extinct.
???

[Song]

The forum's alive and well. It's just quiet right now with people being busy in RL and the like.

The wiki...I honestly have no idea what's going on with it, but it's been a cluttered mess for years.

[RPC]

Nobody's working on the wiki sadly. Right now the best it is for is just assorted modding stuff collected over the years, and lore usually comes from asking from veterans of the game on IRC >.<

[Ttech]

We might need to look into getting the game to update things on its own.

[Song]

We might need to look into getting the game to update things on its own.

While George does have a habit of making the game engine immensely complex and capable of amazing things, having it write its own wiki may be a step too far.

[Aury]

That would though give a whole new meaning to the term 'self documenting code'.

[pixelfck]

To be honest, I always wondered why there was not phpdoc/javadoc syntax used, both for tLisp and the engine.

Example for tLisp

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/**
 * generic method for fetching data from spaceObjects (see also (@link objSetData and @link objIncData)
 * @param spaceObject theObject The space object you want the data from
 * @param string theName The name of the data you want
 * @return string The data stored for theName at the theObject or Nil the data does not exits
 */
(setq objGetData (lambda (theObject theName)
    (fooDooMagic)
    ))

I know it takes a bit of getting into the habit of actually writing the documentation, but once you get the hang of it, it comes quite naturally. Run it through a doc parser and the code just documented 'itself'.

Cheers,
Pixelfck

[RPC]

IIRC George is going to do that for the multiverse which was why I stopped working on the ship pages on the wiki.