From what I've read about "Short's Compact Checklist" in prior threads, it just a script to allow users to select which section of badges and have an option to group and sort History and Exploration badges by Zone/Map for the the printable badge list.
I made the suggestion back on the old forums before the crash and subsequent merger with City Info Terminal and the rest of Titan Network. The original post is gone unless someone bothered to keep the old forum database. I found a reference to the thread "Printer Friendly Checklist" where I made my initial suggestion here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071024075642/www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php?board=4.0 (Woah! October 2007! Was it really that long ago?)
No it was not a script (at least not to the end user, I'm sure there was some behind the scene) but a more compact version of the printable checklist. Back on the old site you could choose some of the amount of detail for the checklist (Edit: Maybe this was the script you referred to?), you could even print a checklist from the entire badge listing. What I proposed then was to actually
use better categories (which later was implemented using what Red Tomax already had) but also compact the information so it would fit on one line per badge.
The point of categories is moot now that CoX implemented it themselves and Titan followed suit. Subcategories for the exploration badges could still be useful (all exploration badges for King's Row under one heading for instance). The compactation (is that a valid word
) would also still be good.
To give you an idea what I had in mind. Consider this:
Freedom's Defender (362)
Requirements: -4254.5, 0.3, 1129.5
Tip: Found in the Steel Canyon Safeguard Mission map.
Zone(s): Steel Canyon (Safeguard)
Honorable Captain (363)
Requirements: -1947.9 0.3 -3172.9
Tip: Found in the Independence Port Safeguard Mission map.
Zone(s): Independence Port (Safeguard)
Gatekeeper (367)
Requirements: -635.4, 0.0, -2868.8
Tip: Found in the Peregrine Island Safeguard Map.
Zone(s): Peregrine Island (Safeguard)
Head of the Hydra (1051)
Requirements: 0, -695, 15
Tip: N/A
Zone(s): Abandoned Sewer Network
And then this...
Freedom's Defender (362) - Steel Canyon (Safeguard) [-4254.5, 0.3, 1129.5]
Honorable Captain (363) - Independence Port (Safeguard) [-1947.9 0.3 -3172.9]
Gatekeeper (367) - Peregrine Island (Safeguard) [-635.4, 0.0, -2868.8]
Head of the Hydra (1051) - Abandoned Sewer Network [0, -695, 15]
Same information, much less screen real estate or space on paper.
What I wanted (and actually was realized if only for the entire badgelist and not to my missing badges) was a checklist with one line per badge with the neccessary information that could be fitted. I wasn't, and still isn't, interested in a checklist with only the badge name. Since I can't remember all the requirements for all the badges and I didn't want to have to alt-tab out of the game to check the website or print 40-pages worth of check list I though of the compact idea.
Since then I have added a second monitor to my rig and use windowed mode while I play so keeping the website up all the time is not that much of a hassle any more for me. But I would still welcome it if it ever was implemented for my missing badges and I'm sure someone else might find it useful too.
