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One of the ones is an updated Data File of Guyver 0 including his Gigantic form, Warrior Aceaer and a stealth Wolf armour. Sweet! Any chance on us getting to see robo guyver?! James never gave me an updated one for him, but if he gets one over I'll make sure it goes up.

One of the ones is an updated Data File of Guyver 0 including his Gigantic form, Warrior Aceaer and a stealth Wolf armour.

thanks Another +, found some unpublished Data files that will also be put into this update.

Simply put, the time I'd have to invest in learning about it, then convert what is already there, = no. you've basically just said, forget 3 weekends of work, I'm starting all over again (I won't be doing that, more so as I like the new HTML template for browseing that section of the site). I've invested raw cash into having software to do HTML and to update the look of the existing site, so forget a WG.com wiki, it's never going to happen (more so as I don't just have 1 site here, but multiple sites and they also have their own design from their orginal creators. I want to keep as they were without adverts or any of that crap or a converted wiki look).

This has turned out to be a bigger job than planned. At the moment the amin thing slowing this down is editing the Data Files... I do not want a mixed match set of data files for both the old version and the re-wrote verson of the fan-fiction... So I'm editing them ALL to reflect this... that is a lot of work but in the end it is worth it. Browsing the website in the new template is also one hell of a lot easier, you can with one click go from the Warrior Guyver story to looking at the Chronos Data files, or an ACTF one if you want, or a Grakken or a Gen data file... You can (when they are populated) also do the same to the Character profile section or art. The 3 click rule is in full effect too, making it a much quicker site to work around At the moment the Gen data file section is almost complete, am getting there but it's taking a good long while. after this is done, there will be still some data files out of date, or that will need extra work (Guyver XT9 for example has a completely different history in the re-write). Anyway sorry for the delay guys, but it should all be very worth it.

I've being thinking about a Wiki, but in the end the pros and cons for me resulted in staying with HTML. Pro 1.) This is the biggest one of all. HTML can be configured for off-line content. All the pages in WG-Fic (and later Star's Guyver page which will adopt the new template if I think it's a success) are deisgned for off-line storage. You might ask yourself... umm is that important? the answer is simply "OMG Yes!". When I'm sitting on a train with bugger all signal and I want to know what in Gods name did I name some random character or remember which version of spelling I'm going to use for an offical Zoalord, what do I do? I use an off line version of the website that is stored on my laptop. The latest update will contunie this thrend and will also have a character profiles section (it will not be populated by the time of the next update, but it will be worked on a lot of the next while getting updates each time I upload a rewrote fan-fic). 2) It's just as easy to convert a Word file into a HTML file as it is into a Wiki. 3) You get more control over the structure of the deisgn and can make it more invidual to suit yourself. If you've a Wiki, you've the Wiki look. 4) I'll still have to do the editing... in other words it'll just take as much time. 5) Microsoft Wed Esssentials is like using Word, it's easy to use. 6) All a Wiki is, is a PHP based site, basically a fancy messageboard. It does make things a little easier when done but having the data on the site compete with a database that holds this messageboard isn't something I want to do. In the end I couldn't see a reason to invest the time needed to understand using a Wiki for the site, and with 1) being the most important thing to me it never won out. As for W'Kars and other websites being converted to a Wiki that are in WG.com... thats more for him to deside but again knowing Allen he'd still go for a Dark Anubis like colour scheme and you'd be back where you started Zeus T

ACTF was working off informaiton from the Japanese guyvers, but it was never given much detail... or planning for that matter back in the olden days of fic writing... Yes there will be more story behind that, a lot more. along with Agito's different relationship with Sho. Though bare in mind, unlike the present comics, Agito never returned to battle Sho, as he failed at captuing a second Gigantic Armour. Instead he done something else to try and win back an ally in Sho.

Soon as I finish 400 more htm pages...

Yeah... looking back now, I'd suggest to anyone thinking about writing a story to plan it out first. Talk with someone about the story, and then as they come up with characters go back to their orginal draft and then see where would these characters fit. In a way it is the Assassin Guyver storyline that really got me to focus on the fics weekness which was the Chronos characters were not fully developed and that I spent too much fic time on the "good" characters. Word of advice, the baddy's are only really good when they have a story too. The above is the current draft to the new start of Union. At the moment I keep re-editing it, adding bits in and taking bits away. But what's above should stay mostly in tact now.

Update time, spent last night working my way through part of the Gen data files. None of the powers have changed, but I've to remove things like "Creator Empire" or correct other things like "After humanity's failure"... The Gen don't care that humanity failed for the Uranus to the Gen humanity was pretty much a success and helped their race back from the brink of extinction. This though takes time to do correctly, so I'll be working away at it. I can't upload the stuff I have done as changing the folder structure of the site would mean most of the links in the template wouldn't work.

Update time, I've made a new templete I'm happy with but there is another problem... There are 530 HTM files in the WG fic site..... soo simply put updating them all and redesigning the folder structure is taking a LONG time. A lot longer than I planned. But it's coming along. So while I might not get the update ready this weekend at least most of the nasty work is out of the way.

Update time, I've made a new templete I'm happy with but there is another problem... There are 530 HTM files in the WG fic site..... soo simply put updating them all and redesigning the folder structure is taking a LONG time. A lot longer than I planned. But it's coming along. So while I might not get the update ready this weekend at least most of the nasty work is out of the way.

Ok the messageboard has being updated, and repairs done to the reg process. At the moment this is open so new people can simply activate their own account with a valid email address... and if they know who writes the Guyver story. Next week I'll look into how you modify PHP BB so it's more Guyver like.

Update... there is a new version of PHPBB. Hopefully this will fix most of the problems in one go.

there is a new version of PHPBB released (HOPEFULLY!!! with more anti-spam bot etc). The messageboard will be updated over this weekend as part of the rollout of updates to WG.com

I'll be posting a preview in a week or so to help clear this up. Edit: 15/07/11 Update time... There are things you just don't realise until you start rewriting and really look at what you wrote 10+ years ago and wonder "Ummm what was I on about then" or "Ummm where's the backstory about this place???" Chronos Island is a good example... It's only in Union and never mentioned again. There's no story on how, who discovered it and how anything is linked. So the start of Union will give details on it's discovery and so on. It will also explain how Guyver 1, Guyver 3 and Aptom came to know about the island. I was re-reading Revenge somewhat too and noticed little feeder things that now make no sense... I'd a kinda writers block this week... well that's a little harsh, I'd a long period of moments of "ummm where do I want the story to go from here? Or wouldn't it be better not to just explain everything right away with chronos but instead bring that into the story?"... So not exactly a huge amount of progress number wise on the word count but storywise I'm adding some plots in that I didn't have their before.

I aggree there, but my first concern is getting the Messageboard to work correctly, rather than making it look good (though I've a load of stuff I would like to do to make it more Guyver / WG like....)

There isn't going to be a prologue in the story this time, instead it starts off with the view points of the two respective leaders of ACTF and Chronos USA 4 days before ACTF is due to strike.

Faye, along with Zeugam, Kron and Seraph will all get a lot more story before the time of All Things Change is done between now and then. Included in this would be Elera who's story starts off in the Revenge story line (which is primarily a Chronos story, ending with Kron's reawakening in modren times). Faye's character story might also get some more work, though I like the overall pace of that story so don't want it to be anything more than what it is, a short story based on Faye. Most of this development though won't be in Rescue at all, that will be an ACTF v Grakken story only. So overall the plan is working out nicely.

I've started this rewrite.... So lets put it simply, the start of this story is poor and if you've read the English translated comics and go to this story you think the following: "Did those guys really follow the Guyver story at all????" Now we know historically why, and ye all who visit this site since 1999 know why... We didn't know any better! Sooo the rewrite will fix this. I'm not at the privew stage yet, but put simply this story is now properly based 2 years after the Dragon Lord event. Meaning hte USA has being under Chronos control for 5 odd years. Chronos has had many set backs and it's leadership has being kicked in the ass by Gigantic Guyver and Guyver 3.... The new part of Union will go into the detail of this,to show where the Fan-fiction and key events are and have changed Takaya's story so you get from the Dragon Lord event, too Time War. Note there "Key Events" I am going to leave some things very vauge.... I'm not going to go on about Guyver II F for example or Guyot. Union will have an Aprentice Zoalord as the main bad guy of the story, this will be the main focus for Chronos's part of the story (which wasn't there at all really in the old verion of the story). After rereading the story... all the crap about Guyver US being a bad figther are going to be removed. Sooo in closing, I will say one thing, this story used to be 14K words... I see this being a much longer story when I'm done with the rewrite.

Thanks Paul, This is why I wanted to do the rewrite. In the later stories there is a lot of character development, but it wasn't a consideration at all in my first 4 stories really. it's why 7 days was so hard too do... it reached a point where I had to do more explaining than writing as the old fic's didn't support it like they should. Zygote Guyver is a good example, her characer is really fleshed out in the Assassin story but her use in All Things Change is poor. it doesn't really support it, this time it will.

Offsite until all is ready

The above is the plan for the WG-fic section of the site. As well as that I plan to do some tidy up to the structure of WG.com design itself. If you've any weblinks that are Guyver related please let me know for them to be updated. As well as WG.com the Guyver messageboard will be getting some work, no this isn't new work yet but more so on the code behind the board so that we get some any spam bot features. After the next two wekends I hope to re-open the board to new people. Admins will no longer be activating user accounts, this "should" be doable by new joiners themself. But they will be only allowed post in a new spam section of the site. Once someone posts there and shows they are not a bot then they'll be allowed post in the main sections of the site. Note this will mean that if a bot joins the site the above section can at times be filled with vigra adds etc... SO beware, admins and mods won't always get before you do.

Time War is pretty much finished. Over this weekend and most likely also the next I'll be working on website re-design. This will be the first of many as I bring the site up to date.... So lets see what to expect on the next update. WF-Fic site This section of WG.com will be redesigned completely. Fan-fiction and art will no longer be organised by who wrote / drew it but the series it is based on. The fiction will be devided into 2 sections. 1. Chronicles of the Warrior Guyver 2. Collective Guyver Chronicles (at the moment this is the name I'm toying with for the other fan-fiction stories) Inside this the following fan-fictions will be found: 1. Assassin Guyver 2. Cyber Guyver 3. Flight of an Angel 4. Guyver XT 5. Nova Guyver 6. Warrior Guyver 7. Warrior GuyverC 8. W'Kar 9. Character Stories (Currently only me (Brian) has stories in that) This list will be shortened and characterswho have wrote 2 or less stories will be moved into the Character Stories section. Looking at that list with the next update that would mean.... 1. Flight of an Angel 2. Nova Guyver 3. Warrior Guyver 4. Warrior GuyverC 5. Character stories (But no longer just stories by me) Each of the 5 sections will have art work in it for that section that reflects the characters within it. Over time that means new art, in the mean time depends on what I find this and next weekend. I'm sure Allen for example when he gets an urge of writing will do more W'Kar stories and that will be number 5 then. But I'll not be over doing this section, Assassin Guyver for example will not be getting her own section and will stay in the character stories even if the number goes over 2 stories. Guyver XT depends on Mike's return and wanting to have his character getting his own section. I've yet to decide how art will be devided up. But again it'll not be down too who done what. Data files section will be cleaned up... this is where a LOT of work needs to be done, but mainly my focus will be on the "Creators" secton will be renamed Gen and data files corrected for Time War and new versions uploaded for Warrior Guyver and Gigantic Guyver. There will be some other new stuff too. For the time being the Calendar will be removed. After the rewrites are done though it should make a return. Overall the redesign will follow the 3 click rule.... Basically from the front page it should only take you 3 clicks to find something interesting and what you want within the site.

Not exactly... A Guyver now efectively has 3 stages and basically power levels. 1x the normal Guyver. 10x the Gigantic Guyver (in the past the fan-fiction put this at 2x which is where the power levels later on seem stupidly extreame - the rewrite will correct this). 20/25x the Gigantic Exceed. So if I say Gigantic in power level I basically mean 10x. There are some things to consider here. Krullnar doesn't stick to hard to the rules like his father. The GPZ is more powerful than he should be. He is there to kill the other test Units and push them to the limits. Guyver Zerabubuse was like him, but has already being killed by Dreadnought. WGV doesn't have a 50% boost. In Zoanoid from apart from his pods he is basically no stronger than a Gigantic Guyver. What gives him his real firepower is what makes him a bioloaster Zoanoid, the pods. They basically work like mega-smashers, that have a much higher recharge rate compared to a normal Warrior Guyver. Apart from that though he's not go much over even a human Warrior Guyver. Warrior Guyver Thancrus should be different in that he's got a Type 2 unit and zoanoid vibrational blades. He gets the close combat benifits of being a WG. Together thats where they are going to cause havok in the future.