Collection Template Rewardtype

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The collection quest template includes this:

rewardtype= | 

The ToV collections pretty uniformly reward 3 Draconic Etyma (a currency), one collection piece for a meta collection, and a selection of appearance-only armor, weapons, or shield. None of our rewardtype options adequately deals with this multiple reward scenario. Can we have a means of just suppressing it? Or augmenting it? -- Sigrdrifa ( talk ) 00:17, November 8, 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, it used to work really well when collection rewards always followed one of a few patterns, but they keep changing it up. I think it's time I just rewrite the reward type component and make it into a simple set of fields (e.g., reward1=, reward2=, etc.). For now, you can just leave it blank or put collection in there maybe. I've got raid starting shortly tonight, but I'll try to get it done tomorrow. It shouldn't be hard, I just have to make a normalizer template for the various types and then make rewardtype no longer mandatory after hooking the new method up. I can use a bot to take care of all the old ones using rewardtype and eventually eliminate the old menthod from the template. -- lordebon ( talk ) 02:30, November 8, 2013 (UTC)

Okay, template updated. From now on out, use rwdtype1 through rwdtype4, one for each type of reward. Valid optins are basically what you had before, minus the combo ones (e.g., legendary+house), with the addition of currency. I'll take a look at getting my bot to convert all the existing collection pages to the new system. -- lordebon ( talk ) 03:23, November 9, 2013 (UTC)