User:Lancer1289

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About me
I am a huge fan of the Mass Effect Universe, however when I started editing here way back in 2008, I only made around 60 edits or so before the release of Mass Effect 2. After the release of ME2 is when I really started getting involved in this wiki and now I have well over the amount of edits I thought I would have. Even so, I do know quite a lot about the games, the books, and getting better at the comics, so I do know what I am talking about, usually. I will admit when I am wrong so you have no worries there.

As to my schooling I am in college and enjoying it. I live in the suburbs of Chicago and attend the College of DuPage, the best community college in the United States. That is the opinion of many major educational magazines and not mine. As to what I am studying, I am studying Video Game Design and Development and enjoying it. I am also studying for a degree in music, mainly an AFA degree.

Because I wrote a lot of the walkthoughs, or in the process of rewriting them, I take a personal measure to keep them free of spam. I don't remove anything good but if something completely false is added, I will be removing it. Also if there are new walkthoughs, you can probably bet I will be creating the pages or at least updating them after they are up. I can write a major walkthough in about a day, give or take a few hours. So as new DLC packs come out, I will be writing the walkthoughs for them. As to my knowledge of the walkthoughs, I have 20+ completed ME walkthoughs and at present 15+ ME2 walkthroghs.

Also I am one of the Mass Effect Wiki's admins, so if you have any questions, don't hesitate to drop me a message on my talk page. No matter the question I will try to help out if I can, otherwise I will direct you in the right direction, or at least try to. Just a fair warning, if you have a question on the day a new DLC pack comes out, I may not answer right away, unless it's a vandel, as I will be writing the walkthoughs for it if it has missions or assignmets. Otherwise I'll do my best to get back to you ASAP.

Milestones
I put this here because I have a habit of keeping track of dates and things I accomplish. So if this seems like a self-indulgence trip, well it is. This is my user page after all.

2010
 5,000 Edits:  Wow, today I hit a milestone, well to me anyway, edit number 5,000. I thought it would take me well over a year to get to this point. Oh well, 5,000 and counting, as I don't plan to stop anytime soon. Ok enough with my self-indulgence trip. Lancer1289 04:19, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

 6,000 Edits:  Another milestone today, and on the eve of the release of Overlord of all days. I guess I have to write those guides in the next few days. Anyway, I am doing the math and just a mere 11 days since I made my 5,000th edit. Now I can celebrate edit number 6,000. Man, the last days seemed to drag on, mainly due to summer classes and a massive paper, but I have no intention of slowing down. My goal by the end of 2010 is me celebrating edit number 10,000. Well that is enough of my second self-indulgence trip. Lancer1289 05:13, June 15, 2010 (UTC)

 7,000 Edits:  Well I'll have to make this quick, but edit number 7,000. Wow I am really moving along here. Yea. Lancer1289 05:44, June 26, 2010 (UTC)
 *  7,000 Edits Addendum:  I hit yet another milestone today with edit number 7,000. The ironic thing I found is that it is yet another 11 days, almost to the minute but I was off by a half hour, 31 minutes if you want to be exact, since edit number 6,000. I can't believe how fast my edit counter has gone up in the last 11 days, but when I really started editing here I couldn't possibly imagine that I'd be at 7,000 edits in under 5 months. I really made my first edit, when I started contributing heavly, between my spring semester classes on January 28, 2010. Before then I had only made edits filling in armor stats and one edit to the Citadel: Signal Tracking page about how you acquire the mission. If you had asked me when I made those first edits on the Normandy SR-2 page about where Jack was, if I though I'd be here today with 7,000 edits, I'd say you were crazy. I never expected my counter and my contributions to go up that fast, but I guess it did. As I have said, I don't plan to stop anytime soon. Well that is enough of my third or fourth self-indulgence trip, but I like to keep track of these things. Lancer1289 06:27, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

 Administrator Status:  Not really an edit count milestone but a significant one for me and I think a promotion to Admin/Sysop is worth mentioning. Anyway my role just increased and I will still do everything I can to help out and make this place better for everyone. Lancer1289 03:25, July 6, 2010 (UTC)

 8,000 Edits:  While it may not be 11 days since my last milestone of 7,000, edit number 8,000. Wow I am really moving along. The last two weeks have really flown by. So yea edit number 8,000. Lancer1289 22:17, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

 9,000 Edits:  Well it may have been 16 days, but this makes yet another thousand edits, making my total 9,000. So I am continually moving along here and making this a better place for everybody. Lancer1289 19:40, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

 10,000 Edits:  Well it may be a few months yet to the end of the year, but edit number 10,000. I've stopped counting days, nor to I care so anymore, but still I never thought I'd be at 10,000 by now. I thought I'd be here in 2011, not today. Still so much work to do. Lancer1289 20:18, August 9, 2010 (UTC)

 11,000 Edits:  Well there is much work left to do, especially with Lair of the Shadow Broker approaching in a little more than a week. However, today I can celebrate my 11,000th edit. Wow, and I know I keep saying this, but I never thought I'd have this many edits, this quickly, or before mid next year. That said, I enjoy editing here and communicating with the people on this site that make this a better place for both users and visitors alike. So edit number 11,000 is just another start, there is still much work that needs to be done. Lancer1289 06:06, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

 12,000 Edits:  LotSB just came out, and it was great wasn't it. However I'd like to add yet another 1000 edits to my tally. Well acutally this will 12,004, but I had to take care of admin things. There is still so much more work to do here and making this a better place for anyone who visits here. I have really come to enjoy working on this wiki with everyone that edits here, and other places. So 12,000, yet another point, and it can only go up from there. Lancer1289 20:56, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

 13,000 Edits:  Well Wikia is coming out with a new skin and that means a lot of work fixing articles to make them appear the same way. Anyway 13,000 edits is still something to note as I continue. However it is also nice that my Xbox 360 finally came back from its stint in the repair center. Oh Well you have to what you have to do at times. So with the new skin coming out, there will be much work to do as we adapt to it. So yep 13,000 and I can only guess where will the counter go from here. Lancer1289 00:50, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

 14,000 Edits + 15,000 Edits:  Well I forgot about 14,000 thousand and I fell asleep at my computer last night so I needed sleep before I could make 15,000 so here one for both. It hs been very busy here since October and with the release of the PS3 version just a few weeks away I predict it will only get busier. Also my goal of puchasing a PS3 didn't come through this Christmas, so I'll have to wait for my birthday or sometime before that. Also with Mass Effect 3 finally announced, hopefully we can get ready for it before the release. Also what happened with the DLC, but at least we have assurances that mroe is one the way. Still a dry spell from September, a little more of a dry spell than I expected. So another 2,000 is more is just further along. At this rate, how long until I hit 20,000... Lancer1289 17:34, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

2011
 16,000 Edits:  Almost a month since my last edit here, but yet another 1,000 to add to the score. With the release of the PS3 version came a few headaches, but less than I anticipated, but less than PS3 users are getting. I'm glad the Xbox and PC don't have those problem, but still that is a really bad thing. I really wouldn't want 15 hours of work go to waste in a split second. Oh well hopefully it will be sorted out. Still another 1,000, and more to come. Lancer1289 18:22, January 26, 2011 (UTC)

 17,000 Edits:  Just about another month since the last time I updated this, but I add a little more than a thousand this time. A thousand and ten to be exact. I missed 17,000 earlier today, or last night, unsure which. A number of things have happened but there are too many to go into. So let's keep going and we are all now looking forward to a new DLC pack. BioWare, don't assume that something will be invisible. Lancer1289 17:58, February 22, 2011 (UTC)

 18,000 Edits:  With the release of the final story DLC pack for Mass Effect 2 just a few days away, and I can't wait for it. However, this marks another 1,000 edits to tally up and I've noticed a number of things since about a month ago. There has been a lot more vandalism in the last month, ranging from eye rolling, to...well words just can't describe come of it. On the flip side of that, there have been more people popping in an out, mainly IPs, with generally good edits to grammar, spelling, and a few other things. Sometimes I can't figure out how some things get overlooked, but then as the old saying goes, no one is perfect and generally it requires a second, or third, or even fourth set of eyes to catch some small things. The biggest thing going on has been the war over the Illusive Man and whether not he is Jack Harper. Is he Jack, more than likely, and I'm willing to bet that he is, but can't we just wait until issue four comes out in a few weeks? Judging by the small war that has been raged over this issue, apparently not. Anyway another 1,000 to bank and more still coming. Lancer1289 21:42, March 27, 2011 (UTC)

 19,000 Edits:  Well Arrival arrived, and I have to say that I was impressed. A great last story DLC pack for ME2 and well worth the time and effort that went into it. I have to say the last few weeks have been interesting, more warring over the "is Jack Harper the Illusive Man" issue. I'm, again willing to bet that he is, but I guess we'll just have to wait another six days for confirmation on it. Since I'm making this edit in the middle of an update for the weapon pages, this will fall right in the middle at 19,000. The last two weeks saw a massive spree of vandalism by, more than likely one person, who has some issues that they couldn't work out for whatever reason. Everything from blanking pages and replacing the content with images, to impersonating my user name using Cyrillic characters, modification ofi it, then spoofing my edit summaries. I will never know what was their problem, and I'm not entirely convinced I want to know. Well at least they are gone, hopefully. Anyway on a brighter note, I finally updated the wireless in my house, and I can FINALLY play on Xbox Live again. So games I intend to play: Halo: Reach, Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3 Beta, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and probably a few others. So another 1,000 to add to the score, and hopefully by the end of May, I'll have 20,000. Lancer1289 19:50, April 14, 2011 (UTC)

 20,000 Edits:  Well I look back on the last month, and there are things on both sides of the spectrum, both good and bad. Yet I find myself adding yet another 1,000, ok 1,051, to my totals. Well now we all just have to sit and bunker down while we get more and more information about Mass Effect 3. However I also find myself in the middle of finals week, which is going to be great! If you didn't get the joke, well it was one. Well I guess yet another month, but there are a few things I'd like to say, but I won't. So this is short and sweet. Lancer1289 03:19, May 10, 2011 (UTC)

 21,000 Edits:  Finally, summer vacation, and yet I still have classes, sigh. Well it's been a busy month, all with E3, and more ME3 information, even more things to boot, and I have my ME3 Collector's Edition on preorder at my local GameStop. I finally have a narrowed list of about 10 games that I want to buy, and now I am enjoying my summer as much as I can even with classes. Oh well, I guess everything can't be perfect but at least the class is interesting so far. We also finally have a confirmed ME3 release date, and that date gives me a lot of time to play other games that I've been wanted to get, which I mentioned above. So another month, another 1,000 edits, and again I find myself not having updated my battle, I really need to do that. So I'll see you all in what will more than likely be another month for another installment. Lancer1289 01:03, June 11, 2011 (UTC)

 22,000 Edits:  I probably missed this yesterday, but yet another 1000 to add to my totals, well 1080 at this point. 1080, funny actually. Just about two months have passed, and I finally got around to updating my battle. I'm going to try and update it every other week, but I seem to have a bad memory on that front. We've learned some more information about ME3, and I've finally got the game list I want to buy down to a more manageable level. The last two months have been good, summer and no school, but with school fast approaching, I really have mixed feelings about going back. There are some things I want to go back for, and others not, but I guess just about everyone has those feelings. School always has good and bad parts. Anyway, back to work and wit the hope that we can learn a lot more about ME3 soon, and for me, more details about other games that I have been waiting for. Lancer1289 20:21, August 8, 2011 (UTC)

 23,000 Edits:  Ok it's 23,108 at this point, but I've had other things that I've been focusing on. I've been playing a lot of Gears 3, and finally getting around to getting my desktop computer back up to speed. See here for more on that. I really wish that the delivery would be tomorrow, but it will probably end up being sometime on Monday or Tuesday. The sad thing is I need my laptop back by Wednesday or there’s going to be problems. There’s been some things that Wikia is doing that really have me worried and questioning if the staff knows what they are supposed to be doing. I do hope that they listen this time. The wiki has been relatively quiet recently, although there’s been a flurry of edits today and yesterday, considering that there were days where I thought we’d have three days of changes on the RC. It’s hectic days that make you really appreciate them as you almost wish for them when you are struggling to keep up with changes that seem to happen at the speed of light. Anyway only 892 until my next post in this area, and hopefully that might take some time because I’m not going to argue with a few more quiet days. Lancer1289 01:14, October 8, 2011 (UTC)

2012
 24,000 + 25,000 Edits:  It's been quite a few months hasn't it? A lot has happened since I last posted here, and with Mass Effect 3 rapidly approaching, I suspect I'll be back here before long. We've had to adapt to BioWare throwing a lot our way. We've had the Pre-order bonus disaster and some commentary on it, we now have statues with exclusive DLC, we have an art book with DLC, and now we have to deal with the fact that Galaxy at War affects all of yoru saved games, whether you want it to or not. Talk about a lot of information.

We've also had other things going on outside of Mass Effect. We've had questionable decisions by the Wikia Staff, we have things put into Wikia Labs that just need to die, and we've had a mass internet protest against two controversial bills in the US Congress. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. A lot has happened since October, and more will happen before March 6 when I can finally get my hands on my Mass Effect 3 N7 Collector's Edition and the CE Guide. What? I like the guides for a number of reasons.

So another edit, and I'll probably be back here before too long. Oh and please stop by my Favorite Games Blog. Please?!. Lancer1289 19:11, January 28, 2012 (UTC)

Featured Battle
Because I absolutly love military history, every week I will display a battle here with a few details and a link to the Wikipedia article. I will not add links for every possible thing however, too much typing on my part. Enjoy.

TO BE UPDATED ON SUNDAY JANURARY 29

ME2 Assignments

 * Illium: Conrad Verner

ME Assignments
Rewriting several assignments to make them look like walkthoughs, not main articles.
 * Citadel: I Remember Me
 * Citadel: Old, Unhappy, Far-Off Things
 * Citadel: Presidium Prophet
 * Citadel: Signal Tracking
 * Citadel: Snap Inspection
 * Citadel: The Fan
 * Citadel: Xeltan's Complaint
 * Citadel: The Fourth Estate
 * Citadel: Our Own Worst Enemy
 * Citadel: Negotiator's Request

Stubs
I am also going to attempt to eliminate the stub articles around this wiki.
 * Category:Article stubs

Codex Image Cleanup and Add

 * Project 1: Cleaning up the Codex of all non-Codex images, and adding ones where appropiate, when I get back on my PC.
 * Project 2: Double Checking all Codex entries for differences from ME to ME2, we found some earlier so a double check couldn't hurt.
 * Project 3: Fixing any links to Wikipedia.

Invasion
Keeping up with the new information from Mass Effect: Invasion and adding that informaiton to articles. Since I can no longer pick up the comic on Wednesdays, due to school activities, I will be adding/expanding/rewriting the story on Thurdays.

Articles in series:
 * Mass Effect: Invasion
 * Adjutant
 * Oleg Petrovsky
 * Ashe (May ask for a name change)
 * Cerberus

Current Sandbox Projects

 * Squad Article
 * Character Template Overhaul
 * Headquote Policy Proposal

My Sandboxes
Because a lot of the things I am doing at the moment would alter a lot of articles, I am using my sandboxes to write them first.
 * Sandbox Index Page

Favorite Pages
Not in any order
 * Normandy SR-2
 * Citadel
 * Destiny Ascension
 * Citadel Fleet
 * SSV Normandy
 * Cerberus Daily News
 * Race Against Time: Final Battle
 * Collector Ship (mission)
 * Overlord