VanaFacts - Load Screen "facts" About Vana'diel

Presenting: VanaFacts
Display one of over 800 "facts" about Vana'diel and FFXI in general during zoning screens.



Download from Github repo

This started off as me wanting some unobtrusive way to remind users of certain functions and features of any given addon I made. Eventually thinking about load screens on games, how some of them give you something to read while waiting. But then I realized I should actually make something like that with lore about FFXI for people to read. Fairly simple, but I think it's pretty neat to give some small use to the empty black screens we see so many times a day.

Sources

Timeline lore:
Credit to Elmer the Pointy for translation from various guides
https://ffxi.allakhazam.com/wiki/Bastok_Timeline
https://ffxi.allakhazam.com/wiki/San_d'Oria_Timeline
https://ffxi.allakhazam.com/wiki/Windurst_Timeline
The above was also reposted to FFXIAH for preservation by RadialArcana:
https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/56500/bastok-timeline-by-elmer-the-pointy/
https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/56499/san-doria-timeline-by-elmer-the-pointy/
https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/56498/windurst-timeline-by-elmer-the-pointy/
Various pages from the Fandom FFXI Wiki
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Final_Fantasy_XI
Various pages from BG-WIKI
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Main_Page

I need you to make a version of this that reminds me of everything I need to do in a day/month

Zone screen:

Did you spend your Accolades/Spark before the Conquest reset?

Did you know that saving your macros to the server frequently saves you the headache of having to rewrite them later?

Did you remember to get your Moglophone, Mystical Canteen, or Ra'Kaznar Plate today?

Mog Bonanza ends on <date> - don't miss your chance!

You can add those in by opening the data/settings.xml file and adding them to the bottom of the <facts> section. Make sure to increase the number of each added entry by one. Inversely, if you want only those you can delete all the previous entries and replace them with these (again making sure to keep the numbering consistent).
I like these though, I'm going to add them in to mine as well.

Oh I have a bunch of things I need reminders on (peculiar foes, spending ambuscade points before reset, mog gardens stuff, misc campaign details, trove/spend merits). I might actually use this as a little reminder for things I need to do regularly

very neat, nice work n thanks for sharing

FFXIV has an addon that shows concept art of the zone you’re loading into. Would it be too much to sneak in a folder we could fill up with background pictures?