User:Kastera1000

Hey there! I'm Kastera1000, but most people around here just call me Kastera. I'm one of the active administrators on The Vault.

Background
I joined The Vault on February 27, 2010 when the wiki was still hosted by Wikia. Prior to that time, I edited articles as an unregistered member, only when I occasionally spotted something wrong or strange about them. I wasn't concerned with formatting or templates, but rather correct, useful information and grammatical errors. I started "seriously" editing The Vault in the latter part of the "Fallout 3 era" (2009 - 2010) of The Vault, so to my dismay, there were only a handful articles to truly contribute to, seeing as all other editors had got to them before I did. There was still tons to do on them, but with me being a new user, I was naive and didn't know any better.

After the release of Fallout: New Vegas, I found myself editing and creating more articles than I did during the Fallout 3 era. On April 2, 2011, I attained rollback status and have been using it basically every single day to revert both bad faith and all in all weird edits. About two months later, on June 21, 2011, I submitted my admin proposal and a week later (June 28, 2011), I was an administrator. In November 2011, when The Vault moved to Curse, I came along like most other administrators, but also stayed at Wikia to help during the transitional period.

Between the end of Fallout: New Vegas's cycle and the release of Fallout 4 (2011–2015), I mainly edited pages with the intent to clean up the layout. I also regularly did clean ups, occasionally rewriting entire page sections and integrating dialogue and other references into pages that needed them. Once Fallout 4 was released, I remained very busy contributing primarily to locations, junk items, and consumables.

Notable contributions

 * Fallout 3 overhaul project: finished the project with help from Porter. My main focus was particularly to the Point Lookout, Broken Steel and Operation: Anchorage sections and sections M-R and S-Z. I was actually made project leader by the prior leader, in part for my efforts (and being the only person working on the project) and in part for the fact that Gothe couldn't perform his duties.
 * Fallout 3 creatures project: Contributed a majority of contributions on the project, seeing as everyone else went for the New Vegas creatures project instead. I closed it soon after the Fallout: New Vegas creatures project.
 * Fallout: New Vegas creatures project: Contributed to the project by mostly merging articles and doing peer reviews. After left for a long time, I closed the project and awarded medals to all the active participants.
 * The Vault's featured articles: Spent two months in 2013 overhauling the featured articles to better reflect the articles that best represent the five years of progress The Vault has done since the featured articles were created in 2008.
 * Even before Fallout 4 was released, I worked extensively on transferring information from screenshots obtained from copies of the game obtained by Curse; this mostly consisted of the effects of and materials needed for weapon modifications. After Fallout 4 was released, I contributed nearly every perk description, layout and notable loot section for new location pages, and revamped every junk item for improved readability.

Current projects
I am currently not participating in any active projects. My to-do list also keeps me relatively busy:

Fallout Answers
Alongside editing The Vault, I work as a bureaucrat on The Vault's sister site Fallout Answers. This site addresses problems and queries encountered in Fallout games that are not directly addressed on The Vault. I work alongside Big McLargeHuge, who is the other bureaucrat on that site. It's notable that I'm far less active on that site as opposed to this site, but that doesn't stop me from visiting it every day! I was the one responsible to tracking down some people from here to add on to the Fallout Answers admin team, which has significantly helped. If you experience any problems while you're there, feel free to let me know.

Add-on reviews
Reviewing entire games would prove to be too large of a project for me to accomplish, so I settled for reviewing the add-ons of the games. I generally discuss the good and the bad of the add-on and why I feel that way, so if you care plop down in front of your computer and have a read.

Quick synopses
Operation: Anchorage - 7.0/10 The Pitt - 8.0/10 Broken Steel - 8.5/10 Point Lookout - 9/10 Mothership Zeta - 6.5/10

Quick synopses
Dead Money - 9.5/10 Honest Hearts - 6.5/10 Old World Blues - 8.5/10 Lonesome Road - 7.0/10

Behind the scenes

 * I began using The Vault as a primary research site when playing Fallout 3 in December 2008.
 * I play on PlayStation 3 and occasionally PC when I feel like dicking around with.
 * The largest amount of edits I've made in a single 'day' is 229 (November 10, 2015). I say 'day' because I define a day as from when I wake up until I go to bed. The day doesn't end when the clock strikes midnight.