weapon / equipment lists on the wiki

[Ursus]

I am generating data to update the wiki and am looking for some ideas and input on how to make the information useful and accessible.

At the moment, each piece of equipment has its own page, and then there are different topics that provide lists of equipment for you to look at and compare. There are lists for each hard-point type, and a few other lists of equipment type (such as fighter missiles, or capital ship forward guns). You might see the same piece of equipment listed more than once, but each link goes to the same (single) page for that item. There's no cost in having lists and we should make as many of them as we feel useful. What I am looking for is, what sort of lists would be useful and why?

Some of these pages are dated and are no longer useful in 4.86. For example, the lists of capital ship forward guns are pretty much useless for outfitting a ship, since you can only use the forward gun(s) that fit your ship, and there is usually only one of those. What's the point of having a list when there is only one viable option? Similar with lists of capital ship missile turrets, there are only 1-2 (including basics) that can be used, having a list of 10 faction turrets is pointless. Some of this stuff is leftover from 4.85 when it was possible to mix hard-points a little more than it is now but it is utterly pointless in 4.86 except as lists of ~everything that fits on hp_gun_special_8 slot, and even that is questinable when the equipment cant be fired or used by all of the ships.

Something that would be useful under the new model, is a list of usable equipment for each faction ship, with technerf percentages, linked from faction ID. EG, Bounty Hunters Guild ID can use these ships, which can use these guns, at these penalties, etc. That will have to wait until I get around to doing faction pages, but its an example of how the data can be represented in a useful way.

Another thing I am looking at, but dont have designed yet, is making individual columns show/hide so that you can build your own comparison, but the rows will not be very dynamic, so the lists will still need to be premade.

Anybody have any suggestions or comments on this stuff, post em up

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