Wiki Equipment Portal

[JorgeRyan]

Currently we have this as the layout of out our equipment pages:


Its not too bad, most classes are labeled with what class they are for, but its missing a few classes ( like Battlecruiser) and it has a few problems I elaborate on down below. And most of the time I find myself navigating equipment pages with this portal:


This doesn't seem very useful, as you need to remember which class of gun goes with what ship slot, and half the gun pages are out of sorts, being either used for turrets or just not used any more (class 5), or only have 1 entry (class 4 and 10).

Instead, I think it might be more useful set out like this

Guns:

Light Fighter Guns

Heavy Fighter Guns

Elite Fighter Guns

Fighter Ordinace

Bomber Guns

Bomber Torpedos

Forward Guns

Turrets:

Fighter Turrets

Transport Turrets

Gunboat Turrets

Cruiser Turrets

Cruiser Heavy Turrets

Battlecruiser Primary Turrets

Battlecruiser Heavy Turrets

Battlecruiser Secondary Turrets

Battleship Primary Turrets

Battleship Heavy Turrets

Battleship Secondary Turrets

Equipment:

CD

Cm

Cloaks

Mines

ID

Thrusters

Shields

Scanners

Armour Upgrades

Cargo Pods

Jumpdrives

Hyperspace Scanners

I just don't think there's much point in labeling the weapons by class, now that each class of weapon is designed for specific class of ship, so this way, now you don't need to remember which class of weapon is for which ship. Also, this would see changes such fighter torpedoes and missiles merged into one page, catering to all weapons that use the weapon class, with bomber torpedo's having their own page. An entire page just for Hellfire Rocket Pods and the Catapult missile each is pretty over the top too, so the class 4 page can be merged with either the Bomber Guns or Bomber Torpedo's page, and class 10 could become the combined fighter missiles/torpedo/MR/Maxim page. There's not really enough transport heavy turrets that making a whole new page also seems overkill, but Gunboats, Cruisers and larger could do with the separate pages for turret classes.

Alternatively, the rows could be labeled "Snubcraft" and "Capital Ships" respectively, and move the fighter turrets up to be with the snubcraft.

All in all, this should make the equipment overview pages easier to navigate and understand, especially for new players, as well as consolidating all weapons for one hard-point on one page, for easier comparisons.

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