Forum information spilled to gazillion places: re-writes?

[tazuras]

The real issue I see with your proposal Arris is who is 'we', who is goning to do all the work to compile this information and compress it into something more usable without getting paid to do it. Personally I work on the wiki when I can, for instane I updated all the commodities from 4.85 and I'm sure I'll find something else to do soon. As it is I spend more time on the forums and working on the wiki and working on trade routes and doing work for the factions that I'm a member of than I spend in game, probably at least twice as much. If you think the information should be more compiled then I recommend you help with the wiki if you are not doing that already. I believe it to be the best format available to us for a great deal of the information that this community utilizes. If you want I can even add you to the wiki author skype chat (if you have skype), we always love to hear new ideas.

In terms of the number of windows you have to have open a lot of the stuff you have listed seems like it only need to be open at certain times, the commodity stuff when you are planning routes, the ID and equipment stuff when you are building characters and equipping them, the forums for miscellaneous info (this I do have open all the time but mostly because it is a good way to kill time while trading), FL roadmap only on new accounts, although you can get the same data from companion for the most part and the text document whenever working on chartacters or ingame. The wiki I pretty much only use when investigating for the purpose of RP or when the ship data was up to date to figure out ship choice (though we are working on bringing that section up to date). So I see a maximum of 5 windows you have to have open at once and 3 programs. Considering how many sheets of paper and books a table top RP'er has to have in front of them when they play I dont think this is unreasonable.

But seriously, you should help with the wiki if you have a thing for content management.

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