Board Thread:Dark Assembly/@comment-653063-20150318192940

Go to Template:Weapons. That whole first row of 'fists', 'swords', etc, the names of the actual weapon types... on those pages are charts of what skills are used by 'all fists in D1-d4', and charts of the name/rank/flavor text for each game (generally speaking; there are quite a few holes).

Now.

"list of D1 weapons" is a tiny page that says 'click each weapon-type to view the list of weapons.' It's like a weird disambig. ok.

"list of D2 weap" doesn't even exist. ok......

"list of D3" and "d4 weaps" are these RIDICULOUSLY GIANT PAGES with these, ugh, tables, full of like all the data but it's all awfully displayed and --

why are there two separate charts on two separate pages that are almost duplicating the data? Why even have the charts on the 'fist', 'sword' etc pages that only have name/rank/flavor AND the 'skills' chart, when there are charts on the game-specific pages that ALSO have skills charts, AND the nitty gritty data....

AUGH. This all belongs in a database. Also, did anyone making those tables ever hear of collapseability? Yeah it's kind of awesome. Oh gosh I need to redo those tables. And I might cry because it's ridiculous.

So, seriously. This stuff needs to be stored in ONE place. Not both. Not half here, half there. Do we put all the 'game-specific weapon data' on the game-specific pages? Or put all the weapon-specific data on the weapon page, and make the game pages be like the D1 "go look over there for what you want"? I'd really kind of vote for the "on the game-specific page", because probably a user is going to be playing D# and not want to have a separate page open for each weapon type... you know?

So if this is a good plan... I can make the framework work but soon-ish, I'm gonna need some copy-paste help. I am not going to put 40 lines of flavor text times 8 weapon types times 4 games, all where it needs to go. Again, marathon not sprint. But yeah. Maybe someone will come from the Spotlight and be willing to help. Or maybe I'll learn how to bot better. IDK.

Shall we do this? Because wow sometimes this site makes me cry, haha. I like making code fix the problem so I can stop crying, lol X D.

(edit: fixed my broken link to weapons template) 