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[Stuiter]

There is a lot to find on the wiki but it lacks overview.
It would be good to have overviews to know what already exist and what not.

For example their are different races and you can create your own race.
But there is no overview on what races already exist.
It would be good to know so you don't make the same.

For some things there are to much and you might just give a few examples and a link to all.
(This could be done for blazonry logos)

[Mercury]

Excellent suggestion! I worked on something for races (we're currently adding pages for the NPC races). We should probably back-link to it from all race pages.

Races Overview

[Brend]

Wouldn't it be better to have a list of races on the rules:races page? Although they aren't really in the rules space, I think that that IS the place where players end up when looking around for races.

I will look into streamlining some of the indexes and add some overview pages tomorrow.

<opionated statement>As a side note: please stop with the tables already, they don't really present a good overview, they just clutter up the page with a large and bulky table. It's better to draw up a template and use the dataview plugin.</opionated statement>

[Chriz]

I kinda agree with Brend on the tables. They give a load of unnecessary information that is only displayable on a full HD screen.

[Brend]

I just realized what irks me about the large tables: their styling is the King of Ugly (not meant is disrespect to those that styled it ).

I'll change the styling tomorrow evening, and look into some default 'listing templates' for different types of things as well. This should help with making a nicer looking wiki ^_^

[Brend]

...We should probably back-link to it from all race pages.

This should be done in the template:race. Just as the technologies backlink should be done in the technology template, they exist for a reason: to make sure we do not duplicate the same non-content things all over =)

Will look into streamlining that as well tomorrow evening ^_^

[Stuiter]

My idea was also to put the overview on the race page.
You don't want to create to many pages where you have to look and having to switch everytime.
It's should be simple and clear to the players.

[Brend]

As promised, I have tried my hand at restyling the tables. I removed the hard contrast of white lines on the black background, and instead tried to make the tables seem more like a single structured object instead of a grid of cells. I've added an even-odd alternating colour scheme to make large tables a bit more readable.

Let me know what you think of it.

[Mercury]

I like the new layout for tables!

The reason I default to tables is that they can be sorted. This is useful for me as gamemaster when I want to know for example how many characters there are of a certain race.

I do feel that we should differentiate between the rules for races (which should be in the rules namespace) and the overview of race entries we have in character (which should be in the IC namespace). I think the current model (rules in rules namespace, overview of actual races in IC namespace) works very well. If not we can always duplicate the table since it updates data automagically.

[Stuiter]

The list now is IC overview.
But OCC information on the characterics is also usefull.
So you don't get too much races with the same.

[Mercury]

Latest update: we split up the races list in two lists. In the IC namespace is a description of the race only (since it is IC information) and in the OOC races namespace are the stats namespace to avoid confusion between characteristics as you said. See here:

In Character Namespace
Rules Namespace