Talk:Broom Spear

It's silly
It would be more convenient to have a template that represent various versions of an item than for it to have each individual page. As an example checkout: Ark game item- Cloth Armor Terronscibe (talk) 06:40, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Ah, yes I had thought about something like that. However, there was too many different things (the pricing, the different items, etc) and just too much that would display on each page. That's why they have that fancy disambig at the top :D I also didn't have access to a lot of the current extensions that we now have on the wiki - as in none of them haha (we don't have tabber at the moment either, that's on my list of items I need to request). As the only major contributor with such an item-heavy patch out and missing details about the items I decided it was best just to make individual pages for each so I didn't need to think about it as much :D So far, it's working out fine, and allows for much nicer cargotable stuff without accidental pulls from the wrong tables (that's how most of the shared info is displayed, eg. crafted items, where things drop from, etc) On top of that, many people who probably don't really understand the wiki jargon add the various info to the sales tables found on each individual page, and having two of those tables may confuse them, along with duplicates of all the other things on there. I hope that helps with the reasoning for individual pages! Ferthi (talk) 06:58, 17 February 2019 (UTC)


 * It's a bit wordy, but I think I understand. Does that mean when you acquire the wiki tools, there will be consideration to craft multi-info templates for combining specific pages?Terronscibe (talk) 07:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Yeah sorry, it was quite late last night and I was tired XD Quick recap would be:


 * 1) Easier for players wanting to add info (main reason)
 * 2) Multiple identical variables with different values (confusing for first-time editors if they are trying to fill out the proper things to build on the first point)
 * 3) Doesn't break the CargoTable storage stuff
 * 4) Missing various extensions at the time of creation to really utilize something like that
 * 5) Individual pages for each item was just easier
 * But, onto your question. It would depend on which pages. I'm averse to combining the regular game pages with the new game + pages for the reasons 1-3. I don't mind general pages showing the same information (eg. Armor/Weapons both display the reg and NG+ versions of items, as do the individual Cultures). Once we have Tabber, I would like to use it on pages like Vulcan's Forge so we can display both sets of info on the page at once while giving players the option of which they would like to look at to prevent confusion. That's the beauty of CargoTables: it lets you display information pulled from a single page onto any page in any combination of information. Ferthi (talk) 17:57, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sweet!Terronscibe (talk) 01:49, 3 March 2019 (UTC)