Thread:TheRealPella/@comment-26090008-20150324140630/@comment-15636815-20150330022152

All good ideas, Mike.

I advise patience. For example, I already mentioned to Nick that all the contractor galleries need help. I think it's wise, though, to concentrate on the contract lists by themselves, precisely because of the complexity you mentioned. Once those are done, we probably can handle overhauling the whole of the contractor page. I definitely agree, though, that the each contractor page should follow a particular format in a particular order. Details TBD.

Great idea to finish Johann's contract list, then work on Lucy. Complexity and scalability definitely are the two most challenging obstacles in this project.

My preference would be for no images at all in these lists. However, I do understand the argument for including images of locos and wagons. If we also include the buildings and decorations, page loading time will increase. Many of the buildings have very large images that may not scale well. In addition, Wikia have their new best practices that help pages look good on mobile platforms, and it's likely that the way we currently handle images doesn't conform. For that matter, I've looked at mobile previews of many of our pages, and very little of the info goes through. I don't know whether we want to do anything about that or not.

Clickable images? Meh. If you think that a sufficient number of people find that intuitive enough, or people complain about them not being clickable. For my part, if I click on the image and nothing happens, well, hey, the link to the article page is right next to it, anyway, so no big.

Set footnote: That's a topic of discussion in the contract list thread. In summary, we've reached a point where we've made good arguments for all cases but haven't made a decision. We could add it to all set objectives, but that could be perceived as spam. We could add it only to set objectives where the set includes one or more wagons available only for gems, or only to the first set objective in a contract list, but then users who skip to contract #25 would miss the footnote and still ask questions. At any rate, your thoughts on that topic probably should go in that thread.

Total Contract XP: Outstanding idea! For ease of use, the contractor profile should accept things like the XP awarded for the first and last contracts, plus the number of contracts. From there, it (or a subtemplate) should calculate and format the total for us. Helps prevent errors, please easier to change if Pixel rebalances things. I'll start working on the code to do this.

If we include a section on the page that gives the details of the Total XP, then we'll want the words "Total Contract XP" in the contractor profile to be a link to that section. This is easier code, but not 100% straightforward. If our project leader wants to try his hand at it, I'll be happy to let him. Otherwise, I'll take care of it.