Mega Follow-Up Post! I am burying the lede because I'm responding in order.
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@faraday said in Character Information: Wiki or Mu*?:
This is like a "which do you prefer, chocolate or vanilla" type of question. You're not going to reach any sort of consensus here.
Well yeah, this is Soapbox. I am, however, getting this conversation out of the X-Men Utopia thread. It comes up from time to time, so let's get our opinions in order.
Personally, I prefer to have the wiki/website be the primary source of all information, and have in-game commands for essential quick reference. But that matters to anyone else about as much as the fact that I like chocolate (i.e. it doesn't matter at all except insofar as what you'll find on my games or ready-built into Ares).
This is my opinion too, but what I consider "essential quick reference" changes. Being able to pull information into both is my perfect world.
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@sparks said in Character Information: Wiki or Mu*?:
My answer is 'both should draw from the same source'.
Sure, but when I say it I have Faraday calling it vanilla v. chocolate. Also, I may be hungry right now.
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@arkandel said in Character Information: Wiki or Mu*?:
@thenomain I don't see a reason it would be exclusive to either.
Because this is how @Ganymede phrased it in the X-Men Utopia thread. I will concede to @Tempest that it's not that hard to list and review a bunch of stats on a wiki, but my complaint as stated is that hitting the wiki just for some information is disruptive and/or tedious, as agreed upon by: Ghost, Ixokai, and Apos,
Most people agree that both sources is best. This includes myself. Actually, I think Ganymede in the other thread is the only person I can think of in recent memory who thinks we should dump in-game "finger" style information altogether. Or sheet. Whatever.
I mean, that's not to say that mob rules, but I certainly think people are happier with a mix of both.
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@surreality said in Character Information: Wiki or Mu*?:
All the <rubs her temples> for you, @Thenomain.
For non-tech-brained people like me
You can make MediaWiki do things that absolutely baffle me. That takes a hell of a lot of technical skill. Don't sell yourself short. Making things easy is hella hard.