Thread:Willbachbakal/@comment-6016076-20140601080319/@comment-6016076-20140622023318

Disclaimers:

I have no idea how much these burden the page with increased loading times. If it's a probem, I prefer the one under cost analysis for its brevity which is more accessible to passersby. I think that's our primary goal with a disclaimer. Here's a proposal

Current

A cost analysis is a measure of the gold value of an item's stats. It is not a measure of an item's effectiveness in-game or in a particular build.

Suggestion

Cost analysis is a measure of the gold value of an item's stats and does not include unique passives or actives unless stated otherwise. It is NOT a complete measure of an item's effectiveness in-game or in a particular build.

I know I killed the brevity part here, but I wanted to stress two points: That it is a limited representation of the item and to draw more attention to it not being a perfect measure of effectiveness. I'd have like explicitly stated why it doesn't take into account particular builds, but I think it'd be getting too long.

But to be honest I am really flexible here. I am just trying to do what makes sense for Wiki traffickers, so if others feel a different approach is more receptive, then I am all for it.

Loading speed aside, ideally we could field more disclaimers. If the Gold Analysis template is all you feel necessary to say, then I can ascribe to just including that. I don't know if other items might have additional subsections under cost analysis; if they do then a disclaimer to explain the meaning of each section would probably be nice.

The Gold Analysis template is nice because it gives a little more detail than the cost analysis template for those who have already ventured into the analysis section. I think there's more room here to write a longer description if ideas come up.

Format:

I am all for more details because I appreciate having more tools readily at my disposal. I think I am fairly alone in that sentiment, though. Rageblade is a difficult one because I think it might be the most complicated item to process here.

Here's an older version of the page. I have to say the bottom part of the analysis seems less cluttered and more appealing to the eye. On closer comparison, you see that it is also missing a lot of details that would be nice to have. I honestly can't figure a way to take your format and make it look as easy to eye over, short of putting the % values next to their respective gold costs in the section above, but I am not sure this wouldn't make things more cluttered

So I think the new format looks slightly cluttered, but given it's the most complicated item, that I am not willing to compromise any of its details, and that I don't have a better idea to improve it, I vote definitely yes.

I do like the gold costs that show up when you mouse over the % values. And I also visited a less complex example (pickaxe), which I think will look similar to this format, and it looked great to me. Overall, I think it's very nice and absolutely a clear improvement over the old system :)  Nice job!