Valik
Professor of Alchemy
Back when Tef did away with faction forums for the factory and put up his legion of faction tags I raged. I hated the change. Thought it made for inefficient searching.
Still do. Hate it. But, #TyrannyReigns and it's here to stay. So why don't we make it better? Right now we can sort things by faction which is ossum, and very useful, but it leaves a rather huge hole in organization. There are -no- filters for unaffiliated crap. Which means if I want to search for a publically available freighter and I go through "Approved" I not only have to weed through everyones personal, one of a kind freighter, but also through everyone's personal, one of a kind sword, blaster, armor, fighter etc. because the search pulls it from all forums.
There's an easy solution to this though. Remove the "Approved" tag and replace it with "Public" and "Personal". Lets people easily find things they can pull off the shelf in RP by removing the 80% of things they can't use and likely won't interact with, and gives people another filter for looking up opponent's tech in duels and other pertinent RP's.
If back-dating everything becomes an issue I can set up lists and links of what is and isn 't uniquely produced and help withthat legwork, as it's understandably a huge task.
Still do. Hate it. But, #TyrannyReigns and it's here to stay. So why don't we make it better? Right now we can sort things by faction which is ossum, and very useful, but it leaves a rather huge hole in organization. There are -no- filters for unaffiliated crap. Which means if I want to search for a publically available freighter and I go through "Approved" I not only have to weed through everyones personal, one of a kind freighter, but also through everyone's personal, one of a kind sword, blaster, armor, fighter etc. because the search pulls it from all forums.
There's an easy solution to this though. Remove the "Approved" tag and replace it with "Public" and "Personal". Lets people easily find things they can pull off the shelf in RP by removing the 80% of things they can't use and likely won't interact with, and gives people another filter for looking up opponent's tech in duels and other pertinent RP's.
If back-dating everything becomes an issue I can set up lists and links of what is and isn 't uniquely produced and help withthat legwork, as it's understandably a huge task.