Talk:Player Stats

Pasting code
I recommend to not copy/paste game code as documentation of its mechanics without explanations of what it means for what is meant to be a wiki for common understanding and material for all. Especially if one themselves find themselves not understanding what exactly they're contributing, there would be a lot of other instances where this could be applied under that logic, and would lead to a wiki only useful for the technically involved.

If such people wish to analyze the code for a more in-depth understanding, they will be able to do so themselves anyways with far more context from doing so. Variables are amiss from simply pasting the code, it will always be better for those people to look at it directly.

- Feltcute

re1 on the pasting code issue
I see wiki as a group project, so It's better to paste the code temporarily here for someone else to potentially translate it into plain English before I do... Cause I plan to do it, but I'm not that fast to understand math formulas written in code.

ComediNyan (talk) 00:42, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Advanced mechanic explanations
One other bit, detailed information on the games internal workings would be good additions to the wiki, explaining the damage formulas and how player stats mathematically work is useful information. However, presenting it as the game presents it makes the page feel void of further explanation on the topic. Examples of the formulas in action wouldn't be too out of form. The game has limited room to explain the formulas, which is why they were written the way they were, whereas the wiki can have a full page dedicated to the subject without concern of word count.

I encourage full brevity for complex topics like this, over brief summaries straight from the game on involved subjects players are likely to reference to work on their builds. Detailed explanations can only serve to help people better understand something where the game might've otherwise left them with questions, which is what wikis are for.

Some concerns over basic overviews versus complex deep dives (eg, this page versus Gameplay) would also be useful points of discussion. But in the context of the player stats page, I find in-depth explanations to be sensible. That is likely why they would visit a page like this beyond the games explanation to begin with, hence, I encourage more free-form explanations beyond what the game provides.

- Feltcute

re1
The idea to make this page came from realizing that editing Gameplay page to fit everything I found in game (that is quite hard to read otherwise cause tooltips show when mouse is in certain position) would be suboptimal. To make sure the wiki is at least as useful as character menu.

I see in future a page like "combat mechanics" where all the multipliers from this page and interaction with skills would come together... What a pipedream.

In other words, I like the idea of page detailing all the stat explanations and everything, but sadly I don't know shit yet. Thanks for pointing out the direction this page should move in though.

ComediNyan (talk) 00:41, 20 September 2020 (UTC)