Since the new system allows for only one creator to change their own articles its going to become self regulating. users that provide accurate well written articles will have many followers and upvotes while a user with many factual mistakes will not have any upvotes and thus wont be seen nearly as much.
You are now also able to leave comments on articles explaining what you think is wrong (instead of being freely able to change it directly) so that the author can double check both your and their info before its changed (or not).
Well i agree, but the pro and con section was usually pretty “unrealistic or trivial” or outdated.
But i guess gaijin will controll the vehicle ratings even in the new systen, they would never allow it to be publicly shown that a vehicle is absolute crap or absolute OP.
That was my question in my head aswell… can i follow people i trust or am i stuck with random text…
i mean its simple, i am a player with high skill level, i want to know how others on my level see that vehicle, i dont want to see what a average person sees in that vehicle.
Like i follow certain game devs cause i like what they do, but i dont follow any tripple A studio (other than gta6) cause i dont like most AAA games.
If thats true, amazing, if we find someone wo really goes into that.
Love that we finally can compare vehicles… but cmon… more then very very basic stats would be helpfull… in this current form is pretty… useless. Change it and i will love it.
what would be better is for people to write a written review with a “Overall Rating” stat to sort by, and the ability to “Find a review helpful” and be able to sort by new and most helpful, would provide more useful than the bars, even though these bars are still very useful
Yes, I could migrate all of the texts, and I could spend endless time posting it anew, but it would no longer be part of the main article on the vehicle, be easily ignored, and it still doesn’t change the fact that you can’t edit articles if you notice that they contain errors or omissions which in all honesty is one of the base functionalities of any wiki, because the new wiki only allows the original author to make any changes to their article.
This is no longer a wiki, this is a ‘social media that just purports to be a wiki’, and completely misses the point of what a wiki is supposed to be.
And on top of that, it is something that came without any announcement or warning, just something that dropped and basically became an irreversible fact to all authors, users and editors. The second in a matter of days, after the changes to the game user profiles that not only changed the interface, but also removed complete chunks of information.
Can you please tell the people in charge that a Wiki is supposed to be a place where information is shared, corrected if it is wrong, or added to when it is incomplete by other users, and not a series of disassociated social media posts that can only be altered by one person, and ‘upvoted’ or ‘downvoted’ according to ‘popularity’?
That is absolutely true, this is not a wiki anymore. But the old version was also not really good.
The new version is basically some facts about the vehicle and then if ure lucky some articles that people have written below it.
But i see it like this, it may give people the chance to write articles about the vehicle based on their own expirience and others can follow these people they like and get the informations they need and want, instead of some random guy writing half true stuff into the wiki.
The question is just, how bad or good will gaijin moderate these articles… will they just delete all non positive articles like they do in the homepage comments?
If they dont, then this can lead into something really nice, something that will make the game better and that will motivate people to write good articles that players want to read. And ofc articles that rate vehicles based on the authors opinion, which is good.
Would love to see some people write some good articles about the vehicles, as we dont have real statistics of vehicles, thats the best way to inform yourself about a vehicle before u buy or grind it.
The new “Information” page is straight garbage to me, I was compelled to come on here, because I was just getting ready to fly a plane I havent flown in a while. It fits the whole current thinking, it list the armamament, etc…but nothing from pilots who have flown the plane, its pros, cons, I guess the people they are trying to attract dont care about that anymore, they just want to shoot and play Call of Duty in an airplane, straight garbage Info page. This game is starting to cater to people who do not like to think, if that makes sense. Just a “shooter” mentality. Just like the new Player Profile, straight mobile phone marketing approach to me.