Talk:Sandbox:Test Pilot Infobox/@comment-203.104.11.78-20170829004807/@comment-454133-20170829235311


 * Because the card is just an image, which creates problems for any text-based system such as search.


 * Note that the pilot pages already have a lot of sections on the page; the info box allows us to compact the page and present that information more cleanly and uniformly.


 * We often don't have a nice image of the card because one wasn't provided by FFG.  In that case a poor-quality scan is all we can get.  The infobox can be very uniform across pages, providing info the same way even if a card image isn't available.


 * We could hide the image for mobile users so they only have to download and view the text in the infobox.


 * Blind and other vision-impaired visitors to the wiki don't have the ability to glean info from the image, but the info box tells them everything they need to know because their software can read that.  As Dragoon mentioned on a separate discussion thread, blind people do play this game (he played against one).


 * The info box is compact and lets us provide more info than is on the card, such as upgrade slots that come from the title or other upgrades, ship size, arcs, and other special properties.  Many pilot pages are providing this info in a scattered form, but the infobox is a template that would standardize it all.


 * The infobox also conforms to how other wikis provide information, making navigating our wiki more familiar to users who visit wikia's other sites.


 * Also we often don't have the card when spoilers are announced for a new ship, but we can populate the infobox with what we do have from the spoiled info.