Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-454133-20170827174703

So I've thought about this off and on for a while, and I'm still undecided. Do we want to create infoboxes that will sit on the right side or top of pilot articles, giving their basic stats? Right now we use the pilot picture and various article sections to do this, but we could place something like this on the right:

It could also be a lot more vertical so it takes minimum horizontal space. This first picture is just an idea for layout (that kind of mimics the card layout, which may not be useful). I like the more vertical one more IMO.

We could in fact move most article info (e.g. Available Through and Unique Named) into this box on the right. I imagine this would free up the center of the page for Pilot Ability, FAQ entries, the pilot lore blurb, and any odds analysis or strategy section. But the FAQ would be front and center, and the actual pilot info would be on both the card on the left and the infobox on the right, with all the linking other features you might expect.

This would be done as a simple template: just type two opening curly braces {{ in the article and it pops up the template menu. Find the Pilot template (just type pilot and it will find it) and it gives you a bunch of fields to fill out, and click OK. It would greatly standardize the depiction of this information so all pages look the same, and it'd be fairly compact. It would also help us to depict pilot information even before we have a card picture.

We could leave the pilot ability in the center if space becomes an issue (particularly with the vertical format, which doesn't have a ton of space... but most pilot abilities would work fine there I think).

The question is, is this better than the setup we have now? Or is it simply more complicated and not worth the time? 