Talk:Assimilated Borg Technology

edit war

Greets: We seem to have a small edit war occurring over the stats of this set. Part of the problem I think is that the original stats were given for a tier 5 cruiser. That of course isn't a baseline for the devices and a number of factors come into play.

An example of the concern is that the recent edit for the shield array shows a 6,038 Maximum Shield Capacity. If you look at the tooltip, it;s 4,725.

I would like to make the suggestion that only stats from the actual tooltips be used for this as well as the other sets. This way there's no question of what's correct and an honest comparison can be made between sets.

Thanks --Drmike 17:45, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

The fundamental problem here is that even the tooltip stats are based on your current ship and various other modifiers. I wrote a guide on how to calculate shield capacity values (still incomplete!) but even the nastily complex calculations in there are quite approximate as the exact values depend on a long list of factors.

There isn't a good way of getting a baseline for any of these stats, nor is there a good way of displaying it to wiki readers in a way that's meaningful to them. To 'fix' this issue would be a major undertaking as we'd need to not only come up with a policy on what numbers to use, but we'd need to modify EVERY article to match this new policy and write up a guide for readers so they can interpret the numbers.

In the short term though, I agree that an edit war doesn't help. --Zutty 18:54, 14 May 2012 (UTC)