Template talk:ShipBox

Where does this "Battery units" come from? Also, other data like turning speed, acceleration, max speed, energy regeneration, etc may have a place in such a box. FYI: The exact numbers can be found in the source code (src/sc2code/ships/*/*.c, right at the start). — SvdB 03:22, 4 Oct 2005 (CEST)

I usually get "Battery units" the same way I get the crew complement: by looking at the Melee ship window. I thought about including the other data (as found in the Star Control I ship databank image), but I didn't know how to find such data (until your info about the source code, that is). Sounds like a great idea. --Phoenix (t) 14:36, 4 Oct 2005 (CEST)

Found it. It's the MAX_ENERGY constant in the .c file. Should I rename "battery units" to something else, like "energy banks" or something? --Phoenix (t) 15:32, 4 Oct 2005 (CEST)

I don't know if it's necessary to include the "Member of" field. Imho, that's a description of the race more than it is of the ship, and that info can be found on the respective race page. Also, it might look better to put the primary and secondary weapons above the the battery and crew numbers. --Fyzixfighter 17:41, 12 Nov 2005 (CET)

Yeah, you're right, I'll remove it. BTW, remember that this is a "young" template—don't apply it to any ships (other than Scout) until we've finalised the template. --Phoenix (t) 19:05, 14 Nov 2005 (CET)

Recent changes

While I do like including more information in a quick coherent fashion, and the 3DO images are a nice addition for the SC2-unique ships, this infobox is too dominating and distracting on most of the pages. Perhaps it would be better to change it to a footer infobox - leaving the databank/icon image in the upperleft like it was before, and then grouping the technical info and 3do image on the bottom in a template. One more reason that I think this would be more advantageous is that there are some things such as the delays and increment that are not easily discernable by the average reader - more reason to move it to the bottom; most people when reading a sentence, paragraph, or paper, if they get confused at the start, won't be able to read/understand the rest (one of the biggest mistakes in common scientific papers). I've got some ideas of how to make it work so after I'm done taking data at work in a few hours, I'll set up some mock-ups of what I'm thinking. Until then, patience young poot worm. --Fyzixfighter 23:01, 5 June 2007 (CEST)

I agree; the infoboxes are too imposing. Setting a maximum width might help; it would at least cause some of the lines to be broken. Also, when the 3DO image is included, the ship icon looks seems superfluous to me, and just makes the whole look bad, because of the low resolution of the icon.

In addition, if you upload an image, please include some description, including where the images came from. And TFB don't have the copyright on the 3DO videos, so we should watch what we publish here; I think this use falls under the quotation right that Dutch law has, but ianal. — SvdB 00:32, 6 June 2007 (CEST)

Hmm...I hadn't considered the copyright implications. I've made a mock-up of a horizontal footer shipbox at user:Fyzixfighter/Sandbox/Scout if anyone wants to look and comment. --Fyzixfighter 07:36, 8 June 2007 (CEST)

I like the footer. Its increased size also means that you can add battery consumption to the primary and secondary also (and ship mass, which should be under Navigation, and which would be "inertialess" for the Skiff and the Probe). Valaggar 13:07, 8 June 2007 (CEST)