Soraya Xel
The Corporate Raiders
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Posted - 2014.01.24 02:16:00 -
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I have sent this by email as well, and I am also posting it here. I love the UI, but the data itself leaves something to be desired. I feel that it's critical that you show an unbiased and accurate view of the data.
Your corporations and alliances tabs are somewhat unfairly portraying a lot of groups. First of all, many of our alliances are much larger, but misrepresented because you don't bother to pull the alliance list from the API, and query for the details of all the corps in any given alliance. So your "Largest" Alliances thing is incorrect, as is the supposed "Greediest" Alliances.
On the "Greediest" Corps/Alliances topics, you're dissing corps for collecting 10% tax, even though that means that they're unable to support themselves on district income, and have to eek out a living on a paltry tax rate. If anything, the "Greediest Corps" are the ones sitting on 40-60 districts for no reason other than to farm them for literally a billion ISK a day. So I have to argue that this is extremely prejudiced.
Your "Bullied" Corporations/Alliances are actually the corporations and alliances using an exploitative game mechanic to lock their districts and avoid combat. Again, your system is putting the wrong people in the wrong light again.
The inherent problem to these displays, is you add loaded language to these dialogs, and they are in fact, incorrect. If you are unwilling to pull the alliance list, to accurately portray an alliance, you should not display alliance size info at all, since you are doing it incorrectly and incompletely. Do it right, or don't do it.
I'd like to be your CPM1 candidate
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Soraya Xel
The Corporate Raiders
Top Men.
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Posted - 2014.01.24 21:16:00 -
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I got a response from BGoat, the biggest issue is his availability to work on the site right now, which I fully understand.
But our alliance as a whole fights in PC, even though only a couple own districts. Not accounting for the entire alliance misrepresents our PC presence. The biggest issue here, is that in order to do this properly, once he pulls the alliance info, he then needs to use that to go back and grab info for all the other corporations. It's an extra step, but a necessary one.
Greediest and Bullied are prejudicial. As a neutral site, it's poor taste.
Parts of alliances don't hold districts. If only part of your alliance does PC, your alliance isn't really much of an alliance, because you aren't working together. If he wants to disregard alliances entirely, and just talk about corps, and what alliances they belong to, that's fine. But as soon as he has an alliance page that says "here's the sum total of alliance members", is when he's floated into shady ground. If he doesn't want to tally that info himself, rather than providing incomplete figures, he can link directly to Dotlan from his site. But incomplete information is misleading information.
I'd like to be your CPM1 candidate
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