Topic on Talk:Plague

Posted here to justify the organization of all (fatal) disease section ordering.

• First comes the Overview, a top-level description. This is fairly obvious to put first, and gives the reader very fast facts about what the disease does and how threatening it is.
  • "Penoxycyline stops the disease" should belong in the overview. It gets its own subsection, Prevention, so that it is easier to find. This means that prevention is far away from treatment.
• Second comes the Stages. Stages are what people want to know, people are looking up. They are the disease itself. They are what the disease actually does, and affirms that it is fatal.
• Third comes Progression. Progression helps define the numbers used in Stages, so can't be put any later. The disease itself is more important than some random numbers determining how fast it goes. The only difference between pawns and animals (for Plague/Flu) is the progression numbers, so there is no need for a Animals section other than for progression.
• Lastly comes Treatment. It sucks that it is the last section, but stages are more important and progression is needed to explain treatment.

No, thats excellent and once a couple of things are hashed out, I might put a copy of this up as a page standard.

Some comments:

1. Something is always going to be last and every aspect is important, treatment is fine there. Thats what the ToC is for, and as long as its consistent its fine.
2. Fatal or not, all diseases should follow the same ordering. Makes it a ton easier for everyone, editors and readers alike, if everything is in the same place on every page.
3. It might be an idea to include some information about the acquisition rates. Different diseases have different "Habitats" and different commonalities. I belive the commonalities are stored in Data\Core\Defs\BiomeDefs
4. Subheadings like "Minor - Severity: 0 - 0.59" are messy in the ToC, annoying to link to from other pages and don't always play nice with link sharing. It would be better to have it the subheading be "Minor" and the severity information in the body below, likely above and not part of the bulletpoint lists.
5. There should probably be at least some explanation of the two Extremes beyond just the headings. A new player might not understand that they're both shown as "Extreme" but are two different stages, or might not understand that it shouldn't show up as Extreme (initial), or might just think that the wiki is wrong because it doesn't appear to reflect whats in game.
6. It might also be best to separate out the editorialize sections from the facts in treatment - e.g.

This disease can be cured by

• Biosculpt
• Luci
• Operation
• Natural immunity gain

<Insert analysis of how long natural immunity gain takes to cure, and who needs to use other methods to survive here>

This keeps all the information clearly accessible and you don't have to read through analysis to get to basic facts.

Happy to hear thoughts/debate/disagreement on the above. But otherwise, its excellent.