Talk:Combat/@comment-5046483-20140504202852/@comment-861160-20140504222442

So you're saying we should involve several people and wiki staff to design a place to test a theory that currently has no basis except "maybe it's possible"? I'd like to see some promising data before devoting my or anyone else's time to that.

Even if you want to make something more general, there are two main problems:

1.  Lack of manpower

The Japanese Kancolle communities are several orders of magnitude larger than this one, so it's very unlikely we will accomplish much that they won't do faster. If you go out and look hard enough I'm sure you'd actually find data that addresses your particular hypothesis already. This holds true for most "theories" that people like to write here.

2.  Credibility

If multiple people work together, then there's always a chance that the same level of care is not taken in all cases and the data become poisoned by someone's idiocy, or worse by someone's malicious intent. It's better to carry out experiments solo so that the appropriate variables are always controlled.