Talk:Suggestion/@comment-24332640-20150319083201

So Mathiaszealot has been working to improve the formatting of the tables in Akashi's Improvement Factory so they actually fit in the width guidelines while containing the relevant information (which is kind of hard because it's a lot of information). You can see what he did with the first table on: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Sandbox/Akashi%27s_Improvement_Arsenal

Which I'm mentioning because I don't want to steal credit from him but my question is actually about a modification I made to his tables. It's the second set on that page. One of the biggest problems with the current tables (at least in my opinion) is that they don't list the equipment consumed for upgrades so for some types of equipment you have to check the notes below the table. Which is pretty awkward and only gets worse as more entries are added. And I know Mathias tried various things to include this information but as mentioned there's already a lot of stuff on the tables and not a lot of room. So I had the idea of just indicating the equipment with an icon, which takes up far less space. And if people don't know the icons there are tooltips (mouseover text if you don't know the lingo) to tell you what they are. This fits pretty easily particularly with the newer table design.

Now I know that tooltips generally don't work well on mobile devices so we would probably need to include some sort of key as well. Which isn't a perfect solution since there would still need to be some scrolling back and forth but at least there's some visual indication on the table itself for what the different equipments are instead of just an asterisk (which is literally all we have currently).

So anyway, since there's an example in the sandbox now I thought I would ask here what people think about this idea.