Talk:City Vices: an Entanglement with an Old Friend/@comment-209.6.201.141-20150808074058/@comment-26273934-20150808130921

The idea was to automatically include results, as opposed to requiring hundreds of editors spending an impossible amount of time to manually write and keep updated such a table for every single card and storylet. I feel you're overshooting a bit here (as with assuming everyone else comes here for the same reasons you do), and would like to believe that's not only because I did most of the work for the expandable format.

To be quite honest, I first tried building tables similar to the one on this page, and for much the same reasons you mentioned (even if caustically so). But after sinking two weeks into that task, I ran into severe technical limitations that would have prevented any such mechanism from being applicable across the board.

That's why right now we have the (i.m.h.o.) pretty convenient and efficient new format. Always keep in mind that it did not replace the table, but a dead simple list of links to action pages with zero information besides their name. Anything on top of that was hand-written by people just like you in their spare time to help others — and you're invited to contribute more such overview tables yourself!