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::::::::I guess my feeling is it would make more sense to collect the data first outside of the wiki and then once we know what we're dealing with then we could make the formatting change, but i suppose if you want to put the work in, it's ok by me. --[[User:Alleryn|Alleryn]] ([[User talk:Alleryn|talk]]) 15:48, 9 August 2021 (EDT)
::::::::I would prefer empty sections (maybe with the existing loot table as a guess where it might be correct, like for Venom Spider i guess the one we already have is probably the one for Anagoge?) to one loot table with presumably wrong info for many of the zones repeated over and over. --[[User:Alleryn|Alleryn]] ([[User talk:Alleryn|talk]]) 15:52, 9 August 2021 (EDT)
Verifying the loot tables using an additive method is likely easier than using a subtractive method. I agree that it's better to delete the data and add it back. I just wasn't sure about the communities feelings on the matter. This is why I'm taking an iterative approach to this task instead of trying to make everything perfect in one go. The drop rate percentage discussion is a big discussion and this talk page is already starting to get a bit long, and I'm not ready to implement anything at the moment. Most gaming communities I've been in have been more than happy to flood you with data/chat logs and I'm not concerned about the data collection aspect personally. I've seen various approaches to this over the years, but the ones that I've seen work the best allow the community to visit specific wiki pages and input their drop rate data directly into the wiki. This can happen via a script of some sort that reads the log file and updates the drop rates automatically or the script can strip the log files down to the needed information and give people numbers to input manually. There are many ways to go about it, but it's not a project I'm going to have time for in the short term, but I think its something that could be easily implemented with time.
I'll continue to do some updates on the loot table format a little at a time and I might make a category soon that collects all the monsters who appear in multiple zones so it's easier to monitor and maintain those pages. Cheers! [[User:Ransel|Ransel]] ([[User talk:Ransel|talk]]) 12:06, 10 August 2021 (EDT)