Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25955276-20170216081852/@comment-25955276-20170220035957

HRBM wrote: If that's how you want it to go, then it would be best to sort them based on influence, and then rank.

For example, we'll use Licorice again. For Licorice, the most influential people to him are Ivlis, Satanick, Emalf, and Envi, in that order.

The rest are treated more as minor or supportive characters.

If we go by your sorting, then after Envi, Poemi would be next. Followed by Glasses, Adauchi, and Lil as they have had (albeit small) interactions with Licorice before. Then, we go to Fumus, Siralos, and Igls Unth. These three would be last as they have absolutely no interaction whatsoever with Licorice, but they are all still related to him in one way or another. But because of this, there is also the option of taking them off entirely from the Relationships section.

Influence is based on how the character affects Licorice as a whole, and rank, as you may have guessed, is based on their position (e.g. God, Devil, Subordinate, Citizen, etc etc etc).

I say influence > rank because the more important characters need to be known first. This is useful because should the story develop and someone who barely had interactions with him suddenly becomes more involved, then they can rise up the Relationships rank. It will be an ever-changing system where the closer they are (be it in a good or bad way), the higher they will be placed. Now that I think about it, I think that might be a better idea, actually. Instead of using ranks at all - why not just do influence? Just scrap the whole idea of trying to sort it? Most of the wikis I've seen don't even sort, anyways.

We should just trim off all of the unnecessary relationships(e.g Satanick's supercomputer being in his relationships, etc.) and mention them somewhere else on the page(like, we use captioning in galleries to connect pages together), so that the pages are connected but in a less wasteful manner.