Talk:Buffs, Debuffs and Status Ailments/@comment-29698706-20161028222440/@comment-25201833-20161205022656

I'm no database wizard, but I think it wouldn't be hard to implement. Just add some kind of flag indicating the type of buff, maybe a secondary tag for its base strength (don't include SP yet), put it on the unit's page, and let the wikia engine search for the flag. The current system can search for the text content inside a page (looking at something's metadata/title/tags versus its content, I think, is less deep in complexity of search), so I don't think it's a huge problem to add flags for a unit's skills and search for them.

I could be wrong on the following, but from what I think I learned from watching some videos at Computerphile's youtube channel, the only times where it is really a problem to search for something is when bruteforce can't manage something even in hours' time scale, but the size and complexity of a database for this situation to happen surpasses anything that Brave Frontier wikia will ever manage even in years to come. You don't do and store data from molecular modeling nor multi-dimension calculations at brave frontier wiki.

One problem would however probably remain : implementation as in the capacity of our wiki tech wizards to code without breaking the system. This, it's the wikia tech geniuses' duty to figure out. However I don't think wikia is a spaghetti code, though, so it'll be hard to break the whole site while adding a hopefully isolated feature to the search engine.

The biggest problem of all would probably be that we as individuals will need to scour through the whole wiki trying to look at ALL units and tag them correctly. That'll take time, but if we delegate the task to many responsible wiki users, we'll be able to do it.