Very very good input Endo, I very much agree with most of what you have suggested. Obviously, I won't be looking for quite so much detail, as the actual chart will be just that, a chart. Anyone can feel free to go into as much length and detail on any nation they wish, in their post, but ultimately the ratings are not meant to be a strategy guide, that's where someone would go after they narrow down their choice of nation through the statistics provided.
Regarding a 1-5 (or 1-3 as in Endo's last post), vs a 1-10, I think that the scale of 10 works better within the concept of averaging. Even going 1-10, I may feel compelled to add a decimal, but with 1-5 I would surely add a decimal place. Ultimately this just makes the number larger, I would be asking people to rate on 1-5, but then would extrapolate that to actually a rating between 10-50.
One thing that I think is important, is that the chart is easy to visually scan for the particular facets that one is looking for in a new nation to play, so I really do think that a 1-10 scale will work better than a 10-50 scale, and also better than a table filled with text, especially if that table could end up with ratings like "weak/average", which might tend to make it wrap to the next line on these forums.
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