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Anthony S.I think SGC rocks, with one huge caveat: The population reports. I only use them as a resource when I'm selling.
Here's an example of the unintuitive pain-in-the-assed-ness of SGC population reports. I just ran these searches within the hour:
1) In the keyword field, I typed in: e90-1
No specific matches found, it tells you to type in a player name and year.
Seriously, shouldn't the user be able to simply type in the keyword e90-1, and get a population report for the entire set?
2) In the keyword field, I typed in: American Caramel
Ditto
3) In the year field, I typed in: 1909
American Caramel pops up as one of the possibilities, so I click on it, but it only gives the population reports for e91s.
4) In the year field, I typed in: 1910
American Caramel pops up again as one of the possibilities, so I click on it, but it only gives the population reports for e125s
5) I type in: 1909-11 (as e90-1's were produced all 3 years)
Among the possibilities that pop up are:
a) e90-1
b) American Caramel
So I clicked on e90-1 first. One name pops up. Larry McLean. That's it. It's like running a population report check for T231's (this is the only place I know where I can use this analogy, if I ever used such an analogy to my friends they'd beat me with a stick).
Doesn't somebody at SGC have a computer whiz son, home from school for the summer, who can fix the reports and make the population search process a little less byzantine?