Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-653063-20150322192914/@comment-24473195-20150322195243

I see you have a lot of ideas in just one thread. The best thing is to summarize it in paragraph.

To answer your question, each condition the switch evaluates contributes to two node count. There is a max amount of node counts allowed per page, and once it reaches that limit. The template will simply not work. See Template_limits#Preprocessor_node_count for more information.

Personally, I'm highly against the use of any parser functions, and believe wikia should set a deadline and phase them all outl. Your best bet is to invest your time learning and developing a Lua script for this.

"Question one: is it really that bad? Or is it 'a lot, but not awful, stop worrying'?"

Yes, it is really bad. See this thread Thread:801652 and  Template_limits#Preprocessor_node_count.

"Question two: Even if it's not hideous and to be avoided, is there a better/less-(server?)-'intense' way to get this done, that will still allow me to use a single template for all games?"

Use Help:Lua, see how to convert it to lua( Converting_Wikitext_templates).