Re: [spoon-discuss] Grid Axes - Possible Problem

[SkArcher <SkArcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:27:03 -0500, Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> On Friday, December 26, 2003, at 02:45 PM, SkArcher wrote:
>
> > It occurs to me that the easiest way of representing the Grid is going 
> > to be having it Wiki based. Problem occurs that when using numbers in 
> > plain text causes the columns to go out of line or the whole grid to be 
> > ugly and elongated. Replacing Letters solves this, but rules would need 
> > to be tweaked to deal with this
> >
> > http://torg.mit.edu/bnomic/index.php/The%20Grid
>
>
> If the new Grid is anything like the old Grid, this won't work at all. 
> Your scheme allows one character per square (two if we feel ambitious); 
> the Grid of yore had squares like:
>
> +------------------------------+
> |Mud                           |
> |Wonko's Speeder               |
> |Wonko (On Speeder)            |
> |Fire Gnome                    |
> |Elbonian Airways              |
> |Ancient Monolith (10 Entropy) |
> +------------------------------+
>
> How can that possibly fit into your representation?
>
> There is a system for creating tables; the definition table structure 
> would be absurd for this, but the Grid could be created something like 
> this:
>
> <?plugin OldStyleTable
> |*|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10
> |1|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |2|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |3|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |4|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |5|.|.|.|Wonko's Speeder|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |6|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |7|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |8|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |9|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> |10|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.
> ?>
>
> This does not, however, support multi-line cells, and it'd be ugly as 
> all hell to edit anyway.
>
> I suspect our best option would be to write a script to handle it. 
> That's one of the reasons I wanted to restrict things to one unit per 
> player - it's easier to track with a program if the only changes that 
> aren't completely automated are based around single entities.
>
> A lot of things on the old grid could have been done with no ministerial 
> aid - for example, the Weather and the periodic random Gnome Gains of 
> vSOI members.
>
> Perhaps the best thing would be to set up a public Grid Information 
> thing, or at least one that many people can be given access to, so that, 
> for example, a Minister of Weather could write a script that, when told 
> that a new nweek had begun, would look up the current state of the Grid, 
> grab some random numbers, and change the database to show the right 
> locations of things.

I'd prefer to have the grid updatable by anyone, rather than creating 
another workload for dave or making a static responsibility of a single 
player, and either is prone to problems. If I have the time I'll write the 
prop that makes it a Duty, but i don't really have time now and won't 
until next week


SkArcher

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