Re: [spoon-discuss] Database?

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Ah, I remember what I wanted to ask before I left... I was thinking about 
> how Stats would fit into this program I'm writing, and it occurred to me 
> that while the program will need to know what players' statistics are if it 
> is to be able to determine when a player has moved as much as they can, is 
> carrying too much, etc., it would be a real pain in the ass to implement 
> things like this "slow spell" Orc mentions on the stats page, and it would 
> be especially dumb if Orc were tracking it all anyway... given time, I 
> imagine I could teach my program how to load Orc's website and figure out 
> the info from there, but that would be ugly, inefficient, and would require 
> me to rewrite it every time Orc changed the style of the site.
>
> What would make things easier, and what would probably simplify other 
> ministries run by programmers, would be if some sort of database were set 
> up to store such things, so Orc could make changes and I could simply call 
> stuff up from the db...
>
> If other player attributes such as score and BNS were added as well, any 
> ministry could easily lookup anything about anyone. We could fairly easily 
> have a site that would give anyone all of the information about someone, 
> instead of forcing people to go to one site to get stats, one site for 
> Force, one site for score and inventory besides gnomes, one for gnomes, 
> etc.
>
> Does this seem like a good, beneficial, and feasible idea, or am I just 
> running at the mouth?
>
> Given that I'm probably not going to check my bnomic email in the near 
> future, and so probably won't see the answer to the above question, why am 
> I asking questions in the forum?
>
> --
> Wonko
> Is very tired, busy, and confused.

That's kinda the idea I had a while back when I asked for access to Dave's 
database -- with all the ministers doing their own thing, it doesn't seem 
like there's much improvement in efficiency, especially as things get more 
interdependent.

I'm all for something like this.  I've done lots of stuff with databases, 
but wouldn't know where to start to put one online.  If someone could get 
one online, and give me access, I could update it, as well as write snazzy 
stuff to do some stuff, like hitpoint and movement allowances automatically. 
 Perhaps even a lot of the beginning/end of nweek stuff as well, and things 
like updating the weather, and determining how the weather affects stats and 
movement, and automatically apply them.

Ooh, and bonus points if it's a Microsoft Access database, despite the fact 
that I have no love for the evil empire, simply because I am a pretty 
familiar with them and making programs for them.

--
Orc in a Spacesuit


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