Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Oops

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 12:51  AM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

> > Though I don't see how we're going to be able to track 900 squares.
> > Movement isn't going to be the problem, I think - just *looking* at
> > that much space is going to be hard. We'll spend a good five minutes
> > each day just finding ourselves. (Before anyone calls me a hypocrite
> > (at least for this), yes, I am aware that I was at one point 
> > advocating
> > a 7200 square grid. This is the reason I decided not to propose it)
> >
> > I also believe we have a grid already, defined in rule 1635. We just
> > aren't using it.
> >
> > Yet.
> -Well, it's not really that large, and there's an important 
> distinction. I'm not talking about our old Grid. I'm actually 
> envisioning something closer to Nomicron's Mappa, where players owned 
> the squares and the player tracking it kept track with colors 
> representing players. Color would have really made the old Grid easier 
> to understand, and I think it will help here. There would be some 
> differences - like players being on the Grid - but there would, 
> ideally, be a lot fewer things like Rocks, Boxes, Gremlins, and Gnomes 
> floating around, too. So it wouldn't be all that hard to track.-

Color definitely would have helped the old grid - substance by color, 
depth by shade, something like that - but I think we discussed that at 
one point and canned the idea because some people are using text-based 
browsers; adding colors and nifty javascript and dhtml popups and 
everything would have seriously impaired their ability to keep up with 
the game, unless we kept two parallel versions of the records, one with 
niftiness and one without.

Is anyone still using text-based browsers?

--
Wonko

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