Re: [spoon-discuss] Materiel

[Zarpint Jeremy Cook <mcfoufou@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah. Rather than Keywords, they could be Bits corresponding to the
properties, with some bit values dependent on others. And then we could
have various Transmutation options, like "switch bit 3 and bit 5".

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 28 Dec 2003 at 21:23, Baron von Skippy wrote:
>
> >One question, though: Say we have Inorganics->Metals-
> >Iron,Gold,Copper,Lead,Silver,Zinc,Aluminium,etc... and I want
> >to throw in another layer, say Metals->Valuable, and stick Gold and
> >Silver into it - how is that done, especially if Gold and
> >Silver have lower-level materials beneath them?
>
> Well, first off I'd suggest not using "Valuable" as a
> category, since what's valuable to you might not be valuable
> to me. :)  Aside from that, I'd say categories should
> correspond to some property that some materials have that
> other materials don't, and have the materials that don't be in
> a separate category at the same level -- rare and common,
> conducting and non-conducting, etc.  Or alternately just add
> conductivity, rarity, etc. as properties that don't
> necessarily categorize.  It isn't absolutely necessary to have
> a category, unless someone is planning to do something in
> particular with things that would fall under that category and
> there may be other things that would be added to the category.
>
> Now, if you're planning on having bunches of materials that
> have overlapping properties, there should either be properties
> that are attached to some and not to others (dare we say
> keywords?) and possibly no top-level categorization method at
> all...but then, how would we do subcategories?  Only things
> with certain keywords can get other certain keywords?
>
> 						Glotmorf
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