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

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

--
Wonko

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