Re: Game 939 - Questions and Feature Requests.

[Tony Christney <tchristney@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8-Feb-06, at 12:37 AM, Colin Plummer wrote:

> Jon, thanks for the swift clarifications ;)
>
> Thus spoke Jon Davis on Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:32:34PM -0500 :
>> Adding individual system results to the ship's log would add a lot of
>> data to
>> the file, especially for a large fleet game.
>
> Are file sizes such an issue in todays environment?  It wouldn't need 
> every
> system result either, just the failed ones.

Remember that everything is sent via email, and that many players
are still on dial-up. File size is still an issue for these people,
even if they have 100 TB on their home system.

>> A playtest option is available that includes die rolls in the ship 
>> log,
>> including threshold checks.  It's turned off by default.
>
> I did notice that in the XML
>
> I might come up with a bunch of XML suggestions soon, are you working 
> to an
> XSD or DTD or is it a little too loose for that at the moment?

It's very loose at the moment. I think that it would be useful for some
of the JUnit tests. A review of the format would be appropriate pre-1.0
release.

>
> -- 
> Colin P (ft-play@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Tony C.