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It's too bad. I had the intention of adding room for the amount of bios per world, and amount and type of minerals, but the building and implementation of the StarBox became too daunting. I tried to include only the most useful information, but I think you're right ... it's just too much. Perhaps expanding the PlanetBox slightly to include the bio and mineral information would be better, if I can keep it small. I know you don't like the idea of flooding the Ultronomicon with a lot of useless data, and I agree. But I do feel that some worlds that include extremely valuable minerals like Exotics and Radioactives should have a PlanetBox, with the extra data. Planets with little or no value should be ignored. Oh well, it was an idea. | It's too bad. I had the intention of adding room for the amount of bios per world, and amount and type of minerals, but the building and implementation of the StarBox became too daunting. I tried to include only the most useful information, but I think you're right ... it's just too much. Perhaps expanding the PlanetBox slightly to include the bio and mineral information would be better, if I can keep it small. I know you don't like the idea of flooding the Ultronomicon with a lot of useless data, and I agree. But I do feel that some worlds that include extremely valuable minerals like Exotics and Radioactives should have a PlanetBox, with the extra data. Planets with little or no value should be ignored. Oh well, it was an idea. | ||
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| + | :How about a list of planets and systems with many valuables, like in the hints book? That way you have everything in one place and there would be no need for actual pages about the planets which would have no other interesting info. - SvdB 19:53, 5 Jul 2005 (CEST) | ||
Revision as of 17:53, 5 July 2005
This needs a lot more work. I have to read more about Templates. This will not work unless I can get the amount of PlanetLines to display dynamically according to the amount of planets listed in the StarBox. A loop that allows for a dynamic amount of iterations based on a parameter should do it. Now, if I could only make sense of this. A working example of something similar would REALLY help. Anyone know a LOT of wiki?--PsiPhi 11:47, 29 Jun 2005 (CEST)
I'm rethinking whether this whole StarBox template is a good idea.
In order to add all planets and moons with their 6 most important pieces of data each:
(Planet number or Moon letter,Type,Temp,Weather,Tect,Grav)
the numbers would multiply to become an absurd amount of data.
Worst case scenario (which has to be provided for, to ensure all possibilities):
9 planets (I think that's the maximum amount of planets a star can have in SC2)
4 moons (I think that's the maximum amount of moons a planet can have in SC2)
7 pieces of data for planets (1 of them holds the amount of moons for that planet)
6 pieces of data for moons (moons don't have their own moons)
4 pieces of data for the star itself
9x7 + 9x4x6 + 4 = 63 + 216 + 4 = 283 pieces of data total
So, in the StarBox, I'd have to provide for 283 parameters.
A template call would have to include AT LEAST 283 pipettes "|" to hold all the place values.
Also, if mineral values, bio amounts, or a flag for special planets were to be added, this would only make things more complicated.
While it is possible, it may end up being way too complicated to implement successfully. It would certainly be too hard for most people to understand and use. In its current state, it's almost too hard for me to follow.
--PsiPhi 08:26, 30 Jun 2005 (CEST)
I don't think this is a good idea. There is such a thing as too much information, even in a reference work. This information just isn't interesting enough. - SvdB 01:18, 5 Jul 2005 (CEST)
It's too bad. I had the intention of adding room for the amount of bios per world, and amount and type of minerals, but the building and implementation of the StarBox became too daunting. I tried to include only the most useful information, but I think you're right ... it's just too much. Perhaps expanding the PlanetBox slightly to include the bio and mineral information would be better, if I can keep it small. I know you don't like the idea of flooding the Ultronomicon with a lot of useless data, and I agree. But I do feel that some worlds that include extremely valuable minerals like Exotics and Radioactives should have a PlanetBox, with the extra data. Planets with little or no value should be ignored. Oh well, it was an idea.
- How about a list of planets and systems with many valuables, like in the hints book? That way you have everything in one place and there would be no need for actual pages about the planets which would have no other interesting info. - SvdB 19:53, 5 Jul 2005 (CEST)