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Re: My wheels are turning Sun, 20 April 2014 19:04 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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 Well, the first iterations of the web tools will be a storage of data. Game settings, race settings, Planet, Fleet and the .map. This will at least give a way to view and browse through basic information that we already have using the offline tools like Stars! Notebook and such, but will allow for persistent history. I've never seen a good fleet tracker for Stars! yet that really takes advantage of history, which we will have available.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to generate this information from a running game. Without the export/import of raw Stars! files, I can "fake" it by allowing you to upload your .XY and your .M# and I will shove that into a Stars! client running in an emulator or something. That will only give me access to the basic text files we already have access to, but without the need to generate the reports yourself. I could even imagine the SAH providing those two files to the tool auto-magically using existing protocols...

The tool in this iteration will basically be online versions of the Stars! Notebook and potentially the Stars! Calculator with a simple to access interface (hopefully).

The second iteration I hope to be able to view and update orders and queues, build ships and starbases, read and write messages and adjust research settings with the goal of producing a .X that can be used in the Stars! client. All of these are only possible with a conversion from a .m#/.x to a JSON of what we need to know.

Given those idea, I am working on organizing the user stories and level of effort it would take to get us to the first milestone of an integrated online tool for just the report data. Once the framework is in place, I want to open it up to the few on the forums that want to participate in coding.

The goal at any step is to always have something useful that can be used and demoed. The Stars! rewrites in the past have all tried the "waterfall" technique of build everything from the ground up before it can be used. I hope to ensure that this project has deliverables that can be used at every iteration of the software, so when it eventually runs out of steam, there is something useful left behind.

But, at this point I'm just full of hot air and ideas and still need to define the goals so that I can get to work on a base framework.

I'm thinking a Java/Spring backend with a Mongo database. I'm not sure if I want to go Angular on the frontend yet, it seems like overkill.

m.a@stars - What is your level of interest in this idea? Would you want to get involved at some point?

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Brenton Pyl
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Catalyst IT Services, Inc.

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