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Re: My Stars! Epiphany. Sun, 03 May 2020 14:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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ricks03 wrote on Sun, 03 May 2020 11:52
There are already tools that let you redesign and reallocate points for things ...


Which tools are these?

ricks03 wrote on Sun, 03 May 2020 11:52
If you're redesigning the race wizard points, you don't HAVE to completely understand how they're assigned now, right? You can just be close (or not!).


No I don't have to, but would very much like to Wink

ricks03 wrote on Sun, 03 May 2020 11:52
You can also accomplish almost exactly what you want with no coding within a handicapping system. Pick an arbitrary amount of points that must be left over in the race wizard and use handicapping.


Yes, but that makes all races a little bit worse, and would not work well with LRT tweaking. I want to have an easy to use race designer that can do whatever people like to do regarding point distribution, and I don't want people to constantly go to the game page and check "what was the handicapping rules again?"
For a new game, I want the host to be able to just say, "Download the RaceWizard from https://github.com/stars-4x/starsapi/releases/tag/RaceWizard _0.1.jar , select ruleset nr 2 in the dropdown, and save and submit the race to me."
Yes, you can actually follow that link, I just published my current version of the RaceWizard to illustrate how I'd like this to be Wink Much better than explaining it in text I guess.

ricks03 wrote on Sun, 03 May 2020 11:52
The race data itself is, I think, completely understood. I can already read (and display) the information out of a .r file (thanks to Raptor's work), and modify everything in it, including password. So that's possible now.


If you have the time, could you perhaps quickly just write a race file with negative points just to see if it loads in Stars? Smile

ricks03 wrote on Sun, 03 May 2020 12:18
What could be interesting is a game where you're allowed to design races with no points limit at all. . .


That's just making a ruleset with a high enough point value...

Btw, magic9mushroom, we could have different rulesets based on if the game is AccBBS or not.


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