Dramatic SFB: New Database

[Charles Carroll]

Cool....and we your humble Captains and Admirals look forward to the
amazing things you have done and are continuing to do. Lets hear it for
Matt the Magnificent...3 cheers for Matt....YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!!

(As usual, drop off my payment where you always do.)


On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:16 PM Matt via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
wrote:

> Hey Gents,
>
> I know it's been a week or two since you've heard from me. I've been
> working on the database and it's running over time.
>
> Fortunately, I'm on the last step before actually pushing the data up to
> the server. Generating the data took a couple of years. (It took about a
> year to generate the original data straight from the products I owned.
> This project started that all over and is working on stuff I needed to
> pull info from sources I didn't have on-hand. Additionally, I'm
> documenting more information than I originally did.)
>
> Once the "generic" database was done (which was finished a little after
> thanksgiving), I needed to layer it all together to get the data in a
> form used by the campaign software. That was done at about the turn of
> the year. You might remember that a couple months ago, I planned to be
> finished at the end of the year.
>
> The current (and last) step is to sanity-check the latest data and
> handle the corner cases. This takes care of things like year-in-service
> errors, where (for example) Stinger-1s were being used by ships who also
> carry PFs. Also, few of the "obsolete" dates were entered (which the
> software uses to keep your build lists down to a meaningful level. So
> that you don't get Y-era ships being offered in Y183.)
>
> I'm about a quarter through that last step. The empires are alphabetical
> and I'm through (among others) the Federation, Gorn, and the Hydrans.
> I'm working on the Klingons. Due to the not-conjectural/is-conjectural
> nature of the B10s, they've got a host of issues with their fighters and
> the YIS dates. I have a certain amount of dread when I realize that the
> Romulans (with their large three-hull-styles fleet) are still ahead of me.
>
> So, where I had originally hoped to get through the last step in a week
> (finishing up this last friday), I've settled to being happy if I can
> get a mere 10% of the list done in a day. As much as I hate to set a
> deadline (the nice thing about deadlines is the wooshing sound they make
> as they go by) I expect that at the above rate, I will probably be
> opening up new campaigns in the last week of the month.
>
>
> --Matt
>
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