Dramatic SFB: New Database

[Majead Farsi]

Matt I think I speak for all and your hard work is greatly appreciated!

Majead

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 08:44, Wayne Power via SFBdrama <
sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

> Good one Matt, great work.
>
> What type of Campaign are we all looking to play. (year, empires,
> short/long, historical/unhistorical)
> On Sunday, 10 January 2021, 05:17:12 pm AEST, Charles Carroll via SFBdrama
> <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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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