Dramatic SFB: New Database

[Larry Stanton]

We are all excited to see what the future holds. Thanks for your hard work, Matt!



-Lars





On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:16 PM Matt via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org<http://lists.mattnet.org/listinfo.cgi/sfbdrama-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


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