Dramatic SFB: New Database

[Gregory Flusche]

I am as others waiting for teh new battles to start. Yes we are very very
happy for Matts hard work

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:03 AM Majead Farsi via SFBdrama <
sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

> 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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