Fellowship of the Dice

Sorry for the delay, I have no excuse but idiocy. Next turn due Thursday, feb 2.

If you are happy with your orders, include the words "Final answer" on your orders tab, and once I get all "Final answers" I'll immediately process. (Immediately = when I get around to it)

Sounds like a plan...

My final orders are complete and entered...

I've been working on the computerized version of this game (As well as a board game version, but that's another story entirely) Part of what I'm designing is a drag-and-drop interface for moving ships, attacking, building ships, etc. In order to do this, I need to represent the ships with icons instead of words (Otherwise the map will be HUUUGE, like it is in your google docs.)

Last night, I took my first stab at making those icons. Have a look HERE and let me know what you think.

It'll take a bit to get used to the icons but it should work...

what I'm envisioning is a grid much like the one you're used to seeing, but with less information at first.

As you move your mouse about the grid, the sector you've moused over will expand and show all of the information about the sector that you know.

I'm doing this because the maximum size of a sector if I display all of the information is what you see on the test link, which is just too much to be in the normal view (I'm trying to make it so you don't have to scroll the browser window.)

What info do you think should be in the smaller view? (Shown on every sector) My initial thought is: total number of ships, or possibly 2 lines, one for number of ships, one for number of emplacements.

In know this is a little hard to picture just from words. I'm going to try and have a demo up in the next few weeks.

Next turns will be due Tuesday, Feb 7th. This is how I'll do it from now on. turns will be processed as soon as I have all "Final answers" (and I get around to it) Turns will be due 1 week after I process the previous turn.

My final orders are now in place for the next turn...

Updated The Defense station and Dreadnought based on suggestions.





Full set is still here: http://brennor.dyndns.org/~bitom/SpaceWarDev/test.html

And now, a demo of the map:
http://brennor.dyndns.org/~bitom/SpaceWarDev/test2.html

click on a sector to expand it and get more info.