Re: Broken Lands - DungeonWorld Free Play

From: David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:13:35 +0000

"Steve" <madcentral@aol.com> writes:
> >>1. I found two different links to order entry pages:
>    #1: http://www.madcentral.com/brokenlands/orderentry.htm
>    #2: http://www.madcentral.com/brokenlands/Order-Entry.htm<<
>
> I changed the site so that the new order entry screen (option #1
> above) would work.  I thought I'd updated all the links too.  Did I
> miss one?

For example, www.madcentral.com/brokenlands links to #1, but
www.madcentral.com/brokenlands/rulespage.htm links to #2.

> Yeah, I know I should have written it in JavaScript, but VBScript is
> so much *easier*. <chuckle> Given that everybody has IE I just went
> with the easier option.  I'll probably update it to JavaScript at some
> point.

Commercially, I doubt it will hurt you much to limit your users to
80-90% of the population.  It seems so unnecessary, though.  Why don't
you just have a form with 45 fields for the 15 orders that submits them
all directly, instead of reformatting them into a single text string?
Then you wouldn't need any scripting at all.

> After quite a lot of discussion it was decided that weekly turns would
> work better, with set deadlines.  We'll run it weekly for a while
> until people get their feet and then we'll ask the players if they'd
> prefer to stay that way or switch to the original idea.  Broken Lands
> is something of a trial and a work in progress, so we're flexible with
> it.

It seems pretty slow to me.  Just an opinion.

Perhaps making it too fast would make it too attractive an alternative
to your commercial games.  But, if you had the capability to run at any
pace, and if it requires minimal GM intervention to run, you could
consider an alternative commercial game with a flat-rate model (e.g.,
$5-10/month) instead of per-turn pricing.

David desJardins

References

Re: Broken Lands - DungeonWorld Free Play
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:26:53 +0000
Re: Broken Lands - DungeonWorld Free Play
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:41:49 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Broken Lands - DungeonWorld Free Play
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:26:53 +0000
Re: Broken Lands - DungeonWorld Free Play
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:41:49 +0000