T5 Web Apps

[thalassogen]

I would like to take this "off-topic" discussion concerning alternate world generation systems to a new thread.

What sub-forum would be best suited to this?
* IISS - its definitely concerned with "worlds [...] (and beyond)"
* IMTU - it started as an alternate system for MTU
* SoftSol - it will be software someday, but I don't want to discuss software solutions, I want to discuss scientifc foundings and ways to model them in a game

Any ideas?

 

[Draconian]

SectorMaker strips out Cp, Cs trade codes

I have been experiencing a strange thing. I have decided to select subsector capitals (Cp) and sector capitals (Cs) for my sector. I have put them in the spreadsheet, but when I convert back to a .csv file and insert it in the SectorMaker those codes are stripped out, they don't show.

 

[thalassogen]

I just uploaded a fix, so please try again. The new version ensures that the codes Mr Cp Cs Cx Fo Pz Da Ab An will be carried over from CSV.

 

[Draconian]

I just uploaded a fix, so please try again. The new version ensures that the codes Mr Cp Cs Cx Fo Pz Da Ab An will be carried over from CSV.

Excellent! Thanks.

 

[thalassogen]

Just a little aside info on site usage:

The Top Three Tasks
1. GunMaker - Create your own gun...
2. WordMaker - 101 xyz Words
3. HomeworldMaker - Your homeworlds is...

 

[thalassogen]

Just added French, Italian and Latin to the mix of languages.

 

[thalassogen]

It sure would to me! It sounds like the kind of thing I do with some of my house rules.

I would be really interested in the information you're using.

For further discussion of these topics please have a look at: http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?p=454662#post454662

 

[MichaelSTee]

Thalassogen, just downloaded the spreadsheet you put up last week, and I have one question: For the dwarf stars (D), why is the Age (second column) greater than the Lifetime (third column)?

Other than that, this looks very interesting.

 

[thalassogen]

White dwarfs (D) are burned out stars - stellar remnants/corpses like neutron stars or black holes. Its the kind of object as which stars like our sun end their life.
The lifetime I calculated consists of two parts: the time the hydrogen lasts (about 90% of the total lifetime) and the time the fusion of heavier elements lasts (about 10% of the total lifetime). During hydrogen fusion the star is a main-sequence star (type V or VI). During fusion of heavier elements the stars swells to giant state (type IV, III, II, Ib, Ia, Ia-0). After that it ejects its outer shell and becomes a white dwarf (D) or ends its life as a supernova and becomes a neutron star or black hole.

 

[MichaelSTee]

Thanks. I went to bed after sending the last message, and figured it out before falling asleep. But thanks anyway!

 

[thalassogen]

I just put up a new website for word generation to support all other gaming needs: http://heldenhaufen.de/Wg/

 

[robject]

Would you like to borrow my word generation tables? (Actually you can access them from the web: http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/scripts/languagetools.js).

 

[thalassogen]

Very cool, thanks! Do you want my self-generated tables from the new website in return?

 

[thalassogen]

For those in need of foreign pseudo-words for their website:

I added a JSON-based web api to the word-generator. Try calling:
http://heldenhaufen.de/Wg/api/SLA/English
or
http://heldenhaufen.de/Wg/api/MC3/English

SLA delivers the fanciful words and MC3 the more authentic ones.
Don't give the language name and you get a list of supported languages.

 

[robject]

I like that you provide it as a service. That's a good idea.

 

[thalassogen]

I am thinking about supplying additional services, especially for the T5 web apps. Are there specific parts someone wants to use?

 

[thalassogen]

At the moment the T5 web apps seem to periodically die down. I am not entirely sure if this is due to some error or if this is some kind of denial of service attack. I hope for the former and would be very happy if any of you who experience problems with the site while in the midst of using it would describe what they did just before the application stopped answering.

 

[thalassogen]

The Word Generator is now also available as an offline-app: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/word-generator/341d6b9e-77b9-4738-a4ad-295ca38d94a4

 

[thalassogen]

At the moment the T5 web apps seem to periodically die down. [...]

Getting closer: Obviously at midnight (GMT) the T5 web apps enter an infinite loop and stop processing requests, seemingly while some bot is indexing the web. I have no idea why this is happening.

 

[thalassogen]

The Word Generator is now also available as an offline-app: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/word-generator/341d6b9e-77b9-4738-a4ad-295ca38d94a4

Windows 8+
Word Generator R2 is available now. New feature: Load your own languages, created online!

NEW! Android 2.3.3 and up
Word Generator for Android available for free!

Getting closer: Obviously at midnight (GMT) the T5 web apps enter an infinite loop and stop processing requests, seemingly while some bot is indexing the web. I have no idea why this is happening.

Problem solved.