I like the current system of not doing that; having other theater commands cut in gives more of a sense that there's multiple things happening at the same time and that some things take more time.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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I like the current system of not doing that; having other theater commands cut in gives more of a sense that there's multiple things happening at the same time and that some things take more time.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
True, although... not gonna lie, I've long since taken to skimming down and cut-and-pasting all the disparate log entries for a single ship into a single narrative before reading each one carefully. I can only handle about three interwoven plot threads at a time in rapid succession.
You and me both. Unfortunately I don't think the color coding I use to keep track of it when stitching logs together would look good.
- Location
- Australia
Back in my day I had to type four miles through the snow, up hill both ways, and *trails off mumbling*
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
...and barefoot so we didn't get the good shoes dirty. Kids these days.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
*Looks up from fiddling with a tricorder that has been taken apart.* Hmm? Did you say something old man?
- Location
- Australia
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
What ever you say old timer. Just because you were around since the dinosaurs walked the earth doesn't mean anything to the rest of us. It just means your old and probably senile to boot.
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- He/Him
Harsh, man. The time-traveling dino-safaris gave him chroniton-induced cancer, not senility.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
One thing you could do would be to just have a "no more than three at a time" rule going. So the list of log entries would look like...
A-B-C
A-B-C
A-B-C (A's event is resolved, switch to D viewpoint)
D-B-C (C's event resolves, switch to E)
D-B-E
D-B-E (B's event resolves FINALLY)
D-E
E
or something like that.
It's more problematic when you have, say, the first two A scenes up at the start of a log post, and then the last one near the bottom, so that you've forgotten what Demora Sulu was doing by the time you get down to the resolution of her plotline.
AKuz
Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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- She/Her
That's actually what I try to do vaugly.
I'm perfectly fine with including 1. Sector/Border Zone/Location and/or 2. the Ship Class to each log and leaving it at that.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Well, as it's now being done it almost-works, so a bit of tweaking might be all that's called for. Maybe just having it down to two things at a time, an 'A' plot and a 'B' plot, with new ships rotating in and out of the 'A' and 'B' sequences as each event resolves...
[ponders]
[ponders]
75% Certain
25% horse thief
ngl, I'm pushing for the wiki in large part so that we have an accessible record of historical crew assignments.
lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
- Location
- USA
Well this quest is powered by spreadsheets, and that can be tracked with a spreadsheet...
Not to say a wiki is a bad idea, but it would by necessity replicate a lot of the work already done in various TBG spreadsheets.
If you want to start it off, here's the two relevant spreadsheets for crew history that I can find:
Database for To Boldly Go
Ship crew
They're linked from the Public Spreadsheet Index (which come to think of it, needs a new maintainer...)
Please no Wiki.
It sounds very extraneous when we already have spreadsheets.
Are you saying we need spreadsheets to keep track of our spreadsheets?
It sounds very extraneous when we already have spreadsheets.
Are you saying we need spreadsheets to keep track of our spreadsheets?
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
At some point there'll be so many events that you might as well write that, though.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
The thing is, a spreadsheet can't really record a ship's history in narrative form. Nor can they really match hypertext on a wiki for ease of access and browsing.
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75% Certain
25% horse thief
AKuz
Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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- She/Her
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
- Location
- United States
... Oh my.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
Holy Crap!
Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
...this can not stand.
Tropers, to arms!
*slinks off to brew tea*
...what? I am not a troper.
*sips (delicious, delicious) tea*
Good luck! I will cheer ya on!
Go tropers, go!
Your sacrifice will be remembered!
*sip*
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