Darn, I missed Spring 1902, and now the post is getting overwritten. Here’s what I suggested in our other game thread:
Is there any way we can update the map without erasing what is here? That’s what the other game is doing, and the problem is that there is no way for viewers to see the history; furthermore, the witty summaries by the GMs are getting destroyed. I missed Spring 1902′s update in the other post, and I’m already confused. Even worse, when the players write their end-of-game summaries about what happened, readers won’t have any record to refer to, which partially defeats the purpose of rationalist diplomacy in the first place. Here are my ideas:
Make one post per year, and have all the moves and maps for that year
Host the seasons somewhere else and link to them from here (or keep updating the LW post, and keep an archive somewhere else).
Put it on the wiki, or at least keep a record of the seasons on the wiki. Then we have no problems making a bunch of pages.
where $TURN-NAME is the year plus the letter “s”, “f”, or “w” for spring, fall, or winter
and $SINGLE-LETTER-MARKING is “m”, “f”, “t”, or “p” for movement map, final map, text of orders, or posted headlines, and $FILE-EXTENSION is .jpg for the maps, .html for the order lists, and .txt for the posts. Note that the posted .txts are probably hard to read on some browsers.
After the game ends, I will publish all my correspondence, all orders and positions of all units turn by turn (together with commentaries about my thoughts and plans). The history of Austria in the game will be possible to reconstruct.
But I do not believe that the older versions are lost. Yvain is certainly keeping an archive. Well, I hope so.
If not, everything but the headlines can be reproduced from the turn orders (which hopefully he’s keeping so we don’t have to pull out all of our emails).
Darn, I missed Spring 1902, and now the post is getting overwritten. Here’s what I suggested in our other game thread:
Is there any way we can update the map without erasing what is here? That’s what the other game is doing, and the problem is that there is no way for viewers to see the history; furthermore, the witty summaries by the GMs are getting destroyed. I missed Spring 1902′s update in the other post, and I’m already confused. Even worse, when the players write their end-of-game summaries about what happened, readers won’t have any record to refer to, which partially defeats the purpose of rationalist diplomacy in the first place. Here are my ideas:
Make one post per year, and have all the moves and maps for that year
Host the seasons somewhere else and link to them from here (or keep updating the LW post, and keep an archive somewhere else).
Put it on the wiki, or at least keep a record of the seasons on the wiki. Then we have no problems making a bunch of pages.
Something clever someone else thinks of
I haven’t mentioned my online archiving system, but it does exist. You can get to any file for any turn by going to:
www.raikoth.net/Game/rdiplo[$TURN-NAME][$SINGLE-LETTER-MARKING].[$FILE-EXTENSION]
where $TURN-NAME is the year plus the letter “s”, “f”, or “w” for spring, fall, or winter and $SINGLE-LETTER-MARKING is “m”, “f”, “t”, or “p” for movement map, final map, text of orders, or posted headlines, and $FILE-EXTENSION is .jpg for the maps, .html for the order lists, and .txt for the posts. Note that the posted .txts are probably hard to read on some browsers.
For example, the movement map for fall 1901 would be at http://www.raikoth.net/Game/rdiplo1901fm.jpg
After the game ends, I will publish all my correspondence, all orders and positions of all units turn by turn (together with commentaries about my thoughts and plans). The history of Austria in the game will be possible to reconstruct.
But I do not believe that the older versions are lost. Yvain is certainly keeping an archive. Well, I hope so.
If not, everything but the headlines can be reproduced from the turn orders (which hopefully he’s keeping so we don’t have to pull out all of our emails).