Got the basic "generate the main world based on Book 3" service completed and it seems to work. Basically, it will create the main world based on book 3. The only thing I do not like is that the service does have the Scout & Navy bases hardcoded in as far as the TL DM, and their chances of being in the system.
Of course, there are a few hundred steps to keep going! I need to decide if I want to generate the rest of the system based on Book 6 & the Mongoose World Builder's book or do the "generate a subsector" and basically, based on system density, see if each hex has a world or not. Or even add in the world explainer stuff on the previous Windows/Android app that never went anywhere. Eventually I'd like to figure out how to draw the maps like the TravellerMap, and since that is open source I think, I can probably get what I need from that to do it. Or cheat like I have in past and create the .sec files and use it's API to draw the maps. But: the core functionality is now in there. I'll probably play some more tonight with it as soon as I decide what I want to add next.
I need to stop spray painting Gatorade bottles. But now I have a scene from Space:1999 (and a partially painted Alphan). Not sure when that RPG will show up, but if we can play face to face I am going to have toys!
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| inspecting the atomic waste dumps |
Today's TFT game was cancelled - too many people could not show up. Last week I was sick. As I've mentioned a few times, adulting is hard! And in some ways, I am kind of relieved: while I am ready to run, I do get a bit of social anxiety even among my friends that I've been playing with for years. But I was ready: even got an apple pie as a running joke in our text messaging from one friend is, when he gets overloaded, "I like pie." Normally, I try to bake something for the group as I like to bake. And it helps break the game afternoon up. I like to be a good host. I even vacuumed the basement. Which is one of the reasons I am glad they show up once a month - it is the only time I get motivated to cleaning the basement!
And a thought about theater of the mind versus maps and scenery. I was going to also make a small house from the Archon stuff assuming they get past the succubus. Complete with the bathtub of healing I mentioned before. Then realized that there was not going to be any fighting in the house (well, unless something else came up) so there was no real need to have the house set up. Just because I do have the toys and want to use them. But I may still build it just because.
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