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[Scaevolus]

fixed some of the legends text export information (still unclear whether that's going to be replaced/augmented by xml)...

JSON looks nicer than XML, and there are libraries for reading and writing it in almost every language.

Compare:

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{
     "firstName": "John",
     "lastName": "Smith",
     "age": 25,
     "address": {
         "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
         "city": "New York",
         "state": "NY",
         "postalCode": "10021"
     },
     "phoneNumbers": [
         { "type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234" },
         { "type": "fax", "number": "646 555-4567" }
     ],
     "newSubscription": false,
     "companyName": null
 }

to

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<Person>
  <firstName>John</firstName>
  <lastName>Smith</lastName>
  <age>25</age>
  <address>
    <streetAddress>21 2nd Street</streetAddress>
    <city>New York</city>
    <state>NY</state>
    <postalCode>10021</postalCode>
  </address>
  <phoneNumber type="home">212 555-1234</phoneNumber>
  <phoneNumber type="fax">646 555-4567</phoneNumber>
  <newSubscription>false</newSubscription>
  <companyName />
</Person>

[LordZorintrhox]

I'm all for readability, but I feel XML is a skosh more ubiquitous and generic, which I am for more.

The Bender thing is just because it has happened on the forums before.  You see:

the third definition of bender

and it can lead to some pretty serious misunderstandings if you are from the UK and have never heard of Futurama.  I was just trying to catch it because it easily sneaks under the radar.

Actually, there are a few episodes that poke fun at the pun...

[SirHoneyBadger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bears_Discover_Fire

[Fault]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bears_Discover_Fire

for a second there I thought that'd be a news story or something..

and I was like "OH MAH GAW...."

but then I found out it was a science fiction novel. and I was sad.

[Cardinal]

fixed some of the legends text export information (still unclear whether that's going to be replaced/augmented by xml)...

JSON looks nicer than XML, and there are libraries for reading and writing it in almost every language.

Compare:

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{
     "firstName": "John",
     "lastName": "Smith",
     "age": 25,
     "address": {
         "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
         "city": "New York",
         "state": "NY",
         "postalCode": "10021"
     },
     "phoneNumbers": [
         { "type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234" },
         { "type": "fax", "number": "646 555-4567" }
     ],
     "newSubscription": false,
     "companyName": null
 }

to

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<Person>
  <firstName>John</firstName>
  <lastName>Smith</lastName>
  <age>25</age>
  <address>
    <streetAddress>21 2nd Street</streetAddress>
    <city>New York</city>
    <state>NY</state>
    <postalCode>10021</postalCode>
  </address>
  <phoneNumber type="home">212 555-1234</phoneNumber>
  <phoneNumber type="fax">646 555-4567</phoneNumber>
  <newSubscription>false</newSubscription>
  <companyName />
</Person>

I've worked with both JSON and XML, it's six in one, half-dozen in the other, though I find the javascript connotations of JSON to be a strike against it.  It's a trivial thing to go from XML to JSON, and really a well-documented plain-text output is just fine, anyway.  We can build scripts to transform that into XML or JSON or SGML or whatever.

[jdf318]

Sieging humans brought some war polar bears, and one of them started a camp fire. Highly trained!

Its not just a polar bear, its a giant armored polar bear... with laser vision. He is Ursa Arcadius, Archduke of the highbears!
Seriously, the first thing Im gonna do when this version comes out is mod in a sperate race of highbears. Only weapons will be rocket launchers and there claws.
Those who get the reference deserve something special.

[Qloos]

I think some Footkerchief appreciation is in order.

[Quatch]

Questions on genetics, inheritance, and castes.

My current understanding is this:
1) All children of a species have a chance to be of any caste of that species.
2) This chance is invariant on parents (parent's caste does not influence chances)
3) Colour, markings, etc are caste tags.


What precisely can we do with inheritance and selective breeding? Will children not be more or less random members of the species, not even (necessarily) of the caste of their parents?

I may just be confused.

An example, say I want only black panthers. I start with a random sample of panthers, at least one of which is black. I discard all non-black offspring, and mate the remainder. If I continue this indefinitely, will I end up with black panthers which only (barring vanishingly small chances) produce black panther children?  (substitute blackness with large size as another example)

[Askot Bokbondeler]

black panthers are a made as a caste of panthers, and castes are random, you can state a chance for it to happen on the raws, though, but the parents have no influence on the offspring, here.

hair color, skin color and eye color are different, though, these are actual genetics, and supposedlly are inerited from parents, even during worldgen history.

i havent checked, but that's how i remember it

[CobaltKobold]

I suddenly remembered Toph from Avatar. No, not the one with blue catgirls.

No Avatars had blue catgirls.

stopped metal crafters from turning the coal they brought into "large coal gems"

The real bug is that they should be called "Diamonds", not large coal gems.

I think everyone thought this.

I think some Footkerchief appreciation is in order.

He(?) has already appreciated. Hence he is valuable.

[James.Denholm]

I suddenly remembered Toph from Avatar. No, not the one with blue catgirls.

No Avatars had blue catgirls.

Actually, there was no "s" on the end.

[Ohtar]

Hm... I'm curious:

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With all the changes to the underground, how is Adamantine going to be handled? Or is that info classified?

[Innominate]

There's another problem with the polar bears starting fires: polar bears will die of heat stroke if they even jog at a balmy 0 degrees Celsius (freezing point of water). Unless the fort was on a tundra during Winter, the polar bears should have died. As a general rule: if the water isn't salty or frozen your polar bears should be dead.

[Scarpa]

fixed some of the legends text export information (still unclear whether that's going to be replaced/augmented by xml)...

JSON looks nicer than XML, and there are libraries for reading and writing it in almost every language.

Compare:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

{
     "firstName": "John",
     "lastName": "Smith",
     "age": 25,
     "address": {
         "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
         "city": "New York",
         "state": "NY",
         "postalCode": "10021"
     },
     "phoneNumbers": [
         { "type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234" },
         { "type": "fax", "number": "646 555-4567" }
     ],
     "newSubscription": false,
     "companyName": null
 }

to

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<Person>
  <firstName>John</firstName>
  <lastName>Smith</lastName>
  <age>25</age>
  <address>
    <streetAddress>21 2nd Street</streetAddress>
    <city>New York</city>
    <state>NY</state>
    <postalCode>10021</postalCode>
  </address>
  <phoneNumber type="home">212 555-1234</phoneNumber>
  <phoneNumber type="fax">646 555-4567</phoneNumber>
  <newSubscription>false</newSubscription>
  <companyName />
</Person>

I'm not sure if I should take this bait.. but I think XML is definitely the better path to take for this particular scenario. JSON is lightweight, sure, but it's lacking some of the better toolsets that XML has like XPath and XSLT that really would help make sense of Legends data.

[CobaltKobold]

I suddenly remembered Toph from Avatar. No, not the one with blue catgirls.

No Avatars had blue catgirls.

Actually, there was no "s" on the end.

I am stating that no works entitled Avatar had blue catgirls in them. The S is non-italicized, so take it as plural of Avatar.

edit: JSON is more distant from HTML, as well.