Re: [Adonthell-general] Wiki namespace (was Maps)

[Kai Sterker]

On 5/24/05, Andrew Phillips <address@hidden> wrote:

I guess we can have a page like Quest:DB:Main:Overview that contains
the general outline of the plot ... the actual parts of the main quest
(lets keep the term subquest for them) would then get a page each, as
suggested. Same goes for sidequests.

Kai

> As I see it, the main quest is the overall direction of the game -
> discover the identity of the letter's sender, learn alchemy. Subquests
> are large discreet components of the main quest - Help the Dwarves,
> Rescue the Monks, Capture Alek - quests so big they might be
> considered the main quest for some portion of the game. Sidequests
> have no direct relation to the Main quest and may not even be
> available to all play paths. It may be a distinction without a
> difference, but it might be useful to know what we are working on If
> so, we can collapse the tree to
> 
> Quest:DB:Main:
> Quest:DB:Side:
> 
> And leave it at that.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 23/05/05, Kai Sterker <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 5/21/05, Andrew Phillips <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I am continuing the namespace discussion with a suggested namespace
> > > design for the plot and gameworld data. The following are illustrative
> > > examples.
> >
> > Looks good to me :-).
> >
> > > I started the new thread because there are places where the namespaces
> > > seem to collide in such a way that I'm not sure how best to organize
> > > the information. Quests are the main conundrum for me. They could be
> > > organized in their own namespace, or associated with the person, place
> > > or item that triggers the quest.
> >
> > Hm ... keeping them in their own namespace seems to be the best idea
> > to me. That way, all quests are kept in the same place and not
> > scattered across characters, items or places. They can (and should)
> > still be linked from the description page of that character, item or
> > place.
> >
> > > Another conundrum is how to wikinize (to organize information for
> > > inclusion in a wiki) the various classes and prestige classes, since
> > > the base classes are available to all characters of all races, but
> > > most prestige classes are probably racially constrained.
> >
> > Don't know if that can be easily done with namespaces. Having all
> > class description sharing the same namespace doesn't seem badly
> > organized to me. The information, what race may chose a certain class
> > will be in the description (and I imagine there will be some sort of
> > matrix or TOC where all that can be seen at a glance). Much like
> > http://endor.hsutx.edu/~cptlogic/adonthell/plotweb/grendal/classes/classes.html
> >
> >
> > > For lack of a better idea, I am just going to propose, but not
> > > implement an example of a quest namespace:
> > >
> > > Quest:
> > > Quest:Main
> > > Quest:Subquest:
> > > Quest:Sidequest:
> >
> > Shouldn't we add the game the quest is meant for as well. I.e
> >
> > Quest:DB;
> > Quest:DB:Main
> > Quest:DB:Subquest:
> > Quest:DB:Sidequest:
> >
> > Otherwise it looks good (although I'm not sure what the difference
> > between sub- and sidequests would be).
> >
> > Kai
> >
> 
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