2013-09-26, 04:22 AM
Developing code for Specials should be pretty simple since there's less to it (just a list of names and expiry dates, no ranks) but entering the old data will take a while - took me maybe 1min per type for the regular ones to reformat the data into something acceptable, which is a matter of giving everything a name that works in a url instead of "Aliens & Humanoids" etc. Now that I have more experience that may go faster, or it may not.
Since you can now revive expired monsters I won't limit it to displaying alive specials, but will add some better way of removing ones that don't exist. Probably just a 'count' cell that defaults to 1.
DNS might not be global yet but I've given it a subdomain, http://monsterlife.90d.ca which is hopefully easier on the autocomplete than the random one Google gave me.
The plan is to have the homepage list off both regular and specials, in two sections. Unless anyone can think of a good reason to try to keep the specials all on one page I'm gonna split them off the same way the regular monsters are, to give a bit more detailed information, and not have to run all the queries every time someone goes to the front page.
Since you can now revive expired monsters I won't limit it to displaying alive specials, but will add some better way of removing ones that don't exist. Probably just a 'count' cell that defaults to 1.
DNS might not be global yet but I've given it a subdomain, http://monsterlife.90d.ca which is hopefully easier on the autocomplete than the random one Google gave me.
The plan is to have the homepage list off both regular and specials, in two sections. Unless anyone can think of a good reason to try to keep the specials all on one page I'm gonna split them off the same way the regular monsters are, to give a bit more detailed information, and not have to run all the queries every time someone goes to the front page.