How much Code is too much Code?

[Thenomain]

@faraday said in How much Code is too much Code?:

@thenomain said in How much Code is too much Code?:

She told me I was being silly.
I bet she has it in game for players like me. I mean, it’s not perfect but at least it’s easier to browse than whatever train wreck style Arx has going on.

Yep. It's 2017. Web is the future. We as a hobby need to move out of the dark ages.

And yet, when I made a suggestion to bring more of your game onto the web, you said why bother.

Sometimes you can wish for sunlight then complain about the glare, you know.

[faraday]

@thenomain said in How much Code is too much Code?:

And yet, when I made a suggestion to bring more of your game onto the web, you said why bother.

Umm... no? I specifically expressed some implementation concerns about bringing that one particular thing you suggested. That is emphatically not the same to objecting to "bringing more of the game onto the web", which I've done quite a lot of.

It comes down to the philosophy I mentioned earlier: What problem are you trying to solve, and what other problems are you maybe introducing in the process.

[Thenomain]

@faraday

It is always possible to over analyze something and strike it out. Pure logical decision making is not on my personal list of what makes a game fun or engaging. I honestly believe that it detracts from it, and is when a coder needs to let go a little.

[Auspice]

@thenomain said in How much Code is too much Code?:

Pure logical decision making is not on my personal list

Woah woah woah
but logicbot.

[surreality]

Sincere question for the folks who want everything accessible on the game and the wiki, I swear to fucking gods I am not being a smartass even though you will doubtless think I am:

Would you want all of the 'how to work with the wiki' guides, how-tos, and things like wiki walk-throughs, how to work with forms, css hints, etc. to be accessible on the game, or can that just stay on the wiki alone?

My personal take on this is that if it's game-relevant, it needs to be on the game and wiki, but if it's wiki-specific how-to-fu... that can safely just stay on the wiki because the wiki is where it's relevant and where you'd be using it as reference anyway. (Basically, 'keep it where it's needed, some specific corner-case tightly-focused things are needed one place and not the other, and vice versa.)

Opinions? I realize my take on it is common sense to me but I could very easily be overlooking something.

[Misadventure]

@surreality I, as a only mild wiki user, would look on the wiki for help with it. Especially as you can gave example pages set up to show what something looks like.

[ThatGuyThere]

@surreality
I would say that could stay on the wiki, I think i am one of the hardliners on not wanting to mess with the wiki while playing so what I want on the game is all things I would need in the playing of the game. (Minus the rules which can't be reproduced in the case of WoD or other tabletop of course.)

Information on the wiki could be more in depth and wiki specific for things like using the wiki but I also would not want to have to log on the game to get info about how to do X on the wiki.