Talk:DrayGen17W

Using this table in future generators
O_O Currently wondering how to mold these results into future generators (Say, if I were to take one of these offspring and breed it to something else to create a new generation... can I use this table in a new generator instead of copying and pasting the results? Dray 08:53, 24 March 2008 (PDT)

Hi Dray - Thanks for using Abulafia! From what I can tell of what you and JKatkina are doing, it looks like you'll have to make new generators every generation. The reason is that Abulafia doesn't have any memory of results it produces, so it can't keep track of the variables of one generation it produces for you in order to crossbreed it with the next. It seems like what you & your community really needs is a web application devoted to your dragon generations; one that would let you input the traits of both parents and produce random offspring. Abulafia doesn't have user inputs apart from editing the table itself, so it's never going to be just point-and-click when you're combining two new parents. However, that said, we could probably develop a library of subtables that would be useful in making new generation tables much easier to produce over time. I'm traveling quite a bit over the next several weeks, but I'll try to pop in from time to time and help out where I can. --Dave Younce 12:31, 24 March 2008 (PDT)

Oh, and as far as using anything in this table, you can absolutely re-use it instead of cutting and pasting. For example, if your new table were going to use the same names from this one, just reference that as

[DrayGen17W.NAME]

In that manner you can incorporate results from anywhere else on the site. In particular, Dragon description may be useful for you. Hope that helps! Dave Younce 12:37, 24 March 2008 (PDT)

Oh my goodness! That is going to make future generations SO much easier! This is an awesome site you guys've got going here, Dave.

The community Dray and I come from, well, we're mostly artists and storywriters. :) I'm not sure there's a skilled enough coder among us to make up a proper dragon-breeding application, nice as that would be! JKatkina