Seneschal Report

Insert five-page obligatory fiction here.### New Site Progress

Development for the new site is coming along nicely. The last two weeks, we've been working on completing the new Shadow Academy, which is now complete save for a few minor things. With the Shadow Academy (nearly) done, I believe we've arrived at the point that the new site at least mirrors the functionality of the old site that's still being used, and on most places even improves on that functionality. I think it's safe to say that after some additional rounds of bug hunting and squashing, we should be ready to move over and kiss those CGI errors goodbye once and for all. I therefore would like to urge everyone to have a look around on the staging server, and let me know of any weird things and inconsistencies you find.

The staging version of the site is still located at http://staging.darkjedibrotherhood.com/, and bugs can still be reported at the Forums. Note that, due to Independence Games and Dark Crusade stuff still being in the staging database, I haven't been able to do a fresh conversion of the database yet, so the information on the staging site might be a couple of months outdated. I'm planning to rectify this by the end of the month.

Ask the Seneschal

Nero Inferni asks: How goes the coding for the new Character Sheets?

The coding part of the new Character Sheets is actually coming along very nicely. Everything documented in the first draft of the Character Sheet Development Document has been implemented, including stuff like (custom) aspects, skills, force powers, feats, the construction/approval flow and frontend viewing. What's missing still are minor things like explanatory texts to accompany the several screens, and the fact that the current sets of aspects, skills, feats and force powers are mostly placeholders taken from various places to test the system, and do not do the current system justice if they were taken as is. As Mav already explained in his report, he and his team are now working very hard to actually solidify these concepts, and see if anything I coded needs to be tweaked and/or changed still.

/resumes coding

~J