Well, if we were going to make a cutoff date for building new rooms I think it would've long since been reached by now. Let's say for the moment that we
are done with new architecture, enough rooms, it'll be okay.
That said, it has been quite a while, hasn't it? If we want (and I would rather like) for this hold to actually go through to the holds board, then there is some finishing up that needs to be done.
1: Somebody needs to play through every room. This is both for demo production purposes, as well as hopefully finding and plugging leaks, and also getting feedback and maybe improving any rooms that are
especially painful (while hopefully keeping their original intent or spirit intact). My goal is essentially to publish this hold in as close to the current state as possible, but slightly better.
2: Permission must be established. What I mean is this:
If you built a room for this thing and want a say on what gets edited in it, or even want it removed from this thing, please post here or I will assume we have permission to do whatever needs to be done. My assumption is that submitting something to this constitutes permission to alter if deemed necessary and to of course include it in the final form of the hold, mainly to deal with the fact that some of those who submitted rooms to this are either apparently absent from the forum or just may not have time to deal with this at the moment. And I've also heard that one or two rooms might have been migrated to other people's other projects, which presumably requires that they be meaningfully altered or removed to obey the HA rule of "
no repeat rooms ever"
.
I'll try and find time to run through things myself this week, hopefully, and post any comments I have. I encourage anyone else to do the same if they've got spare time, and at least post demos so I can compile a complete demo pack. After some feedback is posted and discussion done on it--well, let's for the moment say that either Nuntar or I will make final decisions on edits from said feedback and post a new version of the full hold including them.
Now, speaking of "
fixing things"
: The most recent discussion in this hold has me a bit perplexed. The version posted second to most recently by disoriented is different from Insoluble's version posted most recently, and I don't know in
exactly how many ways. Just the title of Insoluble's level and a room added to Planning Ahead? Or more than that? I honestly can't tell. Also, the new room (1N1E) in Planning Ahead says "
variation by jamesdenem"
but jamesdenem made the original; is it Insoluble's variation? Is that what the scroll should say instead? For the moment I've just pasted that one room into the version from disoriented's post and attached the result here; if that's not right I need to know how it's not right
and how to fix it.
But hey! Speaking of scrolls. It might be a good idea to "
standardize"
the way scrolls are written a bit. I noticed
just poking around in Planning Ahead a few different phrasings used. Ideally I think scrolls should be formatted as "
Original by X"
, or else "
Variation of X by Y"
where "
X"
can be "
Original"
or "
Z's Variation"
, and leave it at that. This formatting would make it reasonably doable to trace how a double- or triple-variation evolved, the few places those occurred, and otherwise be a very clear, easy-to-understand description of which room the player is playing. However, I'd like opinions on this too, if someone disagrees or agrees or something, before going and trying to fuss with some 50+ scrolls.
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