New Nav Organization
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:41 pm
I've carrying this over from Wahn's response to the suggestion for a reorganized nav system.
The fact that new rooms won't be showing is a little of an annoyance, but not a major issue. It does mean it's possible something was missed though and isn't currently among the set. We'll have to be vigilant.
I agree that building such a cross-check would be bog things down considerably.
As for the misplaced rooms, the first one that stood out was Rex's Place, which I believe goes in the High Rise District. Similarly, I think the Butterfly Grove belongs in the HRD. I think Tyr's Club and/or the Lizard Parlor are located in the Warehouse District. Nutso Factory is located in the Warehouse District. The Office Den and the Disused Garage are located in the Capitol Bldg area. The Museum, being a hunting area, might be best on its own. Similarly for the City Hospital, which also has the Hospital Psych Department in it. The more I look, the more I find so there's probably still some more.
I can see that you did some restructuring and regrouping of the locations to partially categorize them, but sometimes rooms are left in their original districts while others are reorganized.
I also see that the main rooms for each area are buried among all the rest of the links. Those ones should probably be bumped up to the first position, as they're the hunting areas for those zones and the primary means to find most of the other rooms in that set. Also, the Grey Abbey LIbrary, as the player's starting point and main base of operations, may be best kept at the top of the list all on its own.
Capitol District: | [Approaching the Capitol Building] | [Orc Lair]
Central City: | [Camp Bravo] | [Comic Shop] | [Green Apartment] | [Disused Garage] | [Fire Station 86] | [Grey Abbey Library] | [Horseman Master's Office] | [Horseman Stables] | [Hyena Shack] | [Isolated Street] | [Kristen's Hideout] | [Lizard Parlor] | [Mini-Lab] | [Museum Foyer] | [PALOMINO] | [Pediatrics Lobby] | [Pig Pen] | [Police Station] | [Hospital Psych Department] | [Rabbit Den] | [Red Apartment] | [Rex's Place] | [Trevor Labs] | [Tyr's Club]
City Park: | [Butterfly Grove] | [Lion's Den] | [Park Entrance]
Commercial District: | [New Ewe Store] | [Nutso Factory] | [SlutRat Den] | [Smith Haven Mall]
Dry Plains: | [Dry Plains] | [McDermott Farm Entrance] | [Plant Overview] | [Power Lines] | [Researcher Studio] | [Reservoir] | [Rocky Outcropping]
State Fair: | [State Fair] | [Sweet Tooth]
High Rise District: | [Agency] | [Alex's Condo] | [Bone-Appetit] | [City Hospital] | [Entrance to the High Rise District] | [Flower Garden] | [Office Den] | [Zephyr Lobby]
Misc: | [Shifting Room] | [Foxy Hideaway]
Red Light District: | [Back Alley] | [Bright Alley] | [Burned-Out Chapel] | [Cuero Lobo] | [Down Under Pub] | [Entrance to the Red Light District] | [Gillian's Flat] | [Lingerie Store] | [Police Car] | [Porn Store] | [Sven's Place] | [Tattoo Parlor]
Seaside: | [Beach Plaza] | [Bouncy Castle] | [Pirate Island] | [Viking Ship]
Tenvale College: | [Campus Gym] | [College Campus] | [Paleontology Office] | [Phi Iota Gamma] | [Sports Arena Lockerroom]
Urban Forest: | [Equinoid Camp] | [Urban Forest]
Warehouse District: | [Abandoned Lot] | [Hyena Hideout] | [Mike's Home] | [Steven's home] | [Warehouse District] | [Wolfman Lair]
Zoo: | [Gator Den] | [Tiger den] | [Zoo Entrance]
Wahn wrote:It was just a lot of sorting things into the different areas, then alphabetically and writing it manually. Didn't change anything on the room-side of things.
The list will currently only show those rooms written into it. I thought about using a list of known rooms and then striking off room by rooom out of that list as they're displayed, leaving the eventual "not yet placed" room to be displayed at the end - but I decided that jamming all those extra operations into the nav command would unneccessarily slow it down. As an often-used command, that's not a good idea. It's not like new locations are routinely created every week, so we can just pin up a general note and let people manually add their room to the list.
Which rooms are misplaced btw? I wasn't sure about one or two of them, but others genuinely are in other zones, even though events connected to them are elsewhere. The orc lair for example is a police station in the capitol district - no matter that the orcish slave raid is in the warehouse district. The player gets dragged off to the other location.
The fact that new rooms won't be showing is a little of an annoyance, but not a major issue. It does mean it's possible something was missed though and isn't currently among the set. We'll have to be vigilant.
I agree that building such a cross-check would be bog things down considerably.
As for the misplaced rooms, the first one that stood out was Rex's Place, which I believe goes in the High Rise District. Similarly, I think the Butterfly Grove belongs in the HRD. I think Tyr's Club and/or the Lizard Parlor are located in the Warehouse District. Nutso Factory is located in the Warehouse District. The Office Den and the Disused Garage are located in the Capitol Bldg area. The Museum, being a hunting area, might be best on its own. Similarly for the City Hospital, which also has the Hospital Psych Department in it. The more I look, the more I find so there's probably still some more.
I can see that you did some restructuring and regrouping of the locations to partially categorize them, but sometimes rooms are left in their original districts while others are reorganized.
I also see that the main rooms for each area are buried among all the rest of the links. Those ones should probably be bumped up to the first position, as they're the hunting areas for those zones and the primary means to find most of the other rooms in that set. Also, the Grey Abbey LIbrary, as the player's starting point and main base of operations, may be best kept at the top of the list all on its own.