The Babbage Islands wrote:The Fanboyists wrote:TBI, I'm not a very technical person with this stuff, and I'm rather poor at operating scorinators (I got somewhat lost when I attempted to use NSFS Gridball Mod) so I have a question/request:
Would it be possible to modify Miscellanator to, say, tourney (otherwise known as jousting), or other obscure sports?
Miscellanator lives for obscure sports.
Although fixing the Excel export issue is top of my list right now, in principle Miscellanator should work comfortably with any environment where head-to-head matches between two teams or individuals are the norm. Got a database you want me to look at?
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by database? Could you give me an example, so I can figure out if there is one I can provide?
The best I know of the sport, such as it is, is what I see at the Rennaisance Festival every year. The main reason for interest is that it is, technically, my state's official sport (Maryland FTW!) and I'm sort of interested in the RP possibilities of having a distinctly medieval sport RP'ed in modern times. But so understand that I have only observation-based knowledge, ATM, and so this may or may not be completely accurate. I'll double-check.
Now as for teams...I believe there are two knights or entries per team. There are point values assigned to the manner of the two entries actually jousting at any given time (a match, I'd assume would be the best term for it, or a try) and point values are assigned for the following, I believe in ascending order: a broken lance, a shattered lance, and an unhorsed opponent (which I think is the best possible outcome). I believe each member of each team gets four tries (that is how many lances they have per (round?) in my experience.
I'm not entirely sure about the foot-tourney portion, or the portion where wooden clubs are used on horseback. I'll need to brush up on those.
Hope this helps. Also, I'm not sure if you saw it, but there's another question I put in my older post. I'll restate it here for ease:
"Beyond that, I have a question which has not yet been addressed (to my knowledge) in the Help File provided, in that is there any list on the "Set-Up" spreadsheet that
should not, under any circumstances be edited? For instance, the first group on the Setup spreadsheet comes with entries (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...), that I am unsure as to whether or not they should be edited for testing reasons while I feel this out."
Kudos, btw: at least from my perspective, Miscellenator seems infinitely more user-friendly than NSFS.