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I hope you do. It's a bitter sweet experience. There's joy at having earned that much rep but sadness at how much you lose between cap-max and end of day.

James

3:16 PM

@Green lol I suppose

imaginary internet points are awesome, but I think I shall endure.

@Green I want to answer this

Q: How can I make the cultural evolution of my world believable?

Designing a single isolated culture isn't too difficult. There appear to be 12 aspects of culture that need to be described or accounted for, which isn't too hard without a history. Some of these aspects are directly tied to environment while others are not. Just like with governments, it's pos...

But I am having trouble narrowing my answer down to something people will actually read...

Green

What's the scope guard rails that you bang up against?

James

Its just so big...I can't seem to narrow my focus enough...there is a lot to cover on that topic...

Green

Are you attempting to address how each cultural dimension changes or just general patterns of change?

How each dimension changes would just explode. I'm with you on that.

James

@Green Kinda both, its tough to do one without the other...its a very fluid system...

Green

Yeah, it's impossible to change the climate string without pulling everything else too.

Man, I'm so glad I didn't put the hard-science or science-based tags on that question.

James

3:29 PM

@Green Lol, give me a deacade or so, Ill write you a book.

Green

@James You've got all the time you need. :)

Green

3:41 PM

Anyone have any idea why I get 200 rows returned when I run this query on myself: data.stackexchange.com/worldbuilding/query/edit/361888

I only have 20 or so questions.

Got it. Answers are posts too.

James

I was going to say no (without looking at the link) but you already answered your question so I am good :)

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Green

6:21 PM

@James, I think a tribal generator would be an interesting (hopefully fast) project to pull off.

James

6:32 PM

@Green I am thinking we could make a generator that served to cover lots of different topics, I am thinking a contextual drop down (i.e. what do you want to create) and then it could slot the relevant content tables for that particular topic...

randomly generate based on selections from the lists...

and then you could add some...lets call them stereotypical options if you want your options biased in some way, maybe the generator could replace 2 of X fields from the stereotype to get a similar feel yet not identical.

Green

@James That might be a good start to the Universe Software project that we talked about last week.

James

@Green would be a useful add-on for sure.

Green

Do you want to ask that rebellion question or should I? It's a really interesting topic.

James

@Green Well would you rather ask it or answer it?

Green

I think I'd rather answer it.

(Don't mean to be pushy, it's just an exciting topic.)

ArtOfCode

6:52 PM

@Green You trying to figure out the most common tags for popular questions?

James

@Green I will ask it then, probably tomorrow.

Green

@ArtOfCode Maybe. :)

James

(if I forget, remind me)

Green

@James, I look forward to seeing it.

@ArtOfCode I am curious about what makes one question popular and another question unpopular.

ArtOfCode

@Green data.stackexchange.com/worldbuilding/query/362155/…

Green

7:03 PM

@ArtOfCode thanks.

that will do nicely.

James

Tags appear at first glance to be fairly irrelevant.

Most seem like, here is an interesting scenario kind of questions.

weapons seems pretty common...

Green

@James I'm curious about what makes something an interesting scenario. Does the question have lots of possible answers or the nuances of the question are such that it makes people come in and want to debate a point with the OP or answerer?

James

@Green If you can figure this place out you get a diamond.

of course I have no authority to grant one so...yeah

ArtOfCode

@James Thankfully I don't need one...

James

@ArtOfCode Responsibility can be overrated...

ArtOfCode

7:10 PM

@James Can. I quite enjoy it, though.

James

@ArtOfCode @Green so if I created a series of data tables for various things (like nations, tribes, guilds etc) would you guys be willing to put it in a generator?

Green

@James responsibility is absolutely overrated. :) I mean, I don't mind responsibility but I know that I want to have as little as possible. If someone asked me to moderate I'd say "Not yet, thank you."

@James Yep!

ArtOfCode

@James I'd have a shot, not that I'd know what I'm doing.

James

7:24 PM

@ArtOfCode @Green Basically it would be a contextual front end that would pull from different tables depending on your type selection, then it could generate as many as you want.

Green

@James Yes?

ArtOfCode

@James Aaah easy stuff. That's dead easy on a web interface.

@James Data tables in what format? If it's one that can be imported to a MySQL database then <3

Green

CSV for the win!

James

I figured I would just provide it in xlsx, should copy into sql just fine right? Meaning csv via excel.

Green

@ArtOfCode I was thinking about picking n number of integers where n corresponds to the number of parameters to be chose from the tables. Use each integer to look up the primary key on each table.

ArtOfCode

7:29 PM

@Green Sounds viable

I'll happily write the SQL file to create the databases and tables we want

Green

@ArtOfCode where do you host your stuff usually?

ArtOfCode

@Green Free web hosting I have, which I can set up unlimited accounts on.

e.g. jenkinsstuff.bl.ee is on it

as is worldbuilders.hol.es

James

Let me get my blog article done and I will take a crack at creating tables.

Green

@ArtOfCode Are these your home servers? If so, nicely done.

ArtOfCode

@Green Nope, hosted on some free hosting company I found on the Net.

Green

7:35 PM

Even better (though I wonder at their business model). Who cares! It's free!

ArtOfCode

They do have paid hosting services too, but I'm a free things person

And it lets me do most of what I want, so all's fine there.

I do want to set up some servers at home though, so I can have sites available 24/7 and complete freedom.

Green

@ArtOfCode I'd love fiber with a static IPv6 address (I'm fuzzy on IPv6 so it may be a static address anyway.)

Load docker containers and run whatever I needed.

ArtOfCode

@Green Yep, but you'd want a v4 too.

Green

Yeah. Part of me wants to be a snob though and just support v6.

ArtOfCode

Heh. There goes most of your userbase :)

I've got cable with a static v4 right now, and not great speeds... servers aren't really practical.

Green

7:42 PM

@ArtOfCode sigh fine, fine :) I'll do v6 just for my own servers. Everyone else can have v4 access.

ArtOfCode

@Green Heh, that's more like it

Green

Though I would never host real servers at home. AWS, Azure et al will offer v4 access (and hopefully v6 access too) so I shouldn't have to worry about that too much.

ArtOfCode

@Green I'd give it a shot. I'd do it on a separate connection to my home network for obvious reasons, but I'd do the hosting part.

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HDE 226868

10:37 PM

@Green It's incredibly popular.

Thanks for the bounty, by the way.

@MonicaCellio I'll update my answer to your second question tonight. It's been a busy week so far.

Monica Cellio

@HDE226868 thanks! There's also a sequel now, if you're interested:

Q: How do seasons work in a binary system (planet orbits one star, not both)?

I have a planet orbiting one star in a binary system. When the planet is exactly between the two stars it will experience a double day; when the primary sun sets the secondary one rises, no overlap. (My second star sheds enough light to make a difference on the planet.) When the planet is on t...

planets stars light

HDE 226868

@MonicaCellio Yeah, I just saw that. I may pass on that one; axial tilt and the effects thereof while in orbit have always made visualization tough for me. I think I'll pass on that one. :-)

A great question, though. I was waiting for it.

Monica Cellio

@HDE226868 gotcha. The two answers there seem like a good start; I need to study them more.

@HDE226868 thanks. And the reason I pointed it out is that I knew you were waiting for it.

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