Kevan, Excalabur and I were discussing the possibility of using crontab to increase Quintessence at midnight. It seems possible—one’d have to write a script to edit the log file, yes?

Also, the new frontend simplifies some of the parts of the game nicely. Administration of a proposal includes the time automatically (but not the name of the administrator), and the proposal category automatically prepends the word “Proposal” to the title.

Neat, eh?

Mm, very impressed with all this.

And yeah, a cronjob would work, but you’d have to run through the existing GNDT data (or, eh, just scrape the HTML output, I suppose) to get the current values, and increment them. Or, hm, tweak the GNDT code to interpret certain lines in the log as “increment all values of X”, I suppose.

Should rewrite the GNDT to use MySQL, and to do lots more useful Nomic-type things, like that, really. Can’t imagine I’ll have time to touch it, for ages, so feel free to muck around and let me take a copy back for kevan.org, with credit, when you’re done.

  I’m all for the automation.

Given that you have to go through the log to find out what the existing values are /anyway/ in the GNDT, we could just lift the code, no?

for the proposal, too

It’s pretty hideous code, though. Scraping the HTML would probably be easier.

THinking again.  This favours not those with poor memories, but those who spend the most quintessence: it’s a way to get two Q a day.  Especially if two dieties work together to both get two/day, which would not be difficult.

hmm good point

Ah, maybe. Two Deities working together would only work if no other Deities are hovering at zero, though. But there is some room for a group of Deities to top up the same zero-Quintessence friend in turn, with them spending each point as it comes.

      Self-kill.