From: Timothy Bennett <timothy.s.bennett@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T15:05:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Space Merchant (#71)


On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Gary Watson wrote:

> This is awsome.  I've been thinking about writing a tradewars  
> server for
> a month or so now.  Unfortunately with school and everything else, I
> haven't had much time to devote to the idea.  I hope people come up  
> with
> neat solutions.  I wish I had the time to devote to this quiz, (I  
> don't
> unfortunately), but if this quiz results in a project being spun  
> off, I
> would love to become a part of it.
>
> My original idea was to try to write a multi-threaded telnet server in
> ruby to power the game, and allow players to play the game
> simultaneously, allowing for in game chat and ship to ship
> communications and whatnot.  (much like the latest version of  
> tradewars
> 2002 game server from Epic Interactive www.eisonline.com/twgs/.
>
> At any rate, good luck to everyone, I'm definately interested in the
> results.

On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Dimitri Aivaliotis wrote:

> I know this is 11th-hour and all, but I thought I'd mention it
> anyways.  When I read this quiz, I immediately thought of using a
> Dependency Injection framework to solve it.  I also wanted to add
> elements of the Firefly `Verse to the gameplay, so I'd describe it in
> a YAML file.  Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to do more than
> just a mock-up:
> ...
> So, what do you all think?  Anybody with actual DI/IoC experience care
> to chime in?  (As you can probably tell, this would be my first time
> using DI.)  Are there any other Browncoats out there?  Could this
> maybe be a Part 2 to this quiz?

I dunno about continuing with this as a quiz, but I think it'd be  
cool to see a project spin off of this.  Anyone want to take the lead  
and set up a project on RubyForge?  I personally won't have a great  
deal of time to put into this (and I'm still rather wet behind the  
ears as a Ruby programmer), but I still wouldn't mind setting it up.

Tim