TST: Hull Descriptions

Well before we get to the Oars, Sails and Pennants, let’s do some Hull Description:

;Hull Description
7,
1,The %ship_type%’s [~Miscellaneous.Wood] hull rises out of the water.
1,The %ship_type%’s hull is in [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] condition.
1,{AorAn~[Figurehead]} rises from the %ship_type%’s bow.
1,The [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] [~Miscellaneous.Wood] hull of the %ship_type% rises out of the water.
1,[Figurehead] rises from the bow. The hull of the %ship_type% is in [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] condition.
1,[Figurehead] rises from the [~Miscellaneous.Wood] hull of the %ship_type%.
1,The [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] [~Miscellaneous.Wood] hull of the %ship_type% sports {AorAn~[Figurehead]}

You can see that we’ve used a couple of calls to Miscellaneous.tab. With only 7 entries on the Hull Description group, we want to make the hull description able to still have thousands of results. They way my thought process helped develop this section was much like this:

  • We are going to use three different group calls. [Miscellaneous.Wood], [Miscellaneous.General Quality], and [Figurehead]. How can we put them together? And string the sentence together.
  • Hull with [Wood]
  • Hull with [General Quality]
  • Describe the [Figurehead]
  • [General Quality] Hull made of [Wood]
  • [Figurehead] on a [General Quality] hull
  • [Figurehead] on a [Wood] Hull
  • All 3: [Figurehead] [General Quality] and [Wood]

But it doesn’t create very interesting output. This is what I am complaining about here. I’m no fantastic writer, but it bugs me to have such blah output. So I’m going to propose the following changes to the code and see how that works out.

%Hull_Wood%,0
%Hull_Quality%,0
%Hull_Figurehead%,0

1,|Hull_Wood = [~Miscellaneous.Wood] |
1,|Hull_Quality = [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] |
1,|Hull_Figurehead= {AorAn~[Figurehead]} |
1,|Hull_Wood = [~Miscellaneous.Wood] |
_ |Hull_Quality = [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] |
1,|Hull_Wood = [~Miscellaneous.Wood] |
_ |Hull_Figurehead= {AorAn~[Figurehead]} |
1,|Hull_Quality = [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] |
_ |Hull_Figurehead= {AorAn~[Figurehead]} |
1,|Hull_Wood = [~Miscellaneous.Wood] |
_ |Hull_Quality = [~Miscellaneous.General Quality] |
_ |Hull_Figurehead= {AorAn~[Figurehead]} |

[Hull Description]
1,%Hull_Figurehead%%Hull_Quality%%Hull_Wood% hull [Hull Description Modifier]

[Hull Description Modifier]
1, rises out of the water.
1, rises majestically above the sea.
1, graces the sea.

Still unsatisfactory. But for now it’ll work, unless someone else has some good ideas on how to do it?


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