New HoF brain storm

[Hadrian_II]

Originally Posted by WraithLord

I don't want full blown DB.
I want a human readable, none XML, text file. I'll implement data access and logic myself.

whats wrong with XML? i think there are free XML libs out for every programming language. If you use XML you dont have to write a custom parser for a custom format (what in my opinion just sounds like unnecessary work).

Originally Posted by WraithLord

However you see it there's just no way to avoid manually building the DB. If I get help in this it will cut the time to completion by half. Otherwise my plan is to complete the report gen. engine and then get to manually feeding the DB. It's not that bad, mind you, most of the posts are compatible with my parser (just add [ and ] lines with simple awk/sed script or by hand), so it's down to copy/paste.

Why not create a simple web form, and fill the db with the input. I suppose it is not harder for players to report victory to a webpage, than to a forum post.