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Old October 25th, 2002, 05:45 PM
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Here's a good one, that was thrown around a while ago:
SEX = The highly anticipated Tenth game in the Space Empires Series.

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The purpose of my offer to put it in a spread sheet was for exactly what you did. A tab delimited file is a text file that most Word Processors, Spread Sheet, and Database programs can import. A separate file would be good to have for people who are reading a thread, run into a Acronym and need to bring up the list. I read the forums with a database open designed to take notes on various aspects of the game.

Most likely it is over kill.

Perhaps the Newbie Guide, Acronym
List and others should be merged into the "Encyclopedia Malfadorica”
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Old October 25th, 2002, 06:00 PM
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A separate file would be good to have for people who are reading a thread, run into a Acronym and need to bring up the list.
Gryphin, sounds like a good idea.

How would it work in practice?

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I read the forums with a database open designed to take notes on various aspects of the game.
Good idea! Never thought of it! So obvious!
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Don't know if you want to use this one but... OT: Off Topic
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"SEX = The highly anticipated Tenth game in the Space Empires Series."

I can see this one. Someone will make a site dedicated to this tenth Version of SE and have a .org domain name. Thus it would be, "www.SE-X.org"... some idiot would then add a Y to the end of that just for kicks.
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Question is "Can I take a poll within this thread or must I start a new thread?"
You have to start a new thread.
OK maybe we can put a link to the Poll. Anybody know how to do this?

The form of the poll I am considering is:

POLL
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What form should the acronym dictionary take?

1) the form it now has

2) include only the most commonly used acronyms - delete acronyms not in common use such as MM's "TL = Large Troops, Hull"
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I read the forums with a database open designed to take notes on various aspects of the game.
I would love to take a peek at your database.
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