Wanted: Online Pretender Database

[Edi]

If you want to use it just to upload the .2h files, then my concepts indeed won't help much. What I was getting at was that if a frontend is constructed that uses the game facts to calculate the point cost for a pretender and saves the info to a separate table where anybody can access it and use it to replicate the pretender design on their own computer. No need to upload or download the actual files.

That one would be really simple, as you only need to display dominion strength, scales, magic, pretender name/ID and possibly nation for it. You don't need to list the special abilities, stats or anything else from the greater DB. The pretender designs table could also be browsed with a rather simple query page where you select the pretender from a dropdown menu and select one or two magics and the level desired for them. Or by nation and you'll get a list of the existing entries in that table.

My concept of this online pretender DB is that it can be added later as an additional functional block that is or at least can be independent of the larger DB (though then you'd need a different, more complex sort of frontend to use it.

Doesn't mean it's the only correct way of doing it, but for Dom3 I think it is perhaps the one that requires least effort once the big DB is up. The Pretender DB as you envision it is a completely tangential interest for me, I've nothing invested in the idea nor do I personally have much use for it.

Edi