Utility: SemiRandom version 095

[Ballbarian]

Thank you for the feedback Endoperez.

It's still a bit too complicated for anyone with an interesting idea to just add a province, but at least those who are willing to read the readme can do so.

It feels easy to me, but just because I am so familiar with it. The ideal would be if someone like Jack with skill in programming online tools could provide a web interface which allowed building individual provinces in a SemiRandomizer script format and auto email the submissions for addition to the library. I would be able to do a windows version, but it would not be cross platform friendly. I could look at doing a yabasic province creator, but without a proper gui interface it would be a awkward to use.

If you manage to figure out an algorithm for starting positions, could it also be used for kingdoms with e.g. knights/longbowmen etc in the middle, and few heavy cavalry and archers added to all neighbouring provinces?

Certainly possible. I will keep that in mind as the next version progresses. I also like the idea of being able to have North Dakota, South Dakota and Greater Dakota (for example) as neighboring provinces with similar inhabitants.

Can the namelists be used to e.g. create a list of all non-cursed magic items, or all non-cursed trinkets, or all non-cursed, not very powerful, melee-only magic weapons?

Yes! A simple example would be if I wanted to create a list of one-handed, fire only melee weapons for a set of abysian commanders to select randomly from. I would create a text file named 1HFIREMELEE_DATA1.txt and add any items that I wanted to the list:
Fire Sword
Fire Brand
Evening Star
Demon Whip
Unquenched Sword
Ember

Then save the file to the NAME_VAULT directory and add the name of the file to NameList.txt so that the program can find it. Now when I am creating my abysian province commanders I would tell the program to assign him a random item from that list with:
@RANDOM additem 1HFIREMELEE

In the above example, I could have also done the same thing with:
@6 additem
"Fire Sword"
"Fire Brand"
"Evening Star"
"Demon Whip"
"Unquenched Sword"
"Ember"

But with a long list of items that you wanted to use with multiple commanders, or across multiple provinces, the list file is a nice solution.

A helpful tip is that Edi's databases make it easy to use the autofilter feature to quickly compile very specific lists of items, monsters, magic sites, etc.