And I was in the process of porting many of the maps from the existing wiki across, when I was bumped up to 53 and at that stage I was involved in writing my shrine and religion. The wiki software is difficult to use for a host of reasons, including stripping out whitespace automatically and so on. I will be trying to get those maps in some time soon if I can but a parser needs to be designed to convert the current plain-text wiki format into something the wiki software won't append automatically and turn into nonsense.

This map literally took two weeks of my life, probably close to 300 hours of time. I had to manually figure out what would format properly within the wiki software and then create every line and format the colored text for everything. The wiki software has a tendency to stripping out and add stuff, and I had to work around the pre-coded stuff that was intent on making it look like strings of nonsense.

The map is basically an ASCII version of the graphic map that Amaranthe drew, which was incredibly creative. The problem was it was nigh on impossible to hot-link anything from the graphic and therefore was not functional.

RE: Parser, I am not a coder by trade, and do not have any background in comp sci. I was looking at learning python and had created a couple of basic programs to scrape website tickers on market data to manually mark my investment portfolio to market every morning. Parsers are not a trivial task for someone without a background in coding and I was learning regex and taking a look at ways to write the code efficiently.



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