Rules Assistant
Added 2021-07-25 18:06:58 +0000 UTCI've been re-architecting almost everything about how this game is put together, and it presented an interesting opportunity.
I'm thinking of replacing the "conditions" panel of the rules assistant with a window where you can enter a query like "Weight > 30 and age < 35 and age > 25."
I figured I'd ask because I think it would be much easier to use, but I'm also a programmer and have a warped perspective. It would contain a help panel to tell you what the operators are and what fields you can search for.
For the nerds: The language is just SQL, so if you want, you can take this really far and do stuff like "Everyone whose maternal great grandmother is named 'Susie.'" This works because most data about people is now stored in a working SQLIte DB instead of memory. The rules assistant will be generating SQL under the hood anyway, but I'm figuring out if people prefer a visual interface for it or not.
This will also give you the ability to cheat by using SQL injection in the rules assistant, which I think is a pretty neat way for people to learn about it if they're so inclined.
