Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2020 4:27:22 GMT -8
The link seems to work for me. I haven't tried editing the document though. I'm not familiar with google spread sheets and don't want to break anything... This was the first thing that came to my mind: Does the document handle concurrent access?
Technical questions aside, I like the idea of sharing the tedious work of collecting data, and when I flipped through the spread sheets, the second thing that I wondered was: What is the data good for? The sheets seem to require like every aspect of the dropped items. When starting a project like this one, there usually is a specific question behind the matter (e.g. "Drop bows less than axes? If so, what does the distribtion look like." or something like that).
If one does not have a goal or question in mind, one tends to doing exactly what you're doing: Collect all data possible, to not restrict oneself, and possibly make the collected data worthless.
My suggestion would be to think about the specific goal (or two or three goals), reduce to bandwidth of needed data, and simplify the sheets, which then are easier to read, understand, and use on-the-fly. The simpler and less time consuming, the more people are likely to join in.
Technical questions aside, I like the idea of sharing the tedious work of collecting data, and when I flipped through the spread sheets, the second thing that I wondered was: What is the data good for? The sheets seem to require like every aspect of the dropped items. When starting a project like this one, there usually is a specific question behind the matter (e.g. "Drop bows less than axes? If so, what does the distribtion look like." or something like that).
If one does not have a goal or question in mind, one tends to doing exactly what you're doing: Collect all data possible, to not restrict oneself, and possibly make the collected data worthless.
My suggestion would be to think about the specific goal (or two or three goals), reduce to bandwidth of needed data, and simplify the sheets, which then are easier to read, understand, and use on-the-fly. The simpler and less time consuming, the more people are likely to join in.
Keep it up! Don't let me steal your thunder! (I googled that phrase, I have no idea if it is actually used ;-)
Edit:
Another thing, which is quite important:
Attributes should be atomic, they should not contain more than one information.
So, writing into one cell "Charr Carving 1x" will backfire on you the moment when you want to have a closer look at the probabilities. You would have to search for "Charr Carvings 1x", "Charr Carvings 2x", "Charr Carvings 3x", and writing "Charr Cavrings" over and over will result in typos, and it will all become a big mess. Write strings once, and then edit the quantity, or better yet, don't edit it directly, but increment the value...
