Anyone up for a computerised Birthright

[Mason]

Does anyone know where Seneschal went? At the moment the only computerised Birthright World Manager I can find is BirMail. <http://birthrightonline.loginov.com/web/frame.html>.

I was looking through the many attempts at online managers, and was thinking of a computerised PBEM when I tracked down BirMail. The program is an amazing step in the right direction, but it needs some serious tweaks on the user friendly side of things.

Does anyone know of any other attempts?

[mja17_uk]

Orginally posted by Mason
I was looking through the many attempts at online managers, and was thinking of a computerised PBEM when I tracked down BirMail. The program is an amazing step in the right direction, but it needs some serious tweaks on the user friendly side of things.


We're currently in the process of cleaning it up a lot, trying to make it as user friendly as possible. Recently we modified the program so that the turn process should be a lot simpler to understand and use, (simply select 'next section' between actions and the computer automatically runs taxes, updates, outputs and emails turns, instead of doing each section seperately).

If you have any particular ideas on how we can improve the UI then I'd be extreamely grateful to hear about them (It's hard going to a UI people think of as simple if no-one ever says how they would like it to work!)

Email: mja17_uk@users.sourceforge.net
Birmail: http://birmail.birthrightonline.com

[Mason]

That's the big problem when designing a UI, you need to do it from the ground up, and design your methods around it. You're going to have one hell of a problem bringing BirMail back into line so that us plebians can understand it.

Pretty much the best thing you can do at the moment is develop some comprehensive online help for the program. The people that will be using it are specialists, not many non Birthright DM's will even want to look at it. You're lucky in that respect.

Online help will probably solve your problems.

[mja17_uk]

Orginally posted by Mason

Pretty much the best thing you can do at the moment is develop some comprehensive online help for the program.


Well I've started updating the web pages at least, Help system will get there soon...

http://birmail.birthrightonline.com/