On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 00:40 +0300, Vlad Dragu wrote: > I have some questions / comments regarding the tasks for alpha 1.1
Sure! I'll give a first answer - just give it one day to let David and other comment. I'll be quite busy for the next three days, so then rely on David's comments and don't wait for me to comment again if you need to move forward. > Regarding flattening of sites: I think we should remove the “Hack from > here” functionality from the menu and all the code. It doesn’t make > sense to have it if we do not have trees of sites Agreed. > Regarding internal homepages. If I keep the browser address > www.hackit.cx then it will be impossible for players to reach other > people’s homebases so hacking them is out of the questions. Yes, that's ok at this stage IMHO - we'll see what we do with homebases in the coming releases, and if we want players to be able to hack it. For the time being, it shouldn't be too much of an issue. > Of course, internally I can detect what session is running and I can > display the correct template to each player (stats, history etc). Yup, perfect. > Also, it’s not clear for me if this page is mandatory to become the > user’s homebase or not. If not, then the user would be able to go to > let’s say www.google.com and hackit and make it its homebase. And then > if players are not allowed to hack each others homebases, > www.google.com would be taken out of the game. Yes, it should be mandatory I think - otherwise players who hack another page first will be confused. The best would be to make the Google bar inactive or hidden until the player has hacked the home base. To handle the cases where the player still manages to go to another page (through a link or by directly going to a given URL), the best would be to tell the player with an info message that he needs to hack his homepage first when he tries to hack/scan, and provide him with a link to it. > I think that a solution for this would be to set that internal > homepage as the user’s homebase by default. The user would not even be > required to hack it, it will just be his and every time he clicks “Go > to homebase” it will be taken to that page. Hacking this page is meant as an introduction to the game - during the playtests I noticed that players look at the content of the page after the first hack to see if anything happened here. Having them hack a page on our own domain allows us to show what we want there afterwards, while also taking things slow for them. > Regarding list of websites: once the sites are flatten, we have to > display the list of websites instead of go to child and go to parent. > Since that requirement has been moved to alpha 1.2 I’m thinking to > display a simpler list of owned websites. They will not be categorized > by tags. The list will look like the present go to child list but it > will hold all websites owned by the user. Sounds good! Thanks Vlad, Xavier. _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
