Talk:BF Joust strategies

Strategy Codes
I've started to come up with a system for compactly representing programs in terms of which strategies they use and in which order. I'm going to start adding the codes to the programs in the major programs section if no one objects, after first getting comments on the system. Here's the table of codes, followed by a few example programs.

quintopia_space_hotel: d P C ? d ? D @(! Y )Y( D ) Y ( D ) % &gt; ~ O 2 * 3 \ +

david_werecat_leviathan: d d % D &gt; ~ O 2 \

atehwa_test_blah: 0 ~ R 2

--Quintopia (talk) 07:35, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Spec updated --Quintopia (talk) 18:23, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree that this is a good idea. Although, david_werecat_leviathan should be d d % D &gt; ~ O 2 \  since it tweaks the flag.


 * --David.werecat (talk) 12:35, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Many of the colours are illegible on the wiki's background, but this seems like a good idea in theory. Italics on a (sometimes bold) capital letter seem a bit ugly too; perhaps something like an underline would be better? ehird (talk) 13:58, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Which colors need to be changed? (They all stand out fine on my monitor.) I think the italics is easier to recognize than the underline when applied to a single character, but maybe a strikethru would show up well? Although, strikethru could also be used to negate the meaning of a symbol. i.e. X (foo) could mean that foo only happens when a reverse tripwire doesn't get tripped. OTOH, there's nothing saying it can't mean both things, since it's not exactly ambiguous. --Quintopia (talk) 16:38, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Here's a simple application I made to help with strategy notation management and wikitext previews . The notation set is stored in a tab separated file.   Right clicking on the strategy selection box will give options to add/edit/delete strategies.  It generates the notation set on the first run.  It's most likely pointless, but I was bored.  --David.werecat (talk) 00:17, 11 August 2012 (UTC)