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Why could you just use a system like the one Games Designer Workshop used to describe ships in Traveller? Anyone remember:

CF- P 4 5 2 5 F 3 - 5 9 6 5 0 0 - 9 9 N 0 9 - 80

You tell me this now?

yeah,
I like it!,
It's kinda ego bashing to build though!? you sorta keep thinking your adding in to many +++
the year I started was kinda difficult to pin down... I think I worked it out close enough though...
My WD# was hard to guestimate too because for a while I bought back issues... before the great clear out when i got rid of them all... :(
PAnic...

Added my login rather than the mysterious Dr Clint.

Hmmm...

Most of my scenery is hand made, but not to any great standard. I've always loved making Orcy huts, barricade and forts out of wood scraps, and I think they look great, but they rarely get painted. The only 'bought' scenery I own are some gothic Ruins from the 3rd ed starter and Space Wolf battleforce, some time ago. Otherwise, FLGS and GWs have good enough scenery that I don't have to supply my own.

I'm going to put down a B++ because it's probably the only ++ I can justify. EDIT: so much for that

Sometimes I play regularly, most of the time I don't. WHFB has always been my game of choice but not so many people play it where I live at the moment, much bigger 40K scene. (I'm just making comments as I put the code together)

I spent a lot of time on DakkaDakka in 1999-2000, during lunchtime at highschool, so I've known the site almost as long as ol' yakface. I vaguely remember a fanfiction piece accompanied by photos that had something to do with Tyranids, IG and a barbeque. Perhaps I'm just hallucinating. Hadn't been on in a good few years before I became a member this year, though... so I'll dare to give myself a triple-plus, and anyone can feel free to flame me over it.

Just noted 'Tyranid picnic' in the Dakka history topic. Guess I wasn't hallucinating after all. I remembered the orks too, but I wasn't sure enough to mention it, in case I was completely wrong. I think I deserve DM+++. Finished, btw.

DR: 80S+G+M+B++I+Pwhfb96£+/-D++A++/hmsWD246R++T(S)DM+++.

Great article!

Two suggestions on the table.

1. Include a guide to link to the article.

2. Do I need to have the beginning and ending of dakka geek code after.

Arctik: Thanks for posting. I do like seeing the reasoning behind
people's dakka codes. Very insightful.

I am just relieved myself that my awesome terrain I make helps to alleviate the social stigma associated with cardboard boxes full of unpainted Eldar.

I believe it's a great idea

Testing HTML Code for each entry

=====Begin Dakka Geek Code=====
DR 80 S+ G- M++ B++ I+ Pwhfb 05 #+ D+ A+ /s WD- R+++ T(B) DM+
======End Dakka Geek Code======

=====Begin Dakka Geek Code=====
DR 80 S+ G- M++ B++ I+ Pwhfb 05 #+ D+ A+ /s WD- R+++ T(B) DM+
======End Dakka Geek Code======

You might want to remove line breaks. Cool, though!

mmh, seems the forum doesn't allow "Title" code inside the link.
=(

it a little popup title when you hover over each factor
Took a time to complete it but it's worth.

Dont worry about it, I am going to add automatic parsing of dakka code with a detailed popup at some point in the future anyway.

legoburner wrote:Dont worry about it, I am going to add automatic parsing of dakka code with a detailed popup at some point in the future anyway.

Lego just did this. In order for it to work you have to remove the space after the first colon.

good work guys

How do you use this code?
Is it it this [code]?

There are no tags, just type it out and as long as you do your personal code correctly it will automatically work here on dakka.

I put it in my sig, but it still won't work. Is there something I'm missing?

You cant miss anything out or it wont work (age and maturity is missing).

How does the age work? Do I just do 80S for 1980's, or 90S for 1990's?

just the number, the S is part of the next attribute (Skill)

Ahhhh... there we go.

Great Stuff.

I look forward to updating my own code once I've improved.