Your challenge with character generator software

[ShawnDriscoll]

Those that have written a character generator program from the core rules, what were some of the challenges you had? And what language did you use to write it in?

I'm asking about software you've written just for your own use.

 

[chrisdw]

I based mine on the original LBB as one of the things listed in the "What Can't I do" section of the Traveller Developers Pack is "Publish software based on the current edition of Traveller" although to be honest I think I started writing the code before Mongoose Traveller came out.

I used Embedded Visual Basic for Pocket PC but that was mainly because I had an iPAQ at the time and the biggest challenges were data entry (once I decided how to represent a career) and coding in the special case exceptions.

These day's I'd probably pick Java and target Android.

 

[JP42]

Were I to do it today, I'd definitely go server-side, maybe the LAMP stack - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or Perl. But that was CT. With MgT, there are a number of decision points that might benefit from some Javascript.

The tedious data entry to get all the tables in place is definitely a concern, but otherwise it's pretty straight-forward decision trees.