[extend-a-story-tracker] [ extend-a-story-Feature Requests-3415908 ] Modify Show Back-story Tree

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Feature Requests item #3415908, was opened at 2011-09-30 05:14
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Group: None
Status: Open
>Priority: 6
Private: No
Submitted By: John (jahall1)
>Assigned to: Jeffrey J. Weston (jjweston)
Summary: Modify Show Back-story Tree

Initial Comment:
1. With a story with a lot of episodes, it can take almost for ever to trace out the full back-story. That's because, when it reaches episode 2 it continues with the next thread that backlinks to there, and so on almost ad infinitum. The result is that I normally interrupt the process after a few seconds, which is normally enough to give as much back-story as I need.
2. However the Back-story Tree is of limited use, as it doesn't enable one to easily reread the story thread from the beginning. What would really be nice is sothing like "Display an Entire Chain of the Addventure" as found here: http://www.bearchive.com/~addventure/game1/docs/1.html#stats
Although the BEAddventure is much larger than the NEQ, that seems to work well. (I don't think it tries to follow backlinks.) Of course, Extend-A-Story's architecture is very different, and I don't know how practical this would be.

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>Comment By: Jeffrey J. Weston (jjweston)
Date: 2011-09-30 09:00

Message:
If I understand what you are asking for, and based upon my playing around
with the BE Addventure, you want a single page that contains the text of
every episode leading up to a specified episode by following only the
primary episode links and ignoring back links. Is that correct? If my
understanding is correct, it is practical to implement this feature in
Extend-A-Story.

My preference would be to make this a new page instead of modifying the
back-story tree page. Would that work?

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