CT Only: Another TRAV Website Goes Away

[Easterner9504]

SIGNAL GK: Online Traveller Resource is gone. Loved their CHARGEN

http://www.signalgk.com/ dead link

 

[SpaceBadger]

Rats! This is the reason I often like to copy useful stuff from websites into a PDF to have on my own machine. Unfortunately, I have not done that at Signal GK.

 

[AndreaV]

Try http://web.archive.org/web/20130121122306/http://www.signalgk.com/

 

[aramis]

Try http://web.archive.org/web/20130121122306/http://www.signalgk.com/

Doesn't preserve the code behind the generators.

 

[AndreaV]

Bugger

 

[BeRKA]

I have sent a mail to Swordy and Paul about it.

 

[Vargas]

For such a simple site it was one of my favorites.

 

[BytePro]

Email on site was signalgk@gmail.com.

Looks like the domain registration expired.

Good news is according to the site, it was hosted by downport.com (the domain was also registered to Colin Michael - who runs downport). That bodes well for the code behind still existing.

 

[SpaceBadger]

Which reminds me, I need to "carpe diem" and get over to Pasuuli's Vilani Tools Word Generator to run off some text files of Vilani, Vargr, and Aslan words for future use; one never knows when a resource like this might not be available anymore!

 

[robject]

Which reminds me, I need to "carpe diem" and get over to Pasuuli's Vilani Tools Word Generator to run off some text files of Vilani, Vargr, and Aslan words for future use; one never knows when a resource like this might not be available anymore!

It'll be around as long as I am.

Hmmm, browsing the archives, I see:

The character generator is capable of generating characters using careers from Book 1 and Supplement 4. It is not an interactive tool [...]

Characters are not subjected to enslistment or the draft; instead, they are either assigned a career directly, or randomly.
[...]
Aging crisis is noted in verbose output, but is not handled as discussed in Book 1.
[...]
Characters will currently seek to reenlist up to retirement. If a minimum number of terms is specified, all reenlistment tests will succeed for that many terms. If a maximum number of terms is specified, further reenlistment tests will fail.
When mustering out, the decision to choose between cash or benefits is a coin toss [...]
...

Reasonable assumptions. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[SpaceBadger]

It'll be around as long as I am.

Glad to hear it!

I still went ahead and generated some text files with a few hundred words of various lengths in Vilani, Aslan, and Vargr (Gvegh), just to have handy if needed.

Thanks for putting this word generator online. I'm assuming you followed the published guidelines from JTAS and various Alien books, but where did you get word-generation info for other races such as Ael Yael, Bwap, Ithklur, etc?

 

[Theophilus]

Two things, the link for Sgnal GK on the Stellar Reaches site is back up as of today

http://www.dot-communications.org.uk/234

Jae Campbells site.

Also Paul Drye has given me permission to archive his fanzine Coreward (circa1990-91) anyone want to host?

 

[robject]

Two things, the link for Sgnal GK on the Stellar Reaches site is back up as of today

http://www.dot-communications.org.uk/234

Jae Campbells site.

Also Paul Drye has given me permission to archive his fanzine Coreward (circa1990-91) anyone want to host?

Ask Don McKinney; he might know of someone who might be interested.

 

[BytePro]

Two things, the link for Sgnal GK on the Stellar Reaches site is back up as of today

http://www.dot-communications.org.uk/234

Jae Campbells site.

Good, but unrelated site?

Also Paul Drye has given me permission to archive his fanzine Coreward (circa1990-91) anyone want to host?

You could try Colin Michael - http://www.pemaquidsolutions.com/travellersites.html

He hosts downport.com and numerous free and premium (signalgk was premium I think - custom domain name) Traveller websites.