Thread:Countryxxgalxx007/@comment-44414607-20191207204259

Hello all. I have read, also. :-)

In Annabella's reply on the wiki, she stresses that all CAPS are for emphasis, only. We all need to remember they are just flat words on the screen. There are times we give words intent the writer was not expressing and react too strongly. BluesDriver, I felt you were too quick to jump to negative thoughts and combative. I willingly dove in, to question your argumenative writing, conclusions. I admit that your 'RTFM' fuelled my reaction to the situation. When any one of us makes the choice to hit a post and/or send button it is a very resonable expectation there may be responses. You hit post-I hit post!

BluesDriver, it may surprise you to learn that we do share common ground - searches/sorting/patterns/excel/formulas. Though not professionally schooled, starting in an earlier century[1999!] the majority of my time was spent designing, building, some coding, maintaining, administrating-quite a few public websites. Included were databases that I maintained in excel, built by formulas, searchable by 25+ categories, able to map results by townships within one state. About 8 years of 4 seasonal databases per year[sometimes 30, 000 entries per year]. I can highly sing the praises of Excel and the relational database program Paradox.

You and I feel very strongly that obviously we should be able to sort and search, assign values-within Hidden City! Surely, every one sees that!! Well...we are currently a minority. I believe we should not have a concerted effort to try to force our belief on G5 in the 'wrong' manner-we could end up knowing unanticipated consequences from that entity. I am in agreement with Annabella's example that it has to come more naturally, from the masses-as occurred when G5 moved the Find List to the bottom of the screen. I believe patience is best-perhaps periodic email messages extolling the benefits of the sort/searches in their other games.

Annabella, if left to our own devices, BluesDriver and I probably would have had searchable excel sheets done for the Snowmen-complete with color graphs of Red Hats vs. Purple Hats vs. Red/Black Hats vs. No Hats. Including incidences of occurances expected in defined time frames, etc. Heck, we could have made a grid, graphed locations and auto-generated a main map; then break it down by locations... LOL However!! This is when I have to take that step backwards, think perspective-bigger picture. They are just silly snowmen-a small part of what has become a more demanding wiki with the addition of extensive mini-events and an Upper Level!!

Thank you for all you do, everyone's help and patience-Dee/Veery 