So with more knowlege of the sort of matrix designs I developed one for one of my complicated matrix runs. They are going into an arcology to extract someone, and I want to make it as much work for the hacker as it is for everyone else.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1F_tR039SoTd0tqWC1ta0dzbDg/view?usp=sharing
I’m just going to comment with poor sentence structure, because I dont feel like editing it on my phone:
I think this is great and amazing and organized, and I love it. This is definitely a cool way of doing a matrix run. Like an unraveling sort of labyrinthian sort of thing. This seems like it’s going to be an absolutely grueling mission.
Also, having the options pre-planned can make the description of the matrix less linear, which is cool.
Your all good. Thankfully Microsoft office has a smart shapes tool which allows for an interesting hierarchy system
Very cool
Thanks for this! I just started running a game and as someone with zero knowledge of computer networks, the lack of advice in the book about how to design systems has become a real problem for me.
That’s kind of why I did this. I wasn’t quite grocking it either, so I looked at some of the samples from the development time, and then drew out a larger more complicated run.
Can I ask what you used to make the flowchart?
Microsoft Word. Its a smart charts option and one of them is a pretty solid flowchart style design. It too a little finagling to figure out how to make it work, and it couldn’t do a few things I wanted, but it was easy to work around those things.
Oh man, that is a nice way to handle matrix systems. I did some digging for non-drawing ways to make flowcharts like that and:
Google Sheets has a relatively quick org chart generator – it’s kind of limited, but I do like that you just type a bunch of nodes, identify their parent node, and the Matrix system takes shape before your eyes.
https://www.labnol.org/internet/create-organizational-chart/2935/
As with most Google Sheets stuff, your formatting is very limited.
Another option is Lucidchart. I just spent a minute experimenting with the free version Lucidchart to import so I can do some color/font changes for readability and it worked out ok. It’s a bit more time consuming, but still quicker than hand drawing each node/connection.
You have to import from a csv.
https://www.lucidchart.com/