Author Topic: Way off the wall wish  (Read 1080 times)

Offline Babalonian

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Re: Way off the wall wish
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2012, 03:21:56 PM »
I'm impartial to the OP's wish.  However, I would like to see "You shot down X in a Y".... what can I say, as the game gets more popular or furballs furrier, it gets harder to keep track of who was in what, and often times the message comes well after our fatal blow was dealt.
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Offline davidwales

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Re: Way off the wall wish
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2012, 09:22:00 AM »



WHO SAID PRIMATES COULD NOT PLAY VIDEO GAMES!!

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Re: Way off the wall wish
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2012, 10:04:15 PM »
There is a way to do this without increasing server overhead.  When you receive the message that tells you whom you've killed, the server presumably sends a string literal (a series of characters) to your front-end (a very low-cost operation).  These string literals can then be saved to a larger variable or .txt file on the user's front end.  When the user lands, then the front-end queries the .txt file for the information, which the front end displays independent of the server.  That's the most barebones way to do it.  One could add a full GUI, encryption, a rich-text or spreadsheet format; the possibilities are endless.

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