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Re: Design Delimma

Sat, 10 April 2004 02:00

Ptolemy

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We don't need the complexity of a relational database - there simply isn't enough stuff to require it. Look at Stars! now in a maxed out testbed and you don't have all that many components. Also, components are grouped based on type (scanners, egines etc.) An indexed array of structures containing the componet variables works fine. A base identifier is assigned to each component family (i.e. 0 = engine and the first entry (0) is the QJ5 engine).

#define Engine 0

now all I need to do is get the array entry for the Fuelmizer (for exapmle) which is engine 3 so I go get array entry 2 for the engine. It's lightning quick and efficient.

The actual initial values for the components can be stored in a separate file initially so that they can be changed and, that file can be loaded at startup - or, they can all be stored in the .ini file. At some point though, they will need to be encoded into the executables as fixed values so that they can't be changed by players.

Ptolemy

[Updated on: Sat, 10 April 2004 02:01]

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		Re: Design Delima By: boneandrew on Mon, 16 June 2003 20:42
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		Re: Design Delima By: John Marasco on Tue, 17 June 2003 20:16
		Re: Design Delima By: LEit on Wed, 18 June 2003 13:09
		Re: Design Delima By: John Marasco on Wed, 18 June 2003 19:57
		Re: Design Delimma By: JeffMC on Thu, 26 June 2003 00:59
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Fri, 26 March 2004 07:07
		Re: Design Delimma By: LEit on Fri, 26 March 2004 13:09
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Fri, 26 March 2004 14:21
		Re: Design Delimma By: multilis on Fri, 09 April 2004 13:42
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:00
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ashlyn on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:07
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:10
		Re: Design Dilemma By: Ashlyn on Sat, 10 April 2004 02:19
		Re: Design Delimma By: multilis on Sat, 10 April 2004 11:15
		Re: Design Dilemma By: overworked on Sat, 10 April 2004 12:41
		Re: Design Dilemma By: multilis on Sat, 10 April 2004 13:38
		Re: Design Dilemma By: Kotk on Sun, 11 April 2004 13:15
		Re: Design Delimma By: LEit on Sun, 11 April 2004 14:57
		Re: Design Delimma By: Kotk on Mon, 12 April 2004 06:29
		Re: Design Delimma By: LEit on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:04
		Re: Design Delimma By: multilis on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:32
		Re: Design Delimma By: Ptolemy on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:49

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