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Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs

Fri, 24 June 2011 21:28

Aeglos

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Yes, this also extends to races. Sorting everything manually by "RaceName/some#" is cumbersome and hard to mantain. Preferably this variable should be as automatic as possible.

The Item base class has a Key property which returns an already formed <Owner/Name> string for use on collections but it's used mostly on the Design Manager for now and that still poses problems. But it's a starting point. Players are also already asigned a number at game creation.

We can either use something like racename+playernumber to identify each empire, or generate a unique empire number and use racename+empirenumber, which I'm leaning towards to in case we want to implement multiple players per empire as Evil suggested. That solves the duplicate race issue I believe.

EmpireData should hold ShipDesignID (0 to 16), StarbaseDesignID (o to 10) and FleetID (0 to 512) counters to use as part of the unique keys for designs and fleets, and to also keep track of the amount of them.

I'd rather not do this myself yet though, as the refactoring I'm doing now is big enough. If someone else does it I'll still merge it ot the branch and update any conflicts that may arise.

EDIT: This also extends to the methods of comparison we are using now. We use Race.Name to check for ownership everywhere, we should change it to the new ID method we choose to apply, as Owner should be a Key ID and not a simple race name.

[Updated on: Fri, 24 June 2011 22:34]

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		Need to move away from using names as IDs By: FurFuznel on Fri, 24 June 2011 20:40
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Fri, 24 June 2011 21:28
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: FurFuznel on Sat, 25 June 2011 06:32
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Sat, 25 June 2011 07:09
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Sat, 25 June 2011 07:10
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Sat, 25 June 2011 07:28
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Sat, 25 June 2011 08:00
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Sat, 25 June 2011 07:17
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Sat, 25 June 2011 18:35
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Sat, 25 June 2011 23:15
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Mon, 27 June 2011 05:51
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Mon, 27 June 2011 05:49
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Mon, 27 June 2011 06:04
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Mon, 27 June 2011 06:18
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Mon, 27 June 2011 07:09
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: FurFuznel on Mon, 27 June 2011 07:22
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: evild00d on Mon, 27 June 2011 13:42
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Tue, 28 June 2011 15:11
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: FurFuznel on Tue, 28 June 2011 15:27
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Tue, 28 June 2011 18:42
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Wed, 29 June 2011 02:06
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: FurFuznel on Wed, 29 June 2011 05:13
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Wed, 29 June 2011 06:10
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Wed, 29 June 2011 06:29
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Wed, 29 June 2011 11:26
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Wed, 29 June 2011 06:54
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Wed, 29 June 2011 16:50
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Wed, 29 June 2011 17:03
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Fri, 01 July 2011 07:56
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Sun, 03 July 2011 09:18
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Sat, 09 July 2011 03:15
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Fri, 01 July 2011 15:15
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Sun, 03 July 2011 08:56
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Sun, 03 July 2011 17:50
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Mon, 04 July 2011 03:25
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Musmuris on Tue, 05 July 2011 17:52
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Wed, 06 July 2011 20:55
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 00:20
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Aeglos on Sat, 09 July 2011 04:06
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Sat, 09 July 2011 04:37
		Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs By: Daniel on Sat, 09 July 2011 07:48

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