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Re: Need to move away from using names as IDs

Sat, 25 June 2011 07:09

Musmuris

Master Chief Petty Officer

Stars! Nova developer

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Registered: June 2011

We so need to move away from names as keys. However if we're using Empire for players then we no longer need the race as part of the key - that just becomes metadata about the empire. The empire ID is ennough to uniquely identify it.

We should make new composite keys for fleets, designs etc. This should be some form of Empire ID and FleetID, DesignID etc. as the client needs to be able to allocate them as well (e.g. when spliting fleets it needs to make a new FleetID so the current idea of the Server keeping a global ID counter is flawed)

We can either make strings (like "1/1", "1/2") I tend to prefer ints - and use the (e.g) high 8 bits for empire ID and the rest for the counter. This allows for 128 empires with 16 million IDs each. To get the Empire ID just && with 0xFF000000 and the ID && with 0x00FFFFFF. I.e. start numbering Empires at 0x01000000 and go up from there (no need it has to start at 1!)

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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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