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Need to move away from using names as IDs

Fri, 24 June 2011 20:40

FurFuznel

Lt. Junior Grade

Stars! Nova developer

Messages: 437
Registered: November 2002
Location: New Brunswick, Canada

Good day to all of you!

While working on the ProductionQueue dialogue I ran into bug 3030319 again. This bug is caused by the use of race "Names" and design "Names" as ID codes. As we are going through some major overhauls of the code right now I wanted to bring this up in case anyone has an easy solution to the problem.

I had thought about the possibility of assigning player numbers when the game is first generated and then using those in place of the race "Name" as that would be a unique value. I am not sure if this could be exploitable by players though if they hack their turn orders files.

For designs, it might make more sense to have a simple counter that keeps track of the number of designs created by that player (or Empire as we refer to them now - which I really like). Then the design number could be used to refer to the designs (designIDs). I am not sure how the server could check for valid designIDs though as they would be generated by the player and submitted as part of their orders.

Just some things for people to consider as they go about making huge changes to the code.

I checked in Stars! and I can have two Starbase designs that are both named: "Amazing Starbase". Both designs show up in the queue, and if I build one the other is still available in the queue. Right now in Stars! Nova if I name two Starbase designs with the same name only the second one exists in the Design Manager and only one shows up in the Available Designs list in the production queue.

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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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