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Re: Orders

Fri, 08 July 2011 05:51

Musmuris

Master Chief Petty Officer

Stars! Nova developer

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Registered: June 2011

I agree if we were designing from scratch we might do it that way. But I think it's a lot work from where we are for a team with not that much time (look how long it's taken to get to this point)

Also one thing with generating orders which tries to keep state in 2 places the same usually runs into problems when something get's missed and the states get out of sync. This is absolute <explitive deleted> nightmare to debug, and I speak from bitter experience. Having a state to say "make it look like this" is then much easier to compare and see where the issues are.

So I'm saying the opposite about maintainablity Wink

That said... having an undo list is attractive. In this case every action that can change the state would do so by creating an "action" on the orders list - such that taking the original state and applying that action leaves you in the new state. Also an action has to know how to UNDO itself, by either crudely caching the entire previous state, or at least know what to change back (e.g. for a waypoint change record the previous waypoints).

This way the client state is always LATEST and can be displayed as it is now, and orders can be undone, redone and sent to the server. There's the added bonus that you can display a list of what a player has done as well this turn.

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		Orders By: Aeglos on Wed, 06 July 2011 23:03
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Thu, 07 July 2011 04:57
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 05:18
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 05:39
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 06:31
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 06:54
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:02
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		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 08:02
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 08:17
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:32
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:14
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:51
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 14:39
		Re: Orders By: evild00d on Thu, 07 July 2011 19:53
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Fri, 08 July 2011 05:51
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Tue, 19 July 2011 05:57
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Wed, 20 July 2011 17:34
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Wed, 20 July 2011 18:43
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Fri, 19 August 2011 16:06
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Fri, 19 August 2011 17:54
		Re: Orders By: Musmuris on Sat, 20 August 2011 04:34
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Sat, 20 August 2011 02:53
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Wed, 22 February 2012 03:12
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Sat, 25 February 2012 00:04
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Sat, 25 February 2012 02:38
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Sat, 25 February 2012 05:46
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Sun, 26 February 2012 20:10
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Tue, 28 February 2012 03:36
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Fri, 27 April 2012 17:21
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Fri, 27 April 2012 18:42
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Sat, 28 April 2012 21:58
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Sun, 29 April 2012 03:59
		Re: Orders By: Aeglos on Sun, 29 April 2012 13:11
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Fri, 11 May 2012 21:41
		Re: Orders By: Daniel on Sat, 12 May 2012 01:09

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