RE: [VANILLA-LIST:2319] LTD stats

["Steve Sheldon" <sheldon@visi.com>]

I think that makes sense to do.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Ahn [mailto:ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 1:48 PM
> To: vanilla-list@us.netrek.org
> Subject: Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2319] LTD stats
> 
> 
> While some of the ideas you proposed could probably work, I 
> think that they
> would have added complications.  For example, prefixing or 
> suffixing the
> player name with race/pno would require that the race/pno be 
> known before
> the player login.  And it does/could break anything that 
> access p->p_name.
> 
> After thinking about it for a bit, I've decided to group the 
> LTD stats per
> race.  While this does increase the player DB size by ~5x 
> (including Indi),
> it shouldn't matter for INL games.  This would allow the same 
> player to
> use the same stat slots if he busts and returns but keep a 
> separate group
> of stats if he switches teams.  This could also be used later on to
> statistically evaluate race strengths and weaknesses.  And, this would
> give me the motivation to fix the tick zone stats (which requires race
> info).  While player stats won't be further divided into slots (e.g.
> Fc vs Fb), I don't think that this is a good idea anyway.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Dave
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