[spoon-discuss] Database?

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, I remember what I wanted to ask before I left... I was thinking 
about how Stats would fit into this program I'm writing, and it 
occurred to me that while the program will need to know what players' 
statistics are if it is to be able to determine when a player has moved 
as much as they can, is carrying too much, etc., it would be a real 
pain in the ass to implement things like this "slow spell" Orc mentions 
on the stats page, and it would be especially dumb if Orc were tracking 
it all anyway... given time, I imagine I could teach my program how to 
load Orc's website and figure out the info from there, but that would 
be ugly, inefficient, and would require me to rewrite it every time Orc 
changed the style of the site.

What would make things easier, and what would probably simplify other 
ministries run by programmers, would be if some sort of database were 
set up to store such things, so Orc could make changes and I could 
simply call stuff up from the db...

If other player attributes such as score and BNS were added as well, 
any ministry could easily lookup anything about anyone. We could fairly 
easily have a site that would give anyone all of the information about 
someone, instead of forcing people to go to one site to get stats, one 
site for Force, one site for score and inventory besides gnomes, one 
for gnomes, etc.

Does this seem like a good, beneficial, and feasible idea, or am I just 
running at the mouth?

Given that I'm probably not going to check my bnomic email in the near 
future, and so probably won't see the answer to the above question, why 
am I asking questions in the forum?

--
Wonko
Is very tired, busy, and confused.

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