Would you like an ID based player registering ?
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Would you like an ID based player registering ?
I dont think there has been a poll about this yet, so lets bring an answer to this feature that has been discussed over and over again. What do YOU think ?
And for those of you that don't know what this is about, read this for instance: http://taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6645
Benefits of ID based player registering:
-keep track of players
-stats
-dramatically reducing general lameiness
And for those of you that don't know what this is about, read this for instance: http://taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6645
Benefits of ID based player registering:
-keep track of players
-stats
-dramatically reducing general lameiness
- SwiftSpear
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So you are saying that this is something that is commonly agreed as something that should be done, the question is whos' going to do it ?SwiftSpear wrote:...this really didn't need to be a poll either
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- clericvash
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If you look at pretty much any database made by anyone who has sense you have the first field as a unique id number.SwiftSpear wrote:It's actually really really common databasing practice to assign every entry a unique ID. I'm a bit surprised betalord didn't do it right away...
I can't beleive he won't implement it. It really isn't hard.
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Woah, he never said he wouldn't implement it, he hasn't stated what he's going to do about it at this point, AFAIK he may already be working on it. It really isn't an incredibly easy change at this point though because he'd have to reID every already registered member, possible but somewhat complicated. Also the current system is fairly hardcoded to user name identities, I'm not sure how much modification would be needed to ease that up.clericvash wrote:If you look at pretty much any database made by anyone who has sense you have the first field as a unique id number.SwiftSpear wrote:It's actually really really common databasing practice to assign every entry a unique ID. I'm a bit surprised betalord didn't do it right away...
I can't beleive he won't implement it. It really isn't hard.
I actually did it, it was there at the beginning but then I removed it later because of "common databasing practice" as you say, which say you shouldn't have duplicate unique identifiers.SwiftSpear wrote:It's actually really really common databasing practice to assign every entry a unique ID. I'm a bit surprised betalord didn't do it right away...
That was before it was possible to rename accounts, so the situation is different now and I was planning on adding additional identifier (I didn't consider it high priority though), not sure if ID, perhaps account name (plus nickname, which would be separate and changable).