Spring RTS Engine

Two suggestions for general discussion:

I think it would be useful to lower the bar for progressing from first to second rank, at currently 5h in-game time, to enable the first->second rank transition to be used as a check by autohosts for "should we tell completely new player info to this guy". I suggest 2h.

Current hours used by uberserver for in-game for rank progression are [5, 15, 30, 100, 300, 1000, 3000]. I suggest adding a new top level, replacing this with [2, 10, 30, 100, 300, 1000, 3000, 10000], which I think better matches the distribution we have. There are already have a few users who reached 10000, and others on the way to joining them (I am not even close...).

afaik there is no bit left for rank no. 8.

You are right. JSON ftw here. It can wait...

Never mind I can't count.

Actually, there are spare bits, only 7/32 bits are currently used, just the rank bits are currently in the middle so adding more rank bits one would want some re-ordering.

It should work to deprecate the current rank bit positions and use up some of the free positions for a new longer set of rank bits (+compat flag). Could be done entirely in the protocol, no change needed to db. Not sure if its worth the trouble.

Silentwings wrote: ↑13 Sep 2018, 18:55 Actually, there are spare bits, only 7/32 bits are currently used, just the rank bits are currently in the middle so adding more rank bits one would want some re-ordering.

It should work to deprecate the current rank bit positions and use up some of the free positions for a new longer set of rank bits (+compat flag). Could be done entirely in the protocol, no change needed to db. Not sure if its worth the trouble.

why not just change to [2, 10, 30, 100, 300, 1000, 3000]?

IMHO its not worth the trouble as clients have to be changed, too.

Seconded

In case it might be useful to adjust rank conditions:

@Silentwings:

what about to count only time from ingame on hosts with botflag?

> "should we tell completely new player info to this guy"

What do you mean by this?

The amount of light green in that chart is highly concerning.

abma wrote:what about to count only time from ingame on hosts with botflag?

I'm not sure about this because some games will display newbie infos for singleplayer mode and others for online multiplayer (e.g. recall past issues with ZKs system when they were using online battles for singleplayer mode).

More generally, for several reasons I think that the status/battlestatus infos used in the protocol have become a bit outdated. I don't know if this gets in the way of lua menus/missions/lobbies, or if instead its best to wait for people making them to ask for changes. Either way, I would rather wait for a some-time revamp before doing anything.