Custom Character Data

[Drajor]

Originally Posted by Akkadius

He's not getting blasted, I've built plugins on the Qglobal system to do this exact thing and trust me it makes much more sense to use the qglobal system to store and get values like this for players because they become completely static in memory until they are called to change.

So for example, let's say you want to have the play check their credits for whatever, they're lagging out or just being assholes and they hail the NPC many times.

Hail, NPC - DB Select
Hail, NPC - DB Select
Hail, NPC - DB Select
Hail, NPC - DB Select
Hail, NPC - DB Select
Hail, NPC - DB Select
Hail, NPC - DB Select
Hail, NPC - DB Select

So for each of those NPC hails you're telling me it makes more sense to hit the DB rather than having their balance stored into memory?

No one is trying to 'blast' him, it just doesn't make sense to use when there is already a better system out there for it.

I would like to know what is not suitable in qglobals that this is trying to replace. Plus, this system that is proposed only allows for one type of virtual 'value' that can be used for only one thing.

I am not entirely sure about this - If you see Parser::Event (parser.cpp) you will notice that any NPC that has qtglobals enabled, the database is hit each time.