GranDeWun

GranDeWun

Wilds Pathfinder

Joined
May 2005

Recent Posts

Jun 19, 2007 at 4:27 PM Elite Skills Capture Question

PvE characters only have elite skills they capture themselves, except that they can use a TOME to learn a skill if it has already been unlocked by...

Jun 19, 2007 at 3:52 PM A few questions regarding Nightfall

1. No. And there is a quest to get to Elona from Lion's Arch. 2. Yes. But Characters do not get skills just because Heros have them. 3. Hero...

Jun 15, 2007 at 1:26 PM Does anyone even bother "questing" anymore?

I'd like an ability to buy skills for more skill points but less money. I have a ton of extra skill points I'll never be able use, but...

Jun 14, 2007 at 7:46 PM Thoughts on database management in MMORPGs such as Guild Wars

You could do it by adding 2 bits to the stored BLOB to represent a 'campaign shift', which would allow you to say appearance is a function...

Jun 14, 2007 at 3:47 PM Thoughts on database management in MMORPGs such as Guild Wars

My other question would be to what extent stored procedures are used, which in my experience make all the difference in performance. To illustrate...

Jun 14, 2007 at 3:20 PM Thoughts on database management in MMORPGs such as Guild Wars

As to other games, I'm pretty sure the EVE developers have a fully relational database, IIRC the discussions on that forum. Maybe data...

Jun 14, 2007 at 2:34 PM Thoughts on database management in MMORPGs such as Guild Wars

I've worked on a trading system that stored its results as BLOBS, and reporting was a total nightmare. Every report was a program that had to...

Jun 13, 2007 at 7:06 PM Characters Item

False. I throw them away all the time. But you cannot salvage or sell them.

Jun 11, 2007 at 2:41 PM In depth look at Auction House feasibility

After reading the database notes in the other thread, it is fairly obvious why an auction house won't happen in GW, despite the fact that...

Jun 11, 2007 at 2:08 PM Interview with Mike O'Brien and Pat Wyatt

"Everything about a character is one big BLOB (Binary Large OBject), typically 10K-30K in size. (One component is the whole game map, or at...

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