Re: [Arianne-devel] Little refactoring of server and client

[Jo S. <jo....@gm...>]

The description attribute itself is type RPClass.HIDDEN  so it will  
not be sent to the client and will not affect bandwidth by itself.  
Default descriptions ("You see a wooden shield. This is a defense  
item. Stats are (DEF: 10)." are not stored in the attribute, so they  
don't affect Server object memory space or database load. The  
description is sent to the client in response to a "Look" event via  
player.setPrivateText.

So it basically depends on the length of descriptions that are put in  
for the items that clients are currently looking at:

In case nobody looks at any item: Not at all.
In the case that many people keep looking at things at the same time:  
just a little bit.
In the (rarest) case everyone looks at an item that has 64k  
description at the same time: huge ;-)

Regards,
Jo

Am 29.04.2006 um 09:44 schrieb Stephen Ierodiaconou:

> Just one comment, how will this affect server bandwidth usage?
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
> Jo Seiler wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I started to move the way something is described to the server,   
>> making it possible to configure descriptions with the server  
>> content and without the need of releasing a new client version.
>>  So when you look at things instead of
>> "You see a wooden shield. This is a defense item. Stats are (DEF:  
>> 10)."
>> something like
>> "You see shield. It is  made of cheap wood and heavily used.  
>> However, it still seems to offer you some kind of basic protection."
>> would appear.
>>
>> The default text will be the same as it is now, but can be  
>> configured for items and creatures in the xml files.
>> For anything of base type entity it can be changed by overwriting  
>> the (new) games.stendhal.server.entity.Entity.describe() function.
>> That will allow players to set a personal description / profile, too.
>>
>> This will be a bigger update as a lot of files of server and  
>> client will be affected.
>> Any of you guys have any comments on it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jo
>> int...@us...  
>> <mailto:int...@us...>
>>
>>
>>
>
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