[Opengate-devel] GUI

[Gary L. <Ult...@gm...>]

Daniel Scheibe schrieb:
 > If you want to make this stuff over the Meta Server you loose much cpu=

 > time for the webserver daemon, the php execution with the php and the
 > sql query.
 >
 > Every Item which a Player buy, mine or sell, every money transaction a=
ll
 > the things have to send to an server, do you really want to do this
 > stuff over http?

Well the meta server must be part of every transaction. If it is not, pla=
yers could write a very simple=20
game server which just sends the new credit balance to the meta server, s=
omthing like "Client #0815 had=20
2000 credits before and made some market transactions. Now he has 9999999=
99 credits. The meta server=20
would have to accept that. We would open a door and welcome cheater. Once=
 there are a few billion=20
credits in the game they will be given to other players and soon commodit=
ies and ships won't be anything=20
worth anymore because people have way to much money. All we could do is d=
elete all accounts and let=20
everyone register again.

 > Client buy something and have to send the buy offer to the meta server=
,
 > meta server have to check price and amount and the cargo space from th=
e
 > player and buy for the Client.
 >
 > Client ask after the Result. Did I buy something? Did I have less mone=
y
 > now?

The last step is not necessary. The meta server could either return these=
 information right when the=20
client sends the buy order or could simply respond with an "ok". which me=
ans "Yes sir, i executed your=20
command. But please do the calculations yourself and update the UI! :-p"

 > Player Trade
 > Client want to trade with another client.
 > client sends data to the meta server
 > How did the other client know about the trade? Meta Server didn=C2=B4t=
 send
 > anything to client, how the Trade can be complete? With an Timer?
 > Both Client send the offer to Meta Server but Meta Server can=C2=B4t s=
end the
 > trade back to the clients.

Um I am no coder. But you would need to let the client which starts the t=
rade message the other client=20
which is also part of the trade. And one of thouse 2 clients could inform=
 the meta after the trade is=20
successful.

 > Isn=C2=B4t it much easier to have an self coded Server for all this Ne=
twork
 > Stuff?
 >
 > You can send stuff from php with the php socket (I code a small
 > Chatwebserver in PHP and a tcp client for a simple telnet script for a=

 > teamspeak status script) but why anyone could use this when he able to=

 > code an pure c++ server and client for all this things? It need to muc=
h
 > cpu time and memory when you do it over the apache daemon which you do=
n
 > =C2=B4t need when you code this stuff in pure c++.

Of course a pure c++ meta server would have speed benefits. But speed is =
not everything. I thought I=20
wrote it in some other mails before, umm maybe I only talked with Tim abo=
ut it. The 2 benefits of an php=20
meta server are:

1.) low costs (we don't have money to spent so we can't hire expensive se=
rvers)
2.) easy intergration for the website opacma (the game data is already av=
ailable on the right server and=20
the right format)

Regards,
Gary