[CF List] hiscores

[Mark Wedel]

Isak Styf wrote:
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      > Hi,
     
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      > I don't like the way crossfire handles hiscores. Every time you start a
     
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      > game with the same player's name old score is reblaced, by the new one.
     
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      > It doesn't matter, that you were "Player the elf" before, and you ar
     
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      > "Player the human now".
     
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      > IMHO scores of players who quit should stay even if new player with the
     
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      > same name joins.
     
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      And how are you going to tell them apart?
     
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      In my opinion (i havent discovered this before) it should be handled the
     
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      mud way, where you cant have two characters with the same name until
     
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      the first one is purged manually by a "wizard" (that would be the server
     
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      admin in this case) or automatically by some function that (optionally)
     
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      nukes characters that havent been playing for the last x months.
     
     
 A lot of crossfire is keyed in on player names.  For example, player improved
weapons are keyed in on name.  So in theory, a player of the same name could
leave one for the next player (there are still level checks in place). 
Likewise, the save files are done by name.  I can't see any change in the near
future that will allow players of the same name

 It might be possible to better check the name/race/class for uniqueness.

 But preserving all the high scores would probably result in a very large high
score file.