Ok, here's my idea. I recently did some editing work for a friend's BBS (nightmare is so ruling now, lemme just say that)... anyway, the board is now offsite and all, but he asked me if I would be able to make edits for him later on. I would love to continue adding to the BBS as I've spent months working on it, adding new classes, races, quests, questors, cities, etc... but the server is litterally, in another province. Now, I know he can extract files and what not and send them to me for working on, but it would be awesome if you could intergrate some sort of FTP into NM that would enable users to apply updates to off-site BBS's's's's's's.
Basically, the idea is NM "pings" the BBS, receives the current "stats" of the realm and applies that to the .dats. Then the user makes the edits they way or applies the new map or mod or whatever and maybe clicks... "sync server" and boom... all updates are applied and all is well... any chance? Thanks for the time. Peace.
Remote Edits Idea (WAS: Nightmare Idea...)
Re: Remote Edits Idea (WAS: Nightmare Idea...)
Ok, here's my idea. I recently did some editing work for a friend's BBS (nightmare is so ruling now, lemme just say that)... anyway, the board is now offsite and all, but he asked me if I would be able to make edits for him later on. I would love to continue adding to the BBS as I've spent months working on it, adding new classes, races, quests, questors, cities, etc... but the server is litterally, in another province. Now, I know he can extract files and what not and send them to me for working on, but it would be awesome if you could intergrate some sort of FTP into NM that would enable users to apply updates to off-site BBS's's's's's's.
Basically, the idea is NM "pings" the BBS, receives the current "stats" of the realm and applies that to the .dats. Then the user makes the edits they way or applies the new map or mod or whatever and maybe clicks... "sync server" and boom... all updates are applied and all is well... any chance? Thanks for the time. Peace.
that's not really feasible. taking the ftp/internet stuff out of the picture, the only way i could sync two directories on the same computer is to scan every (non-user interactable) field of every record for consistency and then updating it with either the source or destination. that process would take a very long time. much longer then the update file because the update file doesn't check for differences, it just dumps everything in. add the internet to the picture and you're dealing with connection speed/quality issues as well.
the best way for doing remote edits is to import/export or don't do it remotely at all. get pcAnywhere setup on both machines and then just remote it and do it locally.
Basically, the idea is NM "pings" the BBS, receives the current "stats" of the realm and applies that to the .dats. Then the user makes the edits they way or applies the new map or mod or whatever and maybe clicks... "sync server" and boom... all updates are applied and all is well... any chance? Thanks for the time. Peace.
that's not really feasible. taking the ftp/internet stuff out of the picture, the only way i could sync two directories on the same computer is to scan every (non-user interactable) field of every record for consistency and then updating it with either the source or destination. that process would take a very long time. much longer then the update file because the update file doesn't check for differences, it just dumps everything in. add the internet to the picture and you're dealing with connection speed/quality issues as well.
the best way for doing remote edits is to import/export or don't do it remotely at all. get pcAnywhere setup on both machines and then just remote it and do it locally.
Re: Remote Edits Idea (WAS: Nightmare Idea...)
1. send all the files to the editor in state 1
2. editor in state 1 edits the monsters
3. send monster file to state 2
4. state 2 copy's the monster file into the wg folder
5. state 2 open's nightmare and compiles
6. up the board and test
Future updates shouldn't be an issue sincce both users should have the most up2date files. You could possiblely run into problems if the board is active and things are changing because of play and ur changing them. {piss off users}
don't know if this is what ya needed but its what I use to do it works out pretty nifty. u can even compress with rar or zip if ya like and just pass files between icq aim or something.
pcanywhere and vnc and such thats fine and dandy but the board computer has to be available to be able to do that. As well as who knows what the connection diffrences and chance of lag and the such.
Anyway just my thoughts if this helps great if not no biggie enjoy!
2. editor in state 1 edits the monsters
3. send monster file to state 2
4. state 2 copy's the monster file into the wg folder
5. state 2 open's nightmare and compiles
6. up the board and test
Future updates shouldn't be an issue sincce both users should have the most up2date files. You could possiblely run into problems if the board is active and things are changing because of play and ur changing them. {piss off users}
don't know if this is what ya needed but its what I use to do it works out pretty nifty. u can even compress with rar or zip if ya like and just pass files between icq aim or something.
pcanywhere and vnc and such thats fine and dandy but the board computer has to be available to be able to do that. As well as who knows what the connection diffrences and chance of lag and the such.
Anyway just my thoughts if this helps great if not no biggie enjoy!
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Satan
Re: Remote Edits Idea (WAS: Nightmare Idea...)
was just jerk-off thoughts is all... oh well.
Re: Remote Edits Idea (WAS: Nightmare Idea...)
1. send all the files to the editor in state 1
2. editor in state 1 edits the monsters
3. send monster file to state 2
4. state 2 copy's the monster file into the wg folder
5. state 2 open's nightmare and compiles
6. up the board and test
i would change this to:
1. state 1: send all the files to the editor in state 2
2. state 2: edit the monsters, export only the monsters edited and send them to state 1
3. state 1: import the monsters, compile an update, run an offline-recovery, up the board and test
the reason import/export is better then dumping the whole file in is because for the latter, any user-interactable information from when the export was made will be erased or reverted back. if you import/export, you'll only need to worry about that stuff for the imported records.
2. editor in state 1 edits the monsters
3. send monster file to state 2
4. state 2 copy's the monster file into the wg folder
5. state 2 open's nightmare and compiles
6. up the board and test
i would change this to:
1. state 1: send all the files to the editor in state 2
2. state 2: edit the monsters, export only the monsters edited and send them to state 1
3. state 1: import the monsters, compile an update, run an offline-recovery, up the board and test
the reason import/export is better then dumping the whole file in is because for the latter, any user-interactable information from when the export was made will be erased or reverted back. if you import/export, you'll only need to worry about that stuff for the imported records.