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NPCs on Leaderboards

Unread post by jupider » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:48 pm

[Edited due to irrelevance]...radiohead is on the leaderboard for bottle of Acqua Frizzante Giallo champagne consumption. It's my understanding that Dev team members and, presumably, NPCs aren't supposed to be on the leaderboards.
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Re: Records Failing To Update?

Unread post by commandermack » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:22 pm

techniquely i don't think radiohead is a NPC, NPE maybe. IDK, LOL.

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Re: Records Failing To Update?

Unread post by Gobberwart » Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:37 pm

Um... I'm trying to figure out what logic made you add this as a followup to the original topic to be honest... It's nothing like it.

Aaaanyway... fair call. They shouldn't be on the leaderboards. I'll have to do something about that... maybe add a group for NPCs and exclude that group or some such. I'll add it to the bug system.
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Re: NPCs on Leaderboards

Unread post by Cowboy » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:45 am

Just code it so it displays favorite food and drink as those items, but his consumption of them is 0. Like DrWolf had favorite food: Your Mom
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Unread post by Gobberwart » Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:57 pm

I love how non-coders always say "Just..." like it ain't no thang. How about I'm not writing a bunch of special code for individual players like I did with DrWolf because its' a pain in the ass to write and maintain :)

Don't worry, I have a solution and I'll implement it when the time is right for me to do so. It's just not the time for me to drop everything I'm doing and do that right now.
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Re: NPCs on Leaderboards

Unread post by jupider » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:59 pm

I say you write a bunch of special code for me just because.
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Re: NPCs on Leaderboards

Unread post by commandermack » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:20 am

just... just... *twitch*


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Unread post by Cowboy » Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:11 am

Except he's not a player, or normal :P
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Re: NPCs on Leaderboards

Unread post by sodafett » Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:42 am

hmmm.... me thinks that Gobb is starting to wish that a certain word was not invented :P
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Re: NPCs on Leaderboards

Unread post by Gobberwart » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:49 pm

Heh, it amuses me, that's all. Non-coders imagine that, because something applies in one area and it's in some ways a bit similar, that it's really easy to "just" pick up a piece of code and stick it in somewhere else to make it work. With tape or something.

In fact, often these apparently simple changes can be *incredibly* complicated to implement compared with things that look incredibly complicated but which are, in fact, ridiculously easy.

Also, tiny little "tweaks" like this can cause ongoing headaches for years into the future because they break the underlying framework and require complex workarounds specifically designed for them. As in, three years from now, I'll go to do something and it'll be ten lines of code and ten minutes work to implement, plus another five hundred lines of code and four days work because of one silly little tweak I made for something that seemed funny once but really isn't even necessary but that I'm stuck with now.

This has already happened :)
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Re: NPCs on Leaderboards

Unread post by commandermack » Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:09 pm

pfft, JUST let the you from 3-years from now deal with it. :P

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