Rhys

seems i popped in at a turbulent time, thats a lot of mod resignations

just read the news, congrats Kaz

thanks for the assistance by the way

@motosubatsu phew, i think my tab would be quite high otherwise

if i remove having to worry about staleness by having a different automated process stay on top of it

@motosubatsu huh, yknow this might perfectly solve my problem

@motosubatsu Would have been a nice way to do it if it didnt have to sometimes go to a third party via an api (when our version is stale)

i could seperate the two, but we never want to be in a situation where someone can run the query portion without the command portion, or that could cost us, way too much money

so its not a query because it modifies, but its not a command because it returns business data

@motosubatsu i basically have a piece of work thats neither pure query or pure command, from a consumers perspective its a query, because it looks data up, but under the hood it also modifies data (long term caching in our db) so that we can avoid being charged too much as we rely on a third party service.

@RichardU that sounds problematic

hows things been lately? anything exciting?

Ran into a weird design issue recently and was hoping i could nick your knowledge :P I'll pester the people over at software engineering instead

@SpartanDonut Done! (Presumed .com)

afternoon all

@Almo oh really? i just happened to pop in on one of the days he was here too then!

also someone who hasnt made a game doesnt know that theyve picked something hard

@trollingchar people want to make the games they like playing. They like playing rpg or mmo so they want to make one. They dont like to play pong so they dont make it

@SpartanDonut Donut!

Here two days in a row! almost unheard of :P hi all

yeah, its got some influence from games like anno (production chains, rising pop) and factorio (production chains). But in this game you dont control the population. the game does, and it changes, and their needs change, so you also have to make something that adapts with it, rather than just (x is always better than y)

its a mathy, spreadsheety type game

with the goal being to get as high a population as possible

its a game about creating complex production chains to build higher tiers of resources to use in other production chains, to fill the needs of a growing population

in vague general terms

thankfully i dont think im doing anything too advanced

gives a bunch of stuff you can use, or can ignore and do yourself

yeah, unity allows you to swap out pretty much anything though if i remember rightly?

toasted something and need to debug

got to quickly do a visual studio update though to get the unity package

good i guess, making some progress, even if small

i forgot how quickly time passes when youre in the unity editor

yeah i made sure of it, would have driven me mad otherwise

i use two at both home and work, makes remoting in to work much easier as everything stays put

i've got to relearn everything i knew about unity as its been so long since i last attempted anything

multiplayer definitely ramps up the difficulty

its definitely increased in scale then!

sounds like you'll enjoy making it though!

yeah the micro transaction games always end up making it harder to play

decided to make the move over to it?

about the game?

are you using unity?

sounds like a good challenge to throw yourself at though

I loved the worms games!

im good thanks, semi working from home, so a bit slow to reply sorry :P

ooh what game are you making?

Hi! how're you

Hey all, time for my annual drop in to see how everyone is doing :P

do you think that would be an ontopic question to ask on this site?

@SimonForsberg That's the view i was taking to it, though i was quite liberal with the word caching, as its essentially just updating the db record with the latest information, and i wasnt sure what side of the 'is or isnt modification' line that that fell