[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Cool new idea for Civserver

[dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ahhh okay. and ahhhh okay.
My idea was to just have them put into directories... ie game 9999 was 4
players and gen 2 so put it into that folder
civserver.freeciv.org/4players/gen2/....

What your suggesting is that there is a search engine that allows you to
find any prefs of your choice.... that would really rule. As i was
saying... currently civserver is only used to watch games that have
happened... ie... hey tony check out gamexxxx.... With the aid of that it
*could* be used as a help... instead of having to explain everything...
tell them to go watch a few games on the civserver... =)

I would love to help out... unfortunetly I am absolutley shocking at
anything to do with CGI and perl....

Well anyways just a thought.... Darth bob

P.s. Are you saying that the whole civserver is running on a single P166?
ouch... I know the would be an issue of money but it might be time to
think about upgrading that....

p.s.s Are the same ideas going to be applied to the other servers?


> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:27:40AM +1100, dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> wrote:
> > I was thinking about how brilliant the civserver is and I got a really
> > good idea.
> > I have noticed that games have started to be deleted from the top....
> > Would it be possible to begin filing these games....
> > 
> > The Directory structure  could go along the lines of.. 2, 3, 4, .....
> > player games....
> > Gen 1, 2, 3, 4
> > Or the other way round. Is that info stored in the files, I beleive it is,
> > so it wouldn't be that difficult to automate it...
> > 
> > It would make a great reference... and somebody with alot of time *could*
> > go through and analyse some of them =)
> > 
> > Just a thought.... Darth bob
> > 
> > p.s. I really like the Civserver... it is great to go over your games once
> > they are finished... especially after a great victory =)... but why does
> > it take so long to process? thanks
> > 
> 
> Well a few comments here from me ;)
> 
> I am not sure I understand the meaning of your second paragraph above
> so I can't comment on that.
> 
> My goal is to put all of the game information into a database.  Each game
> would be a row and we could store all the other information about the
> game in a seperate field.  This way someone could really over analyse
> the games.  (e.g. "show me all the games with 500 huts on gen 2 with a
> map size over 80x50 that lasted past 1000AD")  However there are a few
> obsticles to this, the biggest one being time.  Reinier Post and I have
> written most of the code that controls civserver, and we are both rather
> busy right now.  We have talked about releasing the code but even doing
> that would require a bit of time.  (If anyone ones to help with it, let
> me know and we can all talk about what best to do.)
> 
> Regarding the speed of civserver, it is slow because its running on
> an old P166.  Also the algorithm to create the information is far from
> optimized.  It would be best to be creating the animated map on the fly
> as the game is being created, then leave the graphs for processing when
> the game has finished.  But a note about the game finishing.  It is
> only done when no one is connected to the game for over 60 seconds.
> Once the game is "over" a cron job comes through and clears out some
> temporary information.  Then later another cronjob comes through (only
> every 15 minutes and at a nice -19 so as not to disturb anyone playing)
> and creates all the graphics.  So thats the long version as to why its
> so slow.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Zastoupil
>