[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Player Ranking on Civserver.freeciv.org

[Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:37:38AM -0800, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> No one wanted to respond to my emails regarding player ranking on
> civserver.freeciv.org, and I was running out of time.  We bought a
> house, and when I move, I will have no time.  So, I went a head and
> just created a system.  There are quite a few things that still need
> work, but its working, which was my first goal.  Now we have something
> to tune.
> 
> http://civserver.freeciv.org
> 
> I hacked gamelog.c with the patch I posted to the list, but I am thinking
> of adding a line after the current one to the gamelog, would this be ok?
> 
> We will want some sort of player authentication soon to make this a
> real system.  Perhaps we could mark 'authenticated' users on this line
> I mentioned above.
> 
> There is a problem if someone pics a name that has 'seperator'
> characters in it. e.g. someone played as ':)' and they got entered as a
> blank entry.   There are probably many more problems too, but its a
> good start.

Ok here is a different patch that doesn't touch the old gamelog line
but does add one at gamelog 17 (that was the closest free number before
20 which is what we use on civserver.)

You can see I called it GAMELOG_RANK

This will make ranking easy and not affect the old line

-- 
Paul Zastoupil

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