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

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 12 January 2001 21:07, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> 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

Looks ok to me.

-Thue