re: suggestion of Host floor tiles on game site

[Amalea]

I haven't had a problem getting into photobucket and downloading any of my images. And most designers keep a local copy.

[Roderic]

If said designers are around....the person who did lizs garden has not been for years

[Amalea]

Serious question because now I'm genuinely curious - do people not download copies of their lairs and just rely on a hosted copy?

[Roderic]

Serious answer: some of us have gone through 2 computers since attaining these designs-one was stolen while was abroad and one just stopped working unexpectedly. So no, I, in this case did not when I just got my new computer a few months ago.

[Mooncalf]

I can save you a bit of time with the debates, because this is what I was planning, but without charging people a monthly fee.

My reasoning is that having each individual floor tile have URL is making the database stupidly large, and as the game must check the maps table extremely often, that is largely what is causing the lag in movement. The maps table would be much smaller and more efficient if the image reference wasn't a long url, but instead the images were simply named after the square ID number. So that's how I'm going to make it as soon as I can.

As far as bandwidth goes, it shouldn't be a problem. The images are small, the server handles bandwidth demands better than it handles an excess of SQL queries.

[Azraeth]

Well that sounds amazing. Possibly faster grid movement AND hosted images. =D Thanks David!

[Pi dArtois]

Serious answer: some of us have gone through 2 computers since attaining these designs-one was stolen while was abroad and one just stopped working unexpectedly. So no, I, in this case did not when I just got my new computer a few months ago.

This is me. I'm two laptops and now on a high spec desktop since the tiles for the sanctuary (and other locations) were created.

Thanks for the clarity David. Sounds awesome. Do you know about how long it will be? For convenience I might just leave the tiles on PB and pay if the suggested solution has a quick-ish turn around. This new incarnation of PB is annoying to try get the tiles downloaded from.

[Mooncalf]

Serious answer: some of us have gone through 2 computers since attaining these designs-one was stolen while was abroad and one just stopped working unexpectedly. So no, I, in this case did not when I just got my new computer a few months ago.

This is me. I'm two laptops and now on a high spec desktop since the tiles for the sanctuary (and other locations) were created.

Thanks for the clarity David. Sounds awesome. Do you know about how long it will be? For convenience I might just leave the tiles on PB and pay if the suggested solution has a quick-ish turn around. This new incarnation of PB is annoying to try get the tiles downloaded from.

I want to get it done within the next couple of weeks, really. Grid lag bugs the hell out of me, and making everything run more smoothly is a big priority for me as far as getting Path back on track goes.

[Alexandrea]

Serious answer: some of us have gone through 2 computers since attaining these designs-one was stolen while was abroad and one just stopped working unexpectedly. So no, I, in this case did not when I just got my new computer a few months ago.

This is me. I'm two laptops and now on a high spec desktop since the tiles for the sanctuary (and other locations) were created.

Thanks for the clarity David. Sounds awesome. Do you know about how long it will be? For convenience I might just leave the tiles on PB and pay if the suggested solution has a quick-ish turn around. This new incarnation of PB is annoying to try get the tiles downloaded from.

Same here.
In fact, I lost *everything* I had physically and online once over ten years ago when I was 'outdoors' for about a year. I had used my yahoo/geocities account to store all my photos, addresses, and the results of by adoptee search plus loads of other things.

But sadly, thanks to the help of another player back at RB, that all was lost as well when false reports of abuse got my entire Yahoo account deleted. So I really DID lose 'everything'. I was seriously depressed for a long time. Still makes me sad. Photos that I'll never get back and the information about my family I never got to know especially.

Now I back up everything into gdrive, 2 thumbdrives and the cloud! Overkill? Never heard of it!

[Roderic]

I feel you. When my computer was stolen, I lost so many self made lesson plans, and papers that would be crucial to my professional development plan. I was like you.

Anyways, thank you David. I'm not really ahh, familiar with what you're saying...and someone else also wanted to know...how does this work? Essentially just taking things from our computer and uploading them without going through one of these other sites, or?

#notcomputersavvy