[VANILLA-L:709] Re: 2 servers, 1 set of files?

[Alec Habig <habig@mochi.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

James Cameron writes:
> 
> The code currently will overwrite a player stats entry on file if a
> player is using the same name for two ships.  The latest death is
> written to the stats entry.  So if the same name was used on both
> servers, data would be lost.

It's entry/exit rather than death, actually.

This feature has screwed me out of plenty of stats before.  Play for a while,
get GB'd, reconnect with the old slot still hung, hung slots exit, new slot
overwrites DB with zeros :)

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       Alec Habig, Boston University Particle Astrophysics Group
			   habig@budoe.bu.edu
		       http://hep.bu.edu/~habig/

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References:

• [VANILLA-L:707] 2 servers, 1 set of files?
• From: Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>
• [VANILLA-L:708] Re: [VANILLA-L:707] 2 servers, 1 set of files?
• From: James Cameron <cameron@stl.dec.com>

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