[VANILLA-L:1389] Re: [VANILLA-L:1379] Re: [VANILLA-L:1376] Re: Notes on INL Robot

[Tom Holub <doosh@best.com>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 06:38:43PM -0500, Dave Ahn wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:23:03AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks Jeff.  Any idea how to prevent a pickup server's stats database
> > from being hosed by someone calling in the INL robot?  I probably didn't
> > remember to point out that issue to you before, sorry.  ;-}
> 
> The global and (logged in) player stats can be saved to the INL robot when
> the game starts.  When it the game finishes, the robot can calculate the
> difference and use those to spit out the tourney stats, then restore the
> player and globals to their original state.  The downside to this is that
> the robot itself must serve as a player DB to preserve the stats across
> ghostbusts or player switching.  The other potential problem is that
> if the robot ever dies, all stats [not recoverable from the logs] are lost.

Why not just have a .inlplayers?
 -Tom
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