My wishlist

[Wasted]

My wishlist

I was about to develop a UO emulator... But i have no know how and it is very hard to find people able to code a new emu from nothing...

But i had a couple ideas:

- Data Storage
MySQL data storage... this makes data access much faster and safe.
- Any-Language object development
Instead of hardcoding items, chars, events etc, or scripting em, you'd have just to create an interface between the emu and a windll that'd register a class and its events, properties etc. for example, our Dll Extension registers a class passing the classname, classid and a struct containing function pointers to all handlers for our class... hard do understand? You could even develop the extensions as a server/client app, allowing to connect extensions remotelly to the server
- Crash Control
If server crashes, a app restarts it right after backuping all shard data.

 

[Rainman]

I agree. MySQL would be great. And .NET provides easy access to any type of database through the OLE DB provider so its possable.

BUt the biggest problem I would expect to see is loss of ease of use. MySQL cuts out a lot of hobbyists because not many people know how to mess with DBs.

Plus some C# issues are bound to arise. I think binary would be the next best thing. No external programs needed.

I don't agree with the plugin over easier scripting though. Again the biggest problem is ease of use.