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I would like to buy a "chunk of cases"
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Huglover
Huglover
Old Shoe

Dec-22-2007 13:24

There are days when I have done all my daily cases, and still want to do more cases. I would like to be able to do that by buying like 200 cases for the same fee that a month subscription cost. The cases would be bought for one sleuth, and can be "withdrawn" whenever I want to, until I have done all the 200 cases.
Yes, I know that it's possible to subscribe more sleuths, and I have done so, but there are also limits to how many sleuths it's interesting to rule. Also, I don't think it's too popular in the Sleuth community to rule too many sleuths.... Especially if you are participating in Treasure Hunting...
If Treasure Hunting or Arch Villain Hunting competitions are a problem, you could always put a limit, saying you are not allowed to withdraw from your "case account" when you or your agency are involved in Treasure Hunting or an Arch Villain League. Also, if some high score list's are a problem, you could be either banned from the high score list as long as you withdraw cases from your "case account", or you could be refused withdrawing cases if you are among the top 10 on a list. (I would personally prefer the banning from the list, and not being able to reappear on the list until you are among the last half of the list)

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Huglover
Huglover
Old Shoe

Dec-24-2007 05:10

No, I am not going to buy Ben and Sunny more servers for Christmas. That would only require to send them enough money, and there would be no need for testing. ;-) (Besides, I don't even imagine I have THAT kind of money... )
What I intended to do was trying to program a front for the server, so that the web server don't have to access the database on Every move you are doing when you solve a case. If this could make the pressure of the database lower, without moving the problem to the memory usage on the server, well, then it's going to be quicker. Ben said that it's especially the updates that eat database capacity.
Obviously I cannot test with the real Sleuth engine, but I need to be able to simulate some of the major tasks that's been done on the server, and also multiple users solving cases at the same time. Also, I need to be able to easily configure where the load goes, so it would be possible to balance the load on the availiable resources.
I don't intend to out-gift someone. I intend to do this both because I am a programmer of heart, to learn something interesting, and to try to easen the frustration I feel when it takes this kind of time solving cases. I need someone wishing me luck, because I am not certain it will work out in practice. ;-)

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