KyleMassacre

Im not to sure but I think having an ajax/js system in place might lower the strain while dynamically updating the map. Again, I can be completely wrong. Or another option maybe is to just have the refresh of the map run only when a user acesses the page instrad of having it in some sort of cron or running randomly or whatever. Optimizing your query should also lighten the strain buy just calling out columns required like mysql_query("SELECT x, y FROM users"); And im sure limiting the amount of users that its searching for may help as well by only searching for users online too.

can you maybe show what you did for viewuser and also what you attempted for the index?

Yeah, I concur. Most styled up mainmenus if not all have some sort of list tags at minimum like <li><ul>. Did the person who coded up the template give you anything like the html?

Yeah it looks a little complex but he pretty much dis all the dirty work for you. The only thing it looks like you need to do is just fill in the blanks or the gaps. I have a question though, is this for a particular engine cause if it is and its mccode or you are familiar with mccode it looks kinda like you may be able to use the forum ranking function cause if im reading spuds code right it looks different but I assume its pretty much functions the same

Well I dont see anything that should be showing the username, userid, steps, or anything like that. Most of that stuff is placed in the header and the mainmenu is just a required file in the header. Also, if you have styles like a css file and your header has the css file included or the css is embedded within the header then im assuming you need to <div> up your mainmenu.php cause I see no styles in it

I believe you would need to use an if/else statement cause the only time ive seen switches is for functions

Overall i give it a good thumbs up. Very nice job

It would be pretty sweet if you can edit anything and everything on the player card like maybe add a bg image to it, color, and information displayed

One problem with using $ir['user_level']==2 is its still not the safest way because of the vast amounts of user level hacks. Try using an array and add in the userids into it but this is just a preference and im sure some may disagree.

From what I see there is a bunch wrong with that file try removing all the target=blank, also remove http:// those are not needed at all since you are making a link for your root, and when you echo or print your quotes for your urls CAN NOT be the same as what you are using for the echo or print statement without escaping them and I believe it was illusions who showed that in another today as a matter of fact echo " <a href='yourlink.php'>Link</a>"; Not echo "<a href="yourlink.php">Link</a>"; Here is the help from illusions;  

I myself prefer mac over windows, ive owned several windows based pcs and it seems like I just burn through those real quick. Granted some programs run better on windows or some programs are just better for windows so I run parallels on my mac so I just switch screens "spaces" and bam windows 7

Ahh ok that makes a little more sense

Thanks for shedding some light on this, I always wondered what the differences were myself but never really understood all of things like for and foreach. Is there a time to use for over foreach or vice versa? And I never really understand how to use sprintf and where people get %d or %s or whatever have you

Yeah you should probably post a line or two above the line giving the so called error as most of the time its not that line with that kind of error

I dont think it HAS to be an array but this would seem much safer as you never want to trust user input so I would suggest this way

Well for one its not a script its a plethera of codes. You need to sanitize your inputs and out puts. I myself am no security expert what so ever I pay people to do it for me so if your unsure how there are plenty of people that do. Rumor has it mysql_real_escape_string() works pretty good for some of those things

If your looking for hand me downs instead of searching for them I wouldnt be surprised if your gonna fail. If your gonna "change" them up to suits your needs ots a lot more work than you think since almost everything is geared towards mafia/crime style games. To me your just sounding plain out lazy and if your lazy your not going to change your mods around to fit the style your going after. If you really want to go after something different maybe look at NWE cause you make the game what it is with that engine. There are no presets to it at all really

That is a really nice lookin forum kinda like the real deal ay. Ive been watching your updated and am quite impressed with how things are going. Excellent work there buddy!

I would totally recommend Peter. He made a pretty sick ingame for me and I love it. He kept me posted on everything he did and even put it up online for me to watch the progress as he goes. Im mos def going to add him to my very short list of people to return to for business

I would say it depends on the person. I entered a partnership but I know and trust the guy but there is still always the chance of one of getting our panties in a bunch and breaking up. As far as 50% I dont know about that since its a random, but if he was serious he would gladly take less and work his way up. Just remember your game is a business and you can hire/fire people just like in the real world.

I completely agree here. I have the free version and its a pretty nifty engine you got here and I am hoping Zu releases this tut pretty quick cause I do love to learn about how others work but frankly I cant teach myself I need to be shown how this stuff works. Its like me going to php.net and I hate when people use that here cause its not written in a language in understand :p

It may just be me but I feel that no matter what "retail" engine you use that its pretty difficult for the beginner to novice game developers to get the feel of the engine out of the game and if you can do so fairly easily then why bother purchasing a game engine. I also feel that people need to start cutting the games out there some slack because of this especially with the vast amount of games that I have seen popping up in the couple of years that I have been in text based MMORPGs. And as far as the mods, that is what we come here for whether it be to purchase or ask for help cause I will be the first to admit I can't write a mod from scratch for the life of me so you will see the same ol' mods in almist every game. In a couple of years whats going to be left for someone to come up with that is how you say "new"? The only thing that I feel is going to make a game worth it is a combo of what paul and alain have stated a game needs a good owner that is willing to put effort into it and also its going to need some sort of story to keep the players interested. Myself, ive been developing a new game for quite sometime and it will take me quite a few months to get it to where "I" feel its a little different. Back to what, I stated above about any game engine is that its designed for people that cannot create their own like myself. I can guarantee you that over half this community has purchased a game engine because they can not write it themselves and I can also guarantee that half of those people were you at one point in time. And sorry for rambling on I tend to do that but I hope you guys understand where I am coming from, im just trying to stick up for us little guys no matter how crappy their game is/was/will be because it has the "feel" of the engine. MCC will feel like MCC, NWE will feel like NWE, so on and so forth.

You know I have yet to come across a game that doesnt use 1 of his mods if not more so if al these people are using it then hes got to be doing something right, right? Lets just say something is not up to par, the cost of hus mods can be used as a templating system anyways and 99% of the time the code is very easy to read and navigate around to fix what you want fixed. Now if he were to be selling something for more than he normally charges whether it be $1, $5, or even $10 which is pennies compared to some people selling their stuff then I would expect it to be 110%.bug free.

alright i guess ill put in a ticket but i think it would be better to help over the forums so that other people wouldnt have to bother you for support of a stupid thing like this. then you can work on releasing that V3 ;)

I was not aware that mcc honored the help of converting a v2 mod over to redux?