Suggestions for PEBoDMyAdmin?

Merve

As you might know, PEBoDMyAdmin is the beaver simulator I'm working on right now. I need suggestions for what features to put into it.

I've already come up with quite a few features. If you want to suggest any, you're welcome; I'll try to include as many as possible. (No beavers will be harmed in the process, with the possible exception of that one over there...)

Moonglobe

hey! that's my beaver you're dissin there bud 😉

well first off, one thing i'd love to see, is that not all beavers are evil. they should all start evil, but over time, if you're noce to them, they get friendly. this would probably involve a lot of last-access data and a cron, but i'm sure you're up to that 😉

another thing would be contests. this does not have to be inherent to the simulator, but can be a seperate project on its own. the ability to make your beavers compete would greatly improve the experience IMHO.

that's all for now...

Merve

What's a cron? I've heard of it, but I don't exactly know what it is.

That contest idea is a great one. Beaver competitions...sounds great: here's me take on it: you pay $10 virtual fake money to get in. There will be a choice between a beaver knowledge quiz, or a beaver obstacle course. The winner gets $1000 virtual fake money, and the runner-up gets $100 virtual fake money.

Thanks for the suggestion, Moonglobe! Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Moonglobe

crontab is a scheduler... you tell it what to do and when to do it, and it does it.

Merve

Originally posted by Moonglobe
crontab is a scheduler... you tell it what to do and when to do it, and it does it.

I'm going to use a heck of a lot of calculations instead...I think. This whole cron thing is a little bit weird...I STFWed and didn't find that much good stuff...could you please show me some tutorial or point me in the right direction or something? that would be real helpful and would give PEBoDMyAdmin a much needed boost.

Thanks for your help Moonglobe!

Moonglobe

i barely know who to use it myself, but my point was, you'll probably need to check at regular intervals for things. like if the beaver starves, goes wild, etc.

Merve

It all depends on how hungry and happy your beaver is. If your beaver is not very happy and extremely hungry chances are he'll go on a rampage. I'll use a lot of calculations instead. I'll keep all the data stored in the MySQL database. I think I could use a cron job to cue a PHP script but I don't want to mess around with anything (I'm on Windows).

drawmack

how about a function to turn the beaver into clothing?

LordShryku

Beaver competitions......like cock fighting?

Windows has native task scheduling too Merve. But I'm thinking this sort o thing should be platform independant

Merve

I'm fully aware of that LordShryku...but it's Windows...too much tweaking leads to crash after crash after crash...

And I want it to be platform independent. I want to make the calculations each time the user logs in. That way the script can be reused on other platforms.

Merve

Originally posted by drawmack
how about a function to turn the beaver into clothing?

drawmack, I'm taking that seriously. If you turn your beaver into clothing, you can make profit. With that profit, you can buy another beaver. But there's a 7 out of 10 chance that the police will catch you and make you pay a hefty fine.

dalecosp

Unix has cron(8). I like it quite a bit....

Windoze has AT and "Scheduled Tasks". Similar, but not the same....

If we wanted we could start a thread on the differences 😃

LordShryku

Oh boy, another war....

cron is better in my opinion. In windoze I have to make batch files to run the php scripts if I want to put them in the Task Scheduler.

drawmack

Originally posted by Merve
drawmack, I'm taking that seriously. If you turn your beaver into clothing, you can make profit. With that profit, you can buy another beaver. But there's a 7 out of 10 chance that the police will catch you and make you pay a hefty fine.

Why would the cops catch you? Haven't you ever heard of beaver coats and hats? They were all the rage in the 1920's

tekky

Originally posted by drawmack
Why would the cops catch you? Haven't you ever heard of beaver coats and hats? They were all the rage in the 1920's

animal cruelty? 😕 😃

drawmack

Originally posted by tekky
animal cruelty? 😕 😃

leather, raw hide, meat, poltury, etc. 😃 😃

Merve

You get arrested for cruelty to animals in this game. If you do get arrested, you have to pay a hefty fine...and yes, you can go in debt. You can also get arrested for letting your beaver go on a rampage (yet another hefty fine, yet no jail time).

drawmack

how about two functions

1) makes someone else beaver into clothing
2) frames them for it

Merve

Originally posted by drawmack
how about two functions

1) makes someone else beaver into clothing
2) frames them for it

I was hoping for some serious suggestions, but meh, it's the EL 😃

drawmack

genocide - kills everyone's beaver