So your telling me my army carries over online?...

[Eberwolf]

Originally Posted by Ryan Zelazny

The space it would take up is very minimal, one persons file would be under 2 Kb.

Lol, fear my 2 kb Army! Destroyer of realms!

[Joseph Visscher]

Originally Posted by The Witch King of Angmar

I have a question, say your playing against noobs and have the game in the bag, could you just sit there and build up a huge army for the next game or will there be some kind of limit?

Thanks

I believe if you have a biger army you will most likely be matched with someone with a army in simular size and rank, your rank and your army will be counted together to get a match with someone with simular skill/rank or and or assets.

and example of this:
lets say you are a noob, really low rank, but have a massive army, there's a possiblity you could be matched with someone with the same thing, low rank big army, or, a medium rank and a medium sized army, or a much higher rank/skilled player, with a small army.
All caluated to try to keep the balance between players and their army size and skill/rank.

Not fully sure about this, Ryan or Kon will have to confim.

[antpocas]

Originally Posted by †TYRANICK†™

True...but a relational database isn't really needed, a flat file will do fine for a good while.

I have several projects with 50000+ lines of code in them, they only come to to about 200 KB's...you would have to buy 100's or 1000's of things and play even more games till it would become a hassle.

Which is why I suggested a column-oriented database instead of a RDMBS, which is just overkill. A database would probably make it easier on the server to compare armies, check player rankings etc.

[The Witch King of Angmar]

Originally Posted by Joseph Visscher

I believe if you have a biger army you will most likely be matched with someone with a army in simular size and rank, your rank and your army will be counted together to get a match with someone with simular skill/rank or and or assets.

and example of this:
lets say you are a noob, really low rank, but have a massive army, there's a possiblity you could be matched with someone with the same thing, low rank big army, or, a medium rank and a medium sized army, or a much higher rank/skilled player, with a small army.
All caluated to try to keep the balance between players and their army size and skill/rank.

Not fully sure about this, Ryan or Kon will have to confim.

Wow, that sounds amazing. Thanks for the answer.

[Puppeteer]

Me like all this stuff! Sounds... revolutionary!