#development is hard

When I started this, I thought this was going to be easy: just improve the timers so that if a user refreshes the browser or reconnects to the game, the gathering action doesn't drop. What I failed to understand is that I still have no clue how to use Redis or Sockets.

After several days of wrangling with this thing, I somehow managed to figure out what seems to be a somewhat robust (and working!) solution.

I also ended up finding (and addressing) several more issues with my original gathering POC.

I made sure that all gathering logic is centralized on the back-end, eliminating front-end trust, which should help protect against cheating and exploits.

I also did what I naively set out to accomplish: Front-end UI now actually restores the visual status of ongoing gathers after reconnects or refreshes.

This was an absolute pain in the ass, and I hated every minute of it.

Now onto the next challenge that will make me crippled with self-doubt and question my ability to use my brain.

An accurate depiction of me trying to figure out Redis, Sockets and NodeJS:

I also get amazingly envious when they share a selfie and I think they're pretty (I think everyone is pretty tbh, but that's not the point of this.)

You're talented/skilled AND pretty? Augh. How unfair of life is this?

Hey Guys.  I've had a lot of ideas for development of my OCs over the last few weeks, but I don't feel like i'm getting anywhere.

I'd like to ask a favour from anyone.  If you have anything, any little thing that you want to know about any of my OCs i'll answer it.  Just drop me an ask with a question, or even any hints you guys can give on development.