Sickness and Latest Updates
Hello!
So for the past few days I have had the unfortunate chance of getting a nasty cold, but we have some recent developments.
Oh boy, where to start. On Sunday, the networking was reworked to the point of being able to be called something that is not now a 'prototype' and is actually very close to the real image of what the finalized networking will look like on the server. I hate mentioning the idea of being 'near completion' on any feature and rather report when it is done. I feel safe enough for this though to mention it since I had the client sending messages to the server to see if everything was running smoothly.
Where to next? Well, I still have to fix the information flow for networking. To help you understand I'm going to paint a picture for you. Ready? Alright! Clear your mind and imagine a white room. Now, a slot on one of the walls of the room appear which other says "in" or "out". Mirror that on the opposite side of the room parallel to the wall with the opposite message not written on the specified wall. Make a bunch of these rooms, and then copy the rooms you just copied to create two groups of room connected to each other by the slots. An "in" slot is connected to an "out" slot and items can only travel from an "out" slot to an "in" slot. In each of these rooms is a person who will exchange an item for something else. Say we input candy in one room, we might get out ribbons to pass onto the next room and at the end of the change of exchanging we get out puppies. We'll get more specific with what we are passing around. In the first room, we pass raw materials. In the second room, from the first, we pass refined materials. In the third room, from the second, we pass products. In the fourth room, from the third, we pass packaged products.
How does this relate to the server development? Well, we're currently trying to figure out how to situate these rooms and determine what the end product needs to be. That's hard when there are many things to consider for the future but it's nice because you can fixate more layers onto the model if the specified output does not meet the requirements for what you need.
I realized in writing this I probably confused a bunch of people. Well...crap. Anyway.
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Have a great day guys
- Sini
