Jackolantern wrote:That sounds good!

Which sucks, cause I have to write all the code for the world now....... and the battle system isnt event ready yet XD

the question comes down to then, how to pull off gathering from the world map in a text based game.

Edit: Guess I could make a thing that does a random number to pick the type of resource then what it is if there is any in that location.

So working on a text base MMO. But hitting a small issue, how to allow the players to gather resources for crafting........ 1) Allow purchasing of resources through store 2) Salvage equipment and get one the crafting resources of that item (1/X, and only able to get 50% of that resource back) 3) Mon...

Well, got every thing working.
Damn character selection is being a bit annoying though.

So what I'm trying to do is auto-fill a combo box based on what you have selected in the first dropbox.
I'm using PHP to create my game so ya....

I have no idea where to begin to even try doing this.

All I can really suggest is to debug it and see exactly where the hang-up is happening. It shouldn't really be getting locked-up like that since it doesn't appear to be using threads. But it could be something in the file I/O. Nah, just found the problem the fileStreams werent being closed. So I cl...

It doesn't matter. You can use C# code with VB.NET code quite easily :) anyways I found this just before you posted that Imports System Imports System.IO Imports System.Security Imports System.Security.Cryptography Imports System.Text Public Class File_Crypt Sub EncryptFile(ByVal sInputFilename As ...

Jackolantern wrote:Maybe this could be useful

That is C# not VB though.

Jackolantern wrote:I am not sure how secure SQL-lite is. You may just want to look into encrypting your IO to a flat file.

Any suggestions on to do that?
My encrypting knowledge with vb.net is non-existent

Already using a .txt file save system, but I'm trying to look into a better save method where they can't edit the character files.
So which would you suggest then?
DB = SQL-lite
or
excel