Holy Moley - a real life update, since "how long does it take?" is a popular question for people just getting in. I've been working on my game for just about 18 months. I've written a ton of code, have a good database layout, a thoughtful redis cache, threejs, socket.io, nodejs as the main...

All of that is true, and starting as a solo player is tough unless you bypass some of the "working phase" and buy some plex to get a financial leg up. And of course find a "good corp". But so many corps get pulled into alliances, or they become evil ganking corps since there is n...

Financial liability isn't always removed with an LLC. Google "piercing the veil". Estimated taxes need to filed and paid quarterly, whether it is $0 or more. I guess you can legitimatize more write-offs: office space computers, some travel, etc; but you can do that as a DBA as well, if you...

Oh, no... That is what I was afraid of. Unless it will only be a matter of setting up the sessions in socket.io, instead of http/express/redis. Socket.io is like a dark area to me right now, and I don't know how much I'll need to replace. I do some things with jquery and getjson. Is that all void no...

I enjoy the ambiance of the game, but it does eat your life away. Also the thrill of never being safe makes it fun. I could do without the large alliance territory game though. I enjoy the game. If I was unemployed I'd play it all the time.

Or I think. I got node setup for login, character selection and pretty decent start for how I want the session data to look. I got three.js going with my "gameboard" and game objects - everything coming from the database. I actually did a refactor as well during this step, since I kind of ...

Lacking PHP, I cobbled this together once in an excel cell function on an unused column: ="insert into items_122812 values('" &A203 &"','" &B203 &"','" &C203 &"','" &D203 &"','" &E203 &"','" &F203...

Thanks for all the insight from everyone. Prior to your post (Jackolantern), I've been thinking about this with the opinions thus far. I guess I'm not looking at it from a PBBG point of view. If I succeed, my product would function a lot like EVE, Earth and Beyond and the like; although the actual t...

Jackolantern wrote:The "all-in-one-pot" style of having PHP, HTML, and SQL all mixed together just doesn't cut it for me anymore.

Just for the record, I'm certainly not advocating an "all in one pot approach", and I don't want my reply to come across that way.

I've never found the benefits of a PHP framework very useful, even in a large application. This is just my opinion based on my own experience and workflow, and the fact that I've also never began a project from scratch with a framework; so take it with a grain of salt. I really don't use IDEs either...