Very neat and tidy! Thanks Jackolantern!

I wasn't aware of that, so cheers for the heads up! Previously I've mostly worked on single player games, so I'm not used to think in the 'online all the time' dimension.

Oh, how does it work? Kinda of like 'x = time()'?

Ah, that's what crons are! Thanks guys! Heh, with world of warcraft I used to think of rested XP slowly ticking away while I was offline...until I thought as if, they'd just calculate it when I logged in...all that rested XP would actually poof into existance at log in. It just feels like builds up ...

I don't know anything about crons, but from the tutorial videos so far it seems to hint that instead of working upon the monster database directly, latter videos will show the use of crons. But do you need them? Could you just pull the data from the database and store them into...gah, the word escap...

You guys miss the fun of them? I personally haven't played a pen and paper rpg in quite some time. I played for 18 years then moved somewhere where no one plays :( I miss the fun of making new campaigns, exploring dungeons, building a character you feel personalized with, and being a part of what i...

Have you ever checked out the pen and paper game ' universalis '? Gameplay is about making the world and it's parts/peoples, rather than gameplay being just about playing it's peoples/playing characters. I think if the projects about a realistic or plausible world, if people have had a hand in craft...

I wouldn't just say to practice...I mean, practice toward what? If you've no clear idea of what, you'd be practicing toward something random. Or if it's practice toward something 'good', well, who's idea of good? If you make a game that's someone elses idea of good, well, you haven't made your own g...