Robin

I highly suggest not doing anything like that at all. Remote querying is delayed and unthreaded. This will make your server perform like me trying to drive with a broken ankle. It'll be like a rabbit staggering along every so often. Either learn how to do background tasks in VB6 or do what I did and create an authentication server.

@Whack: > Robin, if both of these ways are 'bad', then stop telling us this and tell us what we should do instead. Just going around saying **this and that are horrible ways of coding** doesn't ducking help. Then you suck at learning. I know for a fact that pointing out that a certain practise is bad pushes people who are willing to learn to read up on better ways of doing things. If you honestly can't find another way of doing something without me explicitly explaining it to you in great detail then you're not cut out for this in the first place.

@Bothi: > If you need free software, http://www.gimp.org/ is the way to go. The GIMP is dire for interface design. You want a vector-based editor.

@Jungle: > If I was a girl like you I'd hit on Robin and compliment him even though I wouldnt find him attractive. Then I'd slowly work my way up to gain his trust and ban him the second I got admin powers (which I predict would be a few weeks if I get a hot girl pic). Then I'd have full reign over all the 12 year olds and make them do my bidding. Soon after I would work my way up to an internet celebrity and take Robin's job at the NHS. Then I could sabotage the Brits and make them all have terrible health records, meanwhile I would persuade them that I was actually the good guy. I'd be rich, powerful, and have armies of 12 year olds to help me conquer all of Europe, Asia, and possibly the Americas. As the 12 year olds grew older I would start a mass murder of innocent Jews. > > Or you could just keep fantasizing over gay anime sex with Robin. You just narrated my life, bro.

@DarkScythe57: > i don't mind making a gui, but i need a software. Do you know any? Yes. Why can't you simply search for it, though? [https://www.google.co.uk/](https://www.google.co.uk/)

@DarkScythe57: > We cannot make one ourselves because we are 10 years old. What makes it so you can't do something at 10 years old?

@S.J.R.: > As far as I know EO, and therefore CS:DE, doesn't support Unicode. Which means you can't use the Hiragana, Katakana or Kanji character sets, even if you have the fonts. Crystalshire uses bitmap fonts. It supports whatever you program it to support.

@Starblazer: > Well, MySQL is easily accessed in VB 6 using ODBC. Visual Studio 6 (VB6 EE) (That I use) has many DB elements you can put on a form. So it doesn't really matter if EO supports MySQL because Visual Basic 6 does.. We never said otherwise. We're talking about how people are claiming SQL should be used because of speed when my flat-file binary system is superior. SQL has its place. I use it for centralising accounts between many different products. Claiming it's the end-all solution to all storage situations, however, is plain ignorant.

@DarkScythe57: > Is there a way you can add your server to your website? Just like how Robin did for Crystal Shire. You answered your own question there.

@Zarkaus: > how is it with html sites? or is it only php? 

@CGdfc: > Old version? Should be pretty damn obvious. I'd help you, but even in that shitty screenshot you uploaded and I can see a custom tile edit of mine. This means you ignored the fact that I purposefully released CS:DE with no stock graphics set and simply copied and pasted the Crystalshire's data folder. That shit isn't cool, bro. Have fun fixing it yourself.

@S.J.R.: > That depends on your company's statue, really. I actually do purchase and pay the full price for the majority of games I like. Even though, the majority of those games doesn't have native Linux support. There are three kind of users though: people who swear by GNU-software, and therefore by free software; people who torrent everything they like; people who actually buy software they like (and eventually try it out by torrenting, since the majority of developers don't release demos any more). > > Yours faithfully > Stephan. Lul. I was semi-joking. As bad as Crystalshire's engine is, I've put about 7 years of work in to it so I'm emotionally attached to it now. I can't just throw it in to the wild now. If the mother finds it with my scent on it she'll kill it.

@showloco: > This is the good part, use your imagination. You can't tell people to use their imagination when it's just plain shit. It's obviously supposed to be something. If we can't tell what it is it's not because you're some artistic genius, it's because your design was overly ambigious. Or just, you know, poorly executed.

@Bonesplitter: > So how can a great game maker like this still be distributed when it's unusable to new people without the compiler? Same reason people might have problems compiling all kinds of projects. It's old. Nearly 15 years old, in fact.

@Erwin: > Just put it in the save part of the Map Editor I guess, don't make a new packet only for that. Of course you should make a new packet for it. You just don't need an enumeration of… well, anything.

@S.J.R.: > I only use Microsoft Windows a few times a month or so, so it's pretty much a non-issue. The only reason I have it installed is because I have to support other people who do use Microsoft Windows, and to play the games of developers that are too careless about other, actual, operating systems. > > Yours faithfully > Stephan. People who use Linux are usually cheap bastards when it comes to handing over money for software. I have no interest in releasing anything for them. :P

@BK201: > It's not slower, it's faster. Why bother bumping an ancient thread just to throw around baseless facts? If you want to prove SQL is faster then draw up a program to do the speed test and share it around so we can see. I think you're severely overestimating the ability of SQL, however. You're certainly plugging it for all the wrong reasons.

lolno.

Torrent Windows 7\. Install it. Don't let shit pile up again. I format every few months just to keep a clean slate.

Stop it with the stupid nonsensical memes. They're not funny and this isn't the place for them. Fuck off back to 4chan if you want that shit.

@S.J.R.: > Herpa derpa derpa maths derp bytes herpa emulderp herp herp Yeah! I agree with what that guy said!

@Erwin: > O, sorry, I thought this was Q&A. > Anyways, I think its bad to do all stuff people want for them, it makes then lazy and nobody has made a good game with lazyness so that means we're spending time.. > Still, I think its good to help people with their programming questions and learn them the bits of VB6. It's amazing how uppity people get when they learn a bit of knowledge. You were the exact same when you started.

@Anna: > Why don't you just play Skyrim instead of worrying about an arbitrary number displayed during idle time?

No.

@Peter120: > Where is it, please? :embarrassed: It's the exact same line of code. Ctrl + F it.