So I have come up against an issue.
I have a Save/Load system developed for my RPG. The issue though is for all feature sets its now sitting at 56 characters for a load code. Thats HUGE!
I could give the axe to alot of features, or I could limit the amount of stuff it will store. I am looking for more of a happy median though, and thats where everyone here comes into play.
Current things the Code stores. I am using a 36 character system. I bumped it up to 50, and for all the extra chars, I didnt save any space. So 3 hours of wasted time I went back to 36 chars.
-Deencryption info
-Hero Class
-Hero Level
-Hero Experience
-Hero Skills trained
-Gold
-Special Resource
-Two other special Items (They each are 1 char to store, but I may be able to get clever to save them in 1 char)
-6 Hero Items (mucho slots!)
-6 Bank Items (mucho slots!)
-Hero Total PVP kills
-Hero Modified PVP Score
-Check Sum (Cause everytime someone cheats online, I kill a kitten!)
First thing I would get rid of would be the Bank. Then goes the Score system to either something smaller or totally gone, in the end that would shorten the whole thing by up to 20 slots, making it below 40 chars long.
So, whats an acceptable amount of characters before it gets stupid?
**I tweaked the system a bit with what I have here, and I got it down to 54 chars. Doesnt seem like I am getting much more efficient and I hate to kill feature sets.**
I have a Save/Load system developed for my RPG. The issue though is for all feature sets its now sitting at 56 characters for a load code. Thats HUGE!
I could give the axe to alot of features, or I could limit the amount of stuff it will store. I am looking for more of a happy median though, and thats where everyone here comes into play.
Current things the Code stores. I am using a 36 character system. I bumped it up to 50, and for all the extra chars, I didnt save any space. So 3 hours of wasted time I went back to 36 chars.
-Deencryption info
-Hero Class
-Hero Level
-Hero Experience
-Hero Skills trained
-Gold
-Special Resource
-Two other special Items (They each are 1 char to store, but I may be able to get clever to save them in 1 char)
-6 Hero Items (mucho slots!)
-6 Bank Items (mucho slots!)
-Hero Total PVP kills
-Hero Modified PVP Score
-Check Sum (Cause everytime someone cheats online, I kill a kitten!)
First thing I would get rid of would be the Bank. Then goes the Score system to either something smaller or totally gone, in the end that would shorten the whole thing by up to 20 slots, making it below 40 chars long.
So, whats an acceptable amount of characters before it gets stupid?
**I tweaked the system a bit with what I have here, and I got it down to 54 chars. Doesnt seem like I am getting much more efficient and I hate to kill feature sets.**