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Originally Posted by Awaran[Enemy-Plus ; ] Y_Less, it seems that whenever someone disagrees with you or doesn't like what you have created, you get offended. Then you try to reason with them to get them to use your creation. Chill out man.

I get offended by this statement, not by people disagreeing with me.

The point of this topic was to discuss the best ways of doing a user system, which is what I believe my method is. In line with this view I have presented my argument and backed it up with evidence, although admittedly most of it depends on your point of view - YSI is faster than DINI, you can't deny that as I can prove it, but wether you prefer the syntax is entirely up to you, I do so I come at it from that direction, you're free to disagree.

If someone doesn't agree, as they're free to do, then I will attempt to persuade them, yes, I'm not going to deny this. The easiest way is by addressing concerns raised and showing why they're non issues. In the case of cyber_punk's concern about the directory layout, there is no real solution - that is how it is, and I do see his point (I considered it when writing the system), in that case all I could (and did) do was explain WHY it was like that.

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Originally Posted by MX_Master I think for the good and fast storing of players accounts needs at list INI files system.. Will be better to use INI plugin with C++ functionality instead of PAWN. imho

This I agree with entirely, and have considered before. I have never said were I stand on the DB/file issue as although custom code is almost always (if not always when written properly) faster, PAWN is slower than C so timings need to be done. But yes, if the file reading was mostly done in a plugin, I'm almost certain (but again, I have no empirical evidence) that it would be faster.

Edit: I do not pretend that YSI is the answer to everything, I know of quite a few problems, but I designed it from experience of the most common problems people had. The reason I keep mentioning it is because people still have these common problems (that's what makes them common).

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Originally Posted by Outbreak Or he was trying to explain the flexability of his creation, advising alternative ways of using it? Don't jump down peoples throats, i created this topic for help and advice, not for nerds such as yourself to cry. If you've got nothing to useful to add, just move on...

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Outbreak I was thinking of a database of some kind storing all accounts, then another storing all IP addresses and the names associated with them. Making it easy to search an IP address or IP range and get the list of names which have entered the server with the specific IP or IP range. Then if someone is suspected of ban evading, its easier to check and catch them. I get a lot of players unregistered, get banned, come back with the same name, different IP address. So i'd want to put the banned name in a database, along with the IP address. This would be part of the ban sytem. Is it possible? Whats the best method for this?

I'd agree with the database for this (or that's how I'd do it), they're designed specifically for relations like this.