[FlyingMongoose]

I didn't say "sm is faster than es" I said that the goal of SM and plugins on sm are to be as efficient as possible...

anyway, I'm sure someone will write it eventually, but personally it's too much of a gameplay modification in my eyes and often creates an unfair advantage to new users in the server. So, I probably will not be the one writing it.

[theY4Kman]

I've looked over the ba_bank code, and I understand how it works. The features and commands that are run in it would be too hard to port over into SM until SQLite support is here. Sure, flat file can be done, but in ba_bank, you can transfer money. How would you do that with just a Steam ID and money amount?

[FlyingMongoose]

transfer using name, get the steamid of the name, the transfer can only be in server.

[pRED*]

Or save the person last used name into the bank details too.

"SteamId" "STEAM_NUB"
"Amount" "lots."
"LastName" "Look im a nub"
"LastLogin" "inserttimestamphere"


Then you could periodically browse through the file deleting entries older than x days. And you could find bank accounts by name or steamid

[kill0r]

Originally Posted by pRED* | NZ Or save the person last used name into the bank details too. "SteamId" "STEAM_NUB" "Amount" "lots." "LastName" "Look im a nub" "LastLogin" "inserttimestamphere" Then you could periodically browse through the file deleting entries older than x days. And you could find bank accounts by name or steamid

keyvalue is to slow, if it's for internet-steamids only you could make a binary file,
you would just need to convert the numbers of the steamid (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamID) to 8+4+32bit,
the amount in $ (32bit) and implement a kind of quick index to find them very fast.

[FlyingMongoose]

if done w/ keyvalues pred it could be pruned periodically (I do it in ATAC)

[benkoren]

I just thought I'd express my interest in the plugin. I'm still reading up on the SourceMod dev docs so I couldn't write it yet, but I would definitely love it if somebody did

[paegus]

resurrection:

would it not be simpler to store the data in a per-user (steamid) basis. each person gets their own bank account (file) and limit transfer be made only by active players.

each player gets a STEAM_#-#-#######.txt file (keyvalue or whatever) that loads when they connect and saves at map end or when they disconnect. your active database will never be larger than the number of players connected. and instead of pruning old accounts they can collect interest