This would be cute! (& also I want to see Plague's rotting pedestal <3 )
TOPIC | Different exalted pages for each flight
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[quote name="@Subunit" date=2017-07-20 19:24:06]
HondaYori
Giving exalted dragon different background wouldn't really cause extra burden to the site, code wise. The data of flight which the dragon is exalted to has already been kept up until now, all we need is 10 different background images(giving we already have the page for light flight), so this feature would require no extra resources.
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I admit I'm no expert in computer coding, but I'm pretty sure that a single word (the name of one of the deities of the 11 Flights, in this case) ranging from 8-13 letters takes up only a few bytes of data. In comparison, the existing pedestal and background are probably several hundred KB or more. While I suppose it's possible for each flight's pedestal image to be limited to around the same filesize, so that each dragon's page took up the same amount of data, that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons, for the background alone.
@Subunit wrote on 2017-07-20:
HondaYori
Giving exalted dragon different background wouldn't really cause extra burden to the site, code wise. The data of flight which the dragon is exalted to has already been kept up until now, all we need is 10 different background images(giving we already have the page for light flight), so this feature would require no extra resources.
Giving exalted dragon different background wouldn't really cause extra burden to the site, code wise. The data of flight which the dragon is exalted to has already been kept up until now, all we need is 10 different background images(giving we already have the page for light flight), so this feature would require no extra resources.
I admit I'm no expert in computer coding, but I'm pretty sure that a single word (the name of one of the deities of the 11 Flights, in this case) ranging from 8-13 letters takes up only a few bytes of data. In comparison, the existing pedestal and background are probably several hundred KB or more. While I suppose it's possible for each flight's pedestal image to be limited to around the same filesize, so that each dragon's page took up the same amount of data, that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons, for the background alone.
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@HondaYori
I deleted the "almost" in the sentence in my last edit, since the requirement is so little I thought we may as well ignore it. But "It'll require almost no extra resources" would be more specific, if you prefer.
[quote]that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons, for the background alone.[/quote]
You're saying while thousands of new dragons are born each day, adding 10 background images would be a burden on this site.
[quote]each dragon's page took up the same amount of data, that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons[/quote]
Doesn't work that way. Background images are not stored at the dragon's page, the whole site shares the same image repetitively(and they don't require regenerating like dragon images). That's 10 images for the whole site once and for all. No matter how many exalted dragons there are or how much more there will be. Sorry I'm not sure how to explain this better in English :(
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We actually already have this feature. It's when we're visiting other people's lair, their background matches their flight. So we know that it is totally doable, and the code is already there, it just hasn't been applied to exalted dragons yet.
@HondaYori
I deleted the "almost" in the sentence in my last edit, since the requirement is so little I thought we may as well ignore it. But "It'll require almost no extra resources" would be more specific, if you prefer.
You're saying while thousands of new dragons are born each day, adding 10 background images would be a burden on this site.
Doesn't work that way. Background images are not stored at the dragon's page, the whole site shares the same image repetitively(and they don't require regenerating like dragon images). That's 10 images for the whole site once and for all. No matter how many exalted dragons there are or how much more there will be. Sorry I'm not sure how to explain this better in English :(
We actually already have this feature. It's when we're visiting other people's lair, their background matches their flight. So we know that it is totally doable, and the code is already there, it just hasn't been applied to exalted dragons yet.
I deleted the "almost" in the sentence in my last edit, since the requirement is so little I thought we may as well ignore it. But "It'll require almost no extra resources" would be more specific, if you prefer.
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that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons, for the background alone.
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each dragon's page took up the same amount of data, that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons
We actually already have this feature. It's when we're visiting other people's lair, their background matches their flight. So we know that it is totally doable, and the code is already there, it just hasn't been applied to exalted dragons yet.
Just a heads-up: I usually delete the threads I made before it reaches 10 replies because I want to keep my forum history tidy.
[quote name="Subunit" date=2017-07-21 12:03:29]
@HondaYori
I edited my post and delete the "almost" in the sentence, since the requirement is so little. But "It'll require almost no extra resources" is more specific if you prefer.
[quote]that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons, for the background alone.[/quote]
You're saying while thousands of new dragons are born each day, adding 10 background images would be a burden on this site.
[quote]each dragon's page took up the same amount of data, that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons[/quote]
Doesn't work that way. Background images are not stored at the dragon's page, the whole site shares the same image(and they don't require regenerating like dragon images). That's 10 image for the whole site once and for all. No matter how much more exalted dragons there are. Sorry I'm not sure how to explain this better in English :(
We actually already have this feature. It's when we're visiting other people's lair, their background matches their flight. So we know that it is totally doable, and the code is already there, it just hasn't been applied to exalted dragons yet.
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It would be just like the item images. When you go to your hoard, or vault, or crims etc... you can see the item images, but there is only one item image stored on the server.
Okay, just looked and the background image (which is actually a bit bigger than I thought, it wasn't only the pedestal. is 97.04kb
10X that would be 1067.44kb which would be just over 1 mb (I added in the existing image) That would be the total amount of new data stored on the server.
My main concern was how much more load would be put on the servers by needing to determine what flight (so it knows what pedestal to use) would add, then I remembered that it already checks for flight, so they could move the image code to each of the 'checks' so that when it decides what flight the exalted dragon belongs to, it adds in the image for the pedestal as well.
Subunit wrote on 2017-07-21:
@HondaYori
I edited my post and delete the "almost" in the sentence, since the requirement is so little. But "It'll require almost no extra resources" is more specific if you prefer.
You're saying while thousands of new dragons are born each day, adding 10 background images would be a burden on this site.
Doesn't work that way. Background images are not stored at the dragon's page, the whole site shares the same image(and they don't require regenerating like dragon images). That's 10 image for the whole site once and for all. No matter how much more exalted dragons there are. Sorry I'm not sure how to explain this better in English :(
We actually already have this feature. It's when we're visiting other people's lair, their background matches their flight. So we know that it is totally doable, and the code is already there, it just hasn't been applied to exalted dragons yet.
I edited my post and delete the "almost" in the sentence, since the requirement is so little. But "It'll require almost no extra resources" is more specific if you prefer.
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that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons, for the background alone.
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each dragon's page took up the same amount of data, that's still about 10x the amount of data the servers must retain to deal with exalted dragons
We actually already have this feature. It's when we're visiting other people's lair, their background matches their flight. So we know that it is totally doable, and the code is already there, it just hasn't been applied to exalted dragons yet.
It would be just like the item images. When you go to your hoard, or vault, or crims etc... you can see the item images, but there is only one item image stored on the server.
Okay, just looked and the background image (which is actually a bit bigger than I thought, it wasn't only the pedestal. is 97.04kb
10X that would be 1067.44kb which would be just over 1 mb (I added in the existing image) That would be the total amount of new data stored on the server.
My main concern was how much more load would be put on the servers by needing to determine what flight (so it knows what pedestal to use) would add, then I remembered that it already checks for flight, so they could move the image code to each of the 'checks' so that when it decides what flight the exalted dragon belongs to, it adds in the image for the pedestal as well.
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