I think this would be interesting to know.
#show how many people have discovered an item
thick solstice
shadow rivet
I think this would be interesting to know.
cool idea, but it would be very difficult to code and would cost a lot to keep the servers up and running
thick solstice
Oh yeah didn't think about that
Makes total sense
wise sparrow
cool idea, but it would be very difficult to code and would cost a lot to keep t...
Ye i agree but i like this idea
silver prawn
It's harder then number++;
Is one instance of infinite craft a person, or a device, or an IP? If you use a VPN, but have the same cookies from a previous IP/session, are you a different person? Does clearing crafts/cache/wiping the browser/entire device make you another person?
Regardless of what you decide, this feature also depends on either client or server side maintaining a list of items the current user has to check if it's a new item. So you either have to log in, use IPs or cookies (vpn and moving around issue, also multiple people in a house?) or to hope that no one tries to exploit the system by manipulating the client. Also if it's server side it takes up lots of storage.
If you just want a "how many times have an item been crafted" it's as easy as incrementing a counter. But the question is about how many people crafted an item.
silver prawn
what happens if you clear cookies? 
It's not about the system being perfect, but there's a lot more considerations than number++. Ok, you've chosen cookies.
How are you going to know if a person discovered an item?
like if person already has A, then does crafting A a second time count?
if it does, sure, that's easy you don't even need cookies
yes, but
- Trusting the user? What if someone keeps removing an element within a savefile?
- the entire argument is that there's more considerations than number++, unless someone can just spam crafts and make number arbitrarily big. And I don't see the value in an unreliable count
No point in implementing something that will provide very little useful information, and no point in implementing something that can easily be manipulated to display arbitrary information either.
and therefore implementing it takes more consideration than incrementing a counter! Look at how much we discussed!
[not advertising itself as people] I agree with - a counter of how many times an item/recipe is requested would be nice to know. I was simply referring to people since that's the thread title.
