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[Hacktank]

In my Zomibe RPG script I had/have an array for each skill with a record assigned to it, the array is the max lvl that skill can get, but with a growing ammount of skills there will be 100's of arrayed varaibles. Am i correct that having so may variables will cause major lag or atleast more drag on the cpu and ram? If so I could use an INI to store the info instead and use the ReadINI() from ParrowAZUL (i use his INIFunctions for all logging also) but how would I read the ini kinda like an array?: here is a sample from my INI::

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[heal]
1cost=1
1mcost=0.02
1minlvl=1
2cost=2
2mcost=0.01
2minlvl=2
3cost=2
3mcost=0.005
3minlvl=3
And here is the same one but using arrays:

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aheal[1].cost := 1;
aheal[1].mcost := 0.02;
aheal[1].minlvl := 1;
aheal[2].cost := 2;
aheal[2].mcost := 0.01;
aheal[2].minlvl := 2;
aheal[3].cost := 2;
aheal[3].mcost := 0.005;
aheal[3].minlvl := 3;
I would read the information out of the stats INI like this:

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strtoint(inigetvalue(skills,heal, ?? players[ID].heallvl + 'cost','0'))
Is there a way to get this done? Like make subsections for each level in the ini like this:

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[heal]
{1}
cost=1
mcost=0.02
minlvl=1
{2}
cost=2
mcost=0.01
minlvl=2
{3}
cost=2
mcost=0.005
minlvl=3
Or would i have to make a section for each seperate level (pain in the neck and harder to read)

Thank you!

After this issue is solved I will relese a beta of my ZPRG script. (ps does a zombie RPG script go in the subgamemode or the fullgamemodes section in SoldatCentral?)

[EnEsCe]

(ps does a zombie RPG script go in the subgamemode or the fullgamemodes section in SoldatCentral?)

(It would be considered as a Full Gamemode)

[danmer]

im not a professional programmer, but already the idea of storing mass amounts of data you'll be accessing a lot in a file on a hard drive... just makes me shiver =/

I'd recommend you sort it out with arrays, just think of an efficient way to handle it all, maybe you can omit some calculations

The current version of my biggest script keeps roughly a thousand values in arrays (probably even more), and it uses only about 11 MB of ram just after start (though it does leak up to about 70 MB, but thats a completely different story )

Edit: i mean the server running the script takes that much ram, which almost equals the memory a clean server uses

[Hacktank]

Ok thanks, if it wont cause lag ill just leave it as arrays, ill put it in soldatcentral and make a thread later. (i just got off school and im hungry/gotta do homework)