On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:08:45PM -0800, Jamie Harrell wrote: > Say you create 2 characters under your account.... > dumb & bumm - for the sake of argument... > > say your account name is Jason > > So you'd have 2 pfiles: > > Baggins.Jason > Jessie.Jason > > Now, if you were to try to login under either of those, I need > to make sure Baggins.Jason exists, no biggy there, access() would > work fine... > > But say then you tried to login under a name that is not yours, say for > instance: Penthral > > So it would look for Penthral.Jason > > No biggie there, if that character isn't created, however, if that > happens to be under another name, say the pfile Penthral.Weirdo > already exists, well, I need to make sure that you dont create > that character... Hence the reason I'm checking against Penthral.*
Why don't you store this information in player-files instead of in filenames? I have two fields in my playerfiles, Alt and UberAlt. UberAlt is the name of the account which has access to this character, Alt is a list of names of characters to which this playerfile has access. At connection time the characterfile is loaded and checked for Alt-tags. If so, these player-files are checked for UberAlt tags and the ones which match are displayed to him for loading. During gametime you can create a new alt, just create a character and say "my uberalt is ..." and then the UberAlt character has accept the new one as an alt with "my alt is ...". So if halfway the game you don't like it anymore and want to get rid of the character or want to give it to somebody else the alt has to say "my new uberalt is ..." and the new UberAlt has to say "my new alt is ..." or either the alt or uberalt has to say "I don't accept ... anymore as alt/uberalt". (Sounds confusing, doesn't it? :-P) This way you can still use all the normal routines for charactername checks (finger, loading, notes) without knowing the alts, you can login via the UberAlt and then choose an alt to play with or directly via the alt-character. And your alts can control other alts without giving you the access to it :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/
