It’s probably a single dev that made the decision, then moves onto something else. They (probably?) don’t have the ability to just raise a recurring PO etc to easily pay you and don’t care enough to worth through the paperwork.
If you had a paid licencing model they may have done it, or just found another lib/ wrote their own.
EF can have big problems with “Cartesian explosions” if an object has two lists of sub objects to return, it will get listA length x listB length items due to how the joins work. You can see how this leads to the explosion part of the name (with more objects or lists).
Their solution is a “split query” option, that does each sub table as a separate query, then seamlessly gives you the combined result.
If a change like this let’s you get those different table lists as distinct lists with the processing and round trip time of multiple requests then it could be a game changer.
(Source - my last week 🤣😭 + lots of EF docs)
SQL returns subsets of all tables with only those tuples that would be part of the traditional (single-table) query result set
So it returns only the data that would be returned from the query, so the filtering is done.
I can see some uses of it. If you look at what something like Entity Framework does behind the scenes to return nested objects, you can see how something like this might help.
It needs to understand that that code is bad to be able to do that though
For some slightly less common games: Golf with your friends is a great mini game to play, effectively really crazy golf online
From the Depths build ships/planes/tanks with entirely custom guns, engines etc. then play on the campaign map with fleets of these ships. you can make some really complicated vehicles if that’s your thing. Unlimited player count as far as I’m aware.
A less deep version of that is Avorion - Mine resources to build custom ships (less complicated) then even small fleets and do quests, make allies/enemies as you venture to the centre of the galaxy. Supports unlimited players as far as I’m aware. It also allows you to form an alliance to share resources with other players. Resource gathering (mining/salvaging) can be automated by your fleets if that’s not your thing.
Flying missions to there from Cyprus feels like we are doing it just to show we can, surely that could have been handled much easier by the US carrier…
I wonder which countries we overflew to do it?
If they dump their currency and use USD, then as long as there arnough dollars around it solves inflation right? (Their economy is a blip to the Goliath that is USD)
But if that’s the case, then their currency is useless as everyone knows if will have zero value at all in a few months/years.
It does mean they can’t print money to get out of trouble though… Not that that was going well for them before.
Get a client (or instance) that allows it then 🙂
I think that has been an outlier so far, its good to have one that makes you re-evaluate your solution once in a while.
Definitely a time sink though!
The historic high salary for COBOL Devs etc is also partially due to them mostly being old and extremely experienced senior devs
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I’m doing them because it’s an excuse to do some interesting challenges however you want and have people to talk about them with.
Thank you for this! I always find out/remember about it half way through…
First day done and work leaderboard link shared!
Kinda acceptable if you have a slow release cadence. Everything needs to be reviewed and fixed/accepted (with defect/US raised) before production though.
Needs to be in a smaller team with decent Devs too though!
This Icelandic guy has a YouTube channel with great 4K drone footage of the area (and the rest of Iceland).
He is (obviously) doing a lot of coverage in this area currently and has some snippets of info from Icelandic Volcanologists that may not be available elsewhere.
I thought the point of a game engine was to do that stuff…
I prefer that they are spending the money one actually developing advanced/new engine technologies than just releasing a half baked cames and a huge profit.
They got loads more money than they expected and increased the scope to match.
(I agree on the pricy ships though)
Even if they went bust and the game failed, I would be happy if other big studios got the engine.
I will believe it when I see it…
It’s a less cartoony art style I think (although the style in original skyline evolved a lot) we will see.
Remember mods can fix/change loads
Ty for the info. The ZA deal probably makes sense.
Tbh I’m disappointed at how small it’s recorded engine power is. Imagining it being able to apply it’s city sized power generation to its propeller and hydroplaning away 😂
It’s the only time that tabs Vs spaces really riles me up. So annoying when everyone has different tab lengths