Post: #1

I have never seen a good language script for e.g. elves, dwarves or other races.
the simplest script is that someone write down as a text and if you aren´t the same race you will see some emotes or something like &%$§%.
For me this is not enought so I started to think about it.
this is the theory and at the moment I haven´t had the time to realize it.
but what about.
you put all the elf words you know in a mysql database and also the translated words (for example in german/english), sorted alphabetical.
now if you are a elf and turn on your function "speak elfish" every word you type as a text will compare with the english/german words in the database.
and if booth words compare you will see the elfish word instead the german/english if you aren´t an elf.

what you think?
maybe it will slow down the engine of sphere because it can happen that an elf will talk/type the text very long and very often.

gr

phoenix

Post: #2

I think it will be very expensive in terms of performance, also if you want to simulate a language, you'll have to consider how statements will be created !

Post: #3

absolutely no way to do it using SQL, it will cause a huge performance decrease on your server. And tags/vars will waste too much storage to save useless data. Maybe the best way to do it without lost storage and server performance is using defs, something like <DEF.TR.<word>.<race>>


or you can use some array style on the list, it will clean some lines of codes but it's not performance-friendly since you will always need to parse the text manually using STRARG/STREAT or ARGV0/ARGV1/...