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Originally Posted by Heartless
To Cins defense: Quite a few changes which seem to be 'cosmetic' turn out to be relatively huge efforts on the coding side.
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What?
You cant seriously be thinking that these changes are 'major' in any way on the coding side unless they have forgone any primary keys on tables; something that isnt the case.
- Signup simplified
A case of rearranging / removing existing fields on a form. Not tricky at all.
- Base fleet can now be ordered not to take part in combat [though ships produced will still be put in that fleet].
Depends on how the combat engine is coded to take the fleet into account, but could be as simple as a status field on the fleet which is on/off for determining if it takes part in combat.
- Can add personal notes to planets
Extra database table, form to add notes, query and page to read back notes. Trivial.
- Quick mail option from the galaxy page
simply a link on a page
- Bcalcs are now able to be added to reported fleets
Extra table with foreign keys, or extra field on reported fleets table. A form for adding the bcalc. Again - not tricky.
- More comprehensive ranking pics
as in graphs? This one would be at least more than an hours work - but no more than 10. If its just static images that get displayed in certain scenarios then this is not at all a big deal to do
- New stats
No code changes here.