The Event Database

[Gran]

So, I think this can be somehow more easily implemented than suggestions regarding game mechanics. Or at least more easily aproved.

My idea is that it would be nice if the in-game events were all made into logs and saved in one single archive (like the daily reports, but much bigger). While not public, the archive could be acessed indirectly by request to the staff. The main objective is the preservation of memory so that if one desires to study a certain dialogue that happened long ago but that was not saved into a daily report, he won't have to rely only on his foggy memories of what he once wrote.

[Doug R.]

You can do this by saving your own event logs. I don't see why this should be put on the staff.

[Dudel]

I don't see a reason NOT to save as many events server side as possible, to be honest.

This would be extra helpful for PD and the other GAC members, I'd like to think, if/when hunting out cheaters. Especially some of those annoying/special "time based CRBs". (Need to X for Y in order to Z, type of deal.)

[Doug R.]

I suspect the sheer number of events (every event generated as viewed by every observer) would quickly clog up the server. That's the only reason I can think of why they're not being saved already.

[SekoETC]

They're not stored separately for each observer, they're only saved from generally 1-3 perspectives and characters are linked to them as observers. There is the actor's perspective, the target's perspective and the outside observer's perspective. But it's still a whole bunch of event messages when you think many things must be created double or triple in order to take the different perspectives into account, and then link every observer separately. Adam Berg said that it would make more sense to record where an event took place and store when people arrive in or leave a location to define whether they were present when something was experienced.