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You should always be using " but u can also just filter the SQL to replace " with \"
Ideally you shouldn't be writing raw SQL statements anyway. Pass your SQL through a class/object model.

Sure, i formed the sentence a little poorly. I didn't mean to imply that Microsoft has done anything good for the game. I also didn't feel it important to state the obvious as it didn't really relate to my point, but that is certainly a good comparison to OHOL. There is nothing like this available.

You keep making comparisons to Minecraft, and while i know exactly why that is, i can't help but disagree. Notch is a terrible game designer. He had an interesting coding project, an idea that he just wanted to work on. He wasn't making a game for people to play, he was excited by a coding challenge that interested him. The fact that the Yogscast blew the game into such a huge cult hit, was very lucky. That's not to discredit Notch at all. Without him it wouldn't have existed, but what you and him are doing (in OHOL) are very different i feel. He was just programming something based on a game he liked. I do this kind of thing too. It's usually too rough of an idea to be called a full game though. That's why he stepped back and eventually handed it over to his team Mojang and then Microsoft. Those developers fixed all the glaring issues and added so much content above and beyond anything Notch could imagine.

To summarise, what you're doing is equal parts Notch and equal parts Mojang. You obviously have equal interest in both the programming and the game design aspects.

If you want to stretch the uses of the well out over 7 hours for example, you could make the well regenerate every 30 minutes, even if it goes dry. I think this is probably the most reasonable solution if you want balance. Perhaps 30 is too strict, that's not for me to decide.

Actually Runescape died because their hand was forced by chinese trading and scamming. They were forced to alter the core PvP in the wilderness and add the Grand Exchange to control trade. All of this pressure forced them to change the core concept of the game. It was required by law. I know, i was there when it happened. I had already beaten every quest in the game at that point so i consider myself a veteran of the original two iterations of the game. I stopped sometime during Runescape 3.

Why though? Sure, if a well runs dry, you removed one water too many. Oops, let me put the water back in. The well running dry for 10 hours is non-sensical. If you must have it run dry and become unusable because "magic" then allow us to fix our mistake. Just like ponds, if someone dries all the wells, i better go and find water (if there is any) and fix it. If we can put water back in, you can leave a dry well dry forever if you want. Alternatively, don't allow us to refill a well, but keep it functioning as normal when it does run dry. After all, if a well can regenerate water by magic, but then also stops doing that by magic, you can do anything magical you want.

The solution shouldn't be "how do i tell people how many uses are left" and instead something different.

I am not sure why any engine limitation would limit the ability to store meta data along with an item?

['Axe', 40] - Name, Uses

Obviously i'm using an array object but a class would provide the same function.

new Axe
Axe.uses = 40

Edit: After reading more of the thread and reading about transitions, where A+B=C+D would it not be an easy solution to have A+B=A+D? In fact C just equals A with one of it's properties changed. You should be able to alter the functionality fairly trivially by extending a class for example.

The problem is, every update did do something wrong. Even if there was good content in every update, which there was, there was something inherently wrong. Like when you made soil finite, or when you let people reset all the servers 5 times, or when you broke everyones tools and storage without any way to repair it. I have been loving all the QOL changes to the game, but "new content" is released in an unfinished state, that isn't ready. That's why people complain about the game being broken or dying. If next week you release repairing in a good state, all of these issues are going to subside.

Also, i'm pretty sure the new Eve spawning isn't implemented yet because every single life i lead today was in a previously occupied area. I look forward to that patch.

What you're saying is, Jason is making a game for some gamers, some people who are not already playing his game. He's not making a game for the people currently playing and enjoying the game. He does not want the gamers who are playing his game, and is actively trying to get them to stop playing, so that he can magically find the other gamers that want to play his tedious chore. Sounds like a solid game plan. Can't see anything wrong with that lol.

I would like an option to do this.

Tell me the incentive to make wool products.

Delete the ones that don't work? Why? They were created to get a better understanding of the ideal design, just like yours. A lot of elements in yours are unnecessary apparently and only caused confusion for me with AI pathing. Anyway, i'm having fun making skulls from modular sheep pens. Enjoy.