[2023] Introduce "Inspect Player"

Originally posted by AAAAnst

100%, and I think that would be a low effort addition to the game, although I dont have any game development experience

Originally posted by AAAAnst

Didn't have a clue about that. Thanks for explaining!

Originally posted by Tee_61

Sounds like you already have an API for that no? That's how LE tools works I believe.

So it's just a matter of making the call from the client as far as getting the data, which should be fairly easy, unless that API is slow/expensive.

Making a UI to fill that data in sounds like a serious PITA though.

Originally posted by Tee_61

Definitely, no need for handshakes, maybe the service has it cached. Assuming the API is served from the same server though, no need to call a different service. I assume that's not the case here though.

Assuming the external API is fairly performant/indexed though, it shouldn't really be a problem. Most simple crud look ups take around 200 ms and can pretty easily scale to thousands of calls per second without too mcu overhead.

Not sure how a characters current build is stored though, so it might involve some fairly complex queries.

Ultimately calls to external services aren't going to negatively impact the client outside a few extra ms of latency for that one request, and they obviously don't tax the game server at all.

It could strain the DB that the game server uses, assuming the external service shares the same cluster, and the game service itself may already have that cached, so it's just more overhead. Obviously it also puts a little more CPU work on total servers due to the need to handshake again, but that's pretty minor.

Everything comes down to performance benefit vs engineering resource time. If DB resources are a bottle neck and the game server has all/most of the things you might want to inspect cache then the extra overhead is clearly worth it.