Bale
Minion
Lets discuss the pros and cons of hitting main.php at login! The idea has been popping up in the Crimbotown thread and other places, but I think we'd best give it a dedicated thread so we can seriously consider it.
I'd like to make it clear that is not purely a Crimbo feature. Even before this Crimbo there would have been a benefit to hitting main.php on login. Both Eudora items, the Pen Pal and GameInformer are sent to the player when he hits main.php for the first time. If you don't hit that page, you don't get the items. For this reason I put that hit into my loginScript.
Now Jick has added another reason to hit main.php on login. Even more importantly, if I time out I need to hit main.php to regain access to Crimbotown and a loginScript won't do that for me.
Since there are now two reasons to hit main.php I suspect that Jick will eventually add a third. Adding the feature now gets us ahead of the problem.
Those are the advantages. The con is that there's another page hit on login. We might even decide to get that extra page hit every time we log back in after timeout.
I'd like to make it clear that is not purely a Crimbo feature. Even before this Crimbo there would have been a benefit to hitting main.php on login. Both Eudora items, the Pen Pal and GameInformer are sent to the player when he hits main.php for the first time. If you don't hit that page, you don't get the items. For this reason I put that hit into my loginScript.
Now Jick has added another reason to hit main.php on login. Even more importantly, if I time out I need to hit main.php to regain access to Crimbotown and a loginScript won't do that for me.
Since there are now two reasons to hit main.php I suspect that Jick will eventually add a third. Adding the feature now gets us ahead of the problem.
Those are the advantages. The con is that there's another page hit on login. We might even decide to get that extra page hit every time we log back in after timeout.
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