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Old 02-13-2025, 03:10 PM   #10
LD84
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Originally Posted by twins_34 View Post
I am going to guess the main reason this is not a thing is because, log files, can become VERY big and take up a TON of space. Something, that a lot of us do not like are VERY LARGE files. I use to run an online game that had a logfile to try and help prevent cheating and I will tell you, back in 1998 when hard drives were tiny, a logfile or MANY logfiles, for every time the game rebooted, took up a lot of hard drive space, something I had to make a batch file to make an easy way to delete. sometimes up to hundreds of logfile because the game would get caught in a crash loop because of a bug.

So, yeah, making a logfile is not really a hard thing to make but making it so that logfile does not end up taking gigs worth of data, that's an issue.
Hard drive space has gone up so very in the past decade.

Per the Steam Hardware survey
54% of users had over 1 TB in HDD space.

Almost 95% had 250 GB or above

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsur...lcome-to-Steam



How can a log file that is mostly text based takes up that much space?

Even if it takes up say 1 GB, which would be massive for a log file.
1 GB is a drop in the bucket for PCs of the last decade.

I am tired of 2000s and early 2010s thinking holding this game series back.

I feel like I am in the minority here, but I wish more people would push OOTPD to actually innovate and take advantage of modern resources and computing technology.
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