Database Export Service & Database Merge Utility
The one thing I’d most like would be a way for players on any server to be able to submit a request to have a game.db file exported containing only their clan’s holdings from whatever server they play on.
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Preferably this would be an automated system, with requests placed into a queue that a backend can process at its leisure without affecting the performance of any live servers.
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Complimenting this service would be a database utility capable of merging two databases together into a single game.db file.
This would enable a few very useful possibilities…
- Players would be able to keep a memento of their accomplishments when a server is due to be retired without being at the mercy of its admin.
- Players could experiment with their exact builds offline to test purges, defenses, etc.
- Most importantly, friends from different clans on any given server could opt to migrate from (say) an Official server to a Private and take all their progress with them. As long as the export requests are all processed from the same nightly backup, etc. then there should be no conflicts preventing them from being re-merged to form the database for a whole new server.