Hello All again and George. I'm sorry for not explaining the problem at hand. I was assuming that i new the exact answer to the problem and was just after the solution, or clues to the solution. The two go hand in hand, so I appologise for my arrogance. The problem i face is this. I'm trying to store a cache of rooms in some sort of linked list. This is COMPLETLY INDEPENDANT to the current 'world list' that exists. I still wish to use that. This cache of rooms will be a priority list of rooms. By this i mean, the most common / accessed rooms will be at the ENTRY POINT of the list - I assume this is the head of the list. This way, every time i traverse this cache list, I do not have to trickle deep down into the cache becuase in theory, the most accessed rooms are near the entry point. At first, i'll be using this list more as a reference to see where my mortals are travelling. And yes, i know there could be other 'logging' ways for this, but i'd really like to use a priority list (so I can use it in other areas of the MUD later on). Now what does each structure/node in this cache hold? For memory utilisation, it should probably hold a POINTER to the room. This is fine. Or even just the VNUMS / RNUMS of the rooms. Memory is not an issue. It's more the process/implimentation so i can utilise this other areas - like a combat list. I'm still trying to work out some theory, but i am toying with the concept of having a list of people/mobs in a fight, and weapon speed, inititive, etc all have a weight/priority, which inserts them into this priority list accordingly which is called every PULSE_FIGHT_ROUND (please excuse my lack of circlemud #defines). The current room cache is a trial to see if i could expand the concept to COMBAT and maybe WEATHER or ECONOMY. Anyways, i'm hoping my explanation is verbose enough to get some more feedback. Thank you kindly folks. -Pure Krome- -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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