Towers Upgrades possible ?

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eric@begoodi.fr asked Jan 15, '16

Towers Upgrades possible ?

In my game I have some items that can be upgraded (like towers in Clash of Clans for example). So this action takes potentially a lot of time.

The client begins an upgrade, and it lasts 3 hours for example. Then the client can leave.

- If he comes back 1 hour later, he has to see that time remaining is 2 hours
- If he comes back the day after, the upgrade has to be done with all associated actions if needed

This kind of action can't be managed client side because of the hacking problems it can occurs.

Is it possible to do that with Playfab ?

Thanks

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-15T22:43:01Z

brendan answered Jan 15, '16

Certainly. The way to do this would be to use UserReadOnlyData to store the timestamp for when the item was started, along with any modifiers so that you can re-calculate the remaining time at the client and the server using the same (server-authoritative) data.

Since many games that use this design also sell a virtual currency which can be used to buy down the remaining time, if you have an option to reduce the time by a set amount (rather than just "finish now"), I would recommend storing any purchased time reductions as additional data in the record for that item. That way, you keep the information for the full object - start time, and any time reductions.

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Answer 2 · 2016-01-18T10:24:54Z

eric@begoodi.fr answered Jan 18, '16

OK thanks, I will handle it that way...

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