Sequence Prefixes (Requesting them in ULM)

[Trylon]

As JulyForToday already noticed in his post in the Age List Project thread, the current list of sequence prefixes is sort of a mess, in response to her idea of a central database, I added the following functionality (preliminary) into ULM Web interface:

- Sequence prefixes starting at 10 000 can be requested from the "My Profile" page.
- They can be requested in blocks of 1,2,5 or 10.
- You will always get the next (1,2,5 or 10) sequence prefixes available.

Before its actually used, I think we should decide if we are going to switch over to that system, as it will invalidate the alcugs list.

Comments?

EDIT:
I checked, and the list at alcugs does not list any sequence prefixes above 9999, so the invalidation of that list isn't really a problem yet.

[JulyForToday]

I'm very pleased to hear that your adding that into ULM. I'll be downloading the latest version soon!

Although...

in response to her idea of a central database

I'd like to take a moment to say I'm a guy.

The odyssey that is my name continues.. :-D


I never registered any numbers on the alcugs list. Honestly, the issue of registering numbers only becomes a problem when actually making an age public. The majority of the 'ages' registered on the alcugs list will likely not make it to public display. But registering a new number isn't so bad. Especially when no one will really see the number (ingame). It's just important to have good a system in place to avoid duplications.

[Trylon]

I'll be downloading the latest version soon!

That would be unneeded, as the functionality is in the web interface, not in the client program.

I'd like to take a moment to say I'm a guy.
The odyssey that is my name continues.. :-D

Whoops, fixed that (sometimes net-handles can be a bit amiguous gender-wise )

The majority of the 'ages' registered on the alcugs list will likely not make it to public display. But registering a new number isn't so bad. Especially when no one will really see the number (ingame). It's just important to have good a system in place to avoid duplications.

Indeed.

[Nadnerb]

That brings up an interesting question... Since SPs are only important for public releases, perhaps ULM registrations for sequence prefixes should 'expire' if there is no age released in a certain amount of time. That would free up numbers and prevent wasted SPs.

It's certainly not hard to reexport your age with a different SP if you have to re-register before making an age public, so for that matter, why not require that an age be submitted in order to register an SP to begin with?