Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35081236-20180512032634/@comment-35315474-20180512215217

Henrigirl wrote: Is it possible that the time stamps were put in place because the number of players has increased and the mytona servers cant handle the load somehow of the tracking between friends? they told me when I asked why when I encourage to have 100 friends they didnt let me gift 100 CIs that its due to technical reasons and 10 was the limit at the moment. The amount of space needed to store 99 vs 10 is the same. It's two digits either way. The value (0, 1... 9) does not matter.

So the only technical issue they may have is that their code was written to limit CIs to 10 a day, making it "technically" not possible to change without changing the code. However, the change would be extremely simple.

Another possibility is that they are only using 1 character space for CI counters. For example, blank could be zero CIs sent, 1-9 would be as they appear, and 0 could then mean 10. Doing it that way, they could maintain a count of 10 using only 1 space. To increase the limit would then require a structural change to the database from 1 space to 2 spaces which may involve more work, depending on how they maintain their database structures on our devices and their servers.

Also keep in mind that the customer service reps answering our messages are not the same people who are writing the code. Many of the reps have no idea what it takes to write code so for them, anything that requires the code be changed is just as much a technical issue as anything else. They cannot determine which coding change may be easy and which may be difficult.

However, when I consider all of this, I cannot help but believe changing the code to allow us to send more CIs is not that difficult for them. At this time, they are now keeping a database of 1,000 timestamps for every player's location charges from visiting. They aren't just keeping 1 timestamp per visited friend. They are actually keeping 10 timestamps for each friend! One for each and every location we charge for each and every friend we visit. With a limit of 10 charges for 100 friends, that is 10 x 100 which comes to 1,000. If they can maintain a database of 1,000 timestamps for charged locatoins, then they should be able to keep a list of 100 CIs. That would be very small compared to all the rest of the info they're keeping.

So I go back to believing that the only real technical issue is that it would require a small, easy coding change. I suspect there is little desire to change it because most of their regular players never want to give more than 10 CIs a day, and those like us who do are TTers who can easily bypass the limit.