How are Gamestop user IDs counted?
| From: The Island of Zeal | Posted: 07/04/2006 9:19:43 PM |
| I'm not sure if gamestop user IDs are counted differently or not.. |
| From: Manta | Posted: 07/04/2006 10:12:12 PM |
| o_o Gamestop? ~ Manta ~ "Now, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Vogons are the worst marksmen in the galax--*gets shot*" |
| From: Ryan Dwyer | Posted: 07/04/2006 10:26:36 PM |
| You mean GameSpot, aka GS. This paragraph refers to the actual GameFAQs database. When a GS user posts on a shared board (a board that is shared between both GS and GF) for the first time, his account is added to the GameFAQs user table and assigned a new ID. So the GS user's account exists in both the GS database and the GF database. I'm not sure if it works the same way with GF users. The GFuserDB fetch script will only fetch users from the GameFAQs boards. Shared boards are on GameFAQs, so they can be fetched too. When it finds a GS user, it takes their ID just like any other user. Their ID is the same one in the real GameFAQs database. I will not use abbrev. |
| From: The Island of Zeal | Posted: 07/04/2006 11:08:35 PM |
| Yea, I got gamestop and gamespot messed up. Two letter difference basically. |
| From: The Island of Zeal | Posted: 07/04/2006 11:20:44 PM |
| And thanks for the explanation. I wondered if GS accounts were random IDs, because I found a GS account with a user ID around 1 million... |
| From: RockMFR | Posted: 07/04/2006 11:47:06 PM |
| The merge happened shortly after the millionth user ID. The Ohio State University: We are so much better than m*ch!g@n. |