IMPORTANT: Even though your earned shots are kept track of while you earn them‚ they will not actually kick in until you view your
drunk balance sheet (buzz stats)>.
Your shot stats are automatically updated every time you log into the website. If you wish to make sure they are completely updated while logged in, you may
view your shot balance sheet. Every time you view your drunk balance sheet, your shot stats are updated.
This also means that you will not be promoted to the next drunk level - even if you have the required amount of shots‚ until you view your shot
stats page‚
or the next time you login to the site.
Why: The reason why BDBP has it so you must view your
balance sheet in order to update your shots‚ is to maximize the efficiency of website (server) resources thus making the website perform faster and accommodate more concurrent drunks. BDBP uses 1 SQL database and around 14 or so ACCESS databases to store the data and handle the shot tracking. Every time you view your buzz stats‚ the page must communicate with each database in order to determine all of your current shot and level information. This use to happen every time poets logged in but it was slowing down the log in process too much. Be prepared for it to take a minute or so for the buzz stats page to load. Eventually this process will be improved when I get all of the data running off of the much more powerfully SQL type database.
Brass Tax: Your security level and shot point score will not update until you view/load your
buzz stats page. You should view this page whenever you think you might have enough new shots to move up a level‚ or when you wish to analyze your shot acquisition or look into purchasing some shots.
Any questions on this issue feel free to ask them
here on this related help forum item.