It does not feel worth setting up with so few users, and my server has very very little space left.
Save time by creating the board when game starts or board is changed only, then just place the counter on turn changes.
This is an idea I came up with later down the line to help with optimization but would take more server space and only would matter if bot runs slowly due to amount of players.

The main reason I am using unsafe is because I could not find another way to have a variable that could be edited and accessed anywhere without making it an unsafe static. I am sure there is probably a better way to do it but i am still pretty early into learning rust.

Updated 2/6/24: I was learning more rust and looking into other code and I believe that I have a solution, currently there is no timeframe on when I will fix this as I'm working on other projects right now, it should be in the next update however.

From what I've found it is not yet possible due to serenity-rs having issues not being able to create the magic numbers on the fly which causes it to crash unless saved. As a note the magic numbers are a hex header that each file has that lets the computer know what filetype it is and therefore how to handle the data.

I have created bots in the past which can do this for other card games, I am considering having that as another feature but if I do add it I still don't plan to go too in depth with it, and do feel that it'd be better suited for another bot. I may make this as an api or library instead, but am not fully sure I wish to do this still.

Having everything be a vector array made sense at the start as I was just storing discord ID's and the energy. As I kept coming up with more features I realized how it could benefit from a better datatype. Instead of doing this I wanted to take the challenge of making my own functions to make the rgb colors storable as an integer as this project was more of coding practice and my first project in learning rust.

Update on 2/6/24: I've been looking into this further and am thinking that for future updates it will be a lot better to update this to using a Vec, I am not sure when the next update will be however the next update should include this.

Originally the Templates file was outside of the src like the Table file but I really wanted to store nothing on the computer with this project, it was a limitation I set for myself. It can easily be changed back to be a folder outside of the binary/exe file and work fine as a loop. The issue is because I am using a macro include_bytes to grab the image and font files from the binary/exe's memory. Include_bytes needs to know at the time of compilation so it does not accept anything that isn't final. get_gauge_bytes and get_counter_bytes work in meantime however require an update anytime a new image is added.

I'd be real appreciative of any artist that wants to help with some graphics for the live version of the bot.

• We would like some digimon themed counters (80px,80px).
• We would like a better version of the template made. I get that the quality isn't the greatest but the bot does rely on those positions.
• We would be interested in memory gauges being made using your custom art and if they fit will they will be added to the live bot which will credit you. (500px,350px)
• We are also interested in a profile picture for the bot as well.

If there's anyone with interest feel free to help out!

With this being my first project and also having many more features added later on the overall code size and speed were affected.

Update on 2/6/24: I have some changes I am planning to implement, some should come in next update but this is still something that I will keep re-addressing as I learn more.

I think I'd only want to set this up if there is a conf file as there'd be too many customizations to do every single game.