game cache initialization

[Troll-Brain]

My question is for the good old game cache usage (not to transfer datas between maps)
I had never really used them but i'm wondering why people always do :

call FlushGameCache(InitGameCache("myCache"))
set myCache = InitGameCache("myCache")

Instead of directly :

set myCache = InitGameCache("myCache")

For me, it's to avoid datas conflits in the case of a campaign, but if it isn't a campaign that seems 100 % useless.
Ofc that doesn't matter that much, just because it's only one more line, and it's not like you can seriously use game caches dynamically, coz of the hardcoded 256 limit.

For example, this works as expected in a not campaign map (always display "0" and then "1") :

scope Test initializer init

    private function init takes nothing returns nothing
        local gamecache gc = InitGameCache("myCache")
        
        call BJDebugMsg(I2S(LoadInteger(gc,"0","0")))
        call StoreInteger(gc,"0","0",1)
        call BJDebugMsg(I2S(LoadInteger(gc,"0","0")))
    endfunction

endscope

I'm 99 % sure it's only for campaigns, but who knows maybe there are some hocus pocus bug to know.

 

[WaterKnight]

What if another map stores the game cache name I want to use?

 

[Troll-Brain]

What if another map stores the game cache name I want to use?

That should matter only on campaigns, according to the displayed message, i mean game cache datas are not kept when the map is closed.
That's basically what i said.

EDIT : Or at least calling InitGameCache erases them when it's not a campaign init.

 

[WaterKnight]

Game cache data is kept when you save the game cache with SaveGameCache(gamecache). Before TFT, there were not even custom campaigns. Afaik game caches are profile-bound.

 

[Troll-Brain]

Will test it.
But before TFT, there were still official ROC campaigns which used gamecache to transfer datas, right ?
I mean what we didn't had was the campaign editor, that's all.

 

[WaterKnight]

The official RoC campaigns use game cache too yes, by saving them. Afaik it has nothing to do with the maps being packed to a campaign, only using the same game cache identifier in the profile.

 

[Troll-Brain]

Just to confirm what you said, i've tested and it's profile related (even with 2 differents maps but using the same gamecache string name, the values will be kept for the same profile name).
But while you don't use SaveGameCache you don't have to worry about it. (or maybe there are some other functions i don't know)