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| whats the point of uuids instead of straight counting upwards ids |
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| Ipquarx:
You get the same problems that have happened over here on blockland like ID discrimination. People obsessing over uncontrollable numbers just because there is some semblance of order to them. You also run into things like the German Tank Problem where you can estimate the number of sales of a particular product by looking at randomly selected incremental product IDs. (It doesn't take many to get an accurate number!) Sales numbers are obviously private business stuff, so you want to hide that as best as possible, and completely random UUIDs are one of the solutions. There's also the problem of distributing the IDs through different systems. Blockland does this rather messily, for example 2-6k IDs are sold through various online retailers, all IDs below 98,304 are non-steam keys and ones above that are for steam. Having completely randomly generated UUID's negates this problem entirely. |
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