Send application version to server, allow filtering by version

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As I tweak the gameplay for my application, I would like to be able to add
in a field to show the version number and then filter scores based on the
version of the game being used.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by JohnEHar...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 1:11

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Original comment by ricardoq...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 1:14

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Right now the best solution is to create another game, eg: MyGameVersion2, and 
the
users with the new version post the scores to that game.

otherwise it will be very difficult to calculate rankings / positions.

Original comment by ricardoq...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 1:25

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Hmmm. I was just going to create three new categories and have the new game 
post to
these categories. I guess that is a similar solution.

Thanks for the advice though.

Original comment by JohnEHar...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 1:34

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yes, new categories also work, and I think it is a better solution.

Original comment by ricardoq...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 1:53

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I've been working around this a little more, and I believe some games would 
find it 
very useful for cocoslive to submit the version number of the app that is 
sending the 
score, and to eventually be able to filter scores by version number if desired.

Original comment by JohnEHar...@gmail.com on 10 May 2009 at 12:37

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right now it is possible to add a version field, eg: usr_version.
regarding filtering by this version, I'm not sure. Perhaps it is better to 
create a
another game, eg:
  StickWars_v1.3

what do you think about it ?

Original comment by ricardoq...@gmail.com on 13 May 2009 at 8:57

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Right now I am creating new categories for every version, but it's not really a 
good
solution. 

Original comment by JohnEHar...@gmail.com on 13 May 2009 at 1:07

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Do you think that creating a StickWars_v1.4 would solve your issues ?
If not, what would be missing ?
Lets discuss it. I'll help you solving your issues.

Original comment by ricardoq...@gmail.com on 19 May 2009 at 7:20

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To be honest, you could mark this as resolved, I found that I could simply use 
new
categories each time I released an update that changed the gameplay enough.

I had to do a little bit more work in my code to make it work, but in the end I 
have
a solution that is working fine for now.

Thanks though!

Original comment by JohnEHar...@gmail.com on 19 May 2009 at 2:25