[tjdrico]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

how much additional server load does this cause?

I have absolutely no idea whatsoever, nor do I really know how to go about working that out. =) I don't expect there's a huge price to pay as there aren't any really nasty queries involved. There are no indexes on any of the tables though, apart from their primary keys, so there's some scope for tweaking some of the joins that are present when someone views the Stats page. Some of the row fetches might take a while on the viewitem page because it will display all bets by default - could be a lot of you had hundreds or thousands of users that like to gamble. I've only tested it with a small forum (200 members or so), and it hasn't had any really big Events to chew on yet.

I don't expect it adds any more load than adding a poll to a thread, but as I said before I really can't qualify this nor quantify the impact.

There is a setting to turn it all off though, so if you found it seemed to be a problem then it's easy to "remove" without editing any files.