Quote Originally Posted by hmxhenry View Post
I know that this was definitely an option that was discussed with the coders. I'll try to explain the reasoning the same way they explained it to me: the Blitz save data is a blob. It is increasingly difficult to change any piece of data in that blob, and the smaller the info, the harder it is the alter. For that reason, a broader change like removing all the visible star data would be less disruptive than only changing star data for one song at a time.

It was most certainly something that came up in our discussions, but due to the way the save data is arranged it wasn't the most viable option.
Yeah, I'm a (mediocre) coder myself, so I understand exactly what they were talking about. My suggestion would only be viable if that particular data were readily accessible from the beginning. I know very well from hard-won experience how problematic messing with data structures after the fact can be.

With the current method being the best option, I wonder if more attention might be paid to the Rock Band World profile functionality. Now that we're going to have to pretty much exclusively rely on it for our permanent result repository (at least in terms of star results), it might be nice to have it a little more robust than it currently is.

In particular, it would be nice to be able to display our entire song list at once instead of forcing it to split off into the categories in the drop-down. Also, it would be great if we could sort or possibly filter the list by other indices than just the song name. At the very least, Artist and Genre would be nice, especially considering how many of the goals are related to those particulars.

I suspect that the limited design may have been intentional to keep load and retrieval times down, and that's perfectly understandable, but I suspect those few of us who have enough songs to push those boundaries wouldn't mind suffering longer load times in order to have more robust functionality. Just a few thoughts to possibly pass onto the Web team if you're so inclined. Thanks again!