>It sounds like the playerfiles themselves really are
>literally individual files?

Yes.

>It'd be good to store all of that
>info into the DB, then you can rollback, when a save fails. In
>that case you at least keep the files clean, and you will only
>lose info until the last successfull save.

Sure would, why don't you immort and take care of that for us :) It's a ####-ton of work to convert over, and get a good schema and make it scalable to our playerbase.

>Purely out of curiousity, what programming language is
>actually used on CF? I hope at least C++, not just C? Yes, I'm
>a coder myself ;)

C