The client and server log files are named (server)log.txt.#.
Most operating systems/file browsers identify files by their "extension". The extension of log files should be .txt or .log so OSs report correct file types, and improve user experience when trying to upload log files to the support forum.
Change log.txt.# to log.#.txt
Effect: OS and forum software recognizes files as valid type
Side effects: alpha sort order is not affected
<replace this line with the file content>
<replace this line with the file content>
-validated-
True...There's probably a reason for it but I'll put it in queue. Schema can reject it if he won't change it.
This does make sense, however if this could be an option in the server.cfg file, that would be ideal. I recommend this because the change would break wrappers and other scripts that utilize the log files. (Including scripts I have created) Though I don't mind updating my scripts, there are people that rely on scripts that they have not created and this would create problems for them.
Wouldn't StarMade.#.log be more semantically correct?
Also: What do the numbers mean? Is there something more descriptive we could replace them with?
If they're simply the previous game logs, the first (and therefore active) log should simply be StarMade.log; for further clarity, we could move the previous logs to a previous logs subdirectory.
0 - 20 is numbering of the logs 0 newest 20 oldest ... a new one pushes all other one to 20 .. 21 is deleted. .. afaik
Suggestion:
Current log: logs/StarMade.log
Previous logs: logs/previous/StarMade.yyyy-mm-dd.hh-mm-ss.log
All logs will thus be easy to locate, and will be in chronological order when sorted either alphanumerically or by created date. They will also present the OS's log icon and any other special behavior.
To clean up: fetch the logs/previous/StarMade.*.log file listing, sort by filename, and remove the 21st log and onward.
I may do something similar for the launcher.