[orionshock]

To kinda bump this again.

imo it would be more like you request all the data for your toon from the server. the client then keeps track of that request / server keeps track of that request. Then it only gives you information current from last server reset / restart, and only let's you quiry it once. from there the client caches all that information on a per account / per toon bassis and lets the client interact with it as needs be.

so you'd login, and request the historical data. if it's not available, the client downloads it from the server, when it's done then we throw an event. If it's already got the cache sense last reset it imidately throws an event.

that could lessen the load by only allowing the client to cache upto the last reset and make it a persistant cache between sessions like the item cache.