Rushing

I think this is a great idea. But maybe make them optional, and a way of telling if a player has them on or off. Or even better, add a...

'When you open Battle City, an icon with an overlapping # is displayed is your system tray. The number would be the total amount of players online. Players could open...

...Wow. I don't really understand how it could take that long, surely you could just use the games database to store who is online add simply update the mini icon...

Surely it's simply a matter of using PHP to take the number of entries on the database, then translate it back to C for updating the mini icon.