Card game problem

Im creating an online card game but im a bit stuck. I want to have thousands of cards but storing each cards data is causing problems.

I was going to store them all in an access database but it means when i distrubute the game people can just load it up and see all the cards and their attributes which i don't want. I know its possile to encrypt a database which a friend of my'n was explaining to me.

I was just wondering if anyone had a better solution than a access database. (Im trying to to make it as fast as possible too, i dont want a pause when loading card information if possible)

Cheers

If you arn't planning to change the card's attributes you could hard-code them in a lookup table (or simple array) in VB.

thats an option, thanks.

could u advise me how to go about that though? Im not to sure.

VB Code:

Private Type typCard
    Name as String
    PictureFile as String
    Power as Integer
    Value as Integer
End Type
Dim Cards(1000) as typCard

Then in somewhere, like in Sub_Main() go through each card, setting up the properties.

To reference them in your code do something like this.

VB Code:

If Cards(1).Power > Cards(2).Power Then MsgBox "Game Over"

thanks. i dont really wanna fill up my coding with 1000 of card decs. Is there a way i could implement that information from another module or something like that

in a module:

VB Code:

Type typCard
    Name as String
    PictureFile as String
    Power as Integer
    Value as Integer
End Type
Global Cards(1000) as typCard
 
Sub_Main()
    Cards(1).Power = 4
End Sub

Then you can use them anywhere in your project.