what do you want from a PS stats generator ?

[Sibanac]

Well it soon will be time to release my latest creation upon the world ...
A proggie thats takes an outfit and world id (see the strings in myplanetside url)
then downloads all the character data for that outfit and stuffs it in a DB.
So my question is would anyone have use for such a program and if so what features would you need/want ?

 

[[PS]Venom]

It would be useful for outfit leaders to keep a track of the members. Easy access to ranks, BR, CR, names etc. I'd find it quite useful hehe

 

[Sibanac]

Originally posted by [PS]Venom
It would be useful for outfit leaders to keep a track of the members. Easy access to ranks, BR, CR, names etc. I'd find it quite useful hehe

well at the moment it keeps : name, CR, BR,kills, hacks, outfit rank, last date on, contribted outfit points .

Tonight i might be able to fit in the certs aswell.

Its writen in perl using postgres as DB, but changing it to anyother DB should be trivial

 

[Jonaldo]

It's a shame there's no generated stats for what weapon people use most often, I'm pretty sure all the people at the top of the tables are Jackhammer/Reaver/MAXes and ths not quite as skilled as the overall table would have us believe. (or if the don't have the certs now I bet they got most of the kills beforehand when they did)

I know it's not on topic as such but why are there two columns in the in-game stats screen? is it for 'part kills' and 'full solo kills'? or something like that?

 

[Sibanac]

Originally posted by Omniscieous

I know it's not on topic as such but why are there two columns in the in-game stats screen? is it for 'part kills' and 'full solo kills'? or something like that?

been wondering that myself.


Well ive been thinking about the needed features to my proggy and next on the list is now certs.
I think it could be intresting for outfit leaders, to compose squads for outfit raids. I am thinking along the lines of 'find all players that have a GAL cert and CR > 2" later on i might look into making more complicated things posible like 'find all players that have adv eng and do not have any vechicle cert" things like this would make it easy to assing gunners to drivers/pilots ect

 

[Jupitus]

May also be handy to have 'time since last log' for Outit leaders to keep things 'tidy'

 

[Sibanac]

Originally posted by Jupitus
May also be handy to have 'time since last log' for Outit leaders to keep things 'tidy'

ah thats already in there , i just need to add the certs, clean up the code abit, write some docs, talk to SOE to ask if they are ok with such programs 'hamering' their sites (they should since they have no robots.txt), and i can release the code

 

[[PS]Venom]

The second column I belive is kills this session. I.E. kills today.

A DB of SG members certs and br would be invaluable tbh sibby

 

[Jupitus]

Is this going to be freeware, Sib? How much expertise and in what areas would someone need to be able to use it to good effect if that is the case please?

Thanks,

Jup.

 

[[PS]Venom]

TBH a list of certs held by each member of our outfit would be invaluable. Hope I get a copy of this jobbie you're writing

Also, I believe the second column in kills is kills this session, or kills today. Something like that.

 

[Sibanac]

Originally posted by Jupitus
Is this going to be freeware, Sib? How much expertise and in what areas would someone need to be able to use it to good effect if that is the case please?

Thanks,

Jup.

At the moment it needs perl and a postgres database to run, so abit of linux knowlage is needed, the program will be altered later so it can use MySQL aswell maybe it would work with access aswell but i need to look into that.

The liscense i am not sure about, either GNU, BSD or perl artistic liscense, so they are all free.

Curently there is no interface for the database so you need to know some sql to get the data out, I will write an interface for it but not sure yet what and how, i think first a cgi interface, and later on a more functional program


Venom I'll mail you some info or talk to you online

 

[[PS]Venom]

Originally posted by Sibanac

Venom I'll mail you some info or talk to you online

Drop me an email about it sibby seeing as I'll probably need to read it several times, you should have my addy.

 

[old.ivan]

Originally posted by Omniscieous
It's a shame there's no generated stats for what weapon people use most often, I'm pretty sure all the people at the top of the tables are Jackhammer/Reaver/MAXes and ths not quite as skilled as the overall table would have us believe. (or if the don't have the certs now I bet they got most of the kills beforehand when they did)

I know it's not on topic as such but why are there two columns in the in-game stats screen? is it for 'part kills' and 'full solo kills'? or something like that?

Yeah shame :/ could be usefull just how many you have actually sniped as opposed to killed in any other way, Best sniper bla bla bla awards are coming to my mind

PS: when i was 2nd, omni .. i never had reaver, max or jackie, mate... The top spot at my time .. Aki .. did. On Vanu boards there used to be a few maxes in top ten but now i just dont keep track anymore.

PPS: as for colums ... its total kills ////kills since you logged on

 

[[PS]Mung]

How about how many TK's you've "scored". Hehe.
Now that would be revealing!

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

People requesting stuff you have to remember that if it's not on the stats page it can't be shown unless it's a figure you can infer from other numbers shown. I wrote something much like this (php and mysql only tho) along with a friend for the SA goon squad and the number of stupid requests we got was amazing.