Stats API

[badbod]

Hi,
 stats API.
   
 servers report to master for each game played, whether completed or not. with date/time - number of players
 
  nodes can query master and show number of games played, players this month, this week, total, current, per node is good too. Each node can brag about it's traffic.

 
no user logins ATM so no individual user stats I guess, but another thought for future.

 
Regards
BaDboD

_{Edit by Omega: Renamed thread. "feature request" is not a suitable name. Please be more descriptive.}

[tomreyn]

I'll come up with something in this direction soon, probably not on time for the upcoming release, though (I think we should not add new functionality after beta2).
Some of these things may be possible to introduce between releases, too.

Edit: during -> between

[badbod]

Hi Tomreyn,
 Great news, not sure what effect it will have inthe long run, but nice to have.

David

[MuwuM]

Maybe we should also think about identifying clients/user maybe we could use unique ID's per client (which can be transfered between clients / are stored in $AppData/similary to the ID used by Teamspeak http://teamspeak.com/). If no ID is found it'll get one from the server, if uer changes his/her name the name will be stored on server, too. ID must be secure, that it can't be modifyed (or stolen/used) without being the owner of the ID. So the game server could report to masterserver for correct statistics.

I could work out more detailed information how to make such ID-system, if there is real interest in.

[badbod]

hmm, I forgot about that.

would the simplest method be to require signup and logon? This might take some considerable rework so just a thought for now.

anyways, immediately what stats can we store/expose?

[MuwuM]

I don't really like the Name/Login System... it's far to static in my opinion. In Glest we don't need special privileges for (single) user, so I don't see any requierements for registration. I personally prefer a client based, automatic ID system (like mentioned before).

Now we could only store general values like:
games-played,
units killed (in total / per faction/bot<->human),
units died (in total / per faction/bot<->human),
resources harvested (in total / per faction/bot<->human),
games won (in total / per faction/bot<->human), 
points (in total / per faction/bot<->human),
botgame (game with bots, true/false),
total-highscores (highest values of all games played),
time played (in total / per faction/per game)
techtree used,
tileset used,
factions played,
...