Network game stats gathering

[softcoder]

While being FAR from perfect, we now have a system of gathering in game statistics and storing it on the masterserver. All published games will have their game scores saved to the master server as we develop ways to use that information for interesting new game features.

I also made the web view display finished games that are no older than 8 hours old. This may help to see if people are actively playing during specific periods in the day:

http://master.megaglest.org/

Thanks

[Omega]

Looks like these changes aren't compatible with the auto-update script. Will you be fixing that too? Also, what's with the "abc" in the top left corner? And "Divtag"? Was this tested?

[softcoder]

Which auto update script? The other items were just artifacts of my testing. I added asynchronous retrieval of game stats when you click on the game status link

[tomreyn]

Omega is referring to Desktop notifications and automatic updates he had added (and we had planned and tested together) a couple weeks ago (r4604, r4605). Those are now broken, which definitely needs to be fixed. The stats you added will make a very nice addition then.

[titi]

I am just listing some problems that might occure regarding this and which are maybe worth to think about:

- single player games in general
- single player games without internet connection
- pure LAN games without internet connection
- games that start as Network games, but the server gets disconnected from the internet and plays on
- games that start as online games but end with only local clients connected and disconnected Internet
- And what happens in general if the masterserver has a problem / is not reachable when we try to send stats.

[softcoder]

This uses the same thread as existing publish. It only sends stats if the user is publishing to masterserver so follows all the same rules.

Also, Omega, i fixed the auto update script (which also adds game stats link)

[titi]

What I see in the stats now is typically:
Network players=1    Network slots=1    Total slots=1
But it often was a game with many players ) you can see it from the players names ). I think this happens because all players are disconnected before the server sends his stats.
Is there a way to fix this?

[softcoder]

SVn now does not update slot info after someone has won the game.

[filux]

I've written earlier this on IRC but I will repeat here:

• In my opinion "Winner" result should be "yes/no" and "Quit Before Game Ended" too,
• If I understand it correctly (if not then I don't know what it is ) "faction index" probably should be called "player" or "player #" or "player index" and number should be between 1-8 as in game
• In "Resource Multiplier" enough is 2 decimal places.
• In my opinion could be usefull additional column with clients games' revision number.> If isn't enough space for it then current "Faction index" isn't neccessary in stats.
• ...and the recent discovery
  
  If Atze isn't a winner too then who is he?, a loser?
  In my opinion green background for "the best winner" is ok, but everyone from the winner team should be the winner.

[ctz]

The columns could use better ordering.

I think the game statistics (kills, deaths ... score) should be contiguous, and the player name and platform should be next to the player type.