Newsfiend
06-20-2012, 10:37 AM
Tubben wrote:
Piestro wrote:
We could totally get a copy of EQ2players data up next week. Unfortunately it would only have data for EQ2. The old data feeds were never reliable enough, and wouldn't work with the website in any meaningful sense now anyways.
I can understand this, but what i dont get: Why do you want data feeds from the game itself ? Why dont you read the player data files ? You have all the structs you need. And reading 10-15 million data records arent that much. Far less if you only take chars which have been logged in in the past 6 month.
You ARE aware EQ character data are all flat files right? Had the game been developed where character data was in a database, then yes this would be much easier, but it isn't.
Basically, any statement having to do with EQ, its data, or its code, that starts with "All you have to do is..." basically doesn't have any understanding of how EQ was created or the work required to maintain, or update it.
And just so you're understanding the scope involved..
There are 6.4 BILLION records that need to be migrated over to the EQ Players site to make everything work. It is NOT a trivial amount of data.
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=187198&post_id=2816671#2816671)
Piestro wrote:
We could totally get a copy of EQ2players data up next week. Unfortunately it would only have data for EQ2. The old data feeds were never reliable enough, and wouldn't work with the website in any meaningful sense now anyways.
I can understand this, but what i dont get: Why do you want data feeds from the game itself ? Why dont you read the player data files ? You have all the structs you need. And reading 10-15 million data records arent that much. Far less if you only take chars which have been logged in in the past 6 month.
You ARE aware EQ character data are all flat files right? Had the game been developed where character data was in a database, then yes this would be much easier, but it isn't.
Basically, any statement having to do with EQ, its data, or its code, that starts with "All you have to do is..." basically doesn't have any understanding of how EQ was created or the work required to maintain, or update it.
And just so you're understanding the scope involved..
There are 6.4 BILLION records that need to be migrated over to the EQ Players site to make everything work. It is NOT a trivial amount of data.
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=187198&post_id=2816671#2816671)