New Player Information Page

Post by **terryrayc** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:25 pm

makelovelikewar wrote:Looks very promising! Some of Noor's items have boxes instead of letters where the accented letters should be. That's probably a hold-over before her name change. Does it need to be corrected?

probably, I'll do a quick sql update when I get a chance.

Post by **NightsMistress** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:45 pm

An interestting stat I had in the PW world I ran was "time character has actually been online". This would give a message along the lines of " You have been playing for A weeks, B days, C hours; D minutes. That represents X years in game time."
Using the basic heartbeat script it incremented a count every 6 seconds for each player online. Every 5 minutes (50 heartbeats) it would increment the database with this count.
It's not only an interesting statistic, it also allows for actual aging, although that part doesn't work well, even with Arkaz/Copap life running at a slower than default 15:1. In my PW characters ages only the time they were online. It does show who plays a great deal and who doesn't and perhaps gives a bit of a hint to some of us that we should think about changing lifestyle.

~NM

Post by **makelovelikewar** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:39 pm

I think that time option is a great idea and would love to see it.

Post by **Daemona** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:50 pm

makelovelikewar wrote:I think that time option is a great idea and would love to see it.

I would like to see something along the same lines. It would show the individual addiction to the world. Though I am curious about heartbeat scripts. Do they impact server performance and lag?

Post by **terryrayc** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:26 pm

normally HB scripts suck big time, but I'll look into it....only problem would be it's a from this moment on count.

I could add something that shows the first day your character appeared on arkaz.

Post by **BrunoKnotslinger** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:01 pm

We already track how much time a player has been in each area, so it's just a matter of a query to the appropriate table then summing up all of those times. Unfortunately, I don't recall if that's IG time or RL time that's stored there... either way, it can be converted if need be. The query shouldn't be much of a drain on system resources. To start with, it'd be external to the game (i.e. wouldn't be going through NWNX2), and you won't have a flood of people looking at their player status every couple of minutes.

Edit: PM sent, Terry.

Post by **terryrayc** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:28 pm

okay added a very basic page. I'll work on cleaning it up when I can.

Some things to note:

1) we are running off the map system so your time is only good from when we put that system in...which I think was a year ago.

2) if you are a mage you'll notice your fam is there. it's a bio issue where they treat you as the creature when you control them.

3) it displays to the .000000000 second place.

Post by **terryrayc** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:30 pm

oh also this is a total time your character has been IG and live...which means if it says 5 days, that doesn't mean you first showed up 5 days ago, it means you've been logged in a grand total of 5 days.

Post by **terryrayc** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:27 am

made some minor changes to the time page to make it more readable.

Post by **medea** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:45 pm

I cannot log in. Advice?