While poking away at a creature today, I was keeping an eye on the damage I did, the damage he did, the number times we both missed etc and was wondering if anyone ever wrote a plugin to spit all this information to a window or file?


Example:


Creature: Remoran Raker

Kill Count: 42


Your average damage output

25 attacks

3 misses

4 criticals

275 average damage


Creature average damage output

42 melee attacks

36 melee evades

1 critical

2 magic attacks

2 magic resists

8 average damage


This could be generated for every creature type you kill* and shown in a little window or something and you could opt to dump to a file or something.

Hopefully it would not be too taxing as to get you booted, but the information would simply be gathered and displayed in an in-game window, so nothing would really have to be sent via the servers until you opt to upload. Something like this might also be able to take advantage of the /log command.


*all info would be consolidated & recalculated each time you killed a creature of the same name


Another alternative would be to have something that kept track of all the damage you took to different parts of your body, so you could get a better idea where you're weakest.

Helm 62 attacks 8 acid 4 lighting 20 bludgeon..etc

Gloves 82 attacks 19 acid 42 lightning 2 bludgeon...etc


This could also just be shown in a window and opted to be spat out to a file at the user's leisure.


Just musing, I certainly don't have the skill to write these myself, but maybe someone else is interested enough and looking for a project


Thoughts?


~Ellen

If I am remembering this correctly there was a plugin like that, but that was years ago and it didn't last long. As I recall It also uploaded the statistics to a central server it would show how often a monster attacked which body part or with what type of spell.

Ok so I didn't dream it, this DID exist at one point

Thanks!

I don't know how to write plugins, but I have a perl script that will generate a good deal of this info from a logfile (right now only for melee/missle).

I use it to compare which weapon works best in different scenarios, and to find the weak spots in my armor.


My script calculates the following:

<damge you do to mob>:

-how many swings/arrows it took for you to kill it, and how many were crits

-min/max/avg "non-crit" damage

-min/max/avg "crit" damage

-Total dmg (not including the killshot) you did to the mob

-# of times monster evaded you

-Time-to-kill


<damage mob does to you>

-# of hits to each location for each dmg type

-min/max/avg dmg (crit & non-crit) for each location/element combo


I've been working on building a back-end DB and making a website where you can upload your own logfiles to see an analysis, but that's going pretty slow right now.

 

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Sounds promising!

Have you used it since the latest dial back on the number of message you can send via the servers?

Just wondering how taxing something like this is on the game itself.


Glad I'm not the only stats junkie around here


~Ellen

This isn't a decal utility, it's completely off-line.


You have to use the /log command to save a copy of all the combat messages (making sure you don't have any filtering turned on, evades, etc.) You also need timestamps turned on.


When you're done fighting, you run the script against the logfile, and it parses out all the info and generates a couple of .csv files you can import into excel or whatever to view the statistics.

 

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