Wait!!!! Before you judge my ramblings!
I've been trying for a while to learn perl, php and some other random bits so I could put something together for the L4D players. Unfortunately whilst I'm capable of understanding networking it appears coding is foriegn to me so I'm struggling.
What I wanted was not - X-Headshots and Y-Kills and points etc. I was after more entertaining pieces like;
Quote- Sn00ks has dragged survivors 300 yards
- Oldie has thrown up on 94 survivors
- Liberator has survived 6 campaigns without his friends dying
The idea being they are non-specific enough to eliminate scoring competitions, but fun enough to encourage team work.
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=84022
This mod gives most of what I need to start with, but I'll tweak the web page so it doesn't display the headshot and kill pieces.
Take a look here (http://www.f7lans.com/l4dstats/player.php?steamid=STEAM_1:0:6086736)for a sample page.
Imagine it without the player summary box. It would be an added extra to help us draw in punters without encouraging fragging.
Thoughts?
I am fully aware we play as we should, not for points, hence my reasoning for some of the nicer pieces like - safe houses reached with whole team etc.
As a side note, I mentioned ages ago the stats for CS, I really like the hitbox and heat maps you get with physcostats - http://www.psychostats.com/psychostats/
but again you'd need to tailor out the specific k:d ratios.
I don't see a problem with this. Stats are good and fun if used in a thoughtful way. k:d ration is never of interest anyway. I say go. :)
Yup, "FunStats" sound good.
If you can pull it off then we'll need to find out what's recordable and make awards.
QuoteToxic Waste - Benny puked 7 gallons of vomit before exploding.
Burn Baby - Sulky set fire to two team-mates while they were incapacitated.
Tanked Up - NoPeanuts launched a survivor 220 yards as the tank
Do you want me to install/configure the plugin on the public server?
As it's co-op only is should work fine there.
That would be nice, thanking you young man.
http://77.108.129.49/l4d_stats_web/
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Well it works, thnx Whitey.
Must try not to shoot my team mates so much :blink:
But if you will keep running around like scalded ferrets then what do you expect. :narnar:
Spot on. Now we need to tweak out the bits we don't need and work on the bits we do :)
There was a lot of 'we' in that sentence....
If we can adjust it so it shows none of the player summary and rank isn't displayed on the site, that would cover it for me.
I like the demerits and like the achievements. Oh, and if we can turn off the notification on map changes etc, so the great unwashed don't know it's there....for now.
I think it looks good. However, I think that the statswhore on top need a talking too. :flirty:
Whitey, how hard is it to remove the summary box from the page? Looking at the points tables the rest should be indicative of how well people play as a team.
I just want rid of the kill counts and headshot pieces. Then if you can change the config file for the following; (or let me have access - I can to ColdStore, just need pass and user for the other areas)
sm_l4dstats_updaterate - 0
sm_l4dstats_rankonjoin - 0
sm_l4dstats_silencechat - 1
(I think)
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Quote from: Benny;270430sm_l4dstats_updaterate - 0
sm_l4dstats_rankonjoin - 0
sm_l4dstats_silencechat - 1
Done and server restarted. I'll have a look at the PHP scripts to remove the stuff we don't want.
Quote from: Benny;270430Whitey, how hard is it to remove the summary box from the page?
Done and the answer is.... not hard at all :)
Looks great, thanks Whitey.
I'll draft something for tomorrow and go a little more public with it then.
Assuming all goes well I may post something in the steam forums to advertise and recruit. We'll see.
(anyone thought any more about the CS equivalent - tailored to remove the frags obviously)?
Quote from: Benny;270456anyone thought any more about the CS equivalent - tailored to remove the frags obviously?
I'll have a chat with the Section Head and see what he thinks. :unsure:
lol, it's not like you've got owt else to do ;)
The things I liked on it were the hitbox and heatmap pieces.
Although the google map of players is a nice touch too.
EDIT - Last piece, can you reset all to zero and I'll post an announce later today.
Quote from: Benny;270498EDIT - Last piece, can you reset all to zero and I'll post an announce later today.
I had to just delete the starts from the database as there is no way to do it using the front end. :)