stats question, druid. Options

[Lord Lipton]

hey druid,

i noticed the "weekly" stats get updated everyday but the "overall"'s do not. do you just add all the weekly's onto the overall at the end of the week?

if not, the overall's haven't been updated for cassino for a few days..

[Druid]

One down side of the VSP stats package.
The database gets huge ( 75 days worth of stats on the stock server created a 128MB database )
I really wanted to run a set of stats to cover a whole year, with VSP that will not be an option do to the size of the database.
I may end up keeping our current stats package for year-long stats.
Then offer VSP for 3months and weekly stats.

[HammaTime]

To cut down on the size of the database, the VSP stats I've seen are usually culled after a modest period of inactivity. If a person doesn't play for a set number of days or weeks, they are dropped from the stats. On the other end, new entries aren't listed until a player has completed a set period of rounds. As you can imagine, this would help to keep the database a bit smaller.

Druid, have you experimented with the skillset algorithm? Might be interesting to see what others consider "skill." I know a lot of people consider headshots to be important, and certainly in Base Assault destroying, planting and defusing are vital skills. The skill ratings for each weapon that you employed for the current stats were sensible. Were you able to transfer those rankings into VSP's "skill" algorithm?

VSP enables us to take these skill ratings a step further and weight each weapon by location. Therefore, the skill of shooting someone in the head with a pistol would rank higher than hitting them in the chest:

$skillset['weapon_factor']['accuracy|colt_lochead']=1.0;
$skillset['weapon_factor']['accuracy|colt_locchest']=0.5;