[Idea] - Timeline Game Stats

goblin

I was thinking about a mod that could generate a XML or JSON file with the timeline of the game, but really don't have enough time to make it so i will share the idea to everyone

A server-side mod that can create a file with the game timeline, for example:
<players>
<player><steamId>37481</steamId><name>Flayra</name></player>
<player><steamId>23421</steamId><name>Strayan</name></player>
</players>
<timeline>
<event t="00:00:10"><newCommander><team>"Marine"</team><player>37481</player></newCommander></event>
<event t="00:00:35"><death><team>"Marine"</team><player>37481</player><killedBy><team>"Alien"</team><player>23421</player></killedBy></death></event>
</timeline>

So the next step is to make a website with a database to compile all the games and stats: (that's why the steamid goes in the file)
the timeline can be shown in a cool way and the site can have all the stats from the competitive players... like if we want to know who is the fade with the most kills/game

i think it could be really cool if the competitive players could have all the stats in one place

any others ideas?

Dghelneshi

Huze and I actually planned to make extensive in-game and web statistics into our Insight mod, but not sure how motivated either of us are to actually start that huge amount of work.

Wilson

Yeah, that's be awesome. It sound similar to hlstats.

player

XML-structures aren't really suitable for what you're trying to do. A better plan would be to dump the event-data in a serialized form into a log-file.

The new version of GameOvermind I'm working on has an extreme amount of verbosity in its log-file, and will indeed allow for building a stats-database from. Here's an old sample of a test log-file: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38570801/Testlog.txt" target="_blank">Testlog.txt</a>.

ScardyBob

+1

The RTS stats side of NS2 has really been lacking some of the build order/timing info that match endstats in RTS like SC2 provide.