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Hi,

I wanted some neat statistics for the European 24/7 Server, but I found out, that no statistics actually support CTF. When I looked at my games.log file, it really didn't show any CTF-related stuff. Just collecting flags, but that is not very helpful. I was thinking about creating some nice OA statistics system, but it would be nice if the game provided more info about the game events, like the weapon that the player dies with, dropping the flags, killing the flag-carrier, getting awards like "impressive", "excellent", "defend", etc... etc...

Is this doable? Or, better said, wouldn't it require too much work? Because better statistics program would be nice and I would be more than happy to start working on it.

Edit: Of course, such program would be open-source. Sadly enough, AEstats isn't open-source and in the closest future it probably won't be.

You could always take a look at qscore, a nifty little program that Jack Thompson wrote. He is running it to control the stats on his * * T E S T * * servers and they work well. Not for CTF yet, but he might have it planned for future releases. An upcoming feature will be weapon most used as I know of... check with him, might be useful?

Oh, thanks for the tip.

CTF cannot be supported yet, because the game doesn't log that.

Yeah, I checked some logs and as you already said, not very useful CTF stats coming from server side atm..

You might want to let him know that his servers aren't showing up in game, but are showing up in quake 3's multiplayer list.

I started working on my statistics processor. I decided to generate a XML file from the statistics that could be later used for whatever purpose needed. For example, it could be then formatted by XSLT to XHTML.

First version is done. It generates XML output, which can be processed later.
I tried it on the European 24/7 server. I process it with saxon there. You can look at the outcome here: http://84.16.251.15/openarena/oa/index.html

Could u use your own statistic game programm for any other game servers in OA?

Hi, yes is possible. You will only need some libraries to make it working properly.

Is tested only on linux and 0.7.0 OpenArena Version.

I'll add some advanced logging in my serverside mod (which I can send you to test and I'll release after it's found stable). What exactly were you thinking about except for flag captures? And how should it be logged? (any preferred syntax?)

The most important stuff would be:
Awards
Excellent, impressive, defence, assist
CTF-related stuff
Scoring a flag, returning own flag, (maybe killing the flag carrier?), picking up the flag is already done.

About the syntax - I think it would be best to create new event names for this to keep default event names, such as "Item" or "Kill" unchanged. For Awards, it could look like this:
  0:16 Award: 2 0: Gargoyle was awarded with the Excellent award
  2:31 Award: 4 1: Kyonshi was awarded with the Impressive award
etc...
And CTF stuff could have events named "Ctf" or whatever ;)

hmm strange, here I see his server in OA and not in Q3.. Well anyway.. Czest it would be nice to have a more detailed logging system, but I havent got a clue about the work intensity on that one, sorry :)

the award logging is done (for humiliation, excellent, impressive, defense, capture and assist)

examples:

Wow, marvellous :D

Edit: But shouldn't you include the time and player number as with all statistics? This would be hard to parse :(

time is automatically added for the log, these were actually c/p'd from the console output as I don't have logging enabled

the player number is the 0 and 2, or do you mean something else?

Oh, fine. So then some award ID is missing. Because my OAstats is parsing the log events by numbers and IDs, it is not parsing the texts (A killed B by W, etc...)

Ah, I got what you mean now. I'll just give each award a number and add it to the log string.

I've also done the CTF log messages now:
(again no timestamps because it's from the console)
The numbers are again client numbers, the -1 is because the flag wasn't returned by a player but by the game.
What do you suggest for these? Number each event? (i.e. 0=flag taken, 1=flag captured, 2=flag returned, 3=carrier fragged)
I'll also add the team number.

Perfect, that's exactly what I had in mind. And yes, number each event by a unique number. The concrete numbers don't matter, in fact. Could you also write some reference for the numbers? (eg. say, which number means what)

It's finished, I'll let it run on my server for a while and send you the file if everything seems to work fine.

award syntax: Award: #1 #2: S1 gained the S2 award
#1 and S1 are the client number and nick
#2 and S2 are the award types, corresponding to the following table:

CTF syntax: CTF: #1 #2 #3: S1 got the S2 flag! / S1 captured the S2 flag! / The S2 flag has returned! / S1 returned the S2 flag / S1 fragged S2's flag carrier
#1 and S1 are the client number and nick, when there is no client involved #1 = -1
#2 and S2 are the team number and name
#3 is the event number, corresponding to the following table:

Good morning,

i am also interested in those CTF statistics.  Testing qscore at the moment: http://URL TRUNCATION IS BANNED HERE, THIS IS NOT TWITTER!.com/2rmhse

I need more number................

Yes I am a addict of stats !

A central website for stats will be a great idea, and maybe a way to link it to a clan webpage...

=-P

Gabuche

crazy stuff!! i enjoyed this one, gives me ideas on improving my railing and rockets, lol...
good job, gerb.