Cerebrum Halo CE Game Tracking

[Siliconmaster]

New001 has the same stats as I did in the one game I joined (lol), but it must have been a different one since I was sm482. Unless I was lagging so badly it didn't even recognize my name. o_o

[sdavis117]

You're kidding me, that CTF game that I actually did good in wasn't uploaded?

Off with his head!

[ThePlague]

I was messing around the whole time. My left hand is asleep so I can't play wortha shit. Was still fun though.

[klange]

We'll continue to do games like this if we make any more changes to the prototype, and just generally to collect new games.

For future references, here are some ground rules and quirks:
This is an ALPHA PRODUCT, it is merely a prototype of score collection. It works in no where near the same way as the final product which will be delivered later this year.
- The system doesn't do Oddball, we don't know where the scores are stored, but they're not in our little score memory block, so we can't retrieve them. We haven't discussed it with km00 yet, so there may be hope for fix; it's just not high enough priority, the final version is much more important.
- This runs on the a client, particularly me. It has two parts, one is a Yelo DLL that writes a binary dump ~4KB, the other is a C# app that converts it to an XML file and uploads it. With the way it works, we can only give it to certain, well-qualified people.
- It doesn't record final scores for teams. We collect the scores from the players in the game at the end and total them up. This will not get fixed unless km00 wants to do it in his spare time or Shadow can work out the changes.
- With that, you need to be in the server when the game ends to have your scores counted.
- Sometimes Yelo screws up reading a player, usually because of a quit and rejoin somewhere along the line (not even necessarily by that player). When this happens, that player may be completely corrupted. Luckily, this has a constant effect of clearing the player name. We delete all blank players from the record before uploading. It may mean you got screwed out of the game, but better that than a messed up record.

[Siliconmaster]

- With that, you need to be in the server when the game ends to have your scores counted.
- Sometimes Yelo screws up reading a player, usually because of a quit and rejoin somewhere along the line (not even necessarily by that player). When this happens, that player may be completely corrupted. Luckily, this has a constant effect of clearing the player name. We delete all blank players from the record before uploading. It may mean you got screwed out of the game, but better that than a messed up record.

Well, that explains my absence. :P So right now if you quit right before the end of a game, your scores aren't counted? At all? Doesn't this mean you could cheat out of a bad game?

[klange]

Well, that explains my absence. :P So right now if you quit right before the end of a game, your scores aren't counted? At all? Doesn't this mean you could cheat out of a bad game?

Seeing as this isn't a production system, there's no worry of cheating. It's "just for fun" that we're using it in real games at all. We could just test with the dev team in a "scripted" game.

[Siliconmaster]

Ah. A good point, sir. Just exploring the theoretical possibilities.

[Futzy]

Ok, so this is what I'm thinking the renders for the achievements and such will look like.

I just made it red so you can see it.

[jcap]

I don't like it.

Keep achievements down to the most basic thing of what they are.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/a...php?gameID=274

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/g.../achievements/

Just mimic those design concepts. Almost none of them have any Chief in them (exception being one like Mongoose mowdown).

[Limited]

When you say client, you mean runs on your copy of Halo, so the dedicated could be on another computer and it wouldnt matter. Final version will work with the dedicated server, right?

So, nothing stops you (Bacon) having the "test" servers on another server? Maybe less laggy one?