Online Stats

(Ao1SYS) #1

Back in the good 'ol days of vanilla Wolf there used to be a site that would query various game servers and collect their game stats (damned if I can remember what it was though). I remember being amazed when I searched on my player name and found a wealth of information on my game performance, including number of hours played (ouch!). One cool thing about it was that it ranked players so you could compare yourself to others and watch your ranking improve as you developed your skills.

I know there are some stat programs available for ET but as far as I know, they only evaluate game data per/map. I am more interested in cumulative stats.

Does anyone know of any such service that could monitor ET servers? Also, are there any ET servers out there that provide game stats online?

(Stee) #2

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?domain=csp&page=http://csports.computerandvideogames.com/index.asp

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(Ao1SYS) #3

Nice site. A bit weak on the overall stats but it shows me ranked at 1,887 out of over 35000 so that was very cool to see.

Thanks for the tip!

(blushing_bride) #4

stats are interesting. rankings are meaningless arent they? I’m ranked about 4000 places higher then another player who i know for a fact is better than i am

(Sauron|EFG) #5

CSports seems to award quantity over quality. In fact, playing shit 24/7 will probably give you a top 10 spot in a month or two. :moo:

(blushing_bride) #6

i noticed the top player was Wolfplayer. He’s been playing for 72,000 hours!!!i might be wrong but i don’t think that many hours have passed since ET was released (dodgy maths but 72,000 hours is about 8 years)

(lennyballa) #7

the fact is, there are more games then et only. In original rtcw, default name was wolfplayer. So, that place is owned by noobs who don’t know how to change there name :stuck_out_tongue:

(Ragnar_40k) #8

I think he was looking for something like shrub’s stats. See this site for an example. Click on a server name for detailed infos. But I don’t know if shrub already ported it for ET.

(Dies Irae) #9

Well… Interesting but kind of useless =P

Curent rank: 24,641 of 132,763, that only show that there’s 24,640 players that are better/play more than me, The real deal would be if you could see an advance of your skills, maybe if you only play on one server and it have a stat record.

Something like: Kills per minute on curent and last month, XP in engineering, medicine, covert, etc, per minute

(LKS_FreeMan) #10

Thanks for the link Stee. I see I’m not doing too bad. :rocker:

([fun]scott) #11

watch this space… i know of a stat sytem beeing developed for servers where you can keep a record of how your doing which updates daily.

(RocketGrrl [SWE]) #12

They had a figure of PPM (i guess it is Points Per Minute), that is the only interesting stat they had i think. If you could sort the list on that it would be more fair.

(Pamper) #13

Keeping stats encourages bad gameplay. Depending on how the stats are generated, players who want a good place on the stats may either XP-whore, or victory-whore.

What’s a victory-whore you say? It’s when, by random luck, 3 excellent players get on a the same team on a server full of newbies and average people. The allies win 3 maps in 7 minutes, but keep voting against XP shuffles because they’re enjoying winning. As time goes on, several axis players will quit because they’re overwhelmed, leaving teams 9-13. And still the allied victory machine marches on. At that point, some of the Axis should voluntarily switch in order to create a somewhat challenging game.

But already, I’ve seen people happy sit on an out-numbering, out-XP team for one effortless victory after another.

Any kind of persistent stats collection will give greater rewards for such unsporting behavior. Me, I always try to switch to the other team if they’re down a man and being dominated- it makes the game more exciting. But I’m sure that by doing this, I hurt my position on stats-boards.

(Ao1SYS) #14

Yeah, thats similar to what I am looking for. I just remember in vanilla wolf I could check that online site (I’ve done searches but can’t seem to find it again) from time to time and find some interesting stats like:

  • Hours Played
  • Rounds Played
  • Total Frags
  • Total Deaths
  • Ranking

I don’t really care about ranking but it’s nice to have something to gauge your performance against and to be able to track your improvement in kill/death ratio.

The thing I liked about that one site was that it querried all Wolfenstein servers for stats so it didn’t really matter where you played, it still added to your cumulative total. Another thing I used it for was to find the highest fraggers and then use All Seeing Eye to find them in a match so I could spec and learn from some of their tactics.

None of it was really necessary, but it added one more element of interest to the game.

Does anyone else remember this site? I’m sure I would remember it if I heard the name. I think it catered mostly to the Quake community but it also supported a LOT of other FPS games.

(Sauron|EFG) #15

Sounds like The CLQ. It’s dead now, but it used to provide those stats for a number of games (including RtCW). I think it based the ranking on score rather than number of frags though, and it wasn’t very reliable (I could play for weeks without anything getting updated for my nick).

(Ao1SYS) #16

I’m sure that to some extent you are right about that, but that doesn’t change the fact that many people who are interested in stats don’t engage in that kind of behavior. I’m interested in my stats and I’d like to have GREAT stats, yet I always change teams to the underdog when my team is stacked. Let’s face it, it’s really not that fun to completely own the opposing team match after match. I have more fun on the underdog team fighting against the odds. Does this hurt my stats? Definitely. But I’m not playing for the sake of them, I’m playing because I love the game and it’s challenges.

So does my interest in stats make me a bad player? HELL NO! I think you’re making a generalization here that may apply to some people but from what I’ve seen on the servers I frequent it is a small number in proportion to the number of team players.

The developers put a lot of effort into revamping the stat system, and I applaud them for it. They saw an interest in the community for more complete and accessible stats and they responded to it. Don’t blame stats for making bad players, those kind of people are going to be here stats or no stats.

Just my opinion…

(Stektr33) #17

Well put, Ao1SYS. :clap:

(FstFngrz) #18

some more stuff on and From csports.net:

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22350&highlight=#22350

:skull: