AA Grind with a Named Hit-List

[Skandragon]

<p>I have added an actual hit-list to eq2mission.flame.org this weekend.  Using log files or manually selecting which named you have killed for AA, you can get a listing of other things in the zone that you can get AA from as well.</p><p>By uploading a log file, named you have already received AA for will be marked as killed, and not show up on your character's personal hit-list.  It will also grow the database of targets for everyone, so additional targets will appear on other people's hit-lists automatically.</p><p>Uploading a log file can take quite some time, so I hope to write a small Windows application that sits around watching log files and uploading them little by little, and only the interesting parts.</p>

[LilNut]

<p>as a player who enjoys solo'ing and hunting named mobs, this is awesome.</p>

[Grumble69]

<p>How do you generate the log file?</p>

[Jaremai]

<p><cite>Grumble69 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>How do you generate the log file?</p></blockquote><p>type /log</p>

[Skandragon]

<p>Thanks for the awesome vote.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>I'm working on a stand-alone Windows client which will upload them much faster, and also strip out all that stuff I don't need (tells,group chat, guild chat, etc.)</p><p>--Quicktiger</p>

[NightGod473]

<p><cite>Skandragon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Thanks for the awesome vote.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>I'm working on a stand-alone Windows client which will upload them much faster, and also strip out all that stuff I don't need (tells,group chat, guild chat, etc.)</p><p>--Quicktiger</p></blockquote><p>This would be awesome. I currently have over 800MB worth of log files, the prospect of going through them manually is...daunting.</p>

[Nrgy]

<p><cite>Skandragon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have added an actual hit-list to eq2mission.flame.org this weekend.  Using log files or manually selecting which named you have killed for AA, you can get a listing of other things in the zone that you can get AA from as well.</p><p>By uploading a log file, named you have already received AA for will be marked as killed, and not show up on your character's personal hit-list.  It will also grow the database of targets for everyone, so additional targets will appear on other people's hit-lists automatically.</p><p>Uploading a log file can take quite some time, so I hope to write a small Windows application that sits around watching log files and uploading them little by little, and only the interesting parts.</p></blockquote><p>Anyway you can add a choice to the Zone drop down box so we can get a list to-date output?</p><p>Otherwise .. Awesome job!</p>

[Skandragon]

<p><cite>Nrgy wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Anyway you can add a choice to the Zone drop down box so we can get a list to-date output?</p><p>Otherwise .. Awesome job!</p></blockquote><p>I'm not entirely certain what you mean.    Can you elaborate?</p>

[Skandragon]

<p><cite>Burningice@Guk wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>[regarding the stand-alone uploading client]</cite></p><p>This would be awesome. I currently have over 800MB worth of log files, the prospect of going through them manually is...daunting.</p></blockquote><p>I have a first attempt at such a client done.  It doesn't do everything I want it to do, but it does work and uploads much faster.</p><p>Current major functionality:</p><ul><li>Filters out player origininated chat.  Item links are retained, but all the rest of the message is dropped.</li><li>Compresses the resulting data for transmission.  This makes the file, on average, 10 times smaller.</li><li>Uploads the file.</li></ul><p>Progress bars are your usual windows style in that they are never accurate.</p><p>To give the client a try, go to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eq2mission.flame.org/" target="_blank">http://eq2mission.flame.org/</a>, log in, and go to your log listing.  There is a link to the client's help page at the top.</p><p>What I'd like to add next is the ability to move the file into a "processed" directory, after renaming it to something unique, and perhaps even storing it on disk compressed at that point.</p>

[Skandragon]

<p>So, after about two weeks, the database is currently up to:</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">      2582 mobs, 7843 kills, 42 users, 94 characters.</span></p><p>Not bad for only a few people who have uploaded logs to date.  I don't know which character is closest to the 2,582 known AA mobs though...</p>

[Skandragon]

<p>And now after another few days, 2,888 mobs with AA, 11,710 kills recorded, 65 users, and 151 characters.  Still only a small sampling of the number of players out there.</p><p>Any feedback on the usefulness of this thing?</p>

[NightGod473]

<p>Got a .NET error, didn't have time to play around with finding the correct version, though mine should be relatively up to date since DCUO updated it as part of the install, if memory serves.</p>

[Skandragon]

<p>Chances are you need .NET 4.0.  I tried to downgrade the application to 3.5, which is more widely installed, but unfortunately that was a bit of a failure.</p>

[Skandragon]

<p>I just made two simple but quite useful changes to the upload client.  It still requires .net 4.0 to run. 1)  The server is now capable of returning a string that is displayed after an upload completes.  This is so I can do a poor-man's update notification system until I get a real one in place. 2)  When uploading a log file, there is a checkbox to enable renaming it before uploading it.  This will rename files like eq2log_Quicktiger.txt to something like eq2log_Quicktiger.2011-01-31.1413.txt prior to uploading. The rename will only occur if the part just before .txt is not a number.  This means previously renamed files from ACT's renaming or the upload client should remain unmodified. The date format for the rename is YYYY-MM-DD.hhmm, where it's year, month, day, hour, minute.  The timestamp comes from the last line in the log file, so it's effectively when you logged out.</p>