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Zub

08-30-2010, 09:38 AM

Hi all,

Using my wow-ratings framework i created a Portal to monitor the progress and gear of your toons/team.

http://wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php (http://wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php)

I originaly did it for myself (to see which toons needed which achievements and upgrade) but think it might benefit the community.
I based it on the data used in the Maxi Toon Lists (http://wow-ratings.com/index_maxilists.php) (many toon sigs: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=30912) and it looks something like this:

http://tonicturtle.free.fr/wow/wow-teams.jpg

(It is currently limited to 5 toons, but i might extend it to 10 if my servers can take the refresh load :-)

The image is quite self explanatory i think, and you can all have a go here: WoW Ratings website (http://wow-ratings.com)
register and create a multi toon list, then go to the wow teams to see the dashboard.

People that already have multi toon sigs should be able to see the portal right away by calling this url: http://wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php?id=<your multi list id>
For example: url: http://wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php?id=Nocturne

In the works:
- Chose which Achievement to display (currently it's "Champion of the Frozen Wastes" by default but you can change that by adding "&achiev=<Id of the achiev> in the url. (check wowhead for the ID)
for example, Northern DungeonMaster is visible here: http://wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php?id=Nocturne&achiev=1288 (http://wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php?id=Nocturne&achiev=1288)
Done! you can now choose which (dungeon) achievement to display by clicking the 'change' link under the achievement title.

- More Achievements, i currently only listed the Dungeon ones, but will add the rest. (again, need to check the load first)
Done! all existing achievements are now listed

- some icons in the gear list might be missing. trying to find a way around that (if not i'll link directly to the armory images)
Done!

- i'll trya an add a summary tab to see the default team values at a glance: default team iLevel, lastest achievement done as a team etc
- i'll have to check how it all breaks during weekly maintenance and work around it >.<

I'm open to any suggestions and bug reports.
Hope this helps :-)

-Zub

Slats

08-30-2010, 10:28 AM

This tool is AWESOME. I'd love to be able to pick diff. acheivs - love the sig generator. Very cool utils.

Toned

08-30-2010, 10:36 AM

This tool is so badass.

WTB more signature space.

Slats

08-30-2010, 10:44 AM

Hmmm you need to make it so you can specify the pixel limit (x y) so we can make them fit forum restrictions. :(

Owltoid

08-30-2010, 10:45 AM

I don't think this is meant for a signature, but instead a tracking utility.

I love the ability to see your gear level on all your toons! Very cool.

Toned

08-30-2010, 10:54 AM

I don't think this is meant for a signature, but instead a tracking utility.

I love the ability to see your gear level on all your toons! Very cool.

Well no shit my comment was in reference to slats signature and for people who would like to display their 10 man teams, or like 2 teams, or even 1 team with 5 chars without having to split it into columns.

Owltoid

08-30-2010, 11:32 AM

Well no shit my comment was in reference to slats signature and for people who would like to display their 10 man teams, or like 2 teams, or even 1 team with 5 chars without having to split it into columns.

Heh, the "no shit" part of the comment makes it sound like it was obvious what you were referring to, when it really wasn't... at all :)

Maxion

08-30-2010, 04:08 PM

Ooh, I like!

EDIT: Would be nice if I could still make the list of my team even if armory is giving an error when trying to access one of the toons. Atm I can't add the 3rd toon on my team because of an armory error :S

Zub

08-30-2010, 05:16 PM

Thanks for the comments, You should be able to display the achievement you like sometime today

Ooh, I like!
EDIT: Would be nice if I could still make the list of my team even if armory is giving an error when trying to access one of the toons. Atm I can't add the 3rd toon on my team because of an armory error :S
Unfortunately i want to validate the toons before i create the maxi lists, so it's limited to when armory is up.
You will however be able to browse the portal and all the achievement while the armory is down (if you visit the portal at least once before) but won't be able to refresh the data during maintenance.
in short, during maintenance you'll be able to see in the portal the data from last time you refreshed

Hmmm you need to make it so you can specify the pixel limit (x y) so we can make them fit forum restrictions. :(
Sorry, i'm not going to go there for two reasons: 1/ it's going to be very messy/complex to work in a limited space and readjust all the font sizes/names accordingly
2/ this toon is not solely dedicated to create Sigs for dual-boxing.com, and the size restrictions differ on each.

This tool is so badass.

WTB more signature space.
Unfortunately not in my hands :P (discussed here: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=31703)

cheers
-Zub

Slats

08-30-2010, 05:39 PM

Slats

08-30-2010, 05:42 PM

I guess Mercurio has edited his manually or something in photoshop to fit?

http://img714.imageshack.us/i/kjsig15043red.jpg/
http://img714.imageshack.us/i/kjsig15043red.jpg
(http://img714.imageshack.us/i/kjsig15043red.jpg/)

Zub

08-30-2010, 05:42 PM

Oh if its not meant for signitures sorry. The way it lets you generate the 'how to link this image' link just make it feel like it was.

I guess I could find some kind of use for the image in populating a blog or something.

I do like the 'dashboard' portal idea. Where you can load and track teams and track achievements.

I'll try find another sig tool to use that lets me display all my guys.
you can use it as a sign, (i do) but to do so you can't put too many toons.
Or you can do like Mercurio, who generated a large sig with many names, and then photoshoped it to fit :-)

Zub

08-30-2010, 05:43 PM

I guess Mercurio has edited his manually or something in photoshop to fit?

http://img714.imageshack.us/i/kjsig15043red.jpg/
yes he did :-) and he added the white slab with the comment as well on it :-)

Slats

08-30-2010, 05:55 PM

All sorted. Edited it with a free app I found called Irfanview.

Great tool! Keep up the great work.

Zub

08-30-2010, 05:57 PM

All sorted. Edited it with a free app I found called Irfanview.

Great tool! Keep up the great work.
thanks. Note that the photoshoped version will obviously not update itself however. but if your toons are stable/static at the moment, then it's no big deal.
Come cata, you might want to pick a 5-man main team a display that one so that we all know the progress :-)

Zub

08-30-2010, 09:33 PM

I have now added the possibility to change the achievement displayed :-)
just click the [change] link under the achievement and select from the list.

Note that the newly selected achievement will become the default for that team.
obviously if you have several teams they can all use separate default achievements.

[edit] I've now also added the whole list of achievements (currently 889), including general, quests, exploration, pvp, dungeons, professions, reputations and world events.
they will auto update when you refresh your teams.

hope you like it
-Zub

Zub

08-31-2010, 09:13 PM

Hi all,
I was hoping to get a bit more feedback. Has anyone else tried the Teams Portal?

Do you find it useful? Not useful?
if not, what feature would you like to see there?

i know i use my portal all the time to monitor my team and the achievements (saves me from going to 5 different armory pages). It's basically like multiboxing the armory hehe

Any comments/criticism welcome.

cheers,
-Zub

Sam DeathWalker

09-01-2010, 12:13 AM

If I can see the ilevel gear on all my 36 guys at once that would be great for me, as would "join by guild" or something similar.

Hook me up and Ill give you a plug on my forum (13,000 members and 300 more per day, dont ask me why considering none has paid to post /well 2 have/).

Zub

09-01-2010, 12:36 AM

36 guys would unfortunately not be possible as the generated xml (from the armory) would just take too much space.
At the moment, for a 5 man team the xml is about 1MB (with all the toon info and achievements and gear etc), which i zip to about 300k.

I might expand to 10 in the future (need to see the demand for that), in the meantime you can use it in teams of 5 :-)

just curious, out of the 130000 menbers (who don't pay and therefore see nothing i guess), how many have names like "ueoiureoi", "wwwytywtt', "cheapviagra' or "rolexwatchs" ? :-)
without a good captcha or bot detection question you'll have many unnecessary visitors (bots trying to post ad mesages)
I had a snowboard forum at some point, and we let it die out to move to something else, in the 6 months that we let it unchecked about 80,000 visitors had logged in. Not one was an actual valid visitor.

Zub

09-01-2010, 02:15 AM

Added a way to monitor your team professions. It should be readily available to all existing teams.

screenshot:
http://tonicturtle.free.fr/wow/wow-teams-profs.jpg

Holmeser

09-01-2010, 04:55 AM

Thank you Zub, the team portal feature is brilliant, really helpful to me already at checking out my teams gear, and i'm not even 80 yet so i guess it will get even more helpful when i get there! :D
Thanks Again

Iru

09-01-2010, 10:00 AM

zub,

a) yes, this feature is AUSOME. I like it much.
b) a bug report - while I can see various loremaster achievements in the drop down list (which is also AUSOME), selecting any of them produces an 'Unknown Achievement ID' message.
c) I really like the professions suggestion from the previous page

Zub

09-01-2010, 10:41 AM

thanks :-)

b) a bug report - while I can see various loremaster achievements in the drop down list (which is also AUSOME), selecting any of them produces an 'Unknown Achievement ID' message.

yep, i noticed that, thanks for the feedback, i'll look into it.
Basically i get the list of achievements from the first toon in the list, and sometimes there might be some discrepancies between the toons. (most of the time actually)

for example, if the first toon has 37 pets, he won't see the "plenty of pets" achievement in the list, but he'll get the "pet smart, shop smart" (or whatever it is :-)
the other toons might only have 3 pets, and therefore they are confused because they can't find the correct achievement.

working on it :-)

Sam DeathWalker

09-01-2010, 11:50 AM

Ya lots and lots are not valid people with stupid names for sure.

But you have to pay 49cents to post so they register but can't post anyways.

Ill have to read about ways to make it hard for spammers to post, I don't have time to delete a bunch of junk.

You are writing this in lua I assume, maybe I can make something just for items; would be really nice to see my weak slots at a glance.

Iru

09-01-2010, 11:50 AM

working on it :-)
Excellent. Tracking non-dungeon achievements (three toons working on Loremaster; yes, I have no life :)) is my primary focus for now, so being able to see all this in one spot is incredibly helpful

Zub

09-01-2010, 05:41 PM

You are writing this in lua I assume, maybe I can make something just for items; would be really nice to see my weak slots at a glance.
Lua is used for ingame coding and add-ons.
This portal is neither, it's just a website in php that reads from the wowarmory info (xml parsing)

Zub

09-01-2010, 08:51 PM

Excellent. Tracking non-dungeon achievements (three toons working on Loremaster; yes, I have no life :)) is my primary focus for now, so being able to see all this in one spot is incredibly helpful
ok i think i might have fixed it.
here's your Northrend Loremaster achievement page:
http://www.wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php?id=IruSig1&achiev=41

enjoy :-)

Iru

09-02-2010, 10:11 AM

Brilliant, thanks! And even more brilliant now that I see you're showing current status data for the incomplete achievements (quests done, mounts owned etc)!!

While I'm being demanding, is it possible for you to support achievement drill-down at all, i.e. be able to click on the components of an achievement when they are achievements themselves, without having to go back through the drop-down list? This probably only matters for quest, pvp, and world event meta achievements but it would still be useful

If the XML from wowarmory only includes the text of the underlying achievements than this is probably more work than it's worth but I figured I'd ask :)

Zub

09-02-2010, 08:21 PM

While I'm being demanding, is it possible for you to support achievement drill-down at all, i.e. be able to click on the components of an achievement when they are achievements themselves, without having to go back through the drop-down list? This probably only matters for quest, pvp, and world event meta achievements but it would still be useful

Done!
when possible, the criterii are linked to sub-achievements

If the XML from wowarmory only includes the text of the underlying achievements than this is probably more work than it's worth but I figured I'd ask :)
The xml of the armory does include an id for each criteria (as well as the name), but i can't figure out what that ID corresponds to as it doesn't match the id of the sub-achievement.
So at the moment i'm just do name matching (which takes longer)

If anyone knows about that criteria id, throw me a PM please :-)

Zub

09-06-2010, 08:07 PM

up'ed it to show up to 10 toons simultaneously.
big tables, but might be handy to those maxiboxing :-)

Zub

09-19-2010, 07:44 PM

the Brewfest event is about the start!
i invite you all to add &achiev=1683 at the end of your team's portal url to monitor the brewfest achievements.

for example, my team:
http://www.wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php?id=Nocturne&achiev=1683 (http://www.wow-ratings.com/index_teams.php?id=Nocturne&achiev=1683)

alternatively, you can also set that achievement as default, and it will display automatically whenever you display your team.

Cheers,
-Zub / Soap

Iru

09-20-2010, 03:45 PM

Done!
when possible, the criterii are linked to sub-achievements

The xml of the armory does include an id for each criteria (as well as the name), but i can't figure out what that ID corresponds to as it doesn't match the id of the sub-achievement.
So at the moment i'm just do name matching (which takes longer)

If anyone knows about that criteria id, throw me a PM please :-)

So this was working but now isn't. Did Blizzard change the XML tags?

More specifically, I used to be able to drill down from Loremaster to the various sub-achievements etc but can no longer do so.

Zub

09-20-2010, 06:18 PM

So this was working but now isn't. Did Blizzard change the XML tags?

More specifically, I used to be able to drill down from Loremaster to the various sub-achievements etc but can no longer do so.
Ah it seems something must have changed, as i can still drill down from "Brewmaster" (id 1683) to the specific sub achievements (for example) but indeed cannot drill down Loremaster (1682) at the moment.
I'll have a look into it and try and fix it asap

cheers,
-Zub

Zub

09-20-2010, 08:10 PM

ok i think it's fixed now

Iru

09-27-2010, 06:24 PM

All better now. Thanks!

While I'm being demanding, any chance you can add a Reputation section as well??

Zub

09-27-2010, 07:12 PM

All better now. Thanks!

While I'm being demanding, any chance you can add a Reputation section as well??
you mean displaying reputations like in the profession section? yeah that can be added. I'll seeif I have time this week.

I'm however afraid that it's going to add a very long list. I wonder if I should work with tabs, or if people prefer to have all on 1 page.

thanks for the idea

Zub

09-28-2010, 03:11 AM

All better now. Thanks!

While I'm being demanding, any chance you can add a Reputation section as well??
Done !

The colors still need some minor tweaking, but all the information is there.
I've refreshed your portal Iru

Iru

09-28-2010, 10:48 AM

AUSOME!!! This is some sexy beast stuff!

Zub

09-28-2010, 08:06 PM

AWESOME!!! This is some sexy beast stuff!
Glad you like it :-)

tell your friends! and click the ads ! :p

Slats

09-30-2010, 04:06 AM

Yeah I love your work. :)

I think you need to market the site more as a way to build temas and track ahievments than as a signiture generator.

For me personally the sig generator isn't flexible enough to do what I want in terms of pulling data, showing data etc. But the maxi-lists and achievments showing gear on all my guys at a glance that stuff rocks my socks.

Zub

09-30-2010, 06:17 AM

nauren01

09-30-2010, 06:47 AM

this is really great, thank you Zub !!

One question - is it possible to de-select tables? E.g. I would only need the gear section, this would reduce the refresh time a lot.

Sorry if this has been discussed before, I admit that I didn' read all comments in this thread :)

nauren01

09-30-2010, 06:57 AM

Zub

09-30-2010, 08:10 AM

Zub

09-30-2010, 08:11 AM

I just realized that I should learn to use the signature tool first :)

edit1: /blush - still cutting me off, what am I doing wrong? Has the signature a size limit?
edit2: it has! fixed, now - Team names are overrated anyway:)
If your sig gets truncated in Dual-Boxing.com, it's unfortunately because there is a limited sig space in d-b.com, not because the sig is broken.
Not much i can do on that part, but you found your answer it seems, by reducing the sig content.
:-)

Zub

10-05-2010, 09:45 AM

I've done a major rehaul of the interface, and hopefully didn't break too much >.<
all in all, it should be a bit quicker, and hopefully clearer.

http://wow-ratings.com

Please confirm whether it's all working for you still, or if you found any bugs.
Cheers,
-Zub

valkry

10-05-2010, 12:01 PM

Awesome tool, just starting to play around with it now :P

Hmm, obv need to edit my sig lol

Zub

10-13-2010, 05:22 AM

for all portal users, it seems that the changes from 4.0.1 didn't break it too much.
Only problem i see at the moment is that gathering professions, achievements and talent specs are not always present, but looking at the armory they are not there either.

This should all work correctly as soon as the wow armory is fixed/updated.

Cheers,
-Zub

Bloodcloud

10-13-2010, 08:52 AM

coooool toool

Iru

11-03-2010, 08:40 PM

Zub

11-03-2010, 08:43 PM

Zub, I am currently breaking the Teams and Maxi Lists areas pretty heavily. Look at Maxi Groups CookieA & CookieB for the details but basically adding toon 11 to a maxi list and generating a team portal for a list of 10 toons both spin off into space & never return.
CookieA (10 toons) looks ok to me.
i'm currently refreshing CookieB to see how it goes.

Edit: CookieB has refreshed correctly (8 toons)
Have you changed the list in the meantime perhaps?