104th Dedicated Server Stats

[104th_Crunch]

The 104th is pleased to announce the launch of our 104th Dedicated stats board created by 104th_Moa.

 

We invite you to fly on our dedicated server and once again be counted. Track your kills and deaths as well as your progress in many other areas of combat, flight and aircraft management. The 104th stats are an indispensible tool for improving your skills in Lock On/Black Shark and will surely help get you on the fast track to success as a virtual pilot. It doesn't matter if you are new to the sim, a lone wolf pilot or a member of a virtual squadron start here on your quest to be the "best".

 

http://stallturn.com/104th/

 

Latest Java Required. If you have any bug reports, please visit the dedicated thread at the 104th forums. There is also a thread detailing the point system here.

 

Edited December 24, 2010 by Crunch

[Spartan1-1]

Awesome! This is excellent work from all involved. Wish it wasn't java based, I need an app for this if you catch my drift. :music_whistling:

[MoGas]

Great stuff, big thanks too Moa. :)

 

cheers

[Aliboy]

Nice !

Edited December 24, 2010 by Aliboy

[Breakshot]

Congrats with the stats guys!

 

I like the pilot profile function, very neat!

[IvanK]

Great Stuff.

[Case]

Moa, which Java version is needed?

 

Firefox downloads the app, I get to sign the digital signature and it loads showing the tabs on the top, but the rest of the screen is blank... I'm using the OpenJDK 1.6.0_18.

 

Anyway, I'm sure it looks great once I get to load it.

Edited December 24, 2010 by Case

[51GRIZZLY]

Congrats with your brand new stats page ... just a little problem ..... On my Windows explorer Java starts up but the screen stays totally blank.

Edited December 24, 2010 by <51>GRIZZLY

[Cali]

What are Ace kills?

 

EDIT: just read on the 104th forums what Ace kills are, short range weapon kills.

Edited December 24, 2010 by Cali

[HiJack]

Java is a sucker when it comes to viewing lists ;)

[Boberro]

Web page is blank in my Firefox, but IE is OK :?

[PoleCat]

I have it functioning perfectly well in both IE8 and FF with no special considerations. I believe the latest java plug in is the only requirement aside from a browser.

 

Excellent work Moa and thank you.

 

Out

Edited December 24, 2010 by PoleCat

[RIPTIDE]

Moa, which Java version is needed?

 

Firefox downloads the app, I get to sign the digital signature and it loads showing the tabs on the top, but the rest of the screen is blank... I'm using the OpenJDK 1.6.0_18.

 

Anyway, I'm sure it looks great once I get to load it.

Case. (build 1.6.0_11-b03) works for me.

[D3mon1stVFW]

Java is a sucker when it comes to viewing lists ;)

 

lmao, dont dis Java if you dont have the background. It can be done in many ways (JSF, Seam ...) Java is used just as the backend controller in simple POJOs.

[Moa]

Hiya all, and thanks.

 

If you get a blank page in Java simply restart your browser and you should see it. Should work with any Java 1.6 version (although I recommend at lest 1.6.0_u10 for hardware accelerated rendering, and 1.6.0_u22 contains a security fix for applets).

 

I originally wrote it in the Google Web Toolkit (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/) but even with a fully AJAX interface it was a pain to sort columns and resize windows. So I switched to an applet (I considered the downside of requiring a plugin to be less than the upside of a fully 'dynamic' interface). The real dynamic bit is that the stats update in near-real time (if you keep hitting the update button).

 

You should be able to resize windows, sort columns by clicking on them, and use the callsign find and filtering (only show matching callsigns) functions without requiring a fetch from the server (or another complicated page with sort and search criteria). There are a lot of tooltips in the interface to explain some stuff.

 

The software is still beta (a couple of corner-case bugs) and being actively worked on. The intent is to share it (and the source code) with everyone once all the bugs are fixed and current set of enhancements are done. The installation is a little complex but it uses very little CPU and I/O resources (you can run it on the game server easily - as I run several copies on stallturn).

 

There is also a 'SOAP webservice' interface that allows you to get the stats without using the GUI. You could do several things with this:

* squadrons can exchange data.

* You could build a customized non-Java applet interface (eg. GWT, JSF, ASP or whatever you liked) but use the 'heavy lifting' of the dynamicscore2 stats back-end.

* The 51st can preserve their investment in their nice stats system but still access data about its pilots from servers running dynamicscore2.

 

Enjoy, and Merry Christmas guys.

[104th_Crunch]

I have tested in Chrome, IE9 and FF and all 3 give similar performance for me using the latest Java. If you have any bug reports, please visit the dedicated thread at the 104th forums.

 

There is also a thread detailing the point system here.

[Moa]

> I have tested in Chrome, IE9 and FF and all 3 give similar performance for me using the latest Java.

 

Thanks for the info Crunch. This is expected. The 104th stats use a "Java applet" rather than JavaScript running in the browser (they have similar names but are quite different beasts). JavaScript is notoriously slow on older versions of Internet Explorer.

 

If anyone is interested I can make the stats program as stand-alone application you run from your desktop (using the very nifty Java WebStart technology, no source code changes reuqired :) ). Might be easier for those with browser issues.

[Mustang]

Thanks for the stats Moa, great work :thumbup:

[Pilotasso]

Awsome job!! I got the stats working in firefox by using Javas application auto updater.

Edited December 24, 2010 by Pilotasso

[AustinN360]

Great work on the stats mate. Works well in both IE and FF.

 

Keep up the good work. Hope to be in the air soon.

[Pilotasso]

First bug! :smartass:

 

The stats dont recognize gun kills. Its reported as "unknown" weapon.

[Moa]

Thanks Pilotasso. This is actually a bug in the source LockOn logs where gun kills don't always specify the weapon used (the Ka-50 is affected more than anything else as it does a lot of gun work) in the LUA callbacks that the user (eg. the 104th stats system) can hook into. I do a lot of work by tying together several log entries to work out what weapon was used but sometimes it is ambiguous - so I have to mark it as unknown. I'll be looking closely at this to see if it can be improved.

 

ps. There is a thread on the 104th forums dedicated to bug reports (see earlier post on this thread). It is more convenient if you report them there.

[4csNIp]

It looks cool,but its to slow..

[Heli Shed]

Echoed! Awesome work ole boy, really great stuff, i too can confirm IE8, FF and Chrome all working fine for stats.

 

'T'

[Moa]

It looks cool,but its to slow..

 

It is likely to be your network connection (transferring the score data) or computer (rendering that data) that is slow. Unfortunately I can't help with these.