Overclockers Podpilot Services

by **Shionoya Risa** on Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:26 pm

So, as some of you are aware, I operate a website to show your characters skills, certificates and ships. If you don't know about this, click here.

And, as everyone should know, it's Christmas, so I have some time off from work and lots of free time. This is where you come in, good people of Oc-PS. I'd like you to comb the site for anything that you don't think is right, an example; the main url gets re-directed to /skills and then when you click a character, their name replaces this. This, in my opinion is not that way it should operate, so that has gone into the list to look at changing.

Another example would be the ships and certificates urls not be 'pretty', making remembering the link to type harder.

Btw, some features that have been suggested before:

Corp pages (Ask Dage, I've forgotten what he wanted now)
Twiiter/email alerts for characters with <24h skill queue (Stage 1 implemented (Haxxed) for characters on the main page, stage 2 (The alerts) is a lot harder).
Character standings, from npc corps and the like.
Ability to export to evemon (Not sure if this is even needed apart from easily making queues for characters you don't have the api key for, low priority)

Feel free to comment on anything that you want.

- Shio.

by **Feek** on Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:28 pm

You see my signature?

Can you make it work again please?

by **Shionoya Risa** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:07 pm

Oi, Feek!

Working on transparency now, but something seems broken. :s

If anyone else wants one, let me know, it's simples to duplicate this, change colours etc.

Can even have a drop shadow.

And, the text adapts if you're not training anything, like so

You're screwed if your account is inactive though as I don't plan to integrate this directly with the db.

by **Durzel** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:23 pm

Me too please, in the drop-shadow style one.

by **Shionoya Risa** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:33 pm

Code: Select all: [img]http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/sig.Durzel.php[/img]

by **Durzel** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:37 pm

Thanks

by **Feek** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:49 pm

Oh very good

Transparency will be the icing on the cake though!

Is it possible to add the date/time it last updated on the front as well?

by **Shionoya Risa** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:08 pm

I can add minutes until next update and that's about it, however, I fear this will take up too much space by time I've added the text to go with it.

Given you the current date Feek, thoughts?

The actual information will be updated every hour give or take 15 minutes providing you're on The List™, which you and Durzel now are. The SP total will only update on skill changes and pause/restarts.

by **Dagejoor** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:32 pm

Corp pages - a page that listed people in the same corp. so like the main page but only people in the same corp... with links to this page from peoples individual pages, where it names the corp they are in. same could be done for Alliances too i guess

by **Zuchao** on Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:32 pm

another idea is maybe embed a html link into the sig on the characters name that links to the skill room profile?

by **Dagejoor** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:54 am

Why would you need to do that when *you* can make the entire picture a link?

Code: Select all: [url=http://skills.txsi.co.uk/Zuchao][img]http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/sig.Zuchao.php[/img][/url]

by **Shionoya Risa** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:42 am

Yo! A lovely new feature for everyone. (Providing you like one of the pre arranged colour schemes) You can now whack your characters name directly into the url, saving you time asking me for one.

Obviously, change the name in the examples to your own. For spaces, please use an underscore "_". No shadow for transparent because it looks sillycrap.

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/pink?n=Your_Name

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/pink?n=Your_Name&s=y

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/gray?n=Your_Name

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/trans.php?n=Marjelle

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/gray?n=Your_Name&s=y

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/white?n=Your_Name]

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/white?n=Your_Name&s=y

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/gold?n=Your_Name

Code: Select all: http://skills.txsi.co.uk/sigs/gold?n=Your_Name&s=y

by **Jimmy Riddle** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:21 am

You need more variables in your URL

url.php?name=xxx&shadow=y&text_colour=xxx&bg=xxx

Also I couldn't add Jimmy to the skills showroom, entered my API but got redirected to the front page

by **Shionoya Risa** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:01 pm

Jimmy Riddle wrote:You need more variables in your URL

url.php?name=xxx&shadow=y&text_colour=xxx&bg=xxx

Also I couldn't add Jimmy to the skills showroom, entered my API but got redirected to the front page

Cheers for telling me it's borked! Should be working again fine now.

And yeah, some variables might be good. Believe it or not, that was the first time I'd ever used them.

Feek - Been working on transparency today, figured out yesterdays issue, but now the text looks blooming awful!

by **Jimmy Riddle** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:24 pm

Ta,

Jimmy and Prof added

(Vic you can stop moaning at me now

)

Cry at my poorly planned skill distribution

by **Shionoya Risa** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:21 pm

Managed to get the shadow variable working will update the post above, colours don't want to play ball :/

Oh, and I've blurred the shadow too.

by **Sylvet** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:50 pm

Hey Jaz,

Just had a look at my alt's skill queue and something looks a little out of place, you did want feedback

Skills page shows queue as:

Learning Ends: 2009-12-24 16:48:19 Queued to level 4 (3 grey squares, 1 blue)
Iron Will Ends: 2009-12-24 16:52:51 Queued to level 1 (1 blue square)
Spatial Awareness Ends: 2009-12-25 06:33:53 Queued to level 1 (1 blue square)

The actual queue on my character is:

Learning - Queued to level 4
Iron Will - Queued to level 1
Iron Will - Queued to level 2
Iron Will - Queued to level 3
Iron Will - Queued to level 4
Spatial Awareness - Queued to level 1
Spatial Awareness - Queued to level 2
Spatial Awareness - Queued to level 3
Spatial Awareness - Queued to level 4

I like the idea of how you have condensed the multiple levels so that it is more compact, all that would be needed would be for it to show 4 blue squares after Iron Will and Spatial Awareness. It a very minor display issue I'm sure but you are looking for perfection

by **Shionoya Risa** on Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:15 pm

Thanks, looking into it. As it turns out, the 'competition' doesn't have this working correctly either.

by **Dagejoor** on Fri Dec 25, 2009 12:56 am

Shionoya Risa wrote:
Feek - Been working on transparency today, figured out yesterdays issue, but now the text looks blooming awful!

Fixed!

by **Feek** on Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:06 am

Super duper

That's spot on, thanks!

/edit - At least it was until I posted then it all went a bit odd....

by **Dagejoor** on Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:12 am

looks fine from this end

by **Shionoya Risa** on Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:14 am

Dagejoor wrote:looks fine from this end

And mine.

by **Feek** on Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:43 am

And fine here now as well, very odd.

by **Feek** on Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:13 pm

The Subsystems group doesn't have a label like the rest.....

by **Shionoya Risa** on Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:20 am

Feek wrote:The Subsystems group doesn't have a label like the rest.....

Can you login to the "My Character" section of the eve site and see if you can grab the one that should be there please Feek? Ta.

by **Feek** on Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:55 pm

lol...

by **Sylvet** on Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:25 am

Bonus points for originality

by **Feek** on Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:31 am

And another oddity..

http://skills.txsi.co.uk/skills/Anjin_Sahn&show=ships

The Orca is shown as a Caldari ship instead of ORE and the Exhumers show as Gallente instead of ORE as well.

Which I thought was a bit queer.

by **Scetrov** on Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:40 pm

Annoying artefact of CCPs database ORE isn't actually a faction, the client makes it look like it is and 3rd Party software has to follow suit. What we do is set anything in MarketGroup 1048, 875 and 495 to ORE.

Also, faction ships listed incorrectly in the database:
Amarr Navy Slicer ID=17703 MarketGroup set to=72
Caldari Navy Hookbill ID=17619 MarketGroup set to=61
Gallente Navy Comet ID=17841 MarketGroup set to=77
Republic Fleet Firetail ID=17812 MarketGroup set to=64
Nightmare ID=17736 MarketGroup set to=79
Machariel ID=17738 MarketGroup set to=78
Dramiel ID=17932 MarketGroup set to=64
Cruor ID=17926 MarketGroup set to=72
Succubus ID=17924 MarketGroup set to=72
Daredevil ID=17928 MarketGroup set to=64
Cynabal ID=17720 MarketGroup set to=73
Ashimmu ID=17922 MarketGroup set to=74
Phantasm ID=17718 MarketGroup set to=74
Goru's Shuttle ID=21097 MarketGroup set to=396
Guristas Shuttle ID=21628 MarketGroup set to=396
Interbus Shuttle ID=30842 MarketGroup set to=395
Apotheosis ID=29266 MarketGroup set to=10001 (Injected)
Zephyr ID=2078 MarketGroup set to=10001 (Injected)

by **Shionoya Risa** on Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:02 pm

El Fix completeo.

Also bodged the Rorqual so it has some text for a group.

Edit: Vort has sort of given me a half idea, currently the db I'm using doesn't use the marketGroupID at all, and as you can see, the faction ships are just bundled into a raceID that fits. In theory I could utilise marketGroupID along with either raceID 32 'Pirate' or create a new raceID for their factions like I just did with ORE.

The only problem with this is it'll bulk out the ships page a fair bit for those who like their ships if I go for the second option. The first option of bundling them all into raceID 32 seems to be what Chribba has done over at eveboard - http://eveboard.com/pilot/Marjelle/ships

PS. My ship icons look hawt!

Edit 2: Have done the above, bundled them all into raceID 32, this causes a slight problem for ship whores and the page width, working on it atm. Have also changed the title for the pages, so if you're looking at the ships Marjelle can fly, the title now reads 'Marjelle / Ships', this of course changes if you then look at the certificates Marjelle has earned. Also added the ability to highlight corp names on the main character list page.

Oh, and a feature that's been in a while, clicking on a ship on the ships page takes you to the eve wiki page for that ship. Can also click the ship class text, ala 'Frigates' to go to the frigates section of the wiki.

Still struggling on the pretty links for ships and certificates though.

by **Shionoya Risa** on Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:20 am

Just added a new page for the sigs on the site - http://skills.txsi.co.uk/pilot/Effottur ... ow=siglist will of course just work, as expected for all characters.

by **Sylvet** on Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:28 am

Don't know whether someone has mentioned this before but I think your skills list may be out dated, it still shows Astrometric Triangulation under the Science section, this was changed to Astrometric Rangefinding as part of Apocrypha patch 1.0.2 in late March 2009.

Paul

by **Shionoya Risa** on Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:55 pm

Doh! Good spot, any others been changed apart from that one? Also, any more added apart from Fighter Bombers?

by **Sylvet** on Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:20 am

Show some pity for us poor IE7 users at work :'(

Stopwatch is ticking

by **Shionoya Risa** on Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:31 pm

There is no pity to give IE users. However, I shall investigate a bit more when I get a chance.

by **Durzel** on Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:17 am

If it's possible/simple you can make my profile public too, don't think realistically it would make an awful lot of difference either way in a given fight if someone knew what skills I had.

by **Kaylen Vimanis** on Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:30 am

Is it possible to have comparative statistics across the board on all chars. Like a list of who has the most drone skill points, most skills and skills at level 5 in drones, followed by the next dude.

And then i suppose what you could do is have learning speed of a drone skill perhaps, haven't quite thought that one through yet though.

by **Shionoya Risa** on Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:43 pm

Fear not Kay, for all those are being planned and are in the initial stages, I've wanted SP/hour and proper stats for a while, so they're kinda high on the list.

by **Shionoya Risa** on Sun May 02, 2010 10:23 am

I'm back! Mwhauhaha!

I've gone ahead and added the new skills coming in with Tyrannis, which meant I needed to pick an icon until a offical one comes along, I've also finally found the font used for the rest of the group names, and these updates can be found on the test character now.

Thoughts?

Edit: And since I've got the font now, I've added some text for the subsystems group.

by **Durzel** on Wed May 05, 2010 12:39 pm

I want a Jove avatar.

by **Kaylen Vimanis** on Wed May 05, 2010 12:56 pm

Shionoya Risa wrote:I'm back! Mwhauhaha!

I've gone ahead and added the new skills coming in with Tyrannis, which meant I needed to pick an icon until a offical one comes along, I've also finally found the font used for the rest of the group names, and these updates can be found on the test character now.

Thoughts?

Edit: And since I've got the font now, I've added some text for the subsystems group.

We always knew you liked shiny helmets.

by **Shionoya Risa** on Wed May 05, 2010 6:23 pm

Kaylen Vimanis wrote:We always knew you liked shiny helmets.

Meh.

Durzel wrote:I want a Jove avatar.

Tell me which one and I'll see what I can hax together for you.