OH no, now everyone will be disappointed. Conspiracies, exploits, and rumor mongering are much more fun.... and people get to make themselves look good doing it (such squeeky clean little Jedis they are).
Anyway congrats on the name change and good job dispelling rumors.
I love it when nobody bothers reading a thread lol. We had already solved this, figured out it was a name change from Freepfreak to Karcharoth, and I had already gone back and corrected the history to properly reflect that.
Out of curiosity, do you know the origin of it? It make me sad sometimes to think that something like 1/10 people that play this game have read not just the trilogy but his other works as well.
Sorry for the minor derail.
I had to research it. I had no idea although I have read the main story, Hobbit, and the Simarillion (quite some time ago). If my research is correct, Karcharoth is the warg the bit off the hand of Beren to try and take the Simaril. The stone was stuck in his throat and cause great discomfort and misery.
Originally Posted by Erasmus354
I love it when nobody bothers reading a thread lol. We had already solved this, figured out it was a name change from Freepfreak to Karcharoth, and I had already gone back and corrected the history to properly reflect that.
Oh please how could I have passed that up? Was I really supposed to write something cuddly there?
Here is my new and improved revised post:
Originally Posted by NoobBrand
Karch I'm glad you posted that to clear it all up. I want to sincerely thank those who realized the error and fixed the posts. You are all a class crowd that continually shows concern for the feelings of your fellow players. Freeps thank you for your fair and judicious play and creeps thank you for not being whiners.
I had to research it. I had no idea although I have read the main story, Hobbit, and the Simarillion (quite some time ago). If my research is correct, Karcharoth is the warg the bit off the hand of Beren to try and take the Simaril. The stone was stuck in his throat and cause great discomfort and misery.
Oh please how could I have passed that up? Was I really supposed to write something cuddly there?
Here is my new and improved revised post:
Boooorrrrrriinnng.
I think it was Carcharoth, not sure...probably was flagged by the devs and that's why he uses a K.
I think it was Carcharoth, not sure...probably was flagged by the devs and that's why he uses a K.
You're right. Thanks for the spelling tip. Now I can look him up in the Simarillion. I love the interesting side stories in that book.
Here is what the index of names in the Silmarillion has to say:
Originally Posted by Silmarillion, Ballantine Books, paperback 1st ed 1979, pg 399
Carcharoth - The great wolf of Angband that bit off the hand of Beren bearing the Silmaril; slain by Huan in Doriath. The name is translated in the text as 'the Red Maw'. Called also Anfauglir.
Neat stuff.
Last edited by FyreBrand; Mar 02 2009 at 11:06 PM.
Reason: added Silmarrilion quote
While the graph and other server specific info is nice, is there any way to make it show the whole list for the server's daily results like it did before (like it does for all servers, only not limited to 30)?
Man, I was confused, it said this was the most recent posted in thread .... but I couldn't find it anywhere. So now that this is stickied maybe I should use it for some good.
What do you guys want to see added to the site? I am thinking a kinship ranking page, and a kinship view page (like char ranking and char view). The kinship view page could show a breakdown of members and classes and such.
They do show up. Also, if you transfer and don't show up on the leadeboards, you won't show up anywhere. Not on my.lotro, not in User CP for a signature, and not on leaderboards.
Only people who transferred during a certain period of time don't show up. Basically, you're screwed if you transferred then (right after Moria I believe). "Sucks to be you!" Turbine Employee says.
I still show up on mylotro.com and I'm pretty sure that's where this list parses its data from.
I know, I'm saying its all or nothing. Because you still have your character sig, I know that you also show up on my.lotro and the lorebook leaderboards.
Dunno why you wouldn't appear on rath's site though.
is it bugged because it has not updated my infamy since the 18th o.O
There was a problem with the hosting that caused the site to be down for a number of days. As such I was not able to upload the stats to the SQL server as well. In a wonderful domino effect that caused all of the rating and renown gains to be wrong (based off of the 18th instead of the day before). So when I uploaded all of the backlog of data today I had to also write a script to go through and correct the bad data.
Hopefully everything is working now, but I have no guarantees. Anything you see wrong point it out and I will look into it. Also I have a dev key for the new data.lotro API so when I get around to it the individual player pages will show more information about the character (gear, stats, etc...)
He doesn't appear on the my.lotro leaderboards though.
Why should I delete data?
Perhaps I can modify it to leave inactive players off of the boards but let them show up in searches. I dunno ... I just don't like the idea of deleting data even though someone deleted their character. I want the site to act as a history.
As for transfers ... yea they aren't easy to deal with. I would have to every day go through every active player (like 150,000 of them) and check that against the full leaderboard scrape to see if they are still showing up. You can see how it gets unfeasible.
Perhaps I can modify it to leave inactive players off of the boards but let them show up in searches. I dunno ... I just don't like the idea of deleting data even though someone deleted their character. I want the site to act as a history.
As for transfers ... yea they aren't easy to deal with. I would have to every day go through every active player (like 150,000 of them) and check that against the full leaderboard scrape to see if they are still showing up. You can see how it gets unfeasible.
Perhaps I can modify it to leave inactive players off of the boards but let them show up in searches. I dunno ... I just don't like the idea of deleting data even though someone deleted their character. I want the site to act as a history.
As for transfers ... yea they aren't easy to deal with. I would have to every day go through every active player (like 150,000 of them) and check that against the full leaderboard scrape to see if they are still showing up. You can see how it gets unfeasible.
Erasmus354 are you using the api? or screen scrape? it is a good idea not to delete data unless you know the data is corrupt in some way, if you are loading the data into a DB you can add a Boolean field to say whether the row is visible or not.
also the trasfers isnt that difficult if you write some simple logic or do a join then compare then add a true to the booloean field through an insert into...
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