Character report

[Lacrosse_fan]

I just had this pretty neat idea, what if there was a character report, I'm not sure where it'd be on screen yet, maybe a new icon or something, that shows every tiny little thing about your character? It lets you see how much damage you've caused, how much damage you've taken, how many times you've attacked (range, mage, melee), how many times have you been attacked (range, mage, melee), number of steps taken, total distance, number of logs cut, number of fish...fished, number of times traded, total GP earned, etc. Sounds pretty worthless, I know, but I'd like it. It wouldn't hurt would it?

[everfreefire]

Not really something you'd need in-game, but it'd be interesting to see somewhere.

 

 

 

Though I bet there'd be issues on getting this to work.

[The Observer]

I think JAGeX already has something like this but it's something not shown to the public eye. It helps track down macroers.

[agira]

That would be nice if they already track it.

 

 

 

But if they don't track it, then that kind update I think very expand players database - they then will need much more HDD space & Memory to keep records about players, that mean then to transfer player information from one server to another will take more network traffic too.

 

 

 

What that mean? that mean then possibility of crash any RuneScape server will increase, that mean then servers start to be much more laggy, I don't say then is bad idea but I wonder or it worth to do... i look in it from my speciality I working long time like IT systems specialist, analist & programmer and good imagine that things, you get then much more rollbacks like it happen on one weekend then...

 

 

 

You newer asked yourself why they so fight for bank space? why F2P have less and P2P players more bank space, is because RS servers alive only on P2P players because they pay for F2P servers & in same way for F2P players fun, Whatever RS players database is so big and to keep any record about any player take a lot of space, i think any bank item will be here at least 1 byte, but or you imagine how much millions accounts are created here if they have only about 1 Mil of member accounts and bigger part of RS servers is still F2P.

 

 

 

for example:

 

 

 

Skill exp is digit of floating point type that mean then 1 digit is 4 or 8, like we know max skill exp is 200mil, then i suppose is 4 bytes value and if i good remember RS have 23 skills + overall exp (ok overall we can calculate from all that skills but it take more CPU,HDD time of server then is question or they keep it calculated or not.

 

 

 

Now we count:

 

4x23 = 92

 

 

 

+ overall - to keep overall they need 8bytes digit in database - we have 100 bytes only to keep skills without any database indexing info;

 

 

 

+ Nickname - i think they used for it varchar/char type value (no any unicode) thet it take like max nickname length + terminator byte, i dunno exact max nick length i suppose is something like 10bytes long here.

 

 

 

We have: 100+10 = 110 bytes at moment;

 

 

 

Bankspace, i newer counted place but i suppose in runescape exist more then 256 items, yes ? that mean then to identify 1 item we need at least 2 bytes of space and like we know quantity can be in millions what mean then to keep item quantity in bank we need at least 4 bytes what we have?

 

 

 

[2 bytes item id][4 bytes count of current item] - total is at least 6 bytes for 1 item!

 

 

 

if we have 100 items in bank we take 2+6 x 100 = 600 bytes + 110 character data, total is 710 bytes only for information with no any DB info & indexes;

 

 

 

Now we must add info like ring of forging, barrows armors states & etc.. then we need add info about quests,miniquests & etc, almost about some NPC too, player Locations, what he wield & etc..

 

 

 

i suspect totally we get something like 2-4 kilo bytes.

 

 

 

now I try to count:

 

 

 

example 5 million players x 4 kilobytes

 

= 20000000000 if in bytes

 

= 19531250 if in Kilobytes

 

= 19073,486328125 if in megabytes

 

= 18,6264514923095703125 if in gigabytes

 

 

 

alive database information on any server and it only counting not all, just some known info, not known what datatypes they really used, here are possible then then digits can be double in real server and i counted just 5 millions accounts.

[gibsocam]

it could be members only, so it would drop that number by like 4/5.

 

 

 

 

 

It sounds sorta neat, i always wanted to know how many times I have died

[NJE03]

So you are referring to something similar to on Grand Theft Auto games where it tells how many bullets fired etc.

 

 

 

I think that is a wonderful idea, it would be quite interesting to browse that sort of information.

[Master_Smither]

Very nice Idea

 

 

 

I would be intrested in seeing this stuff I'm sure under smithed items it says:WAY too many.....

 

 

 

I support but make it like highscores

[NJE03]

Very nice Idea

 

 

 

I would be intrested in seeing this stuff I'm sure under smithed items it says:WAY too many.....

 

 

 

I support but make it like highscores

That would make highscores a whole lot more interesting to look at. :)

[Lacrosse_fan]

I just had this pretty neat idea, what if there was a character report, I'm not sure where it'd be on screen yet, maybe a new icon or something, that shows every tiny little thing about your character? It lets you see how much damage you've caused, how much damage you've taken, how many times you've attacked (range, mage, melee), how many times have you been attacked (range, mage, melee), number of steps taken, total distance, number of logs cut, number of fish...fished, number of times traded, total GP earned, etc. Sounds pretty worthless, I know, but I'd like it. It wouldn't hurt would it?

 

 

 

Very nice Idea

 

 

 

I would be intrested in seeing this stuff I'm sure under smithed items it says:WAY too many.....

 

 

 

I support but make it like highscores

 

 

 

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