Help me think, HaloRank.com (statistics system)

[Sean Aero]

As most of you know, I've been working closely with Goemitar/Omega, known from apps like "Gandanur" and "version changer", towards building a HaloPC/CE statistics system on HaloRank.com for quite sometime now.
Regardless of the time frame and the amount of iteration I've been through to improve my web-dev abilities I'm determined to finish this system once and for all. The aim is by the end of this summer and thus I'm scripting on a daily basis towards a release, as there is still much to be done.

However there are times (like now), where I need opinions and feedback from people that are not afraid of providing ideas, good critics and solid arguments. So hopefully you smart monkeys from modacity are willing to put some thoughts in and help me on the way as I pose questions and demos.
"Try" to keep it civil and I'm sure we'll go a long way.

Before people start suggesting all kinds of stuff I thought it might be wise to point out a few things on how the system works as well as what is tracked, instead of having to disappoint people as they post ideas or comments.

Gandanur sends out 6 HTTP Requests a minute towards the HaloRank server when statistics is enabled.
Which comes down to 120 logs for a 20 minute game.
Put all these logs together and you have a good understanding on the game flow and how the game progressed.
As for the information that is send:

Player Info:

• name
• kills
• deaths
• assists
• score
• team
• hash
• ip
• hash validation (determine if someone is pirate yes or no)
• Killing Streak Counter
• Suicides
• Betrayels
• Flag Returns
• Flag grabs
• Racelaptime
• Ping of player
• Max killing streak during a game

Multi-Kills:

• double kills (2x)
• triple kills (3x)
• killacular (4x)
• killfrenzy (5x)
• killtrocity (6x)
• Killimanjaro (7x)
• killtastrophe (8x)
• killpocalypse (9x)
• killionaire (10x) (highest possible)

Sprees

• killing spree (5 kill spree)
• running riot (10 kill spree)
• overkill (15 kill spree)
• rampage (20 kill spree)
• Untouchable (25 kill spree)
• Invincible (30 kill spree)
• Inconceivable (35 kill spree)
• Unfrigginbelievable (40 kill spree)

Server Info:

• server name
• ip
• port
• map name
• game type (CTF/Slayer/Oddball/King/Race)
• game type name
• game stage (playing/gameend)
• game flags (get all gametype settings from here)
• player flags (get all player settings from here)
• Halo Game (CE or PC)
• frag limit (maximum score)
• max players

Team Info:

• team game
• score red
• score blue

I will point out that before the next release no more statistics will be added! So please don't suggest all kinds of stuff that's not in this list. The goal for now is to release a statistics system that provides as a platform for people to play HaloPC/CE games on. After the first release, if things go well, I hope to get more people/devs/apps involved to expand the foundation.

Regarding security/ban-able servers/statistics boosting.
In order to sign up for an account you'll need a legit Halo key, without a legit Halo PC key your account will not be activated. (this information is all gathered while you play through server verification from Gamespy, thus no CD Key input required).
Once a player account has been verified he/she is able to request a server key in order to set their server up in order to be allowed to send statistics to HaloRank.com, no server key = no tracking.
Bad behavior is picked up within seconds, thanks to 200+ checks on the logs and is banned immediately.
So people might want to reconsider if a permanent ban on their legit key is worth the effort of breaking a system.
If you have any more questions I'll answer them as we go.

Now for the part where I need you guys.
As some of you might have noticed I show cased a post-game graph yesterday on halomaps and halomods.
Which looks like the following:

and can be demo tested here:
http://dev.halorank.com/chart/chart_player.php

Today while bug fixing a few minor issues with the data that goes in to these graphs, I came across a game that lasted a little over 1 hour. When displaying all graphs of all players during that game it turned out you get something like this:

and can be demo tested here:
http://dev.halorank.com/chart/chart_massive.php
(Pretty massive, indeed)

As I was trying to merge player lines that belonged to a single player, in other words, players which have the same hash and player name during a game, which JOINED, LEFT and RE-JOINED the game.
Like I did here for a player called "JJ".
http://dev.halorank.com/chart/chart_JJ.php

I noticed a problem with the "pretty massive graph", it comes down to the source of all problems, PIRATES.
Basically I can not separate pirates from pirates for the JOIN, LEFT, RE-JOINED actions in the graph, so there is a chance (as in the massive graph) that a certain player (example: "S2H-Lucy") shows up multiple times in the graph due to a refresh of hash.

Now I have 3 options, but I'm not sure which one to choose.

Option 1: Ban all pirates from having a line in the graph, leaving only legit players and quite an empty graph.
(I can ban pirates from having any stats, but I doubt the legit players like to see half empty tables)
Option 2: Merge all players with the same hash (or even all pirates) under a single line, downside pirate player lines can disappear for certain players/no way of telling pirate lines apart.
Option 3: Leave the chart as it is in the Massive chart but by default hide all pirates lines.

What other types of graphs would you like to see? (currently only kills per players with medals)
Have a browse through this page for ideas.
http://www.highcharts.com/demo/line-basic/dark-green

Second problem:
I'm currently working on "Fun Ranks" meant for public games, with Fun ranks I mean exp system as known from halo Reach where you get cR/exp as you kill/assists/make sprees and such and slowly lvl up.
This is purely used for fun and should give anyone a feeling of satisfaction.
In case you're wondering for skilled ranking (matches/scrims) I'll use TrueSkill, but that's for a bit later.

However how much cR/exp should be used for each lvl?
Currently I have a very basic system which just takes the level requirements from Reach.

And how much exp/cR should be assigned for what actions?
Currently have the following as a simple test so I can at least keep building:

Exp/cR points


Flag Cap +8
Slayer Point +0
Oddball Sec +0
King Sec +0
Lap Complete +8
Kill +4
Assist +6

Multikill use a small formula ((n-1)+2*n)
doublekill (n=1) so +2
triple (n=2) +5
killtac (n=3) +8

Spree use a small formula ((n-1)+5*n)
killingspree (n=1) +5
runningriot (n=2) +11
etc.

As you might have noticed I could award points for other things as well, but the question is how much/little?
Also with flag cap, should only the person that captured the flag be awarded, or the whole team?
(Keep in mind we track who grabbed the flag and who capped the flag)
Maps multipliers, gametype settings, team size, amount of pirates ingame, time a player played ingame, betrayels, ranks of the players playing, etc?

Basically I'm hoping we can come up with a fun system together through this open discussion as a community as it's just too much for me to sit down behind my desk and come up with it all.
*Note fine tuning during Beta testing is a must, but just an initial system would give us some room to work with.

So much that goes into this, hopefully when you are reading this you'll share some ideas or raise some questions.
I highly appreciate it!

EDIT 2012-Apr-19:
Looked at existing exp tables within games I came up with the following for lvling in HaloRank.
It basically means you need 1 million exp points to get a fun rank of lvl 50.
Please let me know what you think.

LVL	TOTAL EXP	EXP NEEDED		RANK
1	0	600		Recruit
2	600	1200		Private
3	1800	1900		Corporal
4	3700	2500		Corporal Rank I
5	6200	3100		Sergeant
6	9300	3900		Sergeant Rank I
7	13200	4600		Sergeant Rank II
8	17800	5400		Warrant Officer
9	23200	6200		Warrant Officer Rank
10	29400	7000		Warrant Officer Rank
11	36400	7900		Warrant Officer Rank
12	44300	8800		Captain
13	53100	9700		Captain Rank I
14	62800	10600		Captain Rank II
15	73400	11600		Captain Rank III
16	85000	12500		Major
17	97500	13500		Major Rank I
18	111000	14500		Major Rank II
19	125500	15500		Major Rank III
20	141000	16500		Lt. Colonel
21	157500	17400		Lt. Colonel Rank I
22	174900	18500		Lt. Colonel Rank II
23	193400	19400		Lt. Colonel Rank III
24	212800	20400		Commander
25	233200	21400		Commander Rank I
26	254600	22400		Commander Rank II
27	277000	23300		Commander Rank III
28	300300	24300		Colonel
29	324600	25200		Colonel Rank I
30	349800	26100		Colonel Rank II
31	375900	27000		Colonel Rank III
32	402900	27800		Brigadier
33	430700	28700		Brigadier Rank I
34	459400	29500		Brigadier Rank II
35	488900	30200		Brigadier Rank III
36	519100	31000		General
37	550100	31700		General Rank I
38	581800	32300		General Rank II
39	614100	33000		General Rank III
40	647100	33500		General Rank IV
41	680600	34100		Field Marshall
42	714700	34500		Hero
43	749200	35000		Legend
44	784200	35400		Mythic
45	819600	35700		Noble
46	855300	35900		Eclipse
47	891200	36100		Nova
48	927300	36300		Forerunner
49	963600	36400		Reclaimer
50	1000000	0		Inheritor