HaloRank.com

[Sean Aero]

It's 2nd day of Easter and 1st of April a perfect day for a release I would say.

A lot has happened, but long story short.
The website is "finally" online and ready to be used.

What is HaloRank?
HaloRank is a website which keeps track of your HaloPC and HaloCE multi-player statistics. While at the same time providing additional fun, through achievements, challenges and best of all ranks!

How does it work?
Basically it uses a server application which tracks your score and send it to the HaloRank database. The database processes all the scores submitted and turn the scores into interesting and "usefull" stuff.

I'm a server admin what Server application will I need?
Currently the system only support Gandanur. Not the most popular app today, but it was a choice made way back.
Download Gandanur 13.3.0 for Halo here: http://www.gandanur.com/p/downloads.html

So how fast is this tracking mechanism?
Currently scores are processed within 15~30 seconds of an event happening.

I'm use a shared key/pirated the game or "HaloCE portable" (v1.00/v1.06) user, will my score be tracked?
Your score will be tracked but since this system is based on hash it will be quite hard to keep tracking your progress over time.
If you want to be tracked perfectly within in the system you'll need a legit install of Halo and a legit key. Measurements have been installed to filter out pirates hashes over time, however it can never be 100% perfect. This does not mean you can not play as a pirate, it just means I can't guarantee to accurately update your score over time.

As for the rest, just explore and find out.

http://www.halorank.com

I'm looking forward to all your feedback and critique.

[Crenshaw]

Well done, i already have a Gandanur dedi server so will jus update to 13.3. would be nice to see this implemented on sapp though.

EDIT: i have my server up and running but how do i register it at halorank.com i dont see an option.

[Crenshaw]

its a waste of time to have ppl play first b4 they can register also i need a reg key for my server and it turns out i have to do that same $#!t which is play on one of the servers first when they dont even display their ip address correct. some link to the external IP and others to their Internal IP which is stupid. so im gonna try this another time not soon though.

P.S. If you could just give me a key that would be great.

[Amit]

People have to play in order to have their hash picked up by the system so that they can register. There's no other choice.

[Sean Aero]

Your definition of a waste of time is totally of the charts, the process does not take long at all.
In order to help you out on how to sign up you can watch this video:



As for the ip address displayed, these were filled in by the server admins themselves, so it's quite hard to believe they would fill in the internal ip.

P.S. After you sign up, you can request it.

EDIT: Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, so sorry if I offended anyone.
I'll have a look at the IPs displayed when I get home, might be a small script bug.
EDIT: EDIT: Wrong IP display bug has been fixed.

[Kornman00]

What are your plans for intergrating this into other server environments besides Gandanur?

[Amit]

Last I heard there was none because it wasn't possible with SAPP and the such. Things may have changed since then, though.

[Kornman00]

"wasn't possible"?

How was it impossibru?

[Sean Aero]

Everything is possible with time and dedicated people.
However the current method used to collect the statistics, as used with Gandanur, is not feasible for other Server App.
Instead a different approach should be taken.

[sehe]

Well, Gandanur uses HTTP requests and php/java scripts on Sean's side, which means HUGE overheat.

Since I already have a "Global Sapp Server" that uses native TCP stream to communicate with the Sapp servers, used for the auto-updates, and for this: http://elitegameservers.net/sapp/serverlist/ (In the future it could be used as an alternative GameSpy, in case they stop supporting Halo, [that I doubt until there are paid servers]).
Therefore, since I already "had" this I added some stats-sending code to Sapp and stats-tracking to the Global Server that writes the data to a MySQL database (pure C++). These lines are "commented out" atm but I think the hardest part of the work is done already, all that left is testing and integrating/merging these stats with those that Gandanur servers collect.