I discovered in the Steam API that it was possible to track how much damage each player in an online race was causing.
So I created a website that tracked all the damage each player inflicted each race and stored it in a database.
The website is then able to display a table of damage caused immediately after the race, as well as summaries (heavy hitters last hour, day, week etc).
Although there's the obvious encouragement to inflict damage, it's been useful to server admins as we've been able to tell who was going over the top, inflicting damage that was not a part of racing, and ask them to clean their act up a bit.
Additionally, when there are only a couple of us on the server, we put some AIs on and have a competition to see who can inflict the most AI damage each race.
Once the RaceDepartment Wreckfest night gets going I'll connect it up to that server during a club night and pull the stats, just for fun.
Here's the stats website for our server.
http://www.flying-bollards.com
So I created a website that tracked all the damage each player inflicted each race and stored it in a database.
The website is then able to display a table of damage caused immediately after the race, as well as summaries (heavy hitters last hour, day, week etc).
Although there's the obvious encouragement to inflict damage, it's been useful to server admins as we've been able to tell who was going over the top, inflicting damage that was not a part of racing, and ask them to clean their act up a bit.
Additionally, when there are only a couple of us on the server, we put some AIs on and have a competition to see who can inflict the most AI damage each race.
Once the RaceDepartment Wreckfest night gets going I'll connect it up to that server during a club night and pull the stats, just for fun.
Here's the stats website for our server.
http://www.flying-bollards.com
