Hello All

Been playing EQ for over 2 years now.
I have recently become the "webmaster" for our GP website. I have beenan officer and "leader" in our guild since it's creation nearly 2 yearsago.

I may be in the wrong forum here, not really sure.

The whole "raid point" section of GP is problematic at best and a disaster at worst.

I have been using a program called RMT - Raid Management Tool.
It works VERY WELL in Everquest. The program tracks raid points foreveryone who is on your raid, or who has ever been on a raid youmanaged with this program. The sweet thing about it is, it spits outall the data in an XML file. You can also use the program to importyour whole guild via the "guild dump" feature in EQ.

I would LOVE to see GP write support for XML uploading into their site.This would SO simplify raid point standings. As it is now, it's veryinefficient and leaves the webmaster/officers totally at the mercy ofthe members remembering to "sign-up" for a raid. Even if everyone inyour guild remembers to sign-up, GP has no idea whether or not everyonestayed, came late, was penalized points, or anything else. All thesevariables are handled in real-time in game with RMT. After the raid,you just export the raid in XML.

I have in the past considered building my own guild hosting site usingPHP/MySQL. To be honest, I just haven't had the time to do this...

IF Guildportal would include support for XML updating of raid points,you guys would come pretty close to removing the desire for me tobecome a competitor. This is not a threat. lol
I do not have the time to work on this project, and don't see being able to for quite some time.

But... support for XML file uploading would really improve your site.

Just my 2 cents. 8)
Would love to hear what the rest of you think about this...

AHHHHH

so THAT'S what the XML references i've seen are for!
i'll check it out. thanks

I'm hearby ressurecting this thread, as I have a couple ideas.

As others have said, this content type could use a little loving.  It's pretty useful in it's current state, but with a couple improvements, it would be the envy of the known universe.

Specifically, a couple more columns:

1)  Points spent
2)  Total points earned

I'm not exactly sure how the code for these columns works, so I'll try to give as much info as I can.  The thought occurred to me that adding these two columns might be more problematic than simple minded fools making suggestions, such as myself, might comprehend.  The problem I'm thinking of is how raid points are assigned and subsequently spent.

Current Version:
Member A earns a raid point, Officer goes to Member A's profile and adds a raid point to his total.  When the member spends raid points, then the officer just goes to the same place and subtracts from the total.

Proposed Version:
You'd somehow have to overcome the fact that in the current state of the CP editor there's no way to track the subtraction of points.  Now I know I've said many times that I'm retarded when it comes to these things, so if this is just plain impossible, I'll take my gruel and shut up. 

What I'm thinking is having a way to click a button in the CP profile for individual members, the one that comes up when I click on their names.  You might have three buttons to add (or earn) 10, 5, and 1 raid points, and the same for subtracting (or spending).  This way you would have a way of knowing what's going in and going out, then use that data to make the two new columns.

3) Items Won Column

Now that there is access to all the awesome XML that is in Allakhazam, wouldn't it be awesome if I could past a link to the XML for an item that a member won via raid points into a members CP profile that would show up in the raid points content type column or perhaps the roster content type?

Edited for spelling.

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We use a zero-sum dkp, which means the value of the item gets distributed over the people present the moment it dropped.

Also, since raids take several hours some people change during the raid. Meaning someone present at the first drop,  wasnt present at the 2nd dropped item.

So I would like to be able to enter the dropped items with value and which members were present at the moment each of them dropped.

Any chance you guys are even considering implementing something like this? (I know zero-sum isnt the most common dkp implementation)

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