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Poll

Would you use a Live Feed Text based Ticker App to Watch Games?

Hell Yeah! Watching at work (in class) would be great!77%77% - 21
Umm No. Screw that. It's much too boring for me.18%18% - 5
I don't have a computer at work. :(0%0% - 0
I'm too young to know what Radio Feed Games are.3%3% - 1
Total: 27
2006-04-03 04:51:11
kilroy0097
Kilroy Is Here!
+81|7305|Bryan/College Station, TX
Ok. While at work I sometimes go to my Leaderboard and looked who was on. You see someone and you check out the server they are on through Game-Monitor.com. I sometimes watch the scores go up and down for each player and wonder, wantingly, what the game must be like that they are playing on that server. I'll reload and see how the scores progress and through them I can see caputres of flags, massive kills and TKs when they happen.

So I was wishing and wondering if there could be a Livefeed Ticker that would give information about the maps on a server of your choosing. Information like Map, Teams, Tickets, Scores for each player, Ping times and lastly In game and chat messages. There wouldn't have to be any graphics or anything like that. Just all this information being streamed live from the server to this application that spit out at you.

Through all this info not only could you know exactly what's going on but also pass the time with some neat game watching. It's kind of like Yahoo Sports when they have play by play text on games or instead of watching TV you listen to the radio.  It's less info but it's still enough to keep you interested.

I know a few people who would love to have an application like this to watch at work to pass the time. So what do you think about it?

P.S. http://bf2tracker.com/serverlist.php  also adds Kills and Deaths.

Last edited by kilroy0097 (2006-04-03 05:07:47)

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
2006-04-03 04:56:39
TsinTzU
Member
+10|7207|holland
actually its really sad...
its like we havent got anything better to do
but what the hell

Last edited by TsinTzU (2006-04-03 06:50:47)

2006-04-03 05:14:54
NM156
The H4xor Mod
+161|7308|North Texas
That's all possible Kilroy. I've also thought about this in depth, and I know how to do it. The problem with this, is that you'd need to have a Python script on the server to process the data to a live web site. EA doesn't allow any custom scripts.. so unless you have an unranked server, it wouldn't do any good to developer such an app.
2006-04-03 05:26:19
kilroy0097
Kilroy Is Here!
+81|7305|Bryan/College Station, TX
Yea but obviously some data is available to anyone who wants it. Looking at the bf2tracker page it gets not only the scores but also the Kill/Death count. These are stats within the game live and it's on ranked servers. I wonder how they are getting it.  Also I would say that even something that loads only every 3 to 5 seconds would be fine for most of us. So perhaps remove the ability to see Chat but keep the in game messages about Player 1 |Kill| Player 2 and the Tickets.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
2006-04-03 05:49:09
NM156
The H4xor Mod
+161|7308|North Texas
What you're seeing on bf2tracker and Game-Monitor is nothing more than a standard 'status' query. This info is very limited. Here's a list of what this gets:

Code:

    [server] => Array
        (
            [hostname] => CainsLair.com =BF2= Ranked
            [gamename] => battlefield2
            [gamever] => 1.1.2720-552.0
            [mapname] => Strike At Karkand
            [gametype] => gpm_cq
            [gamevariant] => bf2
            [numplayers] => 32
            [maxplayers] => 64
            [gamemode] => openplaying
            [password] => 0
            [timelimit] => 0
            [roundtime] => 2
            [hostport] => 16567
            [bf2_dedicated] => 1
            [bf2_ranked] => 1
            [bf2_anticheat] => 1
            [bf2_os] => win32
            [bf2_autorec] => 0
            [bf2_d_idx] => http://
            [bf2_d_dl] => http://
            [bf2_voip] => 1
            [bf2_autobalanced] => 1
            [bf2_friendlyfire] => 1
            [bf2_tkmode] => Punish
            [bf2_startdelay] => 15
            [bf2_spawntime] => 15.000000
            [bf2_sponsortext] => 
            [bf2_sponsorlogo_url] => http://www.cainslair.com/pimp37zr.jpg
            [bf2_communitylogo_url] => http://www.cainslair.com/cain16eq.jpg
            [bf2_scorelimit] => 0
            [bf2_ticketratio] => 100
            [bf2_teamratio] => 100.000000
            [bf2_team1] => MEC
            [bf2_team2] => US
            [bf2_bots] => 0
            [bf2_pure] => 1
            [bf2_mapsize] => 64
            [bf2_globalunlocks] => 1
            [bf2_fps] => 
            [bf2_plasma] => 0
            [bf2_reservedslots] => 0
        )

    [player] => Array
        (
            [bf2_team1] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [name] => =RDR= SFC.18Brav0
                            [score] => 10
                            [kills] => 4
                            [deaths] => 1
                            [team] => 1
                            [pid] => 45188297
                            [ping] => 55
                        )
This data have to be refresh manually at the client. i.e. the server doesn't send this data without the request.

What I was talking about was access to ALL the game status data. Tickets, scores, tk's, kits/vehicles/squads a player is using, you name it. It's all available via the Python scripting. When a game event fires(entering a vehicle, fragging, ticket updates, etc), the game server is capable of sending this data to a web site for live feeds. Very similar to CBS/ESPN/Yahoo does with MLB/NFL games.

EDIT: And yes.. you could also do the player chats.

Last edited by NM156 (2006-04-03 05:49:51)

2006-04-03 06:02:53
kilroy0097
Kilroy Is Here!
+81|7305|Bryan/College Station, TX
Well NM156  I know we would love to see something like. I truely wish it were possible on ranked servers and all servers. Would be soooo nice.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
2006-04-03 22:53:18
kilroy0097
Kilroy Is Here!
+81|7305|Bryan/College Station, TX
I guess this idea isn't so popular. Oh well.

Just have to find other ways to pass time at work...

...like nailing the boss's pretty personal assistant in the supply closet.

Penthouse Forums here comes a story.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
2006-04-03 23:11:03
strangelove
HOBO SPIRIT
+77|7082|the side hatch
i would love this, a graphical representation would be cool too, nothing fancy just a basic map of the battlefield, interpreting the data and watching for messages that read a flag was captured then chaging the flags color, watching for kill messages and turning that players name gray for 15 seconds etc.
2006-04-04 01:11:09
MumboJumboMike
Member
+0|7108|Skövde, Sweden
This would be great. There are some other things i would like to add to the wish list: to able to see your own ping to servers in a list, see the map-cycle of servers (might not be in the feed but could be generated by polling in intervalls), BUDDY alert (show me a message when a friend is showing up on any server). If anyone knows about any of these features exists in any ather app, please tell me.

Cheers, and have good life.

Last edited by MumboJumboMike (2006-04-04 01:11:47)

 

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