Faction performance in different time brackets

[asttl]

Situation: People play at different times, outfits have ops at different times, and people from different locations play in different time zones. Different outfits do OPs or are more active on different days of the week. Faction overpop can be timezone dependent too. The competitiveness of servers is highest from early evening through to late night, peaking at primetime.

Suggestion: It would be useful to have some sort of way of seeing performance by different time brackets.

The best case scenario might be the user being able to specify custom time brackets.

• Days of the week and/or time of day. Time of day is most commonly useful. Outfits OPS on certain days would make being able to specify multiple brackets interesting to some players.
• If custom time brackets is are not possible: examples of possible buckets might be afternoon, evening, primetime (around 6 to 9 PM?), late night.

Problems:

• Unequal starting positions and skewed population distribution.
• Legitimately focusing on non Alert VPs complicates things.

Performance metrics:

• Simplest might be total wins.
• The best case might be custom weighting based on average population imbalance, taking into account unequal starting positions.

[Maelstromeous]

There is already a basic system in place for tracking time brackets. This is currently done server side, which works like this, and may change in the future pending further revision:

Graveyard: 00:59 - 11:59 Afternoon: 12:00 - 16:59 Primetime: 17:00 - 00:59

Any alerts that end during these times will be marked in their appropriate bracket.

The intention is, that users will be able to filter by prime time alerts, then further by faction, server, continent etc.

I'm undecided whether the filtering system will be part of the current re-write, as it's quite a bit of work, depending on how easy Angular is to use for that kind of thing. It may be just a simple query change, we'll see.

I'll update the issue as I go through the project.

[Maelstromeous]

Limited version of this is completed on the Alert History page. Will keep this in mind for other parts of the site such as the overall statistics and possibly leaderboards.