gamestats api?

[js802025]

I was wondering if there was a way to obstain the statistics from a game, I see that you do collect them. Is this a feature or maybe something that you'd be open to?

[octachrome]

What kind of statistics are you talking about? How would you like to obtain them?

[js802025]

I was thinking about different ways of doing this but like a way to get like a players total wins and successful challenges, i don’t know if you kept the ranking feature enabled tho. I was going to try and export each game as it happens but it’s probably better to retrieve that information through the database for a specific player and then return it

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On Mar 10, 2021, at 1:31 AM, Chris Brown @.***> wrote:

 What kind of statistics are you talking about? How would you like to obtain them?

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[octachrome]

I stopped collecting player statistics and computing ranks etc because the database was causing the server to become unstable. So the database is disabled and this information is not available at the moment.

[js802025]

I’ll try and look into a better way and if I find something I’ll let you know

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 I stopped collecting player statistics and computing ranks etc because the database was causing the server to become unstable. So the database is disabled and this information is not available at the moment.

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[octachrome]

Do you particularly want an API for this, rather than just displaying a player's stats in the UI? If so, why?

[js802025]

UI stats would be cool too, I was just thinking of ways to use the game information (perhaps a discord stats bot.

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On Mar 10, 2021, at 3:27 PM, Chris Brown @.***> wrote:

 Do you particularly want an API for this, rather than just displaying a player's stats in the UI? If so, why?

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[js802025]

Is playerId a constant in between sessions, or is it generated every time

[octachrome]

playerId is a unique constant identifier for the current player. It is stored in your local storage, so that the server can remember who you are. If I remember correctly, you never see another player's id, only your own, because it is effectively a login token. Knowing another player's id would allow you to impersonate them.

[js802025]

Is there a way to “login” on multiple devices, I’m trying to implement a player base stats database. I currently have a working one based on name but for a major scale that would not be effective

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On Mar 20, 2021, at 2:18 PM, Chris Brown @.***> wrote:

 playerId is a unique constant identifier for the current player. It is stored in your local storage, so that the server can remember who you are. If I remember correctly, you never see another player's id, only your own, because it is effectively a login token. Knowing another player's id would allow you to impersonate them.

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[octachrome]

You can hack it for testing, if this is what you mean, by using the browser dev tools to modify your player id in local storage. There is currently no way for regular players to log in from different devices.

You can't query a player's stats by his player id because ids are secret. You can't query by his name because it is not unique. There is no persistent database, so there is no way to enforce that all players have unique names.

If I were making a player stats api I would start by assigning every player who logs in a public id, i.e. a username, which would be discoverable in the ui. When you log in, your private id would be used to look up your username in the database, and one would be created if it did not exist. For simplicity I would generate the usernames e.g. as random number/letter sequences, instead of making each player pick a username. The username would then be used in any api queries.

To be completely honest I am not very keen on this feature and I would only merge it into the public game if it is rock solid. The previous stats tracking code caused big performance issues so anything new must be fast with a low memory overhead. Just giving you fair warning before you invest a lot of time.

[js802025]

I’m aware which is why I am sorting by player and not by game. I also am running this for friends so we can track. As for username and stuff I have an idea that might work. I’ll let you know if I find a way. Thanks!

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On Mar 20, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Chris Brown @.***> wrote:

 You can hack it for testing, if this is what you mean, by using the browser dev tools to modify your player id in local storage. There is currently no way for regular players to log in from different devices.

You can't query a player's stats by his player id because ids are secret. You can't query by his name because it is not unique. There is no persistent database, so there is no way to enforce that all players have unique names.

If I were making a player stats api I would start by assigning every player who logs in a public id, i.e. a username, which would be discoverable in the ui. When you log in, your private id would be used to look up your username in the database, and one would be created if it did not exist. For simplicity I would generate the usernames e.g. as random number/letter sequences, instead of making each player pick a username. The username would then be used in any api queries.

To be completely honest I am not very keen on this feature and I would only merge it into the public game if it is rock solid. The previous stats tracking code caused big performance issues so anything new must be fast with a low memory overhead. Just giving you fair warning before you invest a lot of time.

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[js802025]

Where is playerId first defined?

[octachrome]

ID is sent to the server from the browser if it exists in local storage. If null, it is generated here: https://github.com/octachrome/treason/blob/master/dataaccess-fake.js#L7

Called from here: https://github.com/octachrome/treason/blob/bee4d21493c85ebb1e1699594a0cadafb9c766f8/server.js#L93