Comments on: Crawler Updated

By: sphing

sphing — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:16:06 +0000

i realize this is almost irrelevant, but im pretty sure the crawler is broken. for the past day or so its been telling me “New rankings are currently being calculated.” … “completes (which should only be a few minutes).”

any news on when it might finish ;P

By: Xxav

Xxav — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:24:59 +0000

It should be fixed. Sorry about that.

By: Suz

Suz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:14:06 +0000

Any news on the Putricide achievement?

By: Fly

Fly — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:31:40 +0000

I’d like to have a commandline-option for selecting a preferred server during startup. I normally have the Crawler running in the background for both servers I am active on – if I remember starting it and then setting it to the servers.

BTW… could you tell us more about how the crawler does automatic crawling? The following question comes to my mind:
- how does it choose, which guild from a preferred Server to crawl? Does it look at age? Rank?
- could you give us some information about how many crawlers would need to be running to bring all guilds up to date within a week or so? And how long it would take with the current average?

By: Elyn

Elyn — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:53:22 +0000

Any news on crawling for the missing achievement by any chance? (putricide achievement)

By: Xxav

Xxav — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:28:25 +0000

I’ve gone ahead and updated the scoring based on what you suggested. This will be reflected Sunday morning when the scoring updates go through.

Thanks for the suggestion!

By: Warspirit

Warspirit — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:34:44 +0000

I’m wondering if you have thought about modifying the point structure to reflect the actual difficulty of the bosses. I understand the “wing” mentality and we all thought the same before it was released. However, we know now that BPC is absolutely NOT a 1500 point step up from Putricide.

It’s clear now that Blizz intended the end bosses in each wing to be the gate, and not the actual wing itself.

I feel it would make more sense to have the early bosses in each wing on par with each other and the end bosses similar.

So instead of the points increasing like:
Rot, Fester, Putricide, BPC, BQ, Valithria, Sindragosa, LK
It would be more like:
Rot, Fester, BPC, Valithria, Putricide, BQ, Sindragosa, Lich King

Just a suggestion as this would be a more accurate picture of where a guild really ranks in power and skill.

By: Xxav

Xxav — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:33:11 +0000

@Shadow – Fixed. Thank you for bringing this up. I’m going to implement a process to better monitor this going forward.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:48:37 +0000

Doesn’t look like anything has been crawling for over a day. Is the site having problems?

By: Fly

Fly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:22:17 +0000

Would it be possible to add the possiblity to crawl all guilds on a given Realm with the local Crawler?

I’d like to have the Crawler pick up the guild with the oldest update date, add it to the queue and then crawl it. Maybe add a limit to how often to crawl automatically to a configurable maximum (like once a day or so).