Skill Discussions

Trivial:

* Orca on Ships page has the wrong faction icon. Should be Gallente not Caldari. [ORE actually]
* Noctis doesn't seem to have an icon.

Only noticed because of a bit of OCD.

Chribba, is it any chance you can add average character age to the various statistics pages? Also, on the statistics pages, how about listing the top 10 and not only top 5 characters for the highest SP in each bloodline?

Small bug where pilots could not register their pilots has now been fixed.

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Early this morning the [eb] server started to throw delay write errors on the data drive and minutes later it disappeared from the system.

Unable to get it back online I've had to pull a restore from earlier in the night so some characters will be missing between the hours of the backup and the crash.

Some scripts were never properly backed up either so some recent changes will be reverted back (average age etc).

Data recovery will be in progress shortly but until then I won't start recoding the changes until I know if I need to or not. Sorry for any trouble this may cause you.

/c

Hi Chribba

I'd like to make a suggestion of removing Average Sp Per Skill from the global score calculations.

The reason being is that it penalises those players who have a large #n of skills injected and there is nothing you can do to influence your score in that rank other than not adding new skills and training those you have to max, which could take years.

Keep the rank in the character ranks pages, just remove it from the global score calculation.

Anyone have any objections to the above suggestion?

Thanks

Hi Chribba

One of my alts is in the rookie corp Ministry of War, but it's showing alliance as Morsus Mihi, so unless MM has pulled a massive coup there's a glitch somewhere. He used to be in a corp within MM but not any more.

*Edit*
In fact, even the the characters I've got in my corp are showing an old alliance

Agreed, There are several ranks that penalise different groups of players depending on their training choices.

I can live with a fixed 1000 pt penaltie for not being ranked in #n level 3 / 4 skills unlike Average sp per skill where one is ranked below 5000 and decending daily and there is nothing one can do to stem that decent.

other than spending the next 10+ years training all current skills to max and not adding any new skills which restricts a players training choice in that regard.

Skill Value is another rank that restricts choice if you wish to be ranked well in that catagory.

Either way, i'm in for the long haul

Cheers

Hello Chribba,

first of all thank you for eveboard. I look at it a lot, more than the actual game these days ;)

I noticed you can not compare two characters that are both protected by a password.

Is the ranking algorithm public? If so, can someone provide a link? Also, I conclude that the ranking is done daily or at least asynch with stats as current stats can conflict with ranks. Chribba, when does the ranking algo run?

Also Chribba, I really appreciate this site. eve-search, eve-files and eveboard are probably my three favorite eve related sites. the official forums come fourth.

I wonder how long it takes for a post in this thread and a double reference to C will call Cthulu, err, Chribba, from the veldsparian haze....

The alogrithm is public.

It's basically just an average of the ranks you have: sum(ranked)+((29-x)*1000))/x

Where x is the number of ranks you have. 29 being the number of categories that are included in counting towards the rank.

The ranks are being recalculated every 30 minutes. However without a manual pilot refresh, each pilot is only updated once per day.

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