If you could have any P99-based website that you wanted ...

[loramin]

TLDR: What Project 1999/Everquest-related website would you like to see?

The demise of ahungry's auction tracker got me thinking: I'm a web developer, and I could write a new auction tracker if I really wanted. However, I'm not particularly in to the EC tunnel scene, so I'd likely lose interest in the project before I finished. (As a side note, I emailed ahungry and offered to take over the old tracker, but he never responded. If anyone happens to have the source code for it let me know and maybe it can be resurrected.)

But there are lots of possibilities for other Project 1999/Everquest-related sites, and maybe one of them might hold my interest. So my question for the forum is, if you could have someone build any P99-related website you wanted (eg. a new Magelo, an EQ achievements site, another auction tracker, etc.), what would it be?

I offer absolutely no promise whatsoever that I will build anything you suggest, but it can't hurt to try (and even if I don't, who knows maybe another developer here will pick the idea up.)

[Swish]

Ahungry was great in its heyday (before the google ads)... I think that's what killed its popularity, and the tracker after it was better.

If the pop was higher a pvp stats site would be good. Like a character's record against individual players across all seasons of the current leaderboard. With a higher population things like this would be even more of a draw for people to come and play red.

[Tupakk]

A map that shows where everyone is at all times level/race/class anything that /who all will spit out. If they chose to have their logs on and the program on their machine.

This wouldn't take much work as their is always an overlay program out and about.

Last year a LFG website kind of took off but didn't see much interest after about month 2. It was very basic no flash n trash and didn't really give much to the eye.

The best website IMO is something that nobody has to try and figure out its just there and usable.


A place that could decipher logs would be great as well. Sifting through all those logs is a pita.

A tradeskilling website for all the tradeskills

A make a toon webiste would be cool too. The what if I could build it this way putting in stats and armor and weapons and seeing what the end result is. Buffed and Unbuffed

Those are just off the top of my head.

[magicnubs]

Originally Posted by Tupakk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Last year a LFG website kind of took off but didn't see much interest after about month 2. It was very basic no flash n trash and didn't really give much to the eye.

A make a toon website would be cool too. The what if I could build it this way putting in stats and armor and weapons and seeing what the end result is. Buffed and Unbuffed

1. I think an LFG site would be a great thing, simply because it would make it easier to get groups going in zones that are not part of the standard "leveling corridor" (CB/Unrest/MM/CoM/etc.)

2. A "build a character" site would be awesome as well! It could let you plug in the characters starting stats, let you choose the level, armor and buffs (gathering all of that data from the P99 wiki) add it all up and calculate what your HP/mana would be, plus alert if you had hit the soft or hard caps for any stats. That way you could know if your gnome warrior was doomed to be eternally gimped or not based on what gear you could feasibly get your hands on.

3. And from what everyone says Fashionquest would be popular. I don't usually worry much about how gear looks (since I'm still a poor scrub who is only looking for stats) but I might give it a go eventually. Who knows, maybe I would actually start to care what my character looks like if I could easily identify some gear that didn't make me look like a clown (as long as the stat trade-offs were reasonable).

OP, maybe after you've gotten some choices for a site you are considering creating you should start a thread with a poll to see which is the most popular idea?

[loramin]

Originally Posted by magicnubs [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OP, maybe after you've gotten some choices for a site you are considering creating you should start a thread with a poll to see which is the most popular idea?

I would, but here's the thing: even if the entire server voted for a particular site idea, if I start it and lose interest that site will never happen. So I'd rather finish one site, even if only 5 people use it, than start a site I won't finish because it was popular.

But it's a great idea for any devs out there with longer attention spans.

[tristantio]

Hm, the site isn't dead, just some JS is apparently not loading properly or something:

http://ahungry.com/eqauctions-live

Also, I've always had the entire site open source:

https://github.com/ahungry/com.ahungry

Feel free to browse the repos, there is the code for the p99-patcher, which includes a group/server synced map client rendered in browser and centralized data (so you can see where all your friends are):

https://github.com/ahungry?tab=repositories

There is also a standalone C++ map app.

I'll fix the JS error and the Ahungry feed should load as always.

[Naethyn]

A list of all the raid mobs with what guild killed it last. Additionally when ground shakes happen a list of who killed what for that reset.

Another one, DPS simulator for each mob.

[meadtj]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TLDR: What Project 1999/Everquest-related website would you like to see?

The demise of ahungry's auction tracker got me thinking: I'm a web developer, and I could write a new auction tracker if I really wanted. However, I'm not particularly in to the EC tunnel scene, so I'd likely lose interest in the project before I finished. (As a side note, I emailed ahungry and offered to take over the old tracker, but he never responded. If anyone happens to have the source code for it let me know and maybe it can be resurrected.)

But there are lots of possibilities for other Project 1999/Everquest-related sites, and maybe one of them might hold my interest. So my question for the forum is, if you could have someone build any P99-related website you wanted (eg. a new Magelo, an EQ achievements site, another auction tracker, etc.), what would it be?

I offer absolutely no promise whatsoever that I will build anything you suggest, but it can't hurt to try (and even if I don't, who knows maybe another developer here will pick the idea up.)

I've thought of the same thing. Might be fun to build like a helper app in electron or something.

[loramin]

Great ideas so far. One quick request: if your idea involves data like PvP or raid mob stats, please mention how you would imagine the site getting that data (eg. is there another website that has it, do people upload logs, do they fill out a web form, etc.)

Originally Posted by meadtj [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've thought of the same thing. Might be fun to build like a helper app in electron or something.

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[Tupakk]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Great ideas so far. One quick request: if your idea involves data like PvP or raid mob stats, please mention how the site would get that data (eg. is there a website that has it, do people submit logs, do they fill out a web form, wtc.)



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Easiest way to get the info is for someone to have logs and a program on that sends the data to your website.

Nobody wants to fill out a form.