It's been a while since I've made any updates to the site, so I sat down and threw together a quick smaller addition for those interested in more details on stats changes for guilds.

You can now mouseover the fleet data for guilds on the fleet page, and it will separate fleet changes due to members joining/leaving allowing you to see what portion of the fleet change was due to destruction and production. I'll eventually be moving the same feature over to a few other stats as well.

I've also made a couple quick changes that will increase the overall speed the guild pages load. I'll look into tackling the long loadtimes on the war tracker in the near future.

Looks like the AE devs weren't a fan of the frequent page views involved parsing the ticker reports, so the ticker parsing portion of my site has been blocked, and therefore I've taken it offline permanently.

Eventually, I'll try and work up a script to allow users to parse ticker reports on the fly and input them to the database, but until that time the ticker database will not be receiving any updates.

One can only hope that the devs will eventually give in and implement RSS feeds for this kind of data, and in turn support sites like mine rather than outcast them. I certainly wont be holding my breath, though.

Back at the grind again, I've added a few new features to the site.

First is the new user authentication system. This is still early in its design, which means that it currently doesnt have any actual site features connected to it. Eventually, the site will link the logged in user to features like battle reports and the war tracker to allow the creators of those reports to delete or edit them.

The user auth system may be buggy and may not work on all browsers, so if you run into any issues, please email bugreports@aestats.com. To create an account, click the link under the search bar to open the user panel, and use the registration fields. Enter a username and email, and a randomized password will be mailed to you.

I chose automatic randomized passwords for accounts to prevent the potential that people may begin accusing of attempted account stealing, so for now this is the way it will stay. Down the line I may allow passwords to be changed.

The other new feature is ticker reporting. I've started parsing and collecting ticker reports for each server. To prevent the AE devs from hating me, these reports are collected from a server approximately every 20 seconds. Due to this, ticker reports during larger scale attacks have the potential of being missed. Unfortunately, this is not something I can resolve, as page requests more often than my current rate will get the AEStats IP blocked.

Ticker reports are currently accesible both on player and guild pages. You can see the most recent 50 attacks, the top 25 biggest attacks, and the top 25 biggest defensive losses. There is also a link to a full list of the player or guild's past reports.

Eventually, this feature will also be linked into the war tracker as well, to give a better visual in addition to ranking stats and will allow me to get a "general" idea of how much fleet each side has lost due to combat daily.

As with past updates, there is always the potential for bugs and site errors with new features. If you find one, please email bugreports@aestats.com

Thats it for now, expect more updates in the future. As usual, any ideas or suggestions can be emailed to me at mizzy@aestats.com, or PM me on the AE forums at username Mizzy.

I finally got around to making the main page's news updateable, so I'll start posting larger site updates here in addition to the Updates page.

There was an unfortunate outage in the site's data recording for 2012-01-30 to 2012-02-01. The site's domains kicked over to a new host while I was out of town, and I made the silly mistake of not planning for it on the updater script so it took me a few days to catch and fix it. It did allow me to catch a few errors caused by the missing data though, so those are fixed.

Update wise, a couple new things in the past few weeks:
* Major improvement on the speed of the War Tracker, especially with Open Ended wars with a large number of guilds. Due to the amount of data parsed, it still will take 5-15 seconds to load some pages, but its far better than the 45-60 seconds it was taking before.
* Small tool I added to the Tools menu, the Trade Galaxy Calculator. Simply enter the galaxy of the planet you're looking to create a trade on, and it will tell you the best galaxies to trade with.

I'm looking to add in more tools and features over time, and I'm always looking for suggestions or comments. Please forward any comments or suggestions on the site or new features to mizzy@aestats.com.

As usual, please report any bugs, errors or issues with the site directly to bugreports@aestats.com.

Welcome to my long term project, AEStats.
I've been working on this project on and off for the past year or so, going through various rewrites and breaks, and finally decided put in the effort to finish it.

My goal for AEStats was to build upon what faboo.org's eddie system did well, and add additional features and improve usability for users, allowing people to see more detailed statistics from day to day.

As of right now, the site is still in a beta stage. Most of the site's main features have been added, however there are still the potential for bugs and errors to appear.

The site's current features so far:
* A recreated battlepaste script. NOTE: This is still alpha stage. It will break sometimes when you use it.
* War tracker! This feature allows you to track both 1v1 and multi-guild (up to 8 guilds per side) wars for either a set timeframe or with an open ended end-date.
* Guild and player listing based on various statistic types as well as guild/player age.
* Individual guild data, including day to day stats, member joins/leaves, and name/tag history. Adjustable date ranges exist.
* Individual player data, including day to day stats, guild history, and name history. Adjustable date ranges exist.
* Graphs for both guild and player data. The bigger top graph is for the page's set timeframe. The lower one is for all recorded data of the player/guild. You can click and drag on the bottom graph to view a specific period on the top.
* Search feature. It will allow you to search a server for both current and past guild names, guild tags or player names.
* Server stats. Simply enough, records server data (players, planets, etc). Good for seeing the trend of players joining/leaving a server.

Upcoming features and changes:
* Round Servers (Ares). I'll be looking into parsing and handling these servers down the line.

A few things to keep in mind:
* I've had to wipe data multiple times as I improved my parsing script. Unfortunately, this means earliest data available is only 2011-09-28. The parser should be stable enough not to need any more wipes, so the data will only increase from here. The official date for some data is 2011-10-08, depending on the feature data prior to that may be available.
* There's still going to be bugs that show up.. Please send any bugs you find to bugreport@aestats.com. The more reports I get, the sooner I can get them fixed. Please include the url and how to reproduce the bug. Battlepaste bug reports also needed, please include the data you were trying to post.

The most important thing to make known is with battlepaste. The code is still very early in design, people are going to find that some reports fail to parse completely, or find that the parsed data doesnt show up properly afterwards. In order to properly fix this, I need a copy of the report you tried to post sent to bugreports@aestats.com. If it parses and posts but the data doesnt show properly, please include both your original report data, the BSID that was created, and a description of whatever may not be showing properly.

That should be all for now.

Regards,
Mizzy