Live Data Collection (Need Community Help)

[Akkadius]

Update:

We have tons of 2002-2005 logs now, we need a high density of 2004-2012 logs now.

Need your help!

UPLOAD HERE:

http://eoc.akkadius.com/eoc/EQEmuDat...gCollector.php

[Warking]

I have all my EQ files since I started in 99. I'll start looking through them

[Akkadius]

I've not seen anything uploaded recently, the community needs more help with this than we are getting. People have no idea how much this is going to help the community.

[Caryatis]

this is going to help the community.

You need to re-frame this to what the individual is going to get out of it. Give out some worthless points or some shit and work out a deal with some of the big servers to redeem them for trinkets, then you will be overwhelmed with logs.

[rhyotte]

well... although i quit playing live many years ago, I suppose I could login and ask some of the guilders who still play if they could share some of their logs. In the next few days I will attempt to get ahold of them.

[blackdragonsdg]

I am out of town atm and can not collect logs for the time being. I should be back home in a week or so and will resume log collections.

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by Caryatis

You need to re-frame this to what the individual is going to get out of it. Give out some worthless points or some shit and work out a deal with some of the big servers to redeem them for trinkets, then you will be overwhelmed with logs.

Everyone will get punch and pie, and leprechaun points

[RStefan01]

I have 14 gigs of log files from 2004-2009 when I played whatever ridiculous amount of time I played EQ Live (something like 700+ days played 2001-2009). I started running logs some time during PoP, and logged pretty much all of my group/raid gameplay through the last boss of SoD. If something was in the game during that time, I probably killed it... a lot.

But, here's the thing. If I could parse out chat before sending it, and then send them zipped somehow, I'd prefer doing it that way. If your script strips out tells/guild/channels/raid/etc., I'd be willing to set up a server and run it locally, then zip everything up and ftp it somewhere.

Don't take it personally, but there's a lot of chat in there that doesn't have any business being out in the world. I was an officer/leader of a raiding guild for years, so there's a lot of private shit in there that I don't really feel comfortable sharing since the people involved really don't have a say. Then there's just the sheer file size of it all... zipping it down to 1/10 the size would help tons on my end.

Not sure if it's worth all the hassle, let me know ;p

[Caryatis]

there's a lot of chat in there that doesn't have any business being out in the world

Always surprises me how important MMO players think their drama is. Unless you guys were talking about murder, rape or molesting children... nobody gives a shit if you thought some app was gay.

[chrsschb]

Pretty sure the script rips out chat data and only parses the combat data.

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by chrsschb

Pretty sure the script rips out chat data and only parses the combat data.

You are correct, no one will see the chat data.

[pfyon]

As much as I agree that there is little that could be of interest in someones' log (unless you included account or credit card info), but perhaps opening up the source would alleviate some peoples' concerns.

[RStefan01]

I'll take Akka's word that it won't store any chat info... still gonna take forever to upload that much though.

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by RStefan01

I'll take Akka's word that it won't store any chat info... still gonna take forever to upload that much though.

Compress it in chunks if you need to. We can arrange was of getting it to my repo so the parser can process it

[RStefan01]

I've already been storing em in zip files by year. Basically an entire year as a zip file is the size of a monthly log. I've got some web space I could throw it on, or I could ftp it somewhere if you want.