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stanmarsh
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Basic question here. I play on servers where they rank players based on number of kills, kpd, etc. Since players are no longer allowed to log in on their usgn accounts and must use unrealsoftware accounts, what is the effect of this on ranks? Meaning, should the server reset its ranks and everyone starts over (so that there aren't a bunch of old unusable usgn accounts taking up the top ranks) or is there a way for the server to simply look to unrealsoftware.de instead of usgn.de, so that players can simply create the same account name and keep their existing ranks? Thanks

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yes, I highly recommend to reset all rankings otherwise you will get results which are just wrong. there is no clean solution to keep the rankings.

I'll announce this here and in the usgn news later.

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sounds great but I can't imagine how you want to get the required data in an efficient way. therefore I wrote a small script to deliver the data:

It returns all us.de users which connected their account with an usgn.de account (live data from the database)

form:
unrealsoftwareID1=usgnID1,unrealsoftwareID2=usgnID2,... etc.

www.unrealsoftware.de/inc_pub/usgnassociatons.php

hope that helps

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Lee
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Thanks a bunch, I was going to mine the most recent users and hope for a large enough coverage in order to supplement the process, which is the main reason that the schedule is set for the end of the week, this will greatly expedite the process.

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DC
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stop the server and remove the file sys/stats/userstats.dat
afterwards restart the server (do not do remove the file while the server is running)

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stanmarsh
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Wow that is awesome guys... many players will be happy to not lose their rankings! Thanks!

This gives me one other question. After I made my unrealsoftware.de account with the same name as my usgn.de account, I went onto the server where I play to see if maybe it would show my rank like normal. Which of course it didn't. But now it makes me wonder... now the server has both accounts... my usgn.de account is a high rank... and my unrealsoftware.de account is very low. But both are the same name! So, how will the adapter know which one is the right rank when it decides what rank to give me now? Sorry if this is a weird question.

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the name is just an external thing and it really doesn't matter. internally the ranks are saved with the usgn/unrealsoftware.de ID

well... and.. of course it leads to problems when people are now ranked with unrealsoftware.de ids. it destroys the rankings and makes them unusable because we can't tell which ids are unrealsoftware.de ids and which are usgn.de ids.

however it is possible to only keep the ranks with a high time on server etc. those ranks are probably the old ones with usgn.de ids...

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stanmarsh
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So if you can make the adapter to only keep ranks with at least 1 day or so, then most players would not have to worry if they already used their new unrealsoftware.de account there also! Thanks for this solution... hope you can do that! Because I know other people did the same thing as me (stupid... sorry!) by going on the server with their new unrealsoftware account to see if their rank showed up. So since my old usgn has longer than 1 day on the server, and my new unrealsoftware account doesn't, then it would know that my old usgn account is the right rank to keep... and then it would give that rank to my new unrealsoftware account... hope that's true

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DC has written
sounds great but I can't imagine how you want to get the required data in an efficient way. therefore I wrote a small script to deliver the data:

It returns all us.de users which connected their account with an usgn.de account (live data from the database)

form:
unrealsoftwareID1=usgnID1,unrealsoftwareID2=usgnID2,... etc.

www.unrealsoftware.de/inc_pub/usgnassociatons.php

hope that helps


Great readability ;<
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