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Iron Faery
Jul Member 2007

Iron Faery

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My clan, Kirstunael hosts skilling competitions regularly, running 8th year now. We host it once per month for 1 week, sometimes challenging other clans too for fun. If you want to challenge us, feel free to pm co leaders Kristjano, Urbie, Cyprusgirl.

We have few issues with it though and working on solutions

- Runeclan servers can't handle too many skilling competitions happening while B Xp. Last time when we challenged other clan for full clan vs full clan skillwar we didn't get results even second day after B Xp was over. The servers were still too busy processing all the data.

- Runeclan allows to create competition and add people only before start. But sometimes people can be late signing up or the organizer forgot. It's rare but still, mistakes can happen.

Also we want the option to start xp be taken automatically or be edited by host and it should be clearly displayed that it was added late and edited xp. We are able to reach the xp someone had 2 days ago. As exception it would work.

- If the player changes name while competition, it's been always problematic.

- Many times people asked effigies, xp lamps or bonus xp off but we can't control it so can't make such a rule, currently: all allowed.


Maybe RS skillwars ain't so entertaining to watch as some other E-Sport but... we can make it funnier and nicer to people with good advertisments, live graphs and giving the results faster.

Only thing we can't do is exclude the xp lamps, effigies and bonus xp, only Jagex can do that. Cooperating with Jagex about it is possible. I would like to know if they are neutral, supportive or they got some other plan?

So I'm doing little research, how much your clan is interested in skilling competitions and would you like to help, work with me for it or support some other way?

I'm working at Sportlyzer, it is currently organizing real life sports but I gave them an idea... who not E-Sports too. We can start with little ninja project and test it out.

11-Nov-2017 10:58:41 - Last edited on 11-Nov-2017 11:12:10 by Iron Faery

Redtunnel

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Honestly, we will never get this support from Jagex. For years, all of us who make these XP trackers have asked Jagex to accommodate reasonably small requests; most importantly, to provide an API for name changes. It simply doesn't happen. My theory is that some part of the code hasn't been touched for so many years that no one presently understands it anymore, and no unit tests are in place for it, thus the task to alter it is simply too daunting. If it doesn't have the potential to make them a lot of money, they won't do it.

You're probably better off asking for these things from Runeclan or some other developer, as everything except disabling BXP/reward XP is actually manageable from a 3rd party perspective. Name changes are tricky, but it can be done even for players who are not in a clan, and I reckon 20-40 hours worth of coding would likely ensure that they are accurately tracked. Busy servers could be solved by premium plans, where people e.g. pay $5/month to have their trackers on a separate server. Crowdfund someone to make all these things and it would probably happen very quickly.

11-Nov-2017 13:37:50

Noetica
Jul Member 2010

Noetica

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Talk to the new guy in charge of Maxcape.com about it ... pm me if you want his discord name.
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12-Nov-2017 03:53:07 - Last edited on 12-Nov-2017 03:53:59 by Noetica

Ceecs
Mar Member 2010

Ceecs

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Sounds good but dont think we will get support from Jagex for this.

We did host some skilling competitions in the past too also against other clans, might be intrested in doing it against u guys. I while ask it to my co-leaders/event leaders and PM one of u guys about it.
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12-Nov-2017 08:43:04

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