(06-28-2017, 10:28 AM)Noppadet Wrote:I haven't looked into this more than just a quick thought, but I was thinking a javascript booklet that just pulls element data from the html.
The roster page for each team has the TPE written in the description of the title, i.e.: http://nsfl.jcink.net/index.php?showforum=69 which is updated when the team is updated on Saturdays.
Oh wow, I didn't even noticed that. Yeah that would be pretty cool. I'm a developer but honestly I do more back end stuff.
Earlier on I was thinking about if it would be possible to have character update pages on a website that stores all that in a database. This would automatically handle TPE allocation (ensuring you are only able to spend TPE that has been allocated to you) as well as stat restraints such as not going past a max stat. The reason for this is because instead of point claims, they could be an admin page that adds TPE to all those player's characters and then they can easily use the site to allocate their newly earned TPE.
The main reason to do this would be for quick and automated sim updates.
There would be an export function to take all of the player data and put it in to a CSV. This would be in format that the sim needs for importing data. This set up would allow player updates to occur before every game since so much would be automated. I think this set up would save a lot of time.
However, it would take a bit to set up, (probably take me about 20-30 hours if i'm being honest and maybe a bit more to iron out the CSV export to perfection. Also, I"m not sure how security would be handled since each player here would have to only have access to their character updates, and we would have to give admin users special privileges to assign TPE. Also, if it's being hosted on a separate site, that pulls traffic from here to there as well as costs extra money to host.