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Old 03-30-2013, 01:56 PM
azxten azxten is offline
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A couple months ago I created eastcommonlands.com (warning, only "has price" and "wtb/wts" filters work at the moment) which has a live stream of EC (currently delayed to 10 second refresh rate, hopefully this save the crappy back end from dying after I make this post). Its free to use and is simply EQ running a Windows VPS with the logs being parsed into a MySQL database and a Django front end.

Unfortunately, I haven't had time to finish this yet but all it really needs is someone to complete the UI and add some pricing graphs for specific items, etc. I planned to use Google's Chart API to offload this work from the server, allow for live graphs, and its easy. If anyone wants to step up and assist me with this I'll pay for the server (unless it becomes too expensive, but its there now) and assist when I'm able. Anyone who knows Django or wants to learn it, or wants to redo the front end, let me know.

The only other concern is that you do get disconnected from EQ occasionally and automating the login process would violate the server rules. This means someone has to manually restart the EQ client. Then there is the other aspect of "two boxing", running this EQ client means someone has a character in game, it has to be owned by someone who isn't playing another character. This has been another hurdle to me leaving it up.

I guess I'm asking for two volunteers:

1. Someone who doesn't play here and can get an E-mail/SMS/etc at random times and is willing to use Remote Desktop to connect to this Windows server and restart EQ.

2. Someone who wants to continue to develop the UI for eastcommonlands.com so that it has item links to historical pricing information, etc. I can assist you with this if you're a novice web developer.
Last edited by azxten; 03-30-2013 at 02:14 PM..