When is the censusplus.lua written to?

aker · Post by **aker** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:35 pm

I'm trying to use uniuploader to automatically upload every hour or so (while im playing).

When the "auto-upload on file changes" is selected it only seems to upload on wow exit or when i do a purge. How often is the .lua actually written to, is it uniuploader missing the changes to the file or are the changes stored in memory and written on game exit?

Thanks

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:32 pm

When the console reloads.

I am for certain this happens when you do a

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/console reload ui

, as well as when you exit the game. Other than that... >.>

aker · Post by **aker** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:16 pm

Yeah, thats what I thought. Would be great if I could find a console command to avoid having to reload.

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:31 pm

In addition to reloading your UI... It normally saves if you change continents or enter/exit an instance.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:12 am

yeah, I just reload my UI regularly while in flight or something, or right when I go bio

I've got a fubar plugin for it too, so I don't have to keep typing it out... I used to have a macro for it but I like the little plugin better

Ylixia · Post by **Ylixia** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:54 pm

Just out of interest, is it really necessary to upload that often? I only upload (manually) every few days...

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:14 pm

The more often you submit, the more accurate it is

Submitting every few days means the data captured is a few days off.

Ylixia · Post by **Ylixia** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:22 pm

A few days behind or a few days off?

Surely the Census data includes times and dates etc for the activity charts? In which case updating once a day should do the trick I guess.

If the data uploaded doesn't include times and dates for the individual censuses (sp?) then I can see your point.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:43 am

Well it really depends on how many other people are doing uploads for your server(s). If you're the only one, then the data will just be behind. If you're not though, then when your data comes in behind the other data that's more updated than yours, then your data is discarded I believe. Overall, once a day should be just fine, but some people like to update more often than that for more update numbers on here.

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:29 am

On Monday you capture someone lvl 63. You submit and it shows here that he's 63.
On Tuesday he lvl's to 64 and you capture that. You don't submit
On Wednesday he lvl's again to 65 and you capture it. You submit.
The data here will only show he's 63 and then 65. And not 64

Thats why you got to submit often. So to keep the history accurate

The lua file keeps track of the last date, lvl, and guild each person was seen. Not the last time. Time is not recorded on the character. So while you saw the person lvl 64, when the lua sees him at 65 it records that and doesn't care if you submitted your data or not.

Ylixia · Post by **Ylixia** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:00 pm

Ahhhh, now it makes sense.
Would also explain why a character I haven't played for years, on an account I haven't paid for years either, still shows up on the search

(Had a US account back before the Euro version was released)

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:42 pm

But but but =)

If you submit only every few days, that is still leaps and bounds better than never submitting at all!

I know it takes a bit of dedication to upload after every play session, I'd be a very happy person if we could get uploads from folks once a week =)