06-03-2004, 03:26 PM
Hi,
Thott is using a bot (Thottbot) to generate data for his online database. Anyone that wants to help can contribute by running Cosmos. If, like me, you find many of the Cosmos "features" to be against the spirit of the game, it is easy enough to turn them off.
The data base itself is pretty amazing. As an example, go to the link above, from the list on the left choose "Tradeskills: Alchemy". Now click on one of the components, say "Peacebloom". Scroll down the resulting page till you get to the "Dropped by" table. Click on "Zone" to sort it that way. Now click on the map for your zone of interest. Pretty amazing, I think.
Since this is player collected data, hopefully it will be kept updated as things change (and I hope Thott's got a strategy or algorithm to clean out information that is no longer accurate). Because this information is collected automatically in the background, it will probably be both more complete and more accurate than information that requires the player to compile and submit.
--Pete
Thott is using a bot (Thottbot) to generate data for his online database. Anyone that wants to help can contribute by running Cosmos. If, like me, you find many of the Cosmos "features" to be against the spirit of the game, it is easy enough to turn them off.
The data base itself is pretty amazing. As an example, go to the link above, from the list on the left choose "Tradeskills: Alchemy". Now click on one of the components, say "Peacebloom". Scroll down the resulting page till you get to the "Dropped by" table. Click on "Zone" to sort it that way. Now click on the map for your zone of interest. Pretty amazing, I think.
Since this is player collected data, hopefully it will be kept updated as things change (and I hope Thott's got a strategy or algorithm to clean out information that is no longer accurate). Because this information is collected automatically in the background, it will probably be both more complete and more accurate than information that requires the player to compile and submit.
--Pete
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