Has anyone else decyphered the XML Feed?

I think we've figured out the factions and several of the territories, but has anyone else spend the time to work on a EndWar stats tool already?

Our group may be looking at creating one that's more useful in showing the progress of a battle vs the status bar that's hard to see who's ahead when the battle is close.

*LINK HERE!* http://supad.net/endwar/stats/index.php5

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Raide,

Hello,

I'm very interested in that feed too and couldn't find anything yet about it.

I haven't worked on it yet but might in the week, maybe could you share with me the info you got so i won't do the same work again ?

My mail : endwar at supad dot net

Thanks,
SUPAD

This is what I have so far.
For scores look under:
<territoryFactionScore>
<territoryId> = See below
<factionId> = see <ownerFactionId> below
<score> = Well, the score
There will of course be 2 territoryFactionScore elements for each territoryId that is contested. One for each side and their score.

<ownerFactionId>
1 = JSF
2 = EU
3 = SP

<warringStatus>
1 = None

<territoryTypeId>
1 = Regular
2 = Capital
3 = Air Support
5 = Force Recon

<regionId>
1 = US/JSF
2 = Europe/UE
3 = Russia/SP

<operationTypeId>
1 = Conquest
3 = Raid
7 = Assault


<territoryId>
Region = 1
1 = USS Reagan
2 = (none)
3 = Grissom
4 = 3 Mile Island?
5 = DC
6 = Shenandoah
7 = Pamlico
8 = Springfield
9 = Okefenokee
10 = Pasc/Chat/JFK
11 = Pasc/Chat/JFK
12 = Maxwell
13 = Chattanooga
14 = Ft Campbell

Region = 2
15 =
16 = Le Cito
17 =
18 = Thessaly
19 = Arrabida
20 =
21 = Paris
22 =
23 =
24 = Copenhagan
25 =
26 = Ramstein
27 =
28 = Brenner Pass

Region = 3
29 = Mahilyow
30 = Rondane
31 = Scania/Kurzeme/Dukovany
32 = Rovaniemi
33 = Moscow
34 = Scania/Kurzeme/Dukovany
35 = Scania/Kurzeme/Dukovany
36 = Sevastopol
37 = Carpathia
38 = Istra
39 = Vlore
40 = Ft Levski

Thanks for those intel, i think i found something you'll like

Here are all the territories names :
http://endwargame.fr.ubi.com/flash/tow/xml/territoriesNames.xml

You'll find also the thumbnails for it and a type that i don't know what is it for.

If you want to re-do a map, you can have all the adjacent territory here :
http://endwargame.fr.ubi.com/flash/tow/xml/territoriesEdges.xml

I had this URL from this configuration XML :
http://endwargame.fr.ubi.com/flash/tow/xml/application.xml

And i found it using Firebug (very good plugin for firefox in cas u don't know it).

Do you have any preview URL for what you're building ? And actually, what are you building ?

Good call - If I write a tool, I'll test it within my community (www.tghq.org) and then see about hosting it somewhere that everyone could use.

Here's the output that one of my guys (TW Lacis Ghost ) put together

This is as of right now...

Faction EFEC on territory Reagan Seabase Has Score of 812
Faction RUS on territory Reagan Seabase Has Score of 521
Faction JSF on territory Washington DC Has Score of 527
Faction RUS on territory Washington DC Has Score of 623
Faction JSF on territory Spain Has Score of 584
Faction EFEC on territory Spain Has Score of 502
Faction EFEC on territory Vlore Has Score of 225
Faction RUS on territory Vlore Has Score of 250

Right now it's just a console application but I'm outlining a PHP script right now... I just need to figure out what features I want to use.

Good info, thanks !

I did a bit of thinking about what i'd like to have and did a wireframe :
http://supad.net/endwar/wireframe/

Oh and i didn't mentionned it but if you want to inspire from it please feel free !

I might create it but do not know when...

Will do - I really like the setup you have there.

I will take the idea and at least think it through.

Thanks!

Wow.


If you could get some sort of quantified stat system for the territories up and running, you guys will be my heroes.

We have something right now but it's just a console application that spits out forum code for our private members.

Once I've developed this into something that everyone can easily use (I'm not into tech support anymore), we'll probably make it public.

What's retaining me is the XML parsing, have you done it in PHP ?

If you did i'll do my page (without style, i'm lame in design) by the end of the week

Not in PHP yet. the console application was written with a bunch of C# XML helper methods so I've got to covert it all.

PHP has helper functions to parse XML too but I've never used them before. More to follow.

Oh another thought that I'm going to setup before Ubi shuts down that feed for too much usage (as I've seen other companies do *cough*Bungie*cough*).

the public script would only ping the XML feed every 15 mins and store the data in a SQL DB.

What's happend with these type of gamer helper tools is if the usage gets high enought the company blocks requests. This ensures whatever server we push it to only pings at maximum 96 times a day. If it's not used as much then it's less.

Some of the Halo scripts I saw going around that got blocked would ping bungie 96 times a minute or more with all the gamers using them.

Indeed i had the same thinking, and to ease player impatience it would be good to have a timer giving the time pending to next refresh.

For the PHP XML i have the same problem, it's been too long time since i've done some PHP so i'm a bit lazy to dive in the XML stuff

I've added on the wireframe the timer and also something important we didn't mentionned : the gaming station !
I am on PS3, but you might be on XBOX and a PC version is planned.

The wireframe :
http://supad.net/endwar/wireframe/

Great work on this. I was hoping someone would take the XML job and see what they could make with it.

My knowledge of XML is poor, so I have no hope in doing anything with it. If you have any questions or thoughts on it, please let me know and I will try and direct them to the right people.

I've surpassed my lazyness and began the work, territories are now saved in database

A bit of work until the final result but i'm on the way.

If someone want to do a design from the wireframe i did, please do so.
Same for the integration

Hmm i do have a question :

What are for this info :
"<tugOfWarStepNumber>0</tugOfWarStepNumber>
<warringStatus>4</warringStatus>"

They are in the territory status xml under the "territoryProperties" node.

An other question : is the number of campaign done for a support sent in any xml ?

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Originally posted by Raide:
Great work on this. I was hoping someone would take the XML job and see what they could make with it.

My knowledge of XML is poor, so I have no hope in doing anything with it. If you have any questions or thoughts on it, please let me know and I will try and direct them to the right people.

Raide - Can you maybe fanagle us a guide on what all the different tags are actaully for?

I know I have to set the phase to 1 to pull any previous turns but I'm not sure that that actually means.

Also in the URL, what tags can we use to pull what kind of info. IE - the only ones I know are phase, and turn - once we get past First War how do we pull the 2nd or since turn=0&phase=0 pulls the latest, how would we get old first War data?

Thanks for anything you can get.