Creators Hour

Creators Hour #2

Time: Round 2 - 21 Aug 2004 Place: #creators

Heres a summary of some of the more interesting aspects of the second ever creators hour:

Database Dumps

<Spinner> The Tahmer search page is an unauthorized bot page
<Spinner> These days, we are completeing the work on the data that Pbot will access
<Spinner> And it will be available VERY soon
<Spinner> for everyone to use
<vish> this info will be placed on a server outside planetarion so that we do not get that extra 
load
<Spinner> As soon as that is ready, we do not want any loose bots out there using different data

In the early rounds if you wanted to run a site like Pilkara or Sandmans, your only method of gathering the data was through the use of a Data Miner bot. The likes of Sn0w and Tahmer would create a seperate account and set their bot to login to this acocunt and parse all the galaxy pages. This data would then be stored and could then be used by their tools. The two most famous tools at the time were SnOws IRC bot PBOT and Tahmers website. The amount of bandwith these bots and others like them took to gather the data forced the Creators to start producing the database dumps that all tools today run from.

Alliance Controls

<Messiah> From Kittenpurr:
<Messiah> Have you got anything planned regarding the limiting or controlling alliance size? 
<Spinner> Yes, but not anything you will see in a very near future
<Spinner> But sometime in this round, something like this will be implemented
<Spinner> The actual way we are doing it is still inside my head.....
<Spinner> In very dynamic forms...
<Spinner> So I dont have detils on this yet

As always time in PA gets distorted, if they say 10 mins it means 10 hours and if they say in near future they mean in around 4 years :) This feature took until Round 10 to implement and seems alot more static than what Spinner had in mind.