smileyleg how you collect all of this information?

My guess is he just runs a program that checks the data for each of the 8million games, and saves the data from any ladder games. From what I've seen it's a number around 100,000.

That would be my guess anyway :)

Dublin Warrior: It's the map "Medium Earth" and it starts with 7 wastelands. It's the standard set up for 1v1 Ladder games :)

Here's an example game so you can see the starts: https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=8932688

1,2,6 is a way to easily determine gg.

Either you know you've won or you know you'll lose.

Fleecemaster- it's a bit simpler than that.

WL has a Game ID feed API that gives you the game IDs of any tournament or ladder. Once you get those, you can use the Game Data API to get data from each game (which is *really* comprehensive if you set a parameter called "GetHistory" to true). You can use that to perform all sorts of analyses on the game- what smiley's done so far is just the tip of the iceberg, and I suspect he's got a lot more coming. You can get the team IDs of players, their income each turn, their territories each turn, and even have enough data to reconstruct the map (at least the territory connections- you won't get the images).

Edited 6/30/2015 09:34:26

Right, pretty much exactly what knyte said.

I pull the data into a SQL database and then run queries to produce the analyses.

Oh yeah, I didn't realise there was a list for the IDs, nice :)

Seems you're the right people to ask a question I have then...

Is it possible to pull the history from a game in progress?

I can't find the way to do it, but I was hoping maybe if I can query with my username or something I can get access to that data? Seems it's set up to do it, I think I just don't have the right way? If you can just point me in the right direction or tell me it can't be done that would be great :)

Fleecemaster, try this:

https://www.warlight.net/API/GameFeed?GameID=XXXXXXX&GetHistory=True

Where Game ID is changed to the ID of the game you want to query. Just go to that URL and you can test it. I know it doesn't let you get data from games you weren't a part of but since I don't have API powers (non-Member) I have limited knowledge of the possible outputs of calls made to the API.

I suspect it will be disabled, though, or at least limited by fog- otherwise this would be a pretty easy way to cheat and gain an unfair advantage.


Source:
https://www.warlight.net/wiki/Query_game_API

Edited 6/30/2015 17:49:02

That doesn't give me the history of the game, it only gives me the starting info, the player IDs and such. I feel like I'm maybe missing a command that will give me the turn info of a game while it's running. At least, I hope it's possible...!

Is there somewhere that has all the possible calls that I've not come across?

That URL works fine once the game has completed though, of course :)

So far, the only documentation I've found has been on the wiki and it's been pretty sparse. I don't think there's any parameters you can pass in on that request other than GameID and GetHistory, though.

I don't think there is any way to get that info on a game that's in progress. You can get the fact that it is in progress, but that's pretty much it.

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Edited 6/30/2015 20:37:37

Ok, thanks for the responses, that's what I feared! The way it read it sounded like I could, maybe something was changed at some point. Thanks for the help guys :)

you clearly don't have much of an idea how wl works dan

you should read my last post on the previous page to make an idea of how picks work

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Theoretically, it's possible to be left with picks 4, 5 and 6. Both players (they can be A and B), by coincidence, have the same 1st pick and A ends up with that territory. Then, A picks B's second territory, as second pick. Also, by coincidence, A ends up with that territory. By chance, A chooses B's third territory and A ends up with pick 3. B is then left with picks 4, 5 and 6. This scenario wouldn't happen all that often.

Um. This is so wrong. Are you a troll?
Look at the first page, there are all possible distributions (except for the ones where you make less than 6 picks)

Theoretically, it's possible to be left with picks 4, 5 and 6. Both players (they can be A and B), by coincidence, have the same 1st pick and A ends up with that territory. Then, A picks B's second territory, as second pick. Also, by coincidence, A ends up with that territory. By chance, A chooses B's third territory and A ends up with pick 3. B is then left with picks 4, 5 and 6. This scenario wouldn't happen all that often

I'm kind of annoyed to have you as a clan mate if you actually believe what you're saying. Let me make this perfectly clear:


If Player A steals player B's first pick, then player B always gets picks 2 and 3 as compensation. Getting 4, 5, 6 is completely impossible and if you don't accept that as truth, then [redacted]. [redacted] and by this point you should have a basic understanding of Warlight logic. Honestly, I'm [censored]

you clearly don't have much of an idea how wl works dan

How the **** am I improving, then, on 1v1?

Are you a troll?

Isn't it obvious? No. I'm not like Bane, Lawlz or any other troll, for that matter. I'm not even an alt.

Whoa what's happening?

DanWL: now just think how much quicker you'll improve now that you know how distribution works! :)