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https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Mario Kart >> Mario Kart Super Circuit >> Non-ZZMT Site https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1473370638 Message started by Mr.Nosey on 09/08/16 at 13:37:17 |
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Title: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 09/08/16 at 13:37:17 Hi everyone! I hope this comes as a welcome surprise, but I'm very happy to announce that I've finished work on the Non-ZZMT website that I started on 3 years ago. I've been working on it on and off over the years, but for various reasons, my interest and motivation was piqued once again in July shortly after I graduated. So I've been working many hours over the past two months to drastically improve it and finish it all off. It's located at nonzzmt.com ! (The domain was bought by my irl friend Jake, and he's hosting the site too! :) thanks Jake) Intention My intention for this site is to be very similar to the PP sites, in the same way that the SMK Non-NBT site is to SMK. However the main difference that I am planning is to eventually enter in times from players that are uncontactable or have retired. I want this done for the sake of completeness and accuracy, especially for the top of the leaderboard. Also, this site will be strictly Non-SC, if it wasn't already obvious. Most stats and whatnot require that you have all 80 times submitted. News As you can see on the main page, I've implemented a basic blogging type thing (surprise surprise it's actually Greymatter - same as what the PP uses), and my plan is to have monthly news updates for the site. Standards As you can see, I've put in a placeholder 'Std' column in the site. My thinking is that this site will fingers crossed drive some small amount of non-zzmt interest, at which point a group of us can discuss some potential standards. Alternative ladder systems At the moment, I'm just using the standard AF ladder as the main ranking system for the site. But this is only temporary, and I would very much like to use either the Non-NBT site's score, and/or another one that Jazzy came up with, called AFR (Average Finish Ratio). Explanation of Non-NBT Score: http://www.mariokart64.com/smknonnbt/statsinfo.htm I'm going to PM Jazzy to check whether he minds me providing a link to his explanation of AFR. Please give me your thoughts on this :) Submissions When creating a user on the Submit page, I'm asking that you enter a full real name as on the PP. You have the option to enter a Nickname, and I'm requiring people to enter an email. This is mainly to have some way of contacting people who may just rock up without saying anything on the forum/discord/wherever, and are otherwise uncontactable. The submit page is a bit unusual, but hopefully I've made it intuitive. You can use your keyboard to control the numpad when entering times (numbers, backspace and enter). When you submit your times, they'll shoot off to a verification page that only I can access atm. Don't hesitate to submit multiple times close together, because the page makes it easy for me to handle. Unfortunately though if you send in an improvement for a time before I've had a chance to verify the previous one, it'll overwrite it and not save it in the database. Dates With encouragement from Lafungo, I made it so that the website tracks dates (i.e. there can be more than one entry per person and course, as long as the day it was submitted is different), with the intention that these dates will be accurate as per when their respective times were actually set. I know it may be a large undertaking, but when you first find and submit your times, could you please also search for the respective dates they were set, and PM/email them to me! Then Lafungo and I will manually update the times until everything is at an accurate starting point. It'll take a decent amount of effort, but it'll be worth it. AF chart Updates automatically whenever I verify submissions. The 'Change' column automatically resets at the start of every month. Future things planned - Matchup page - Standards as already mentioned - A directory with links to youtube videos Mobile While I haven't specifically designed this site to work on mobiles (and tablets?), I've put in a decent chunk of effort to make it at least usable. But I've only bothered testing it on my Android Moto G. So don't be surprised if it doesn't work correctly or the header is completely broken or whatever. Please contact me with any problems. Lastly, there's a small chance that if I haven't mentioned something here, then I may have written it on the About page: nonzzmt.com/about, so please check that out super quickly first! My question to you I would very much like to hear your feedback and suggestions for improvements if you have them. Anything from colour scheme/font sizes to big-haul changes are welcome. Dependent on whether you think your comments would be most appropriate said publicly or privately, please either post in this thread, or send me a PM/send me an email at noseykart@gmail.com. Please don't be surprised if anything breaks. I'll honestly be more surprised if it doesn't. Just make sure to contact me with what wrong please :) Furthermore, if you look at the Submit page, you'll notice that I have lovely thumbnails for the GBA tracks and ugly ones for the Retro ones. I've found better coloured pictures of the map for the retro tracks, but they're still no way near as good. I found the GBA pictures on mariowiki.com, e.g. http://www.mariowiki.com/File:Mkscpeachcircuit.png but I have no idea how they got them, if you have an idea on how to do this please tell me! Thank yous - Lafungo for - Penev for helping me with a crucial SQL command a couple of years ago, and answering a few other questions of mine. - Etch and Thingy for linking me to their submission pages that I - Andy, Ethan and Stacy (and Lafungo) for submitting times to the site two years ago (because I said that the site was basically finished, lol), which has come in very handy when testing and fixing the site. Enjoy! P.S. Because of the times from the above four were submitted a while ago, some dates for them may be a bit funky, but they'll be fixed soon, just please ignore them for now. P.P.S. I will PM them also, but Andy, Stacy, Ethan and Lafungo need to provide me with an email of theirs that I can enter in the database before they can submit any new times. |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Etch on 09/08/16 at 14:03:49 Damn, nice work! An alternative to AF does sound interesting, points system etc. Your site should help reinvigorate activity here as compared to my boring topic where people would forget to submit times, lol. http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1280556160/0#0 Spruce it up with some banners and bg junk and you'll be superfly! http://i.imgur.com/MMmGqDY.png |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Jazzy on 09/08/16 at 16:03:27 Hey, I submitted my times to the site! I don't have a complete timesheet yet though :( The site is pretty clean design, although I find the submission form a bit unintuitive in some ways. Overall, I'm pretty impressed. As for AFR, here is the description of the system: Quote:
For AF itself, I personally recommend using it as the main ranking, with AFR possibly on the side. Now, I would prefer it if the AF system be modified to rank players without all 80 times, in the same way that the MK64 site does it: for missing times, use a rank of (last place + 1) for that track. (so if there are 100 players on a track, use 101 for a missing time). The new MK8 PP I am working on programming will most likely function this way. I find it provides more motivation for players who haven't submitted all times. Personally, I haven't played as much MKSC as I could, because I still have 60+ more times to submit before I can be ranked... Anyways, great job! I look forward to future developments ;) |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by thewebinator on 09/08/16 at 16:11:50 Looks great! Submitting now, time to get those Top 10s before the rest sign up! [smiley=ninja.gif] |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Lafungo on 09/08/16 at 17:11:19 I'm super happy to see the Non-ZZMT site finally go live! Thank you Nosey for all the work you've put in to make this project a reality! Despite all the pestering I've done over the years, I'm fully aware that no one else in the community had the motivation to do this (least of all me), so for you to pull through with it merits huge props! [smiley=beer.gif] A quick note on rankings: as I've told Jazzy over Skype when he first brought up the idea in the MKSC group, I'm heavily against AFR because it's a slightly more complicated ranking formula than AF that fulfills the same role yet doesn't solve any of AF's inherent issues (or replaces them with similar ones). On the other hand, I very much agree with implementing the MK64 solution for ranking players in AF with partial timesheets. |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Jazzy on 09/08/16 at 17:41:16 587572617A737B140 wrote:
Yeah, I remember what you said about AFR. Personally I'm indifferent to whether it gets added to any site or not (whether it be the Non-ZZMT site or the players' page). I don't mean for it to be used as a replacement for AF, just as an alternate ranking system like the others. And I wouldn't say it fulfills precisely the same role; although it is more similar in games other than MK8. AF shows how many players are above you, while AFR shows the percentage of players above you. For MK8, this is important because more than half of players do not have the DLC tracks, and this gives the non-DLC tracks more weight in the rankings. For older games it is less important; but the main reason I suggest it is that it provides a different way of looking at the data. Now, I don't want this thread to be turned into a discussion about AFR's issues and merits. And as I said, I don't really care too much whether it gets made. I do think this would be a nice place to test it out before using it for the players' page, though. Anyway, once again I'd like to say that this is a great accomplishment to have your site up! Props! |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Jazzy on 09/09/16 at 17:53:58 (Sorry for double post) I've been using the site for quite a bit and wanted to provide some feedback :)
Sorry for this huge list of things to work on, I'd just like to see the site get even better as time goes on :) It's fantastic already, great work! Just one more thing, if you have any questions about coding stuff I can help too. I'm quite experienced with this stuff at this point. |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 09/11/16 at 03:27:30 Thank you so much for all the feedback! This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, and there are definitely some things that I hadn't noticed at all that I will definitely change! Quote:
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I also think that my opinion has probably been swayed by the many years I've wanted Ethan to finish his timesheet, and him not getting round to it *regardless* of the fact that he doesn't appear on the leaderboard as a result. Quote:
Yep, good idea, but as you say, not the biggest deal right now when there isn't that many players Quote:
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Thanks! Quote:
Hmmmm, very good point... should be easily fixable I reckon. Quote:
It works if you use the numbers on the top of your keyboard, I just didn't set it up to work with the numpad for some reason - I'll do that now. Quote:
Ty - there's a couple other warnings that I implemented similar to this iirc. Quote:
Okay so this is a really good point. I did strongly consider this back in the day - but I decided against it due to my inexperience at the time (and kinda now still), and the fact that implementing a verification page prevents against abuse, and so the only real problem left is people perhaps pretending to be other people. I worried about this quite a bit, until I realised that all the other PP's have worked essentially in this way for a long time without problem, hence why I didn't do it. That said, I am interested in implementing this at some point in the future, and thank you for your offer of help! Quote:
Ahah, thank you! Fixed now. Quote:
Both valid points, I'll do them now. Quote:
Urk... good point. That'll mess up the formatting a ton :( Quote:
Hmm, I'm not so set on this one personally. In my opinion PRSR is an inferior and uninteresting metric, and feels like a waste of space in most places? Seems worth it to have it's own leaderboard though because why not. And regarding difference to SR - maybe? Current sites display this via tooltip, but I'm not sure how bothered I am by it. I might be alone in that though? Would anyone else like to weigh in on this point? Quote:
Hmm, I do sort of see what you mean by this. What was the main thing that most bothered you - The player select inputs? The toggle to Retro button? Or the numpad? (or everything?) You've given me some ideas though. Quote:
Loool, literally never noticed this. I'll see whether it's easy to fix. Quote:
Might be having a blond moment here, but a tally of what exactly? Do you mean total times of them all added up perhaps? Quote:
Yes, thank you - I happened to discover these recently also. The main thing I was trying to look for was images of the type I've used for the GBA courses (i.e. first person view at the starting positions) for the retro tracks Quote:
1) Haha, yeah that'll be because I made the PRSR and Totals pages the same day that I released that site, lol. So they're a bit rushed. 2) Not quite sure what you mean? But when your cursor is hovering over any row, the top and bottom borders will be black, which is causing the effect you're seeing? Quote:
Ah, thank you. I don't really understand this, but I'll look into it! Quote:
Personally, I find this pretty weird, I just don't get the appeal of seeing the recent submissions... at all? It's much more important to me to see times compared against others, rather than simply seeing how new they are? Also I'm really intrigued to see how an AFR chart ends up looking. Once again, I may be alone in this though, so if anyone else agrees with Jazzy can they please speak up? Thanks again for all your critique! It's enormously helpful :) |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Jazzy on 09/11/16 at 08:36:10 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
No problem, I'd like to see the site get better too! 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
Hmmm... I'm not sure how much I agree here. If someone has 79/80 top times, and is #1 without the 80th time, they deserve to be #1, because, regardless of how bad their 80th time is, they would still be the champion with it. If you exclude that player, the "other" #1 is a bit misleading, since his or her times wouldn't be as good as the player with 79/80 times. Now, I find that with over 60 new times to submit, I'm not motivated to play this game much. I have so far before I can even be ranked at all. If the site ranked me, I would probably be motivated to play more, since every new time submitted is easy cuts to my AF. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
Huh, I couldn't get it to work with the numbers at the top of my keyboard either. Maybe I'm missing something? I use firefox, in case it's something to do with my browser. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
If you're going to implement this, I'd make it a priority, that way you're not assigning passwords to tons of players in the future. Now that I think of it, you should have a "change password" feature as well, where you select a player, enter the old password, and a new password to change to. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
I'd say, that since there's a leaderboard for PRSR, it should appear on the profile too. That way players can see how it's broken down for each track. If you wanted, you could display PRSR and SR difference in a tooltip, that might be a good alternative. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
I'm talking about the number pad, retro toggle button, and submit button. I thought they were all disabled at first... 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
Yeah, that would be nice, but what I meant was to show the total number of SRs each player has. Look at the players' page site records page, it has this too. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
The problem is that if I move my mouse downwards over the table, the black borders stay after I move the mouse off the row. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
I can talk to you privately to explain what this means. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
The recent times page is useful to see where people have been improving lately. Wouldn't it be nice to see that someone is approaching SR? Or making a lot of progress on a whole bunch of tracks over the past week? Also, it's nice to see which players were active recently. 2C282A243836293435410 wrote:
Again, no problem, and great job so far!! :) |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 09/11/16 at 09:08:49 What I've done today: -Fix profile course ranking for ties -Link to AF from profile pages -Header links on scrolldown -Fix weird header issue on mobile -Link to profile on SRs page But: -Ties on SRs page This is kinda done. But really really annoying the tooltip isn't working as it does on the submission page, and pop out of the td. I've tried fiddling with the z-index, but I can't figure it out. Lastly, I'll look at your replies to my replies this evening Jazzy :) |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 09/14/16 at 08:10:03 Did some further work on the site today: - Fixed key detection for numpad and other browsers on submission page - Coloured the buttons on Submission page - Numpad, retro toggle, submit - Made a check against current times on Sub page (i.e. query if slower than current) - Made it possible to cancel/delete a time on submission page - Grabbed screenshots of retro tracks for submission page - Did HTML validation |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 09/16/16 at 09:40:22 Did a few more things today: - "fixed" the weird black borders that Jazzy pointed out (by simply getting rid of the borders) - reformatted Totals page links - PRSR and SR difference in a tooltip - done, by once again I basically copied the code from the main site, so props go to whoever actually wrote that. That reminds me, I need to put a thank you section on the about page. - MK64-type AF chart Regarding the last point, I've put in a button that does what we want it to. The default is to show only complete timesheets, but seeing everyone's is just one click away - sound like a reasonable compromise? I'm quite unsure about the styling of it though, I feel that perhaps it would look better not in a table element, and instead just a small button underneath a small paragraph of text that explains what AF is. |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Jazzy on 09/16/16 at 20:46:01 Nice work! I'm very happy with the progress you've made over the last week or so. The rate at which you're adding things is crazy, keep it up! |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 10/11/16 at 08:53:51 First news update is up! Just go to the main page and scroll down from there :) |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Antistar on 10/12/16 at 01:10:34 Great work there! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Jazzy on 12/12/16 at 20:14:42 Hey, I tried to submit a time to the site today, but it was giving me an error that all the fields were not filled out (like email, name etc) even though I selected "returning player". Looks like this is a bug, which makes it impossible for me to submit my times :( Can you fix this please? |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 12/13/16 at 03:43:01 All fixed! Sorry, the error came about when I made it so that everyone's emails cannot be seen at all on the submission page, and after doing that I didn't doublecheck it was all working still. |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Mr.Nosey on 10/17/17 at 06:41:48 Time for a bump, and a few typed out unrelated thoughts. I worked on filling out the site about a month ago. Penev was kind enough to give me a snapshot of the PP site, and I transferred over the fully-nonzzmt timesheets of a few key players, mainly for the reason that importing the correct dates over would've been a pain otherwise, so thanks. I've corrected the dates for pretty much all players as accurately as I can now, and the only key player whose times I need to research a bit more now is Seb. More recently, Rusty, Chris and Glosby have joined the site, and both have been doing well :)Chris just needs to put in a few more times, then he'll be the official #2 I never did write another news article, maybe I'll try and start doing a biannual or annual one. The SRs page should be 100% accurate now, apart from the occasional recent overall WR by Chris or Andy that doesn't contain any MTs. And my favourite point for last, the number of concurrent NonZZMT WR holder is 16! This was far more than I expected, and I think it's really cool. I feel that a number of these players will imminently knocked off the board, so I'm posting it here now for posterity's sake. Edit: updated image because I'm a terrible person and forgot about Etch's SG flap http://https://image.prntscr.com/image/-k8ghW5bS7yYIo2kFkEKAA.png |
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Title: Re: Non-ZZMT Site Post by Etch on 10/17/17 at 13:02:25 Sent in my baby from SG flap! [smiley=dankk2.gif] |
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