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Boss Timer App - anyone interested?

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#1

Hey All,

I am a professional software developer and gamer. One thing that has come up when playing Tree of Savior is the difficulty of knowing when / where world bosses will spawn. Especially for those of us who only get to play a few hours a day, it would be nice if there was a reliable (as possible) source of information on this. Hence, (tl;dr)if there is enough interest, I will put together a Boss Timer web app with crowd sourced information.

###Here’s how it would work:

  1. App is a one page, dynamic list of bosses. Clicking on a boss opens a dropdown with each channel listed. Status for each channel will indicate if Boss is Up, Down, or unknown. If status is Down, a countdown will show amount of time until spawn.

  2. Users must log in (probably google auth). Users will be able to report on a boss being Up, Just Killed, or Status Error (error in the current status). Users will have a trustworthiness rating based on how close their reports are to the final aggregated status. Aggregated status is based only on the collective reporting of Trusted Users. If a normal User has a high score, they will be upgraded to a Trusted User. If a User posts wildly inaccurate reports, they will be IP banned.

  3. Actual reporting will be an easy process of clicking the appropriate status button next to the boss and channel, and confirming a popup. All calculations will be handled by the server. The user only needs to worry about viewing the bosses they are interested in, and clicking a report when they run into a boss in game.

###Steps:

  1. If there is enough interest in the idea, I will post a front end mockup of the app (html/css/js)
  2. If there is more interest based on the mockup, I will hook the client to a server and deploy to heroku or something so people can test it out (this would be limited to one game server starting out)
  3. If all goes well, it will be stable on one game server, and can easily be extended to all servers.

Let me know what you think.
Cheers & Happy Gaming :kissing:

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#2

This sounds like a great idea. Would be even better if we could get an addon that adds some kind of overlay that allows us to report a boss sighting from directly in the game.

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#3

I like this idea :slight_smile:

I think it would encourage people to join the fight, not every boss is being camped all day (coughdullahancough), and it can be a nice experience for loners like me. Just today I made 2 new friends because I was randomly invited to a group for a boss kill :blush:

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#4

Yea, the addon would be another goal assuming the web app works. That would make it extremely easy. One thing I worry about is incentivizing making actual correct reports. On one hand, I would want it to be available to everyone. On the other hand, that creates no incentive to actually report bosses that are up / killed.

If anyone has improvements or suggestions I’d love to hear them. :smile:

#5

suggestion:
don’t require login just to -read- the data, only for adding data?

sounds like an interesting idea overall.

#6

OMG YES PLEASE!!!

20charactersftw!

#7

Awesome idea! /20charsnow

#8

Pretty sure this was already done 3 times and all were shut down thanks to nobody caring enough to log into something just to report in a dead worldboss.

#9

Actually it was done 0 times, each and every time something similar was done, was through a spreadsheet, which became defunct after all the server changes/etc.

Personally I find this interesting, and don’t mind contributing especially since there is the boss debuff timers coming, lowering the competitiveness of world bossing.

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#10

Nope.

Because people have their timer already. It would be a waste of their effort.

At least not until they patch the world boss debuff.

#11

It would be a good improvement for those new to the game or that havent been in a boss hunt, most of them are always camped by high levels partys, maybe the timer will not help against them but it will be a nice start to other players to at least have an oportunity or know more about world bosses, I completely support your idea!

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#12

Thanks for the feedback. Between the generally positive response here and on reddit, I have decided to go forward with step 1. I do understand the argument against something like this, but it will be a fun project either way, and everyone has to keep in mind - nothing can beat having someone camp a mob 24/7. The information on this app will be as good as people are willing to provide, but I’m hoping it can serve some use to people who play more casually and want to try out some bosses.

#13

Seems nice for when the 8hr debuff is introduced. Still, it will only become good when bosses will actually start to appear on timer without bugging non stop.

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#14

^ This.

After the patch, I support.

Now is not the right time.

#15

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#16

Addon sounds great but not doing the whole google auth that’s too suspicious.

edit: I revoke my previous post. Having fully thought out how this would turn out it is a horrible idea. Many AHK bots would set or use the timer to farm world bosses and thus leave even LESS chances to ever even gaze a moment before them in peoples entire gaming careers.

That said. Having been here almost 1,000 hours ingame I have yet to see a single world boss.

#17

The whole point of google auth rather than custom auth is that it’s about as un-suspicious as it can be. Google logs you in, I have no control over that data.

#18

Oh yes, I’m interested alright! This would be awesome…

BTW, not related to the topic, but what is /20chars??? :confused:

#19

Many forums have a post character minimum, so if you want to make a short post it’s just a filler :smile:

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#20

IMC allows this type of addon?