Runes of Magic US / AU

Ive created a nice list on my guild site of the top 50 guilds in siege war. (by score)

Update As of 8/30/2010 I'll be tracking ALL guilds. There is now a "Full List" link at the top of the page for those who want to see the entire list of guild scores. I will also be adding a ZERO Bracket that tracks win/loss instead of score for those stuck down there with a score of 0.

The Site:
http://dawn-treaders.info/sw/

Disclaimer: With all the exploits, queing and general lagginess of siege wars, this list is just that... A list. I'm aware that there are alot of excellent quilds that get screwed out of making this list because of the above mentioned reasons. I really, really, really hope Frogster can convince Runewhatever to actually fix one of the funnest aspects of this game. This is NOT the place to voice your hatred of siege wars in their current form. There are plenty of other threads for that.

Q/A:

Q:How are the guilds sorted on the list?
A: They are first sorted by score in descending order so that the highest score is first. Then they are sorted by wins (DESC), losses (ASC) and ties (DESC) to sort out guild with the same score but different win/loss records. This places guilds with the highest score, most wins and least losses higher on the list. Seems the fairest way to do it at the moment.

Q:Why isn't my guild on your list? We have a score high enough. What gives?
A:Chances are, the database hasn't seen your guild yet. If you are new to the top 50 bracket then it'll take untill the current days siege numbers have been uploaded before you'll show up in the list. I'll also be programming in logic to remove any guild from the list that misses three consecutive sieges once queing is removed. This will prevent guilds from camping Top 50 positions.

Q:How do you get your numbers?
A:Every night when siege ends the siege UI is populated with every guild that played, their points, and whether they won or lost. I take screenshots of the siege UI, around eight total, and use those to enter all the data into a database. You can find these pics on the site under *archive*. The site takes care of updating the list after the upload.

Q:What if I find an error in the list?
Alease post here and let me know. I've caught several errors myself so I'm sure there are more or will be more in the future. Fortunately errors don't propagate past their single entry and stick out like a sore thumb.

Q:Why is it sooo... Simple looking? Where are the graphs and colors?
A:I'll add graphs and other cool stuff when i get more data. The webpage itself is simple because I was more worried about getting the database and code working correctly than the aesthetics of the site. Simple is beautiful when coding.

Q:My score on your site says 1685, but the siege UI says its 1700. What gives?
A:For whatever reason, siege scores are fiddled with by the RoM servers. Ive seen this several times now where a guilds siege score will differ from the end of a siege to the beginning of the next siege. For example, the above actually happened to my guild Dawntreaders. We ended the night with 1685 points and started the next siege with 1700 points. I guess Frogster wanted us to have 15 extra points. My scores are ALWAYS the score you had at 9:00pm PST when siege ends for that day. Period.

Future Features:
I would love to add the ability for people to add notes to guilds or sieges. I loath guilds that cheat at siege war so I really want to add a system that warns others about them. Any and all suggestions and criticism are welcome and encouraged.

Thanks for your time.
Typha
Dawntreaders
Reni

Known Issues:
-There is currently no sorting of columns.
-Performance and page loading has degraded since the sites "beautification". This will be resolved shortly.

UPDATE (2010-09-02)
-JQuery integration complete. The site looks much much better.
-Guild info front end has been added.
-The siege notes front end has been added.
-ZERO bracket list added.

Quoted from "Rashira34;329560"

Hehe. One guild in particular seems to be missing. A guild with 3x the points of the current leader.

In all seriousness, nice list. Saves me having to keep a similar one by hand....

hehe I know... If only they'd siege. I'd love to get them on the database.

I think the que has been kicking them out. I was all excited when I saw them signed up two days ago only to have them wiped off due to a server reset. (or something)

Quoted from "MegaMouseSEC;329569"

Here is my problem with any list that is made. It has skewed results from Seige still beign in BETA. If they ever do decide to reelase seige as a fixed entity (everyone cross their fingers), and they reset teh rankings I do believe we will see a vastly different list than the one that is now beign made.
Right now any list that is made will be totaly off the mark due to teh fact that most of the so called "Top Tier" guilds used Mercs to get where they are now. Since mercing has been effectively stopped I have seen several guilds steadly climbing the ranks (and no I do not belong to any of those that are climbing steadily). Lets wait for the full release of Seige wars before we give cudos to any of the Guilds.

I couldn't agree more. I can't wait for the day that they reset all the scores and take the *BETA* tag off siege wars. Until then I've only got the current scores to work with, as skewed as they may be.

Quoted from "Warhead42;329604"

A suggestion, instead of "Legacy_a", perhaps "Legacy (Artemis)" would be a bit more clear. I highly doubt that your HTML limitations are as pathetic as the RoM guild naming system and can support spaces and parentheses.

Thank you for the suggestion.

This is an easy enough fix. It shouldn't take more than a day or two to add.