JJ2 Open Server
 

Hello,

Since yesterday I'm working on my next project, I readed a lot times that the levels of my server (The Server) are too bad, so I got the idea to make my Server "open" (at first hosting a new one on an other port).

This means for you:
- You can Upload your own (first only battle) levels, tilesets and music
- Every User can regist him/herself in the tool, so that all know who uploaded which level
- Users can't delete Levels directly, it will be working with rating (1-10), if that rating of a level is going under 5.5 the Level get deleted

I have about 40% finished (the client is nearly completly finished, for the serverside tool i need a bit more time)

My Question is, what do you think about this project and have you any ideas to improve it?

Before I forget, here is a screenshoot of the client (this should make more clear if you still dont know what I'm talking about):
[IMG]http://jj2.ath.cx/JJOSP.png[/IMG]
(The Battle1 and 2 List entrys are fakes atm :D)

Edit (08.03.2011):
A new Screenshoot (uploading a level; still not completly finished but some parts are working :D):
[IMG]http://jj2.ath.cx/JJOSP2.png[/IMG]

Sfaizst

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The idea seems pretty cool. I imagine getting the voting/uploading to be balanced will be the hardest part. For example, you'll probably need a minimum number of votes before a level can be deleted, and prevent people from uploading their level again under a different name if it gets voted out. Good luck.

I thinked about this and there will be a crc check for the level...

and I will have an admin tool for manageing users and uploads, i think the official countable rating will start when 50% of the registred users made a vote (for the start i set a minimum of 5 palyers as example)

It might be unnecessary to have ratings on a scale from 1-10. Most people will either like a level, dislike a level, or just don't care about it - so a scale from 1 to 3 (or -1 to 1) might work better. Same reason why YouTube ditched the 5 star ratings and went with making it binary.


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hmm, good idea and makes it easyer for me :D

under the screenshoot i written that the levels in the list are fakes ...

Sorry for the doublepost:D but today i made a big step in the project, I finished the Serverside part (i hope all is working, i cant test all atm), now a client can choose between like/dislike
some points i changed:
- the global rating get updated every 2 hours
- before a level can get deleted a minimum of 15 Levels must be uploaded
- a level only can get deleted, when there are 7 votes or more
- if you select "No Rating" you delete your rating if you made one

here a new Screenshoot, the List entrys are real ones now :D:

[IMG]http://jj2.ath.cx/JJOSP3.png[/IMG]

If a betatester is interested in testing the program just contact me with pm, I'm sure i can finish soon a beta version of my tool that can be tested...

Sfaizst