acquiring player movement data for research

[amirishere]

Hi,
Does anyone know how I could obtain all the players movement data within a single realm. I would like to use it in a research on P2P MMORPGs. I need something like a log with the position of the players at constant intervals (say a min or 2).


Thanks in advance.

[LigH]

This is server-internal data - and I really doubt that the developers would freely give you access to those. Imagine how you could abuse that, e.g. by stalking specific chars.

[amirishere]

I can actually use old data if that would help, from two or three years ago.
Furthermore, It doesn't need to identify the players, (although I suppose I could If I had a character playing at that time and remembered who I met where), a random ID number would do.
Finally I only need the position data nothing more.
But overall you are right, I see the problem with that.

[RlyDontKnow]

we don't just log any movement data
just think about it what a huge amount that'd be - just from a week - with logging each movement of a constant 50-100 characters moving around
not even thinking about months or years...

[novacadian]

You might ask to some volunteer test subject which could send you a tell every two minutes with their /pos output. May be able to bribe them with tria.

Not sure how valid such a system would make your data, though. 

- Nova

[weltall]

it's already implemented you just need to copy the report log each 2 minutes the problem is why?