Hello,
I am considering creating and hosting a searchable, relevant and handy website that provides a front-end for War Thunder data sourced from the datamine. The datamine is an immediately-updated dump of all of War Thunder’s relevant vehicle, map, etc. data which is stored in compressed files that are not easily accessed. I can create a website that automatically pulls this data, extracts it, organizes it, and makes it available via web browser. The idea is to make this information more quickly and easily accessible without having to find it piecemeal through google or via starting a game client.
Example features (ordered by work to implement):
- Search by vehicle name and return generic stats page
- List all nation’s vehicles by BR or count
- Submit a lineup and return all possible vehicles possibly faced in matches using that lineup
- Collate data from the WT Data Project to show win rate likeliness and other complex derived data
- Hit/Protection analysis equal to in-game function
My question is, would you find this sort website helpful, or not? If so, which features? What features would you like to see?
Thanks,
Treasure M.
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thing is that a “datamine browser” would really not be that useful, the most important data is already on the wiki
and because of the “shape” of the data it would requires a very large amount of work to make it presentable on a website, each vehicle have hundreds of variable, some depending on others and it gets complicated very quickly
my dozen script to extract some data show that very easily
I won’t say “no” to such website, but there’s a reason i didn’t wanted to work on it
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Uhm…
Screenshot from the TOS.
Not sure how strict they are on that though, might be possible to ask for permission or something.
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TLDR : as long as we don’t use it to cheat/resell we can datamine
Gaijin even “helped” us a couple years ago when they did their files reformat to help us datamine again
so it’s not exactly written white on black but gaijin “tolerate” us
if i was datamining to extract the models and make money on it then i would have gotten some slaps on the fingers
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Thankfully the vehicle information is parseable as json which lends itself to well to automatically inferring a sensible database schema so I have that base covered.
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There’s a datamine discord server with a few “employees” on it, like gun job and Surbaissemaxxing on it RN, mostly though they just datamine upcoming changes changes and decals though. Im only really on if for when they do Leak stuff for new updates
