February 3
Kingdom Hearts 3 released on January 29th, so delays occurred.
I've decided that now is a good time to detour from what I was doing and continue filling in a piece that is only half-ready: the data. The Armory does not load items from the game database file, so it isn't just immediately up to date all the time. As a result, my data has become old now; Teide is the newest thing on it; no Battleshades, let alone Miul.
Normally, as a regular thing, fansites will use client files such as images and data to make their tools or info pages work and be accurate. It is probably more unusual that a convenient database exists but *won't* be used. The problem here is that Vindictus has a great many duplicates of the same items, that would effectively be spam on search results and listings. Every r7 and up scroll exists twice, due to the 100% success variants, and there are something like 20 copies of each early ivory weapon.
One of the first undertakings of starting v4 was to begin the process of creating a "cleaned" database. One that only contains the items relevant to our region, only one copy of each, and only the bits of data that the Armory would use. At the time, I finished probably around 40% of the work. It was just enough to allow me to test the Item List tab and the Gear tab.
In addition, I have been puzzling over how to associate items and item types to each other. If you are familiar with a wiki such as the RuneScape wiki, this is the internal mechanism that makes the box at the bottom of the page work, linking to other items. A Regina Helm would show a block for all of the other Regina equipment, a Godly Iron Ore would show a block for all of the Iron Ore tiers, and so on.
Some of these relations are easy, such as sets, but others are more complex than you might initially think. To a player, it is obvious that Godly Iron Ore and Iron Ore are related, but nothing in the data actually directly says this. As far as it is concerned, they are no more similar than Godly Iron Ore and an Exquisite Enchant Rune. This means I need to create my own linking data associating items, that accounts for all of the possible ways that items can be grouped.
I've got nothing on that front so far, and I doubt the work of filling in data to a table would be all that interesting to read about.
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