| ToefuDaddy - 9/08/2021 |
This has been one of the most lengthy coding sessions in a long while. As you can see, my bingos per day sufferred as a result.
The image parsing code was a pretty decent lift, the difficulty algorithms, and the end to end UI for bingo resulted in countless
hours of development.
Either way, let's get to the update:
- - Implemented Bingo parsing engine
- - Implemented Bingo Web UI
- - Implemented Legendary spawn notification validations
- - fixed a bug with logs missing some messages
- - Added !bingo command to discord bot
- - added trivia start and stop messages in the Trivia Channel on discord
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| ToefuDaddy - 8/28/2021 |
It's been a busy month. I've been working on a suite of tools for myself to make bingo easier to manage. Almost all of my
tools are developed locally first via .NET and Macroscheduler as a proof of concept. Once I realize that my ideas are actually
achievable, I look to share my tools. Many times my tools aren't as great as I thought they would be, and you never end
up seeing these failed projects
The bingo scraper tools i've created have been fantastic in terms of game play for myself. It has greatly reduced a lot
of the manual maintenance needed to complete a bingo card. There are so many times that I've tried to search for mons in
places that I shouldn't be. It's time to share with everyone. Obviously this is NOT for everyone.
Honestly I don't care. For anyone serious about bingo, this should greatly save you some time, as well as put your card up
for detailed analysis. I plan to release this in 3 phases. Today is phase I.
- Phase I
- build out card parser engine (a lot of work here)
- Release basic UI with upload features
- properly validate a new card and parse 25 mons
- save all mons to database
- Phase II
- build out power ratings table for all mons. This should generate dynamically (except incense mons)
- update all bingo pages with proper difficulty ratings
- populate bingo suggestions by row
- format should be printable or viewable on a single screen
- Phase III
- Build out UI leader board (all time most difficult, easiest)
- implement some basic security to lockdown vandalism (if necessar)
- integrate people's bingo cards in to their discord. perhaps add notifications for incense mons if linked?
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| ToefuDaddy - 7/25/2021 |
Congrats to Threrion for winning the Galar build competition, and along with it comes a new Warp-Galar!
I've added the new "biome" to the list and its corresponding map. This particular warp will make bingo MUCH easier. Honestly with this
change, Bingo becomes THE most profitable activity on pixelmon as long as you have some sort understanding of spawns.
I've been monitoring json config files carefully with each pixelmon update, no significant changes
that would impact spawn rates anywhere.
Honestly I've been focused on getting my next job (in real life) and actually playing the game, rather than coding,
so sorry for the lack of updates as well. And lastly, I'm a firm believer that bloatware exists, coding for the sake
of coding and making your product heavy and slow is a bad thing. Sometimes simple and clean is the best solution.
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| ToefuDaddy - 5/11/2021 |
With so many changes in such a short time, it was inevitable that I would have numerous bugs. On the bright side, atleast I got it all fixed.
- Fixed a bug where wondertrade messages were not being logged when another log message came in at the exact same time
- Re-wrote the Website's clear timer logic. It's much better now, and superior.
- updated some back end code, refactored and made things run much more efficiently. Far too much redundant code and too slow.
- expanded the framework to have in-game notifications. I'm considering having a 30 sec pokeclear notification you can activate in game.
- Perhaps something like messaging pokequestor "!pclearalert" and it will PM you in game until you log off.
While not the most exciting update, it was an extremely critical release as it expanded the framework to do so much more, and cleaned up so much trash code.
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| ToefuDaddy - 5/09/2021 |
Been quite busy and Happy Mother's day to everyone. Less talk, more updates:
- All of the warp maps have been updated with a google maps like map. Thanks Soup for updating the maps!
- Took the burden off of ToefuDaddy for system stability, Harmony now has a bot named "PokeQuestor"
- The in game bot not only monitors, but also accepts a few commands
- /msg pokequestor !showwt
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This command tells the user exactly what shiny/legendary mons are in wondertrade right now.
- /msg pokequestor !showlf
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This command tells the user who is "LF" things in the last 2 hours.
- /msg pokequestor !pokeclear
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This command tells the user when the next pokeclear is.
- /msg pokequestor !groundclear
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This command tells the user exactly what the next groundclear is.
Honestly, if there's a feature that you would want, that harmony clearly lacks, I'm open to adding it
if I feel there's value. Thanks to ATV for suggesting the What's in wondertrade query. I would've never thought
about doing that, and I do find myself querying what's in WT almost every day.
This also opens the door for future pages, such as wondertrade stats, etc. We all know how much I like stats too.
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| ToefuDaddy - 5/04/2021 |
It's been a while since my last post, but I've been learning the discord.net api and ultimate how discord bots work.
This has been a great learning experience for me, as I haven't touched this sort of code in a long long time. Enough about me
, to the updates!
Join Pokequestor Discord!
Notifications!
By subsribing the the pokequestor discord channel, you can now monitor notifications from in game. You will now be able to:
- monitor when people come online
- track keywords in chat to help you find your bingo pokemon!
- Keep track of when the legendary spawns happen.
I'm not so sure this update is for everyone, but it caters to the way I play. Most of the time I play a game, i'm unable to devote 100% of my attention to it. Because of this, I'll miss 90% of all messages or things that go on in game. I implemented a log scraping notification system that would allow me to do what I normally do, while not missing important conversations in game.
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| ToefuDaddy - 4/03/2021 |
I've went ahead and added the fishing data, as testing fishing is brutally painful. I don't quite understand
the full spawning logic, so i'll just post what I have so far. An example is where there is only a few mons
that are fishable in a certain biome, and instead of catching that mon nonstop, you just get a bunch of "not even a nibble".
Maybe someone smarter can tell me how it works, but as of now, I'm not going to spend more time on it, since I just don't see much value.
The only thing I learned from this is to just fish with a super rod in sacred springs dragonair spawner and get you some Frogadier. Maybe
fish for some Greninja, but that's it. Even Seaking/Seadra stats don't impress me. I catch those faster just TP'ing to and from coral reef
and deep ocean.
The spawner maps have proven very useful, and I've added the ev training maps (not that you really needed that), but for completeness. I'm
currently working at gathering actual Pokegrass stats to see if they lineup with the mathematical percentages. While my current sample size
is only a thousand or so spawns, it's looking quite promising. Most stats seem to lineup within reason. I'll publish that once I have 5-10
thousand sample sizes.
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| ToefuDaddy - 3/29/2021 |
It's spring time in Houston here, the weather is great and I've been fixing my home up from the 100 year freeze we just had.
Enough about me, on to the updates!
- All Pixelmon Harmony spawners have been added to spawning tables
- Spawner maps added to Biome pages for spawner "biomes". Much thanks to Soup for doing the images!
- Fishing data coming soon, I personally test a lot of my data before publishing it, so please be patient
This particular data was gather by many Harmony members, so shout outs to Gamewizlaker, Valgg, Tommy and Soup for providing much of this new data.
Now that the information is in the search, you'll never forgot that mimikyu and rowlet have spawners!
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| ToefuDaddy - 3/24/2021 |
Looks like they nerfed Curry, which was pretty obvious. They moved corsola to now have a coral reef spawn,
not that it makes a difference, but either way, enough chatter, here's what's going on!
- All spawning tables updated to 8.4.1
- Drops updated to 8.4.1
- legendaries removed from pokegrass. I tested and tested, couldn't get eternatus to spawn!
- Working on the fishing spawns. so far outside of a 15% frogadier in sacred springs fishing, I don't see value anywhere
Enjoy!
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| ToefuDaddy - 3/15/2021 |
Not a whole lot of updates here. Lots of bug fixes on the grass logic, but it's reasonably accurate now. I've added some
links to some of the tools i've been learning/using for OCR tracing minecraft text. This will open the door to all kinds of
additional tools for myself.
I'm now able to scrape and OCR trade all of my quests withing seconds now. No more data entry! Most of you should ignore this
update in general, but it was fun learning how to use ImageMagick and Tesseract OCR trace for myself.
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| ToefuDaddy - 3/13/2021 |
Wow, upon publishing out the numbers, just mind blowing the findings. Keep in mind that i've only done sample biome
testing to verify. As of this morning, I was already able to dispute my findings multiple times. I'm hoping i've
found all the bugs already.
- Mons with multiple forms were not showing up correctly in the results
- Some data in Rillaboom's json was causing it to not show up. I KNOW i found Rilla in Bamboo grass. fixed
- Some air spawns we interfering with percentages. you can NEVER get an air spawn from grass
This is all work in progress, so don't shoot me if the numbers aren't perfect, i'll get it right.
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| ToefuDaddy - 3/13/2021 |
I've spent countless hours reading code and play testing in game for the last 3 weeks while doing pokebingo and poketrivia.
I'm pleased to announce my progress on Pokegrass! The Kursed one showed me a trick of placing 4 pokegrass in a block and
standing in the middle of the 4 grass to get spawns every few seconds.
On initial glance, you'd think, this is terribly slow! Eventually you start finding out that the spawns don't seem to line
up with normal pixelmon spawning. The first giveaway was when Palossand spawned during the night time in ultraburst, and
when Ralts spawned in the middle of the day. I know most spawns by heart and knew that this was clearly wrong. I proceeded
to do hoardes of testing and off to the code we go!
After tons of research, i've now added pokegrass spawns to the webpages. You can now determine if pokegrass is right for
your mon. Keep in mind that pokegrass is NOT always good. For example, you can't even spawn RolyColy on grass ever. On
the flip side, Ralts spawns at 26% in ultraburst day and Palossand spawns at 6% in origin beach grass.
As with everything, things can change in the blink of an eye from the Devs, and as long as you see ToefuDaddy online, you
will know that this site is being updated constantly. If you find bugs or inconsistency, please just message me in game.
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| ToefuDaddy - 2/27/2021 |
Stayed up pretty late wrapping the timers up. The timers sync with my database upon page load, and make async calls every 3 minutes.
Keep in mind that the timers rely completely on me autoupdating the clear times when ToefuDaddy is logged in.
I am 100% sure that there are still tons of bugs in there somewhere, so don't cry to me when the clear isn't quite correct. Also note that after crashes or reboots,
the timers may be off and require me to be logged in to the game to fix it.
I've officially decided to open my server up to the general public. Keep in mind that this site was always all about me and can be taken down at any moment.
I've been programming for 20 years now. I work in Risk and Trading and many times I do a whole let less programming and telling others what to code, so this project
was a sort of fun getaway from the daily work.
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| ToefuDaddy - 2/26/2021 |
Been utilizing the site quite a bit while doing poke quests. They recently added Pokebingo, which has made this site even more useful for me.
I was looking to add even more features in the near future.
- Adding Pokeclear Javascript clocks to the top
- Adding groundclear javascript clocks to the top
- Implementing a log scraper to automatically create a LF wanted list
- cleaning up the poke trivia page and the drops page. (they are very raw right now).
- adding a tips and tricks page
For now, I've added a few pages and refreshed the pokespawn config files. I haven't noticed any differences.
Some people may object to me publishing all of the trivia questions online, but I find it unfair to newbies that the veterans (including myself) have literally memorized pretty much every question by now. This opens the door to anyone who really is determined to win at trivia an opportunity to work hard and study (I know, really? study?). While this may seem foolish that i'm cutting off one of my revenue streams, it's only fair in my opinion. Also keep in mind that I don't have every poketrivia question in existence, but I'll continue to grow my question list as I go.
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| ToefuDaddy - 12/15/2020 |
Lots of progress thus far. The site isn't the prettiest thing on the planet, but it's usable for now. The content is 100x more important to me, because I can immediately consume the data in game.
I still haven't quite figured out why my numbers don't line up with the in game checkspawns just yet, but my percentages (for older biomes) will match pixelmon generation's Wiki. I believe that the game has more to the spawning calc than meets the eyes, but overall it's pretty accurate.
I spent about 1 hour last night mapping the BiomesOPlenty names to the proper F3 names. Found out that many biomes I had been looking for simply do not exist. I still need to work on the mappings for the fishing locations to their respective biomes. This testing may take some time though.
I went ahead and bought the pokequestor.com domain for $11 bucks, cheap enough for a quick and dirty project like this. The site will be up shortly. I'll work on cosmetics later.
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| ToefuDaddy - 12/14/2020 |
I'm just your casual Pixelmon player who simply got tired of the existing resources for Pixelmon. I've played Pixelmon off and on for the last 6 years or so. I've recently picked it up again as all 4 of my kids are now familiar with Pokemon.
I'm a software engineer who has been working in the energy sector for the last decade, but prior to that, worked in pretty much every sector of .net developement. Everything from Commercial websites with millions of hits each day, to message queue middleware.
I quickly found myself hunting for pokehunts and poke quests. While other sites did provide me with lots of information, I found that they lacked any direction whatsoever. I was unable to identify which quests were impossible, and which ones had value. Another flaw I saw was that they were frequently outdated. Since i'm an active player and will be using this tool for my own use, the spawn rates and datasets will ALWAYS be up to date.
I grew frustrated using some sites because they simply scraped the JSON files. What you find out is that some of the biomes don't even exist in the current iteration of Pixelmon, for example Frozen Ocean. In other cases you had names that you simply could not guess what biome it really was (minecraft:mutated_ice_flats maps to Ice Plains Spikes).
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