Not A Game idea,but quite similar

[AcidicOne]

So as am sure somebody noticed I have been gone awhile, moved across the country and what not. Basically had no time to tinker with my game,Ended up starting to play a normal PC game so to speak.

Now the game itself has a clone over in asia, so alot of us steal information about game items etc from them. but it is not entirely a full clone, alot is also different.So the idea was to take a base framework login /account creation etc. And creating a php/smarty based character tracker.

basically it will be a wiki of sorts and also personal char tracker.Having Quests on a checklist, so you can see what you have and have not completed,recipes and so on.

Am looking for some advice on anyone who may have done something similar ?

[Helderic]

I'm confused, do you mean something similar to Wow's Armory?

http://www.wowarmory.com/

[AcidicOne]

Yes and no, because unlike the WoW armory i cannot connect with the server itself and request information. But similiar, more like the thotbot ( i belive thats the name been awhile since i played WoW) show what drops what, rewards for quests, whats needed to finish a quest, who to talk to etc.

So far the plan i have is for general game information, city locations/quests etc to be no need to sign in.But making a second section that requires login, so you can keep track of the quests completed etc online, instead of the need of downloading more software.

[Helderic]

I think it could be a good idea but you'd need a way to collect the data, Thotbott uses a addon players can install to automatically collect information as they play which is then sent to the db, you'd need a way to do something similar to this otherwise it'd be more like a Wiki.

[AcidicOne]

Ah well i dont have to collect the data myself, just post it, the game itself for the time being as limited items, and someone else has already made a actual program for it all, only problem its for the other version of the game, but the data itself is in text files, so thats not much of a problem. I just have to copy the information and update it as needed for our version. and yes a wiki is similiar to what i had in mind,one part just to display the information, and the other part where players can keep track of quests completed/recipes they have and what not,and possible a character planner/skill tree calculator similar to WoW

*edit* also is anyone familiar with joomla? and php combined?