[Discussion] Store player rankings instead of calculating them at run-time

[ClobberXD]

Advantages

• Automation of rank-based incentives. e.g. Auto-granting of vote_starter to players who enter the top 20 and revoking it from those who are pushed out of it.
• No calculation required every time /rankings is invoked. Just fetch the rank from the ctf_stats mod storage like the other stats.

Disadvantages

• One-time migration, when the ranks of all players have to be calculated and stored.
• Updating a player's rank for every kill. Maybe update only once at end of match?

[Thomas--S]

I think that the vote_starter priv should be granted manually. Being in the top 20 doesn't neccessarily qualify someone to use this priv responsibly; while a trustable player at rank 25 (as an example) might make good use of this privilege for the benefit of all. So a manual verification is absolutely neccessary, imho.

[rubenwardy]

This would bloat the file storage if done badly. Would be better to add some caching instead

[ClobberXD]

@Thomas--S I agree, we definitely should grant vote_starter on the basis of a more robust criteria. That was just an example for rank-based/score-based automation though.

@rubenwardy That's true. Any idea how this can be achieved by adding some sort of caching?

[AKryukov92]

How much disk space do you have, rubenwardy?
Log files are usually contain text, which is very lightweight. Zipping files can reduce disk space even further.