Playlist Leaderboard & Rank Changes

• I've been working on a rewrite of the Playlist EXP leaderboards. The reason is mostly for performance, because the current way I'm doing the leaderboards and stats is slow and inefficient. I should be finished soon.
• I'm actually done with the rewrite of the playlist ranks and leaderboards. There's probably a few bugs in there as its a complete rework on the backend to be faster. These ranks work like medal and weapon ranks, meaning that they update at night and only for the top 1000 for each playlist.
• If you're in the top 1000 you'll see your rank on your player page. The ranks also link to the leaderboard now.
• As usual, you'll see these changes after you Collect Player Data (Supporters)

HaloCharts P.O. Box

• HaloCharts has a P.O. Box now! We can accept cash supporter donations now. This has been requested for quite a while now.
  • HaloCharts.com
    P.O. Box 166
    Capshaw, AL 35742

More Leaderboard Rank Changes

• Ok, I had to do more changes to how leaderboard ranks are computed. Now, only if you are in the top 1000 for a weapon/medal, will the rank appear on your player page. The change involves computing the ranks at night, instead of during the day all day. Because of this, I'm only going to compute the top 1000 for each weapon/medal.
• This change allows the site to cruise during the day without the slowdown of any rank calculations. It will also allow me to speed up the actual leaderboard lists (which are turned off until I finish the changes). It also allows for stat updates to happen faster.
• If the rank appears on your page, you can click it to go right to the leaderboard (once they get turned back on)

• Fixed a bug that was keeping Action Sack game stats from collecting
• Fixed a bug that was keeping certain ranks from updating

Campaign Challenge Leaderboards Updated

• All Games processed by 6/26/09 have been included in this update


• Cortana and Halo levels have been added to all leaderboards.


• We still have plenty of games to process for the next leaderboard update. We are also working to catch up on awarding player pages.



• Campaign Challenge Leaderboards will begin closing...
  If you want a spot on them, your opportunity is now. We will be closing one leaderboard every other week - starting with Sierra 117. On July 13th, we will close the leaderboard for Sierra 117 for good... So, want the top spot? Get on it... Once it's closed - it's closed for good. As mentioned, one leaderboard will close every other week; that means the Crow's Nest leaderboard closes July 27th.


That is all for now... Game on.

Halocharts' Road to Recon Winner!

• Antagonist Extraordinaire, The GDubsMan just capitalized on a golden opportunity to grab some new Spartan duds for his MatchMaking excursions... That's right, 'G' completed the entire Campaign Challenge and earned every possible award (60 of them to be specific); add to this the completion of 3 levels of Mythic Campaign and some seriously impressive carnage stats and it's easy to see how this guy deserves the grande prize of Recon Armor.
  Congratulations GDubs... Go forth, and make us proud.


• Special mention also goes out to Thug Naztyyy for his efforts in finishing out the requirements for Recon; unfortunately for Thug, GDubs edged him out by only 1 hour. Still very impressive performance by Thug during and after the contest... For his second place prize, Thug has been awarded 4,000 Microsoft Points.


• Thank you to all the players who have been playing, still playing and soon to be playing Campaign Challenge.

Player Page Ranks are back!

• I've made some performance tweaks to the way I computed player page ranks for leaderboards, weapons and medals.
• Supporters will once again see playlist leaderboard ranks as well as weapon and medal ranks (you still have to expand those)
• I'm hoping my tweaks will keep the site from getting too slow, like it was a few weeks ago. I'll be monitoring that closely.

9 new sig templates!

• Essentre kindly put together 9 new sig templates! Here's 3 at random:
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• I added a Most 50s Leaderboard
• You can now click Player Salutes on player pages and see a list of who saluted that player.
• A Full Friends List link has been added below the 5 Random Friends box.
• You now have to have a forum score of at least 5 before you can post New Topics in the main forum. To all the newcomers, its easy to get forum score if you reply to existing topics and make good replies. People are bound to Great Post you!

• Essentre made 12 more sig templates! Here's a sample:
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• There's a slick montage video up now of the Spirits of Fire vs HC Staff challenge that took place a few weeks ago. Lots of betrayal action to be seen here! Youtube Link

• I added a Quick Reply box to the bottom of topics.

What the heck happened to HC?

• I got a new server on Monday. I moved a couple of my smaller sites to it and then got this sudden desire to move HaloCharts over to it. I figured Tuesday was a good day to do it since Xbox Live was down and Bungie.net was down.
• So slowly but surely I start moving all of the pieces of HaloCharts. The database is nearly 20gigs. All of the sigs and player pics end up being another 15gigs. The process to copy everything took about 15 hours and I wanted the site to be down while it moved so that nothing was changed. That part finished and all I had left to do was restore the database.
• I started the database restore about 5pm last night. It was running pretty fast till about 10pm and then got slower and slower. I went to sleep (yes, I sleep) and woke up this morning expecting to have the database fully restored. Didn't happen. Sometime during the night, the restore decided to die and threw the server into a very non-responsive state. I didn't want to give up though...
• So I checked on which tables had finished and which were left to go. Most of the big tables finished so I decided to do another backup of just the tables I was missing. Did that, copied it over and started the restore again. Same thing happened. Server just quit responding while it was restoring the database. I really couldn't stand for the site to be down anymore than it already had been so I decided to give up and go back to where we were.
• So I came full circle, and HC is right where it started. I don't know now if I'll attempt to move it again or not. Its running pretty good on this box, but I'm sick of Windows. My hopes were to get back over to the new linux server and all be well, but that didn't happen.
• Anyways, if you're still here and still reading this, sorry for the massive downtime. I don't plan to try anything like that again for a while.