Is the contact report project worth finishing?

Canovaro · 05-25-07, 12:06 PM

Ahoy there,

As some of you know, besides my testing team, I am working on a little project for collecting contact reports from every SH3 player and put them on a map.

In short:
The player sends in contact reports (for now by email or pm) and they will be put online together on a map image as icons. The icons give info about uboat, kaleun, date, type of contact, grid, heading, speed, supermod etc, any info would be possible here. It's meant as a community thing and will be updated every couple of days or so.
The purpose is to have a collection of all our contacts to look back to and basically have an alternative option for the contact reports as in game.
This might also reveal hunting grounds / sea lanes etc.
Note: it is not my intention to find out exactly which ship is exactly where at exactly what moment, this is not possible as discussed before. Read this thread for more info (posts by johan_d among others):
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=114147

There will also be a printer-friendly map (you can add waypoints etc) for reference while playing. I'm also working on an offline client, as an alternative to the website.
Here's a screenshot of the main screen with test contacts as it is so far.

I am about 90% finished with the whole thing, then somebody mentioned...the Spysat Mod.
If you don't know what this is, go here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=110227
This mod displayes every ship/convoy every game hour on the F5 map with info about date, type, general heading and speed.
So this can also be used to reveal shipping lanes and hot spots, in a way.

My question:
- Is my project worth finishing and keeping updated?
- Do you think the Spy Sat mod makes my work (partly) unnecessary?
- Are you interested at all in such a thing (enough to send contact reports)?

I would like to hear your thoughts

05-25-07, 12:06 PM	#1
Canovaro Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,062 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	Is the contact report project worth finishing? Ahoy there, As some of you know, besides my testing team, I am working on a little project for collecting contact reports from every SH3 player and put them on a map. In short: The player sends in contact reports (for now by email or pm) and they will be put online together on a map image as icons. The icons give info about uboat, kaleun, date, type of contact, grid, heading, speed, supermod etc, any info would be possible here. It's meant as a community thing and will be updated every couple of days or so. The purpose is to have a collection of all our contacts to look back to and basically have an alternative option for the contact reports as in game. This might also reveal hunting grounds / sea lanes etc. Note: it is not my intention to find out exactly which ship is exactly where at exactly what moment, this is not possible as discussed before. Read this thread for more info (posts by johan_d among others): http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=114147 There will also be a printer-friendly map (you can add waypoints etc) for reference while playing. I'm also working on an offline client, as an alternative to the website. Here's a screenshot of the main screen with test contacts as it is so far. I am about 90% finished with the whole thing, then somebody mentioned...the Spysat Mod. If you don't know what this is, go here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=110227 This mod displayes every ship/convoy every game hour on the F5 map with info about date, type, general heading and speed. So this can also be used to reveal shipping lanes and hot spots, in a way. My question: - Is my project worth finishing and keeping updated? - Do you think the Spy Sat mod makes my work (partly) unnecessary? - Are you interested at all in such a thing (enough to send contact reports)? I would like to hear your thoughts