As of Nov 21, 2008, our initial implementation of EPGP was released. If you're not familiar with EPGP, it is an alternative way of tracking DKP. There's more detailed information here:
http://code.google.com/p/epgp/wiki/WhatIsEPGP_v2Switching to EPGP on your Guildomatic site merely involves the following few steps:
- Go to Admin Console => EPGP Settings and enable EPGP. Once enabled, you can't access the normal DKP pages, but you can always revert back to DKP. Your raid/item historical data is not modified in any way.
- Configure the EPGP Decay amount. This will decay the EP/GP amounts after each successive raid by the % amount specified.
- Configure the number of days in the EPGP "window" period. This basically sets how many days back you want to go in calculating EP/GP. If you set this to 90, any raids/items beyond 90 days before today will not be used in calculating the EP/GP values.
- PR is truncated to the tenth. This may be configurable in the future.
- Add an /epgp link in your nav crumb for easy navigation. (you might consider removing the /dkp link)
- Review the GP amounts for your raid items in the past. You'll probably want to calculate the GP values based on the item level and slot using the EPGP formula.
- When uploading snapshots with loot. Our system will automatically determine the GP for items based on the formulas below. However, there may be certain items in our database that don't have the item level and/or slot value correctly specified. In which case, the GP will default to 0. Please let us know if you find items that don't have a correct GP value calculated.
- In the next release, we will be releasing a checkbox configuration to the EPGP settings to use the calculated GP for all items in your raiding history. Enabling this will mean that, all items will show the calculated GP using the formulas below regardless of whether you specified a manual value in the past. This will make sure all GP value is correctly calculated.
Notes and caveats related to our implementation of EPGP:
- Some of the EPGP settings are shared with the DKP settings, so changing a setting in one will affect the other. For example, Hide DKP/EPGP data is shared. If you set this to true in EPGP Settings, it will be true in the DKP Settings.
- The EP/GP decay is currently applied after each raid. In our system a raid is currently tied to only one event. So if you have 7 raid events for each boss in a raid, the EP/GP values will be decayed after each raid event. We will be changing this in a future release to allow you to associate multiple events with a single raid. The decay would be more accurate after this change is released.
- Integration of EPGP with the in-game module is forthcoming.
Item values for automatically calculated GP for items is as specified below. We will be allowing guilds to configure these for their own guilds. The slot value is calculated per EPGP's specifications.
- Artifact: ilvl ^ 2 * 0.04 * slot value
- Legendary: ((ilvl - 1.1) / 1.1) ^ 2 * 0.04 * slot value
- Epic: ((ilvl - 1.3) / 1.3) ^ 2 * 0.04 * slot value
- Rare: ((ilvl - 1.4) / 1.6) ^ 2 * 0.04 * slot value
- Uncommon: ((ilvl - 4) / 2) ^ 2 * 0.04 * slot value
- Legendary: ((ilvl - 0.0) / 1.0) ^ 2 * 0.04 * slot value
Keep in mind, this is the initial implementation. With your support, feature requests and any bug reports, we'll continue expanding and improving the EPGP feature.
Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions. Thank you!
