MSSP Support?

This doesn’t actually have anything to do with the in-game stuff itself, but I just noticed this site:

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If we can find a way to publicly show our stats, I think it’ll be a massive advertisement tool. People flock to where there are other players. We’re the largest Star Wars based MUD in existence. We could really draw a crowd.

‘Course, I don’t know how this is implemented, or where we could advertise with it. &gt;_&gt;

No idea. I’m just the idea guy, not the feasibility guy.

I’m pretty sure SWR -has- MSSP. Even stock SWR.

[quote:jfwd3rim]For those of you who may be unfamiliar with what this is, MSSP stands for Mud Server Status Protocol. It is designed to provide data to crawlers for use on MUD listing sites which support the protocol. The purpose behind this is supposed to make keeping those listings up to date less of a hassle on admins. Instead of going around to every site you have a listing on, you update everything once, from inside your own game. The crawlers then show up and read the information and update as needed. That’s the theory anyway, it still needs to get adopted by the major listing sites before it becomes truly useful, but at least FUSS is ready for that day to come. [/quote:jfwd3rim]

It just got added to ***fuss versions so I doubt it is in stock SWR.

There’s a file somewhere in there that says WEBWHO. I could’ve sworn there’s some code somewhere that allows the wholist to be displayed on the website (including a player count)

Actually, now that I read on it, MSSP is just something for MUDBytes’ and TinTin’s MUD Crawlers to use to have a look at how many players, etc are on the MUD without having to ‘log in’ to the MUD. I’m assuming it broadcasts some sort of message before the greeting that normal folks can’t see, or that MUD clients ignore and don’t display as output.

If you’re looking to display the amount of players on the game, I think one way to do it would be to take the current amount of players (every 10 minutes?) and save it to a database (Do we use MySql? Postgresql? Anyway–) then display the file in that database on the website.

EDIT:
Now that I think about it, this could also be done for the changes list and helpfiles.