Hey!
I wandered around some spawn-areas in L2 today. I went to Abandoned Camp, Orc Barracks and Forgotten Temple.
I stayed at each place for some time each and wanted to check which place who gave the most exp / hour.
Then I got this brilliant idea... Why not implement a "Session Reporter".
"My" idea of this reporter could be something like this:
You open the Session Reporter just like any other option in L2. Take the Char window for example. You have the Exp, SP, HP, CP and all the other info that you want to know about your char.
But when you're out grinding (which is the main thing you do) and you want to know how effective you are when you're grinding, how nice would it be to have this feature handy?
You can see the exp/hour, adena/hour, SP/hour and so on.. For all of us who wants to know if a place is better than the other, we want this tool.
Example:
This is the "main" window. You open the Session Reporter and you can see the info.
Grind for a while and when it updates you see the changes. Kill some mobs and you get the info.
Main window (http://www.lsn.se/majk/Session_report_hour.JPG)
1. Output: Per Hour
This is the type of output you are viewing.
You can either have it to show report / Hour or overall session status.
2. Time: XX:XX:XX
It is the amount of time you have played since you started the session.
3. Exp: xxxxxxx - xx.xx%
It shows how much exp you get per hour if you keep the killing up. It will either increase or decrease, depending on how fast you kill / what you kill.
If you rest for 1 minute then ofc the exp/hour will decrease.
xx.xx% shows how many percent exp you will get per hour.
4. SP:xxxxxxx
Same as Exp, but it shows how much SP you get per hour.
5. Adena: xxxxxxxx
Same as EXP and SP, but it shows how much Adena you get per hour.
6. Killed mobs: xxxxx
This speaks for itself. Just the total amount of killed mobs.
7. AVG Exp / mob: xxxxxxxx
This has nothing to do with the exp / hour, it just shows the average experience you get per monster.
Lets say you have killed two mobs. you got 1000exp for the first one and 500exp for the second one. (1000+500)/2=750 .. Then this will just show 750exp.
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Options (http://www.lsn.se/majk/Session_report_options.JPG)
When you klick on the Arrow or text.. ( [V] Session Report! ) you get some options.
1. Output
You can decide if you want to show what you get per hour or how much you have gotten this session.
The difference is if you have played for 3 hours you can see how much exp you have gotten in all those 3 hours with the "This session" option.
2. Options
- Reset session, it resets everything. Every counter returns to Zero and the timer starts over.
Use this option when you get to your exp spot or if you have rested for a while and want to start over.
- Disable report, It could say "Stop report" or something similar, since it only stops the counters but doesn't reset them.
When you kill any mob or pick up some adena, it won't add to the counters. But when you have used this option you have to "Reset session" again to start the report.
This is just what I had in mind. I would really like to see this ingame =)
Edit: The title and URLS to the images.