RuneScape:User help

RuneMetrics data
Hey guys, In light of the new addition to the game - RuneMetrics, it's now possible to collect 100% accurate drop logs on massive scale. For example, here is a few hours worth of testing in abyss - 8,776 Abyssal Walker - perfect drop log. I am wondering if the wikia has any plans on collecting this data and providing highly accurate drop tables instead of or in addition to this old quantized drop sysstem. I'm sure many people, including myself would be willing to provide large datasets (with 1000s of kill counts). This would be a highly valuable addition to the wiki. -207.172.184.157
 * It would be difficult for certain monsters. If we make the change for some monsters, we'd be expected to do it for all. And not everything can be killed in such quantities so easily. For now, I think we should stick to the current system. In the coming months (as there's still a lot of information from past updates to deal with) we can reevalute the plan and maybe start a project to work on drop samples. If you feel optimistic about this happening, you should feel free to post data on article talk pages (e.g. your data can go on Talk:Abyssal walker) to get a bit of a head start. 00:01, February 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * Haha walkers was just an easy test run. But if runemetrics keeps long-term drop logs for monsters, than it's not a problem at all as I could get you even 5K araxxi drop logs (in ~3 months). But that's provided runemetrics does keep that data for that long. Quickly looking over the website I can see it keeps the drop logs for at least 1 month. So it's definitly doable to gather 1000s of kills even for the slowest monsters out there - bar some npcs from quests and such. --207.172.184.157 00:08, February 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * Definitely, but spurring interest for certain monsters will be difficult. Another reason I'd like to wait is that this information is stored on the site. Imagine if we could scrape data for every player ever like we did with with the adventurer's log project. 00:12, February 23, 2016 (UTC)


 * I was thinking about how to store such information on the wiki, and while it's not an issue for a lot of drops, there are problems for certain drops such as coins. Coins are rarely dropped in constant amounts, and the current drop logs offered by RuneMetrics aren't capable of differentiating between coins from one drop and coins from any number of other drops from what I can tell. There's also issues with the RDT polluting data.
 * I'd very much like to be able to store all this data, but I think we need to have a good think about how we go about it rather than just taking everything from day 1.
 * Another problem I just thought about - slayer masks could also corrupt the data with their double drop feature.

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