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I'm fairly new to uploading census data, so forgive me if I'm understanding this incorrectly.

I've submitted three submissions now, all of which have processed.

Submission Date New Entries Update Entries
2007-02-05 01:20:58 32 488
2007-02-02 17:39:22 19 308
2007-01-26 08:09:07 0 5
All Time Total 51 801

I have noticed that my guilded characters show up in the character search when I look for them, although my primary character "Ursalak" still shows as level 64 when the I found his record in the .lua file was listed as lvl 65. The lvl 64 entry must have come from another person's submission as I don't recall submitting a census while he was this level.

Also, my primary alternate character I just created (blood elf mage) never shows up in the character search. I have checked all three submission files prior to uploading them, and "Fjirefly" was listed in each one. I'm not sure if the advanced character search on the main site only returns guilded characters or not right now. But that is one thought that crossed my mind. The only other thing I could think of was maybe the unguilded characters were not processing in the file (but I would think that would have been noticed by now).

Anyhow, I'm not looking for an immediate resolution to this. I just thought I would point this out in case their might be some issue to look into. I did double check the lua file each time to make sure the file with the correct data was the one being uploaded, so I do not believe that is the issue.

I do have one other question you can answer for me. Is the *.lua data accumulative, or does it start from scratch with each census taken. The reason I ask is that I have several characters, but many of them are not played that often (but I would like to get them into the system). I am curious as to whether I would need to run a census under each character and upload them separately or if I could run a census for each, then upload the final *.lua file.

Thanks

Your new entries and updated entries seem to be a bit low. Might want to double check the file you are submitting. Make sure its the one located:
World of Warcraft/WTF/Accounts/<account>/SavedVariables/CensusPlus.lua

The database on the site itself is updated about twice daily, eventhough a file may be processed the database may not show the updated information as soon as it gets processed. Wait a few hours and check again.

New chars normally dont show up, it may take a few days for them to appear. Esp if they are under lvl 10. There are a couple of ways you can find chars so make sure the way you are using doesn't have a lvl limit to it. The search box at the top of the page doesn't have a lvl limit so you might want to try that one.

Make sure when you are submitting your file that WoW is closed off correctly. ie you used the /quit or /logout command, or you choose the options via the Main Menu (Esc) to Quit or Logout of the game. If you submit a file while WoW is opened then the file will normally contain the last data that was there before WoW was opened, and result in an unprocessed file or one with very low new and updated chars.

The .lua file is accumulative, so it modifies your existing data for the chars that it finds, if one doesn't exist then it adds it to the list under its correct category (race, class, guild, etc...). So if you want to update a char on the database and the char is rarely seen then make sure you log onto that char and run a Census scan. All your scans on any char are saved into the same file as mentioned

Editing the CensusPlus.lua file is not recommended and that may result in low submissions as well. If you notice this then simply delete the file and restart your scans. Rollie has some checks in place to determine if a file is edited for incorrect data, so dont wanna mess with that!

It looks like Ursalak only show up in your guild data and not your census data so I'll have to look into that and see if there's a possible problem there.

As for Fjirefly, the site will no longer track or report any data on characters under level 10. There are a couple of reasons for this. First off, under lvl 10 chars get deleted and rerolled a lot. This causes name collisions in the site database. Not to mention, under level 10 characters are typically throw away characters that mean little as far as stats and such go. I would wager that only characters above level 10 provide any statistical value and as such, I have chosen to discard any new under 10 data.

That under 10 thing should help clear up a lot of data that doesn't mean much. Good call on that

Rollie wrote:It looks like Ursalak only show up in your guild data and not your census data so I'll have to look into that and see if there's a possible problem there.

As for Fjirefly, the site will no longer track or report any data on characters under level 10. There are a couple of reasons for this. First off, under lvl 10 chars get deleted and rerolled a lot. This causes name collisions in the site database. Not to mention, under level 10 characters are typically throw away characters that mean little as far as stats and such go. I would wager that only characters above level 10 provide any statistical value and as such, I have chosen to discard any new under 10 data.

I can completely understand the lvl 10 limit. It just so happens I trashed a lower level tauren hunter "Drayson" and rerolled him as a blood elf hunter also. Without something like this in place, you could easily overload your database with invalid information. To avoid confusion in the future, on the advanced search page, you may want to notify the user that the minimum level requirement must be 10 or more. As for me, I won't even worry about my lower level alts for a while.

Thanks for the info.