Open-source DKP System

I was bored and was browsing the internet and found some programs that we used to use in FFXI (played that for almost 7 years lol).
All of them are poor programmed and -or the designs suck donkey balls (lol)...

I would like to bring a FREE Open-Source DKP System on the market, that is if people are interested in it. Like said it will be totally free, no costs or what so ever. The only thing you need is a host (your own domain name with hosting) which you can get for like $25 a year. Upload the website (this DKP system) go to the install directory and follow the steps and that's it. You got your own DKP system with a complete Content Management System.

I wonder if people would like to get something like this. Something better then the current once out here. Also very important, if you have suggestions we will use them. It wont take weeks or months before we use your suggestions... it will take only a couple of days tops... so basicly, you will build the DKP system by submitting your idea's. Some information is written below. If enough people are interested I will release it and keep developing it.

Final Fantasy XIV DKP System
v 1.0 BETA

The Final Fantasy XIV DKP System is an free to use web utility. It can be downloaded for free and may be edited as you wish. This system is written as open-source which means you can do with it as you like.
Your only limitation is that you are NOT allowed to sell this software, or give this out under your own name. Credits to the creator must be intact at all time. There are NO ad’s, or other advertisement. The only thing is a small text “design” in your footer which links to our website(s).
What does FFXIV DKP brings you?

- SEO Optimized website, which means you will gain 100% out of search engines. More people will find your linkshell when they are searching for things like linkshell, FFXIV, and other tags. You can set the tags you would like to use all by yourself by using the CMS system.
- Realtime user statistics, stats will be updated and displayed real-time directly from the official FFXIV website
- English, Japanese and Dutch support for text
- Forums to use for your registered members, guests can only post in the “recruitment section”.
- Forum has guest users, registered members, and administrator settings.
- Administrators can delete messages where necessarily.
- Administrators can create new sections where users can post in.
- Auction house to use amongst your members. This way they can auction items they rather keep in their linkshell then outside it. Search engine is included to simplify searching for a item.
- User statistics landing page to see personal statistics from each member like level, HP, MP and various other information like what they are offering in the auction house, what they main craft classes are, what jobs they play and much more.
- Points each member has earned, how many they have spent, how much events they attended which also is known as activity, the event involved and much more.
- Event of the day list so your members exactly know what kind of event will be hosted that day and on what time. You can also put a brief description with it so they can read it up before starting the event.
- Member classes are shown on the main page to. Each class icon shows how many members are in the guild of that specific class. Also, if your status is ‘true’ it will show a message that your linkshell is recruiting. If the status is ‘false’ it will say that the linkshell is NOT recruiting currently.
- Communication server status will be shown to. Is your Ventrilo or TeamSpeak2, or TeamSpeak3 server online or offline? Green means online, red means offline.
- Last forum posts will be shown as a quick reference to the newest posts. You don’t have to open the forum any more to see if a new post was made, you can enter them directly from the website itself.
- Newly added photos are shown to. Whenever a member uploads a photo to the website it will be shown on the website as quick preview. (Photo album is available to from the menu I will add later).
Last 8 photos will be shown. Photos can be rated and commented by any member.
 
Modifying the site
At the beta stage you can modify the following items through use of a content management system
- Background wallpaper
- Banner photo
- Text on any page

In the future more support will be added. We will integrate the possibilities to edit the following things:
- Background wallpaper
- Banner photo
- Text on any page
- Replace any image used on the website
- Change font colors, size and type
- Completely use your self-made template *
- Automatically generated signatures with real-time FFXIV statistics **
- Donation system (PayPal) so you can ask donations for your linkshell

* We will add a manual in which we describe how you can use a self-made template. This way you can fully customize the looks of your website (DKP system) and forum. This option will be added when enough people are interested in our DKP system
** Can be used on the forums but can also be used on any other website that supports the use of signatures

What you see now is just an extremely early stage of our DKP system. We will expand it and most of all we will listen to our users. If you have any idea’s, or would like us to implement any of your idea’s do not hesitate but contact us and let us know your idea. The chance that we will implement your idea in to our system is 95% chance at this point.
Of course we will credit you for your idea. The website will have a “thank you” section up on release in which we will thank everyone who donated their work and –or idea to us.

Please leave any comments, suggestions and idea’s you have. If you know any options we could add, please let us know and we will add them!
Also, please keep in mind that the ‘design’ we have now is just a temporarily design which we use for now. There will be much modified until we are in the final version. If you are a good designer, and you think that you could make us an extraordinary design then feel free to contact us!

Last thing to say; as said before this is 100% totally from, now and forever, support is free to but any donation would be appreciated of course. We will release an official website to launch this project if there is enough interest in this project as said before.

EXAMPLE IMAGE: http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/3434/samplenp.png

P.S. Atm it is very simple, just some blocks with info in it, this will all change and it will become better looking in the final stage. It's just about the "idea" for now ;)

DKP fo FFXIV? Is this a joke thread? XD

this IS the guy that was begging on here for a cheap vintage robe...

Begging? lol drop the subject Dubont... I got it for 1,5kk like I said so who's dump... me for paying 1,5 mil or you for paying 2 mil?

Besides that FFXIV will need DKP to in the future and if you dont like it, dont reply on this topic with ur worthless replies... just skip it please. I'm interested in helping the people and besided DKP it is also community based i.e. market place, forums, agenda, photo and video book, and more and high editable all so...

Good night have fun in game ;)

but there are already DKP websites that are probably more organized and well put together than what you are offering >.>

as far as the robe, I got mine for free tyvm =)

Regardless of preference, I think it's pretty cool to see someone take initiative and create something FREE for the community. Even if there is something else out there this is something people who are unfamiliar with DKP can use and enjoy.

And face it - this game is about community. That is ultimately what drives us to keep playing.

Please don't knock people for contributing things.

Nice work, Ground Zero - thanks for contributing.

ok...so I'm going to take all of the info from ZAM, put my name on it and create my own wiki that does nothing but copy info from ZAM. Can I get a praise for contributing like ground is?

Hell, if even one person finds it useful why not? lol

Besides, this is still more than 90% of the posters on here have done to help progress the community.

It sounds more like you're trying to build a full scale website than just a DKP system. If that's the case why not just use a CMS and build it yourself in like a day?

http://www.guildwork.com already has a free DKP system based directly off of the renowned exdkp by Stanislav. Offers full customization with Javascript and LUA. It's what we use for BG on Rabanastre and it works splendidly with XIV.

Also lol @ DKP tracking this early in XIV's career.

I can do much, much, much better then any exsisting DKP system, or even Guildworks... that is why I ask this community to tell me what they would like to see, their idea's and such things. I want it to be flawless... perfect... 100% build on what the USERS prefer.

I want to people i.e. linkshell leaders, to tell em what they would want to have if such a 'new' DKP system would be developed. And I will make sure that anything they would like to get in that system, will be available for them.

Other DKP systems are 'alright' but not super. If you have no knowledge of PHP, CSS, PHP, Javascript, ASP and such development languages then you will face an hard time moddding / expanding your DKP system. Thats why I am asking people for suggestions and idea's... and like said... Ill do it all for free and ill keep upgrading and expanding it untill everyone feels that it is 'perfect' for their needs.

Best regards,


True that, but then again... with CMS you cannot write your own scripts... it only lets you modify the text and pictures on a website. With my system you can design your own template and custimise it 100% in any way. CMS is most of the time, very limited and yes, perhaps they offer you to add your own javascript like they do on guildbase (as you tell me now) but then again... you know how to write javascript, php or ASP?... perhaps one of you guys do.. bot the 999 others dont, and they could use some help ;)

I think this raps it up pretty much.

Also, guildwork link is on FFXIVPro on the left side at the top.

I think what you're doing is respectable and realistic (later in the game) but right now there are just not enough high end drops to lot for.

There are pretty much just the free roaming NM drops (ex. bloody bardiche head, buffalo horn, mosshorn horn, and others) but as far as the Faction NM drops, those are only lotted to the person who has the leve or links. So if you go out and help me do any of the 3 Faction NM's only I have a chance to get the Runestone.

So there's really no point for a DKP system there. As far as the free roaming drops, sure you can sell them for a few million gil, but I think most people would rather keep those items within their LS and use it to help make their players stronger.

not necessarily true. we geared out 30+ people from Dec15-Jan5? After that sold everything we farmed now sitting on a 9 figure LS bank. Not that it really matters at this point all we can do is sit and stare at the pretty bags of money lol

I'm hoping SE gives Companies huge gil sinks. Anyways back on topic.

It doesn't matter if a DKP system can be used right now or not. This guy's program is in beta and he's soliciting feedback.

Some of the features mentioned are either already available with Guildworks or any basic website that can display a spreadsheet. If you want to load it up with features, make sure it doesn't take you as much time or more to access a feature, e.g. dkp statistics, as it would take you to sort 1 or 2 columns in a spreadsheet. I've seen plenty of fancy-schmancy software that considers it a feature to show me a shitload of nested drop-down menus or buttons to do the double the work of Excel.

Another thing to design is intuitive use. Considering we already understand what every possible feature you would add just by the name/description, this should never need a manual and you should be able to figure it out by playing with it for 5 minutes. Designing software like that seems to be hard, because being good at coding has nothing to do with being good at design for users, just like being a great car mechanic doesn't mean you know ***about designing a new car that people would want to buy. It's definitely a challenge to have lots of features without either burying it in a hierarchy of buttons and menus, e.g. POL, or just laying out every single feature on one page in a clusterfuck, e.g. Yahoo! homepage.

Six figures? Lol... you do realize that's less than one million, right?

I thought 100k was a lot in this game...WHAT THE *** WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME

Thanks for the replies guys, and yeah ur definately right Snuffy, but that's exactly why I am asking for idea's, suggestions and tips on this community... so I can make it even better for the users then the current existing systems.

Anyways, thanks for the replies everyone <3
Will check back in a couple of days, hoping some more replie will be here. Also, besides DKP, anything you can imagine can be integraded in the "free" system without any problems as long as "the people" want it and think it will be good for them to have it.

Good night all!

Honestly, dude - please make this a widget for Windows 7 if you have the ability.

I could do that easilly no problem... PM your wishes and I will develop a widget customized on the wishes of the people who PM me...

Best regards

I think every single game-related aspect that you mentioned would be epic. You would be the first person to create a functioning widget with some relevant features since the other two are not updated or run off the wrong times.

lawl... that sucks lol... I'll see what I can do. I'll start of with a small test, nothing special though, just to see how Gadgets work since I never made one but its all XML, CSS, HTML, PHP so shouldnt be a problem for me.

Ill post one up here in a littlebit.


EDIT: I made one, can basicly do anything I want but the only thing I wont get right is the "leve reset time" still struggeling with it. I'm looking into this, If I manage to get this working then we're all good lol.

Any tips and suggestions post them here, ill show the app soon!

Just go onto the other sites that have it and pull up page source, browse to their java script source to get coding ideas.

There's already a leve reset widget for Windows7. If you REALLY want to put it into your design...you could look at it for ideas..

This is the one that has an clock based on in-game time but it is frequently off ><

yea but leve reset and countdown have been accurate from what I've seen. I use it all the time =)

Well... been playing around with it a bit (dont check the design and layout stuff) but... 100% accurate levetime countdown and full stats display (real time also, i.e. you level up IN GAME the stats will display it to)...

It looks like *** (i nooooo) but it was just a test for the coding functionalities...

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4807/sdfsdfsdfsdf3.png


So I could do an 100% accurate levetime reset no problem, can display your statistics in real-time, and can do other stuff but ill check some sites tomorrow for some idea's...

Oke... with todays update you can see all retimers and stuff... not much point in a Gadget now I guess... anywas I made this (didnt had time, only had 20 minutes so far) tell me if you like it and give me some idea's on what to put into it... so far it shows next levereset and it shows YOUR statistics like stats, elementstats and experience / ranks...

Works on Windows Vista sidebar and Windows 7. Only downside is that a Gadget does not have a PHP parser, so to fetch data from websites like Lodestone, FFXIAH or other websites you need a internet connection so the gadget can connect to (at this moment my domain) a domain on whish is a PHP file that fetches the data from the sites. Then the gadget displays the data. So it doesnt really "support" PHP but with this worka-round it does lol. Anyways, if the gadget would be highly asked for I could buy a domain name and host it on there but... only if lots of people want the gadget lol :) Anyways lemme know if it would be still nice to have a gadget after this update, and if yes what would you want it to display?