Map Chooser Sorting options

[xan2622]

I could be interesting to add Sorting Options for the map chooser.
For example:

• sort by the number of times a map has been played
• sort by map name
• sort by author
• sort by map rating
• sort by the number of players the map is made for

For the map rating system, maybe it could be done online at http://content.open-ra.org/ ? (ihptru is making a new version of his website).

For the 'number of times a map has been played', maybe the server could record statistics based on players' choices, ingame.

[ihptru]

maybe "Number of times played" should be recorded on client?

[xan2622]

@ihptru: I don't know, it's up to developers to decide what's the best for OpenRA.
I just suggest ideas :)

ihptru, here is a mockup of your website with these statistics:

Maybe the visitor of your website could be able to rate maps directly on the website ?
It's doable with php: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/building-a-5-star-rating-system-with-jquery-ajax-and-php/

[ScottNZ]

Map feature/attribute filtering is also wanted: http://www.reddit.com/r/openra/comments/206iop/feature_request_map_sorting/

[Mailaender]

The server side stuff for ratings is probably OpenRA/OpenRA-Resources#38 and OpenRA/OpenRA-Resources#17.

[xan2622]

Maybe, for the moment we could just add a drop-down menu with:
* map name
* author
* number of players

... since "number of times played" and "map rating" involve ihptru's help for integration with http://resource.openra.net.

[ihptru]

current api state:

• sort by the number of times a map has been played depends on save stats properly in db instead of log file. OpenRAMasterServer#23
• sort by map name
• sort by author
• sort by map rating
• sort by the number of players the map is made for
• sort by downloads
• sort by date posted

note: 'sort by map rating' exists in API, when it is not fully implemented on site yet.
note2: all sorting options you mentioned in your first post (which I copy&pasted) should go into sorting options for community maps tab, where API provides already sorted list.
note3: sorting of local maps should only be based on local features without network requests.

[ihptru]

sort by rating will have effect now since rating is implemented on resource site

[pchote]

This has been almost completely covered by the search/filter feature.