item collector suggestionsFollow

Well first I wish to ask a question. Is anyone currently continuing development on the item collector?

If so, I have a suggestion for them. One of the great things about the item collector is pretty up to date info on items. One of the not so great things is that often zone wide or global drops have next to no useful info on lucy. Specifically drop rate.

My suggestion is to add some entries to the database that the collector can update.

The first time an item is dropped from a specific mob make an entry that associates the drop to the mob. This entry will, besides the relevant association data, will have two fields the number of times the mob has been looted since the known drop has been found and the number of times the item has dropped from the mob. This is all the relevant data needed to show what items drop from mobs, and the drop rate since the first time the item dropped from the mob. Probably best to create an associations table, but ill leave that detail to the developers.

This may or may not take the place of whatever is currently used to keep track of what drops from whome.