My PacketCollector wish list

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I know the PC devs also work hard on Emu, but here are the things I'd love to see added to PC.

1. Ability to upload without exiting. Most items I capture are on characters I leave permanently in the bazaar. Whenever I upload I have to restart/zone.

2. Try to keep PC from going comatose in bazaar every few hours. I rarely lose sync, but after a few hours sitting idle in bazaar, PC starts repeating the message "=== cache size is N" (where N is usually 0-4), and it stops recognizing packets. Then I have to zone to resume collecting.

3. Lucy's web site had a list of people who contributed items. (rank list of usernames and number of new/updated items each uploaded in last 30 days) I think this is an effective incentive for people to contribute more, so they can see their contribution and try to move up in the rank list. Username could be a command line argument.

4. I'd love to see the dumpeditems.sql file updated daily. It would help me with several things I use the data for, including keeping track of items I still need to capture.

5. As an alternative to daily updates of dumpeditems.sql, increase the number of items listed on the web site "Newest" and "Updated" pages. e.g. The Lucy and 13th floor sites display 100 items on their "Newest" and "Updated" pages. Then I could write some perl to slurp the data from the HTML several times a day. I'd prefer the daily file update, however.

Thanks for all the work that goes into PC and for keeping the item database open for everyone!