I'm assuming he's asking because season 6 isn't activated on the PTR yet which is normally something they test out (conquests, rewards, additional items etc).
Instead of reading word for word and ripping somebody a new one you guys could try skipping the crucifixion for not going into great detail with their question, just take a second and try to figure out what they're getting at.
I'm assuming he's asking because season 6 isn't activated on the PTR yet which is normally something they test out (conquests, rewards, additional items etc).
Instead of reading word for word and ripping somebody a new one you guys could try skipping the crucifixion for not going into great detail with their question, just take a second and try to figure out what they're getting at.
Thank you for understanding me & Season 6 & PTR 2.4.1 are two totally different things!
There's no specific "datamining for season 6". You don't datamine for something in particular - whenever some new code hits the CDN (content delivery network), those files are being compared to the current ones (or previous ones, in terms of PTR builds) to see if there are any differences. Only client code can be datamined (usually, I have no idea how some people got their hands on server-side code like bloodshards drop rates a while ago, but different topic). So if there's some S6-specific server-side code, it can't be datamined because the data isn't available to the dataminers ;-)
Blizzard said last season that they don't want season-exclusive items/gems and I guess that stance hasn't changed, so the only stuff we might see are the S6 achievements/conquests/season journey. Those have not been part of the previous datamined strings, so we will probably see this in a future PTR patch. Usually this stuff hits the CDN a few days before the PTR gets a patch, and literally within minutes of that happening you'll see it popping up at our frontpage. So just keep an eye at our frontpage, it will be there first.
So the answer to your question is: No.
Also, I'd like to second Goriki's request - please don't make such title, that's horrible style and pretty much counts as clickbait. I've taken the liberty to edit the thread title.
There's no specific "datamining for season 6". You don't datamine for something in particular - whenever some new code hits the CDN (content delivery network), those files are being compared to the current ones (or previous ones, in terms of PTR builds) to see if there are any differences. Only client code can be datamined (usually, I have no idea how some people got their hands on server-side code like bloodshards drop rates a while ago, but different topic). So if there's some S6-specific server-side code, it can't be datamined because the data isn't available to the dataminers ;-)
Blizzard said last season that they don't want season-exclusive items/gems and I guess that stance hasn't changed, so the only stuff we might see are the S6 achievements/conquests/season journey. Those have not been part of the previous datamined strings, so we will probably see this in a future PTR patch. Usually this stuff hits the CDN a few days before the PTR gets a patch, and literally within minutes of that happening you'll see it popping up at our frontpage. So just keep an eye at our frontpage, it will be there first.
So the answer to your question is: No.
Also, I'd like to second Goriki's request - please don't make such title, that's horrible style and pretty much counts as clickbait. I've taken the liberty to edit the thread title.
Thank you for the reply & I will try better to make better threads.
This is all I want to know anyway is S6 achievements/conquests/season journey so I can prepare.
BTW, I'm a gamer not a programer so I don't know how datamining works & that's the reason why I'm asking.
BTW, I'm a gamer not a programer so I don't know how datamining works & that's the reason why I'm asking.
datamining in diablo 3's case - and i emphasize its different from data source to data source - Is more like a: "look at the files with the right tools and see whats in there."
Its like opening a zip archive, extracting it and compare it to the data before the patch was downloaded. new files pop up immediatly. Changed files also. with the right tools takes a couple of minutes.
The next steps require you to know what the different files are for, textures like the ones of the wings can probaly be found fast if they are in a new file. Or take some time if the wing textures are part of one huge texture file, which you could have to compare with other tools or with your eye.
New messages can most often be found in "localization" folders. Just use a text file comparer like WinMerge and create a difference between your current and the one previous to the patch. Differences pop up immediatly.
Same goes for spell info and so on. The text for them must be somewhere on the files, if you assume the server does not send the whole text, but rather says: "display text with ID : 444" - much faster, because e.g less data... So you have a high chance to find such stuff.
Now comes the hard part.
You use the gained data and provide it in a super fance, thorough and correct form. Like e.g. what is happening on diablofans. That takes for fucking ever.
TL;DR Getting the data which has changes is easy - providing them in a form to the reader which pleases them is a huge pain in the ass.
thought somebody might wanna now.
BTW i have never done it because you know, lazy. so correct me if iam wrong. But please don't be like : this needs to be more detailed. I just wanted it ELI5-10
Season 6 stuff?
Not being a jerk here, but it's 'datamined', not data mind.
ahaha data mind. sounds like a bad superhero/villain
I'm assuming he's asking because season 6 isn't activated on the PTR yet which is normally something they test out (conquests, rewards, additional items etc).
Instead of reading word for word and ripping somebody a new one you guys could try skipping the crucifixion for not going into great detail with their question, just take a second and try to figure out what they're getting at.
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So no one datamined the PTR for season 6 yet?
Blizzard said last season that they don't want season-exclusive items/gems and I guess that stance hasn't changed, so the only stuff we might see are the S6 achievements/conquests/season journey. Those have not been part of the previous datamined strings, so we will probably see this in a future PTR patch. Usually this stuff hits the CDN a few days before the PTR gets a patch, and literally within minutes of that happening you'll see it popping up at our frontpage. So just keep an eye at our frontpage, it will be there first.
So the answer to your question is: No.
Also, I'd like to second Goriki's request - please don't make such title, that's horrible style and pretty much counts as clickbait. I've taken the liberty to edit the thread title.
This is all I want to know anyway is S6 achievements/conquests/season journey so I can prepare.
BTW, I'm a gamer not a programer so I don't know how datamining works & that's the reason why I'm asking.
datamining in diablo 3's case - and i emphasize its different from data source to data source - Is more like a: "look at the files with the right tools and see whats in there."
Its like opening a zip archive, extracting it and compare it to the data before the patch was downloaded. new files pop up immediatly. Changed files also. with the right tools takes a couple of minutes.
The next steps require you to know what the different files are for, textures like the ones of the wings can probaly be found fast if they are in a new file. Or take some time if the wing textures are part of one huge texture file, which you could have to compare with other tools or with your eye.
New messages can most often be found in "localization" folders. Just use a text file comparer like WinMerge and create a difference between your current and the one previous to the patch. Differences pop up immediatly.
Same goes for spell info and so on. The text for them must be somewhere on the files, if you assume the server does not send the whole text, but rather says: "display text with ID : 444" - much faster, because e.g less data... So you have a high chance to find such stuff.
Now comes the hard part.
You use the gained data and provide it in a super fance, thorough and correct form. Like e.g. what is happening on diablofans. That takes for fucking ever.
TL;DR Getting the data which has changes is easy - providing them in a form to the reader which pleases them is a huge pain in the ass.
thought somebody might wanna now.
BTW i have never done it because you know, lazy. so correct me if iam wrong. But please don't be like : this needs to be more detailed. I just wanted it ELI5-10