Support:Queries

Characters and accounts

Account belonging to a character

SELECT account.* 
FROM account, characters
WHERE characters.player_id=account.id AND charname='[character]';

Characters belonging to an account

SELECT characters.*
FROM account, characters
WHERE characters.player_id=account.id AND username='[account]'

Merge character into an account

-- get ids as we will need them later
select id as account_id from account where username = '[account]';
select id as character_account_id from account where username = '[character]';
update account set status = 'merged' where username ='[character]';
update characters set player_id = '[account_id]' where charname = '[character]';
insert into gameEvents (source, event, param1, param2) 
values ('[character]','accountmerge','[character_account_id]', '[character]-->[account]');

Did a password get changed?

SELECT account.username, address, service, passwordChange.timedate, oldpassword 
FROM account, passwordChange 
WHERE account.id = passwordChange.player_id AND username ='[account]';

Banning an IP

-- this bans a single IP address - you can vary the mask to ban a range
insert into banlist(address,mask,reason) 
values  ("[ip-address]","255.255.255.255","[reason]");

Summarise activity from one IP address

-- may wish to add 'service' into the FROM and GROUP BY
select username, result, count(*)
from loginEvent, account 
where account.id=player_id and address='[ip-address]' 
group by username, result 
order by username, result;

Items

Item history of all items touched by suspicious characters

SELECT * 
FROM itemlog, 
  (SELECT DISTINCT itemid 
   FROM itemlog
   WHERE source IN ('[charname1]', '[charname2]')
  ) As x
WHERE x.itemid=itemlog.itemid
ORDER BY itemlog.itemid, itemlog.id

Item history of all items touched by suspicious characters and someone else

SELECT * 
FROM itemlog, 
  (SELECT DISTINCT i1.itemid 
   FROM itemlog i1, itemlog i2
   WHERE i1.source IN ('[charname1]', '[charname2]')
   AND i1.itemid=i2.itemid
   AND i2.source NOT IN ('null', '[charname1]', '[charname2]')
  ) As x
WHERE x.itemid=itemlog.itemid
ORDER BY itemlog.itemid, itemlog.id

The string 'null' is required in the NOT IN clause because of register events

Bots

Finding Bots

SELECT left(timedate, 10) As day, source, param1, count(*) As cnt
FROM gameEvents
WHERE event='use' AND timedate>date_sub(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 3 day)
GROUP BY day, param1, source ORDER BY cnt DESC
LIMIT 50;

Checking if someone is a bot

The following queries lists the number of "use"-actions per player and hour. If there are high number of uses for several hours in a row, it is likely a bot.

SELECT source, left(timedate, 13) As day, count(*) As cnt
FROM gameEvents
WHERE (source='[character1]' OR source='[character2]') AND event='use' GROUP BY source, event, day ORDER BY day;

Checking if someone is a bot (alternative)

SELECT source, left(timedate, 13) As hour, count(*) As cnt
FROM gameEvents
WHERE source in ('marquis') GROUP BY hour ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 500;