Support:Queries

Characters and accounts

Account belonging to a character

<source lang="SQL"> SELECT account.* FROM account, characters WHERE characters.player_id=account.id AND charname='[character]'; </source>

Characters belonging to an account

<source lang="SQL"> SELECT characters.* FROM account, characters WHERE characters.player_id=account.id AND username='[account]' </source>

Items

Item history of all items touched by suspicious characters

<source lang="SQL"> 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 </source>

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

<source lang="SQL"> 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.itemid NOT IN ('null', '[charname1]', '[charname2]')
 ) As x

WHERE x.itemid=itemlog.itemid ORDER BY itemlog.itemid, itemlog.id </source>

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

Bots

Finding Bots

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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.

<source lang="SQL"> 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; </source>