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COSTA 0.4c released
June 29th, 2003
This release fixes a bug which messed up the index page (wonid or ip instead of player name) when using UseXMLDatabase=1. Besides, the position column is ordered by COSTA ranks first, skill second instead of skill only. Searching for player names is working now.

COSTA 0.4b released
June 14th, 2003
Update to COSTA 0.4c, if you have this release.

COSTA 0.4a released
June 1st, 2003
This release fixes a bug: The new prerequisite All Weapon Proficiency was not considered when calculating the rank. Besides, the default prerequisites for bombing targets and saving hostages are higher now, reflecting that good players save the majority of touched hostages and most of their bombings are successful.

COSTA 0.4 released
May 30th, 2003
1Release 0.4 is out! All features announced above are implemented. Notice that COSTA has been completely reimplemented. Throw away all existing COSTA files on your system.

COSTA 0.4 announced
May 25th, 2003
Release 0.4 is about to be released. COSTA has been integrated in the stats.pl script of psychostats, so you only have to run stats.pl to calculate both Psychostats and COSTA data. The results are presented using a theme derived from the standard PHP theme. The new COSTA release will work with Psychostats 1.9.1. These are the new features:

• New Prerequisite: All Weapon Proficiency
  Starting from rank Captain you have to be proficient with all 24 weapons, meaning you have made at least one kill with each weapon. The idea behind this is to stimulate experienced players to use weaker weapons now and then, making the gameplay more balanced.
• New Feature: Incremental Updates for Psychostats
Don't like Psycho Stats parsing hundreds of logs again and again every time you run stats.pl? Well, edit your stats.cfg and set UseXMLDatabase = 1. After that, only new logs will be parsed, the rest is kept in a couple of XML files. This is much faster of course, and will allow you to calculates Psycho Stats after every map. Instead of once a day or so.
• New Feature: Todo list
  On the player page, there is a table with achievements you need to be promoted to the next rank. Different colors help you to see instantly, where you have to work on.
• New Feature: Sort by Rank
  By default, entries on the index page are sorted by COSTA ranks, not skill. Sorting by skill is still possible by clicking on the link, though.

Modified COSTA 0.3 released by Topper
Dec 20th, 2002
Topper has released a modified COSTA 0.3 in the Psycho Stats contribution forum, which works with Psycho Stats 1.9.

Turoq is offline for two weeks
May 30th, 2002
As I move from the Netherlands to Germany on June 1st, I will be without internet connection for (hopefully no longer than) two weeks. Please be patient if I cannot answer your e-mails immediately.

COSTA 0.3 released
May 30th, 2002
Thanks to detailed feedback from huskyfan, you get this new release. The configuration file (config.xml) may contain copy entries now to allow files like clans.html, weaponlist.html to be copied to $outputpath. And finally, some minor bug fixes.

COSTA 0.2 released
May 29th, 2002
As result of your feedback, these improvements have been implemented:

• COSTA supports both Version 1.7 and 1.8 of Psycho Stats now.
• The update mode for the player database (player.xml) can be set in config.xml. Valid values are overwrite and update) . The value overwrite forces updateranks.pl to create a new player database every time it runs. When mode is set to update (or not at all), the existing player database is updated only with new data from player files.
• Multiple occurences of inputpath and outputpath settings are allowed in config.xml. In this way, multiple stats can be updated for every player, for instance to calculate daily, weekly and global stats. The player database is updated based on player files located in the first inputpath found in config.xml.
• Tooltips have been added to explain the abbreviations on the ranking table.

COSTA 0.1 released
May 13th, 2002
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