Arcturus on 15 March 2016
| KylieDog said: Would it not be possible to reference a database file of platinum difficulties and have it auto-calculate based on that? Difficulty ratings don't really change, and at best it's in the first couple of weeks that they do. |
I did this previously. Ratings were manually gathered from playstationtrophies.org and inputted into a database. When the platinum leaderboard was generated, it would automatically calculate everyones totals based on the information in the database. Even with the database it was still very time consuming to manually gather the difficulty rating for new games that had to be added to the database.
Now, there is the possibility of automatically gather the difficuly rating from playstationtrophies.org. However, I think this would be prone to a lot of errors since we would be gathering data from two different sites. If a game title is slightly different on one site vs the other (for whatever reason), it could mess things up.
