MWOMonitor Files

# What does this app do?

- It get your stats from your web profile (which is private, hence the necessity of putting in your credentials)
- After each completed match, it will post stats of how much damage you did with which weapon, and how much XP and credits you earned
- This works independently from the game, so results will be displayed while you're in a match (for a previous one) or after you close the game
- It gets the data from mwomercs.com, so it can run anywhere, you could even run it on a different PC if you wanted. See "I get logged out..", too
- It saves a stats snapshot of your web site profile every 20 games or so, so you can track your development over time
- You can save snapshots yourself from the "save CSVs" button in the app, and you can use the CSVs to analyze the heck out of them in Excel if you like
- as of V06, it also does some basic analysis of your snapshot stats
- it will save a log of everything displayed in the app in mwo-monitor.log, so you'll see when you have your best and worst games  
  (whatever you write in the main window yourself will get saved too, so you can make annotations, like new mech configs)


# is my data safe?

- Pretty much. Your E-Mail and password are in the mwo-monitor.ini in very simple encryption, however, so don't give that away! 
  If you give your .ini away with this app, you'll give away your credentials, too. So keep that in mind.
  I might change this in the future if there's enough interest in the app, like making it so that the encryption is tied to your PC somehow.
  
- The app does NOT do anything with your data other than logging in to get your stats. I might publish the source so you can verify yourself.
  If you have doubts, I can do a quick and dirty pastebin publish anytime. The code is a mess currently, though! ;)

- Your data stays on your PC, the app doesn't communicate with anyone but the mwomercs.com web page.
  
# I can't log in despite my credentials being correct. Wtf?

- You might have had your credentials wrong too many times and now MWO wants a captcha. Check by going to your profile in the browser?
- If that's the case, getting a new IP address (re-connect if you're on DSL) usually works. Otherwise, I think waiting a day should lift it.
- Maybe successfully logging in a couple times might work too? I've always just reset my IP address.


# I get logged out on mwomercs.com in my browser? What the heck?

- Sorry, MWO only allows one logged in web session. Since this app gets your stats from your web profile, it has to log in there.
  So MWO logs out any other sessions. Sorry, can't do anything about that.
  
- since v06c. there is now a "Log in?" check box that will control if the app is allowed to try and log in. This should prevent conflicts, 
  but of course you're not getting updates while logged out in the app.

# What's with the "CSV files"?

- the CSV files ("youremail-mech.csv" , "..-base.csv", "..-weapon.csv") are created so you can track your stats over time
- you can ensure creation yourself by clicking the button in the app, the app will auto-update (or create) them roughly every 20 games
- it might make sense to create them manually once when you first use the app so you a) have a baseline and b) the stats section doesn't crash
  (or you can wait for the first auto-update)

- I know these SHOULD be a proper database instead, but this way, you can read them into Excel and do more fancy graphs with it than a standalone
  app like this will ever do. That's why I set it up that way originally. 
  (Now, I create an sqlite DB for the stats on the fly, but that's another story (; )