Offline D/P Set Analysis

McLovinn

Hi guys.

Yesterday evening, I was contemplating the idea of an offline analysis, which could be downloaded and used with ease (like the Pokémon Resource which Cards made). Just so you don't think I'm a crazy person, I mean, a file which would have all the analyses, and you could you just click whatever you wanted, and it would come up - exactly like the online analyses. Its for people, like myself, who need to check something, but can't get online, because, like, their modem is off (in my house its turned of for a particular reason).

I just want to know what you guys think, and some beginning ideas, such as, 'What program would it be written in?', etc etc.
 
That sounds like a great idea to me too. For some reason on my old comp i couldnt get on whenever i wanted and i can expect other to have that problem also.
 
Gotta give you a thumbs up :) I hate it when internet is down - Once our ROUTER failed,we didn't have internet for 6 WEEEKS.We needed a new one..(done know obviously)..

..Oh right yeah - I agree 100% :)
 
That was quick :p, I expected all you American dudes to be asleep at this time (actually, I never go to sleep at that time...:p).
 
It's a good idea but you can also do it yourself...

Run this in a new folder and it'll fetch all the dp analyses and save them as html files.
Code: 
wget -r -np -nd http://www.smogon.com/dp/
Windows users need to download wget here but for everyone else it should just work.
 
The analysis could be made into an Excel and/or Word document that is easily searchable as well. That would probably take up less space than making those pages available offline if you have any storage issues.
 
Odinwolf said:
The analysis could be made into an Excel and/or Word document that is easily searchable as well. That would probably take up less space than making those pages available offline if you have any storage issues.
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Actually, it probably wouldn't. HTML isn't a terribly complex or bulky language, and is easily search-able (PROTIP: Control-F). Word is more of a publishing/markup thing than an online, non-paper document viewer anyway, not to mention Word isn't free. Plus you still wouldn't get any database-like features. I see little point in converting everything.
 
timw ~ it doesn't let me download Wget, it says its an invalid/corrupted file.

Articanus ~ how do you get them to be obtainable offline on a Vista computer...

Chris ~ HTML might be useful, but I think Word would be easier for people to use. We need to try and make this as user-friendly as possible.

Odinwolf ~ Excel/Word would be suited. But, it wouldn't be anything like the online analysis - it'd be totally a list of writing.

MS, Arcanez, OH NO ~ thanks for the support.

Personally, i think we should go for this. But we need some more people to agree etcetc. We don't want to create it and have it left to die...
 
I would also suggest something like a Lite version, which would pretty much just show the essentials: Pokemon Stats, Type/s and Ability, then for each moveset it would just show natures, moves, items and EV spread, without detailed descriptions.
 
Yeah, thats also a possibility. Thanks for the feedback.
But detailed descriptions are what help me the most when picking a Pokémon.

Remember - we are trying to recreate the online analyses best we can.

I hate these fucking Wii updates.
 
This sounds like a great idea. There are many times when I can't get online to check a moveset or maybe Smogon isn't functioning properly.
 
So, the full dump of /dp/ is about 24 Megabytes, 1928 files, and that doesn't include any CSS OR images. Have fun!
 
Consider that some analyses are over 10 pages long (pasted into Word), and that's without any stats, locations, or anything like that. Just the strategy analysis. The shortest analysis is just barely hitting two pages. There are 275 Pokemon analyzed. That means there are between 550 and 2750 pages of pure text. Saved as a Word document, that is between .914 and 9.91 MiB, and that's without stats, types, abilities, items, move pools, or any other stuff like that. It also contains virtually no formatting.
 
HoundoomDude said:
Well that sucks. And you have to upload something new everytime Smogon updates an analysis.
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Not necessarily. One could just update the offline copy every month or so, if it was put up for download.

Can I upload / link to my wget generated ZIP of the Smogon analyses?
 
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