Fiel Wrote:This is like the traveling salesman problem, but not quite. The traveling salesman problem only calculates the optimum amount of distance required to go between two places. It does not calculate the optimum set of actions to take to complete something quicker (time vs. distance). If you wish to calculate the time, you'd either have to have a computable hits/kill for each class in the game or have some sort of heuristic to calculate these things. However, even then the algorithm can fail. For example, the algorithm would likely say for you to complete Subani's Legacy at some point while you're in NLC - but if you're a blaze wizard you'll have a hard time killing fire tusks and therefore it's not a good idea to do it. Furthermore, there are different numbers of quests for every job tree in the game - Aran has it different than Cygnus which has it different than Adventurers. These all increase complexity. Plus, you are not calculating the time it takes to travel to the area where to kill the monsters. Traveling to Dark Rashes is a lot faster than traveling to Skelegons.
In short, optimizing distance is very possible, but optimizing the time is much harder.
I believe the quickest method of completing quests in a small amount of time is this: Level up to at least 100 so all of the quests will be available to you. Complete quests area by area. If area A wants you to go to area B, wait until you decide to complete all of the quests in area B before completing that quest in area A.
How about something that records the damage you do over a selective period of time. :f6:
alwzn4vr Wrote:I apologize for any lack of knowledge with regards to WoW. I was referring to the old 'how to get to lvl 60 in 4 days' pre-BC guides that were floating around the Internet. I assumed that they were human efforts. If they're not, my apologies.
I am aware of how 'serious' WoW can be for some people, a friend at work is a dedicated player who spends many a Friday night raiding with his guild.
As I said to Kaj, I just threw this out as a potentially fun project and nothing more than that. My WoW example could have been guild wars, EQ2, etc.
Ey don't sweat it, I'm not a wow player either, my girlfriend tried to get me into it and showed me where to download that program. It really does wonders. It's more of a bot than a person guiding you though as it points you in the right direction within the game. Also, it is easier to complete maple quests in a certain aspect because the worlds are so much more compact while Wow is considerbly more vast.