The same feature requests 2 years apart

[TheAmazeman]

Just realized I made a post more than 2 years ago and made the same post again recently because the feature request hasn’t been done yet. I feel like I’m talking to a wall in feature requests sometimes. Anyone else feel that way?

Differentiate between Computer, Tablet, and Phone on Developer Stats

[image] This would be helpful for trying to find correlations between revenue, avg visit time, and platform the game is being played on, just as one example I would personally use it for.

Differentiate by platform in developer stat's 'Data Table'

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to run stats on game performance by platform by one’s own metric set up, and currently impossible to use the data table provided by developer stats to seek differences between platforms. Developers with a knowledge in statistics would benefit greatly and improve design decisions with greater access to this data. Blurred is what we currently get under the ‘Daily Stats’ tab. When making this feature, make the differentiated by platform a separate …

[ConnorVIII]

I kind of keep my ideas to myself, I guess that Roblox doesnt really have a team to work on these ideas

[StyxIing (Sam)]

I come up with these amazing ideas but then I don’t have access to Feature Request so I just kind of forget about them

[Veldaren]

This is going live soon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Trail.MaxLength

As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to set the maximum length of a Trail. Just as we can set minimal length via MinLength property, I want to be able to set the maximum length with MaxLength property. As MinLength prevents the Trail from setting in the space too early, MaxLength would prevent the Trail from setting too far from the attachments. It will be quite useful in limiting our Trail to not reach too far.

[TheAmazeman]

I didn’t intend to portray my thoughts as “nothing gets done”

[Sinne_J (Sinne)]

I think Roblox said that they do look at our feature requests, and they consider them, but don’t necessarily reply to them. I feel like if they consider them they should at least reply, since then it just feels like they’re all useless, and as if we are talking to a wall.

[TheAmazeman]

This is reassuring. I may be over thinking it.
But I also think the idea specifically linked in the OP is too obvious for a data driven company to miss.

[Kampfkarren (boyned)]

Make the feature request on #bulletin-board. Then, pm the Top_Contributor group with the title “Request: Posting Bug Report / Feature Request”.

[1waffle1 (Waffle)]

You’ve also made the same bug reports 2 years apart from me
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/developer-stats-monthly-cuts-off/96338
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/developer-stats-is-broken/30733
and a couple others
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/developer-stats-and-visit-counter-broken/24651
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/monthly-developer-stats-are-totally-breaking-down-for-popular-games/27808

[inHeadspace (Jeni)]

Like @Kampfkarren said, you can use rule 15.1 of the devforums to make a feature request as a basic user.

[uJordy]

Would like to see this implemented fully

[Iron_Legion]

I understand your frustration. Please know that we do read all bug reports and feature requests and take them into consideration.

[TheAmazeman]

I want to be able to paste my game’s stats into my spreadsheets that will tell me my avg visit time for computer vs mobile over several different intervals of time (ie before / after updates to my game). I want to make excel equations to calc visit:robux ratios per computer, tablet, phone for similar reasons.
The developer stats data table, which currently only exists as a total of all platforms the game is on, doesn’t tell me much about the reality of my game because of the drastic difference in computer vs mobile metrics.

It’s my opinion that developer stats have drifted years behind what developers deserve, thanks for listening.

[Iron_Legion]

There are improvements coming in the future to developer stats, but sounds like you want to drill down deep into your stats. You may be better off recording this information yourself when a player joins/leaves, you can use game.PlaceVersion to get the current version number.

Are you worried about being able to detect the broad platform a user is on (e.g. phone/tablet/computer/console)?

[TheAmazeman]

I would leave the terminology “drilling deep into my stats” for things like, where in my game do people die most often, when do players leave, is there some sort of pattern that happens to make players leave.
This suggestion is more simple than all those. A simple stats table added to developer stats that would allow people somewhat versed in statistics to take dev stat number tables and put a bit more complexity into their spreadsheets to figure out things like correlations or ratios. I just want to make games and have those simple stats there for me in developer stats, to mess with in spreadsheets, where it’s easier to mess with data and not in datastore scripts in my game.

I definitely agree that doing deep dives into data is up to the developer. I would not consider the OP suggestions to be deep data, they should be universal to all developers.

Nonetheless, I have noticed that devs are not supposed to know what platform the player is on, but at the same time, developer stats uses it. That’s kind of a big problem for this entire data collection, if I were to do it. Is there a way to get a player’s device type from server?

[TheAmazeman]

I want to show you a bit about what I mean.

Separate issue, but the beginning of the hourly graph is messed up

We see that the stats are differentiated by platform for the graph. Why not continue that and give a table of that data that already exists to developers?

Here’s the current table