I know that, via Armory, it is possible to create these for WoW.
WoW's Armory system uses XML formatted for browsers to behave exactly like HTML. This means that creating images is incredibly simple. You point your php, or whatever, script at the xml page for your specific character and you use GD or something similar to create an image.
It shouldn't be too much hassle to build a system which daily, hourly or some time in between updates the xml page.
As it stands, one could build a system to skim the pages but that would be bandwidth heavy and slow.

I just read this 5 times over and I'm not getting it.

I'm assuming akari means something that takes your character's stats and makes a little banner/signature image.

ahhhh...

I am still somewhat confused as to what exactly the suggestion is?

probably I am...

Very confused..

Banner image, with some art/screenshot of VO. Character name, levels and class displayed in it. Image is dynamically generated, so when player stats change, so does the info on the banner.

Essentially the 'attention whore' tag for gamers.

Well you can get character stats on the website so if someone really wanted to and had access to a server it'd not be that hard i think.

this thread should be burned to the ground and all participants torn to bleeding scraps by rabid, double-muscled whippets.

I hope that's a shop.

its a genetic disease.

It's a genetic condition, not a disease--unlike, say, Down syndrome, being double muscled has no known ill effects.

They don't live very long, and they have trouble breathing i bet.

Yeah, basic stats, your current ship details, etc.

maq, it is not currently practical to do what I'm talking about via skimming, the technique by which data is extracted from a web-page, because of the bandwidth consumption involved in doing so.

What would have to be done, via skimming, is using a browser to open your statistic page http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/stats/xxxxx and hazard a best guess as to which cell in the table contains the data. Parsing tables is a pain to do, consumes RAM and eats CPU.

What I'm suggesting is http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/stats-xml/xxxxx which would contain an xml document outlining your character details, something to the tune of
<player name="blah" nation="blah" currentShip="blah">
<licences>
<licence name="blah" level="4"/>
</licences>
<kills player="15" total="14523"/>
<missions player="1532" group="13"/>
</player>

So you want an api to access character stats.

As for getting it off current website, it does take more bandwidth but is not particularly harder to extract data from.

The API is already there. It's being used for the character stats page. I just want a character stats page in plain XML.

Once that's done, I can do the rest from my server.

So, what you're saying is that you don't actually know how to parse HTML and so want someone else to do it for you?

Also, "banners" are an abomination and you should stick them up your ass, you anime-obsessed asshole.

genka +1