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Albatross ![]() Postmaster General ![]() Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118 |
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In this era of reduced hostility, we'll be opening up the Illyriad Helper for a limited time, perhaps for August.
Use it to see where your towns are, where your allies are, and where the inactive players are (use with great care!). One caveat: the Inactive data has a hole in it, which makes it slightly less useful, but this will improve with time. Teaser screenshot (yes, it covers Broken Lands too) ![]() |
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Albatross ![]() Postmaster General ![]() Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118 |
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We're live!
It's a bit rough-and-ready, so you need to follow these steps:
How to find your alliance number
So if you're in the esteemed mCrow alliance, you'll use ?a=153 Known Issues
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Miklabjarnir ![]() Greenhorn ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 2012 Status: Offline Points: 73 |
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Nice! But - what do the different colours mean, and the big white Xes? It would also be nice if names displayed when mousing over towns belonging to other alliances. And the proper encoding to use is UTF-8, that should take care of your character distortion problem.
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Albatross ![]() Postmaster General ![]() Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118 |
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X = 'Tournament 8' square. Not relevant now; night disappear soon. Red dot = Abandoned Yellow dot = Inactive Green dot = Allied Blue dot = Trade Hub (Elgea only) You don't see everyone's towns: just those listed in the tabs. So non-allied towns that are active won't appear on the map. This keeps the page quick and uncluttered.
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Wartow ![]() Postmaster ![]() ![]() Joined: 20 May 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 646 |
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What's up with the old data notification in the upper right? Is the data not real time?
Love the tool!
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Albatross ![]() Postmaster General ![]() Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118 |
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Albatross ![]() Postmaster General ![]() Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118 |
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a. That's updated now.
b. What's on the wish-list for features? Here's what I have in mind, in no particular order:
Just to set expectations, it's unlikely that (8) will happen, but I foresee how it can be done. Doing any of this would change it from an ad-hoc web page, into a refactored and well-structured app.
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Albatross ![]() Postmaster General ![]() Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118 |
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Just a gentle reminder, that if you use this for harmless* thieving, you can avoid trouble by sending a message to your intended target, well before you send your diplomatic missions. It's part of my "honourable thief" code of conduct.
For more, read the Warnings section of the Helper's page. *no pun intended.
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Albatross ![]() Postmaster General ![]() Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118 |
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The Illyriad Helper saw 800+ visitor sessions last month.
We said we'd review whether or not to continue providing it after August. Any arguments for or against, while I review the scaling/hosting implications?
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DArtagnan ![]() New Poster ![]() ![]() Joined: 28 Oct 2012 Location: HillBilly Land Status: Offline Points: 14 |
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I can appreciate the benefits on a personal basis ...but also see where aggressive troops can use the tool to target individual targets and Alliances ...the Balance is I'd just as soon see it go away
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