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Albatross
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Topic: Town Data - the Illyriad Helper app Posted: 30 Jun 2012 at 02:08 |
This is a quick summary of Albatross's Illyriad Helper web app, from a developer perspective. Please see "Who can use it?" below, before asking the obvious question :o) Screenshot at: https://sites.google.com/site/illyriadhelpers/ss_illyHelper_201206_a.png?attredirects=0 What is the Illyriad Helper?It is a web app that uses data provided by the Illyriad servers, to display information about towns in a player's vicinity. It analyses populations of all towns over time (that's more than 65,000 towns, over more than 120 days' activity), to find the players who are likely to be inactive. It also shows allies in the area, suspended player accounts, and those removed recently from the map.Why was it created?When playing the game, it is difficult to know if a player is inactive, and it is difficult to find towns belonging to 'suspended' players. This app makes things easier, by monitoring changes in population, and providing a local context for this information, so that you can quickly find towns of interest near you. How does it work?Periodically, there's an offline compilation of the data from the Illyriad server, which makes compact files for the website. The website (PHP) presents this data to the browser, as a HTML-5 document, which also contains the JavaScript interface. We just use one external library, for handling the encoding of HTML characters, which illustrates that native HTML/Javascript browser apps can be written fairly simply. Who can use it?We haven't published the URL, but it is known to players in the mCrow alliance, and it can also show data for other 'Crow confederation' members when it is given the correct keys. We have no current plans to extend availability, but it is technically able to provide information relevant to any alliance's players. Some Discussion Points
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Sisren
Forum Warrior Joined: 03 Feb 2012 Location: PA, USA Status: Offline Points: 446 |
Posted: 30 Jun 2012 at 03:33 |
Hi Albatross, the image does not show up.
In response however:
The data is available already. Apps have already been written.
Static Population is one method yes, others include IGMing the person, or even looking at the GC logs.
I personally think that these tools should not be rendered to the public at large. I can foresee many instances of attacks on persons who look to be inactive, but are not. Simply because someone 'did not know better' and can start a war.
What makes you think that there are less than 4 larger alliances without such tools, or even smaller alliances? Again, the data is released, parsing XML is all that is needed...
I can only comment on what Dark Empire does, we go through a vetting process before our members have the 'go ahead' from the organization. Theft has its rewards and punishments - it is all about the incentive... is it worth it to player X?
Again, this already occurs. You have but to look at the siege page to get a 'feel' for who has access to the data in a manageable manner. |
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