Couple of suggestions

Data Extract would be great - let me know where to post thoughts.

Think we can prolly discuss the details elsewhere (if there's enough interest in third party apps) - as I don't want to derail this thread too much!

naive wrote: i'd like to see a meta map of the world (the entire world). perhaps just dots to denote cities. in line with this, currently there is a no capture bot policy, could this policy be revised to allow for third party tools, such as a meta map?

Hum, yes and no.

We definitely won't allow capture botting (as this is often a quick way of bringing a server to its knees).

But we do think the idea of a meta map of the world is superb - and want it to happen.

However, the dev team is short of time - lots of content to add over the next few weeks / months, ranging from new spell schools to new quest categories (and new quests), NPC interactions, reports etc etc etc.

So, we're very approachable about the possibility of releasing some slightly time-delayed "official" data, perhaps in some sort of XML-web-servicey-thingy for third party developers to use in designing their own Illyriad applications.  This would also be able to avoid many of the pitfalls of using a capture bot method such as changes in page design and player-specific map data.

If there's someone (or multiple people) out there who might be interested in designing third party apps against Illyriad datasets, then let me know in this thread.  If there's enough interest I'll set up a dedicated "Illyriad tech" Forum category for us all to discuss the idea further and get down to the nuts and bolts of what data we could provide.

i'd like to see a meta map of the world (the entire world). perhaps just dots to denote cities.

in line with this, currently there is a no capture bot policy, could this policy be revised to allow for third party tools, such as a meta map?

GM Stormcrow wrote: I just think the overall ranking should be an alpha of the relative weighting of *all* the categories, weighted by the individual's score (relative to the total score) in each category.  ie what "we" as Illyriad/GMS/devs etc think is important and should contribute to the overall score may *not* be what the playerbase thinks is important.  And the overall score should be weighted by what the playerbase does, in some formulaic way. <-- GM ThunderClap, sirrah, help me out mathematically with what I'm trying to say here. I know you can! Thoughts?