Public release of tool (HarmlessButler)

Ok, this one will be the last for a while:

HarmlessButler

New feature: added building and research queue completion events (as requested by Jerec Cross)
Bug fixed: timers once again update live when editing attack plans

No it cannot.  The interface is not kind enough to provide id for the current town from any page (at least in a manner that can be manageably deduced), so I have to use name as the unique (to the account) identifier for a town.

Subsequently linking the town's metadata by id would be a huge hassle with a lot of extra function calls from within templates.  This is already the ugliest piece of the script and needs to be kept as clean as possible.  At any rate, such a change would require more extensive modification throughout the system than is worthwhile for a script that will be rendered obsolete with interface V2.

If anyone has already downloaded, note that I introduced a bug in grouping order while separating user data from parsed data.  Re-download to get the fix.


Edited by HonoredMule - 22 Oct 2010 at 23:24

I've released a major new version with very noteworthy new features.  Users will want to upgrade as soon as possible.

New features: town grouping, notes, and tagging

• Grouping affects town listings on various menus and the town switcher
• Tagging adds descriptive icons to town listings (Useful for denoting unit/resource specializations, and more tags to come starting with diplomatic units)
• Notes are any desired preformatted text, shown with resource levels and tags on the town switcher's overview hover
• These features are managed using a new sidebar tab

Existing and new user data now can be synced on a separate sidebar tab

• Sync support now also available to all players with an account at Arcanum Illyria
• Data synced includes bookmarks, town tags+groups+notes, and attack plans (settings are excluded for the sake of syncing across diverse devices that may for example not want to use screen space the same way)
  
• Sync operation always uses encryption (it is up to you to use https when logging into the site for full data security)

Better maintenance of building information (buildings are updated when viewing their main page as well as when viewing the town map)

Note that while renaming a city will delete its account-parsed data, user-generated data is stored separately.  Original user data can be recovered by renaming the city to its original name.  You'll have to copy the data yourself when permanently renaming cities though.

try changing the city name

Quick note:  A player from Toothless noted that he could not launch troops from cities that do not have Covert Ops researched.  Apparently the checkbox that appears when it is researched is only invisible when not, so HarmlessButler would still make it checked by default, and then hitting "Send" would fail since the stratagem wasn't allowed yet.

This never came up with older Harmless players who always research it as early as possible, but I do handle bug fixes for all users.  A new version has been released to fix this particular bug.  Note that you could always escape this issue by temporarily disabling the script, but I just want to clarify that this wasn't any kind of conspiracy to immobilize your troops.