Sindicate v. Assorted Elgea based Alliances

Worth noting: the /news and /news24 commands in GC will give you a log of all system siege notices for that day and 24 hour window, respectively. That command also gives you the name of the attacking city, per the siege notice (which is missing on the siege stats page). With the towns and map files, you should be able to identify which sieges were removed with the city staying in place. You can also see which cities were removed, although it will be unclear which ones were destroyed or used exodus, since both results will cause a 1 city drop on that player's town list and growth chart. It's probably sufficient just to note the missing city and let the participants clarify.

Tensmoor, that's true - trust me, I appreciate the challenges of this kind of data gathering. In the best of all worlds, the devs would provide us with a siege data API that would provide a daily snapshot of all sieges, including the ones broken within the past 24 hours, and show info such as how long the siege is lasting, how many total troops are lost (perhaps broken out by defenders/attackers), and whether it concluded in a raze, capture, or was broken.

Short of that and collecting data from users, here's what might work. If you log in and look at the siege stats page once a day it's not very accurate since many sieges get broken in under 24 hours so you might miss quite a few. If you get the snapshot 2x a day, that increases the accuracy a lot. Most sieges last at least 6 hours, and if it's under 6-10 hours it was a worthless siege to begin with, so that puts the floor on how many snapshots you need.

You can pretty easily scrape the siege page with JS (and I believe that's not very different from Illytools in terms of fair use since you're still logged into the game) and put it in a table immediately. Throw in a bit of math and you get approximate siege duration. We're talking about maybe 5-10 sieges per week total. If you put the results of your data gathering in a forum thread, encourage players volunteer raze reports or final break reports. If no raze report was provided, assume the siege was broken.


Edited by Tink XX - 31 Jan 2018 at 16:11

Tink XX wrote: So true! I wish Mafro actually would focus his efforts on collecting that kind of statistics instead of the population stats that are 90% unrelated to anything interesting that's going on. Mafro, the population statistics is boring because it gives you no insight into Illy wars. You could either solicit some battle reports or siege outcome reports from us and our opponents, or at least peruse the siege page of the herald like Mr. Damage suggested. People would actually want to read such reports.