Samus Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Hi friends, i'm sure some of you have already found out about this but I have created a tool that keeps a record of all aid/war history that occurs in game. It's not finished completely, I still have quite a bit of work to do with it (not guaranteed i'll get round to it though), but you're free to use it to your hearts content. A simple example of how this can be useful to you & your alliance could be through tech deals. e.g Right now a current problem could look like this: [list=1] [*]2 nations engage in a tech deal. [*]Buyer sends seller $3mil. [*]10 days pass, seller promptly deletes the aid transaction. [*]Buyer asks for tech. [*]Seller claims he didn't receive any money. [*]Buyer gets mad and rolls seller and his entire alliance. [/list] But with the tool i've developed we go into a stage a little bit like this: [list=1] [*]2 nations engage in a tech deal. [*]Buyer sends seller $3mil. [*]10 days pass, seller promptly deletes the aid transaction. [*]Buyer asks for tech. [*]Seller claims he didn't receive any money. [*]Buyer goes to my tool, confirms that he did in fact send money. [*]Gets seller and entire alliance rolled for wasting time. [/list] Here's an example page of my aid history: http://cybernations.lyricalz.com/aid?nation1=254470 Another example would be for campaign/aid medals. If you're one of those cool alliances who honour your nations efforts in war then this applies to you. It's quick and it's simple, I believe we used this to gather the war participants from our last 2 wars. Here's an example page: [url="http://cybernations.lyricalz.com/alliance/war?alliance=Independent+Republic+Of+Orange+Nations&start=2012-06-23&end=2012-07-23"]IRON Nation's that fought in the MK-CSN war period[/url] [url="http://cybernations.lyricalz.com/alliance/aid?alliance=Independent+Republic+Of+Orange+Nations&start=2012-06-23&end=2012-07-23"]IRON Nation's that aided in the MK-CSN war period[/url] I know the site operates a little rubbish right now, but I don't really care, it was initially made for another purpose but we had all this data, thought we might as well provide it to the general public too. The full url is located here: http://cybernations.lyricalz.com/ <-- click it and check it out! If you have any suggestions / ideas feel free to drop em here & if i'm not lazy enough i'll see about implementing them. Shoutout to Baldr, d3mon, Aenir & duelking for helping me get this thing setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mompson Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 This actually looks like a really awesome tool. Just out of curiosity, do you have to download and then upload the stat downloads every day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintenderek Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 I was hoping this would be really cool and go all the way back to like 2007 or 2006 or whenever this game started. I was slightly disappointed. Still pretty cool though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasuki Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Bootstrap! Me likey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samus Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='Mompson' timestamp='1346207453' post='3026224'] This actually looks like a really awesome tool. Just out of curiosity, do you have to download and then upload the stat downloads every day? [/quote] Yep, but we have a cool set of people dedicated to doing that. [quote name='Tasuki' timestamp='1346217931' post='3026285'] Bootstrap! Me likey [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Perry Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Nice, we were working on something similar a while ago but I won't bother now since you've made a much nicer job of it. You can automate the pulling of the stats files though, it's not TOO difficult (despite the stupid stupid naming used). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samus Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='Katy Perry' timestamp='1346245996' post='3026329'] Nice, we were working on something similar a while ago but I won't bother now since you've made a much nicer job of it. You can automate the pulling of the stats files though, it's not TOO difficult (despite the stupid stupid naming used). [/quote] Wouldn't that go against T&C? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Perry Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='Samus' timestamp='1346246523' post='3026334'] Wouldn't that go against T&C? [/quote] Well in any case we never got that far we just had the script to do so. It basically did stuff with the 'date' command to figure out for itself the file name to pull. In theory it would have been easy to tell it to pull twice a day but the script never got finished. It doesn't require a log in so I don't see how it could be against the ToS *shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samus Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='Katy Perry' timestamp='1346247650' post='3026341'] Well in any case we never got that far we just had the script to do so. It basically did stuff with the 'date' command to figure out for itself the file name to pull. In theory it would have been easy to tell it to pull twice a day but the script never got finished. It doesn't require a log in so I don't see how it could be against the ToS *shrug* [/quote] I could be wrong, but I was referring to this: http://www.cybernations.net/terms.asp #7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Perry Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='Samus' timestamp='1346247972' post='3026343'] I could be wrong, but I was referring to this: http://www.cybernations.net/terms.asp #7 [/quote] My point was that there's no login, so who do you ban? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katashimon13 Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 omg sammy actually did sumthing and its usable XP u could ask admin to let u make one and do it >_> alsso u ban whoever is on that ip or samus XP rawr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samus Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='Katy Perry' timestamp='1346249457' post='3026345'] My point was that there's no login, so who do you ban? [/quote] I don't trust all these cyber nerds, they'd find a way. [quote name='katashimon13' timestamp='1346249764' post='3026347'] omg sammy actually did sumthing and its usable XP u could ask admin to let u make one and do it >_> alsso u ban whoever is on that ip or samus XP rawr [/quote] Last time I requested something from the game developers, I was completely ignored. Doubt it this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katashimon13 Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 >_> it dusnt hurt to try again XP rawr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcicyst Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 You sir, deserve a medal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Buscemi Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 This is awesome, man. I want your body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaarlaamp Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 This looks like a great tool, good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horo the Wise Wolf Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 This is nice. Dates back to April, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbies0310 Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 This is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facade Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 [quote name='Nintenderek' timestamp='1346211843' post='3026258'] I was hoping this would be really cool and go all the way back to like 2007 or 2006 or whenever this game started. I was slightly disappointed. Still pretty cool though. [/quote] We have NPO for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoholic Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Samus, i thought you a smarter man. This tool is kind of useful to use with your motive. Its true potential however is as a war tool, to forever change the blitz. I knew an alliance that has had this tool for a couple of years now, they weren't smart enough to integrate into their target list tool, but they were smart enough to keep it a secret. Now say for example you want to attack TIO, you can use this tool to single out TIO's most active members both in tech deals and in wars, these nations really are the bite of the alliance, the others are just the bark. Take out the bite first, and the bark is meaningless. If all their strong nations are under heavy fire, they will have no one, or at least no one competent, to counter. You should take down the site and start working with your alliance to turn it into the weapon it is, at least thats what i'd do if i were u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchellBade Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 [quote name='Alcoholic' timestamp='1346694492' post='3027645'] Samus, i thought you a smarter man. This tool is kind of useful to use with your motive. Its true potential however is as a war tool, to forever change the blitz. I knew an alliance that has had this tool for a couple of years now, they weren't smart enough to integrate into their target list tool, but they were smart enough to keep it a secret. Now say for example you want to attack TIO, you can use this tool to single out TIO's most active members both in tech deals and in wars, these nations really are the bite of the alliance, the others are just the bark. Take out the bite first, and the bark is meaningless. If all their strong nations are under heavy fire, they will have no one, or at least no one competent, to counter. You should take down the site and start working with your alliance to turn it into the weapon it is, at least thats what i'd do if i were u [/quote] tl;dr, Roll TIO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoholic Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 ^ this guy knows what he's talking about. Stagger lee.must.die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garion Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 An Alco spotting! Nice tool indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demag Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Alcoholic' timestamp='1346694492' post='3027645'] Samus, i thought you a smarter man. This tool is kind of useful to use with your motive. Its true potential however is as a war tool, to forever change the blitz. I knew an alliance that has had this tool for a couple of years now, they weren't smart enough to integrate into their target list tool, but they were smart enough to keep it a secret. Now say for example you want to attack TIO, you can use this tool to single out TIO's most active members both in tech deals and in wars, these nations really are the bite of the alliance, the others are just the bark. Take out the bite first, and the bark is meaningless. If all their strong nations are under heavy fire, they will have no one, or at least no one competent, to counter. You should take down the site and start working with your alliance to turn it into the weapon it is, at least thats what i'd do if i were u [/quote] Go back to RL you're not wanted Interesting tool certainly be useful. Edited September 3, 2012 by Demag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeology Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 [quote name='MitchellBade' timestamp='1346697304' post='3027649'] tl;dr, Roll TIO [/quote] this is a must Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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