1 (edited by RisingDown 27-Jan-2013 21:48:19)

Re: Built in Fleet boss and lessons to learn from Hoad's linkifier

I have always been a big fan and frequent user of the tools Hoad/Toadies' created and/or perfected (Give the man some love! find them here: http://www.imperialconflict.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=129207 , he has a lot of other interesting tools on his website as well, such as a fleet jump calc and a system that keeps track of family rankings and nw/size changes: http://www.sandervdwal.nl/ic/ ; aside from that he originally made a tool to sort your planet list according to bonus).

However, ever since IC started using a built in linkifier, his version of Fleet Boss (a perfection of Momentum's ancient script) has stopped working. With him having retired from the game, and the built in linkifier giving him headaches last time I asked him to fix the bugs, I feel like it is no longer right to ask him to put in more effort; he has already put in more than plenty.

So now I am asking the IC team: Could you please build in the Fleet Boss tool into IC, similar as how you did with IC Map Links (aka linkifier). It has always been a great help when attacking, retaking, and switching planets intra-fam. Just sending out fleets in general was much less of a pain with this script.


Aside from that, the built in linkifier system still doesn't work as well as it can. What we used to be able to do with Hoad's version (which was actually an adaptation of Momentum's script as well), was to use the same link to access both the planet and the system. This worked with any format of planet links. For instance, an xx,yy:zz link would link to both the xx,yy system coords, and the xx,yy:zz planet coords. With the new system the xx,yy support has been lost.
Aside from that, Hoad's IC Map Links also linkified coords in forums and logs, which I believe the new system still doesn't do.
Ever since the new planet images that come along with planet links have been introduced, Hoad's Map Links no longer works on the messages page, and I can imagine on any other page where the planet image is shown. This, I feel, is a real pity. Could the IC team perhaps find a way to incorporate the perks that Hoad's Map Links had over the built in one as well?

(Arby tells me you guys are looking into options to perfect the built in map links, thought I'd provide you with a couple points where it is lacking)

Maar doodslaan deed hij niet, want tussen droom en daad,
Staan wetten in de weg en praktische bezwaren,
En ook weemoedigheid, die niemand kan verklaren,
En die des avonds komt, wanneer men slapen gaat.