I need a bunch of DATA! |
Tue, 02 March 2004 18:00 |
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jgardner | | Crewman 3rd Class | Messages: 7
Registered: March 2004 Location: Seattle | |
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Hey everybody! I just found this forum from a link at starbase delta, which appears to be slowly dropping off the map.
I started work on a utility app about 2 years ago, and just got back into it. I found an old stars installer while cleaning up my computer, and just like the old days, 4 hours just disappeared into a vortex. Now i just need to find my serial# in 2 year old email somewhere!
Anyway, the data that i need is .xy .pla and .fle exports from stars. preferrably, .pla and .fle's from every year. I know some of you are probably doing that to load them into excel or something. My app (even in beta form!) works pretty slick:
1) you create a new "project" from a .xy file
2) you import .pla and .fle's after every turn (or every 5, or whatever)
3) it can show lots of info in charts and on the map about territories, populations, values, etc, and has a time "scrubber", that you can press play and watch the universe change, and scrub back and forth in time.
I cant find my old data that i used to test with, so i ran an 75 year game yesterday against the computer, but only exported every 5 years.
If anyone is interested in using it or giving me data, etc, let me know.
I'm probably going to reconstruct the website for it tonight, then i'll post a link to it with pics and such.
Thanks much!
j
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Re: I need a bunch of DATA! |
Wed, 03 March 2004 16:29 |
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jgardner | | Crewman 3rd Class | Messages: 7
Registered: March 2004 Location: Seattle | |
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Yeah, i hooked up the stuff last night to handle the pxx format as well. As it turns out, the last time i did any work on the app was 7/17/2001! I didn't even know about the advanced export until reading through the .m and .h disassembly thread discussion yesterday.
I currently don't have any fleet stuff added, but will probably do that this weekend.
Hopefully this weekend i'll have stuff packaged up in a way that i can distribute it easy. Do most of ya'll have java already installed somewhere? then i can just distribute a jar and some instructions...
I also have to set up some kind of system for bug/feature tracking too. I haven't distributed it yet because i know that as soon as a few people have it, the feature list will come POURING in
Anyone is free to link to my site, i'd prefer to not have people mirror stuff, as then i can't control out of date versions, etc. The site is pretty stable, i run some rather large sites there (http://pk.trophyhunteronline.com/ gets about 500k hits a month all by itself, and thats just one of like 5 sites i'm hosting), so i'm not worried about traffic there.
I might have to register another domain name though!
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Re: I need a bunch of DATA! |
Fri, 05 March 2004 16:14 |
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jgardner | | Crewman 3rd Class | Messages: 7
Registered: March 2004 Location: Seattle | |
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the territory polygon map isn't the only option there. Its pretty easy to add other shapes, so i'm doing stuff right now to show outlines of where your gates reach, and a view where you can see possible gate routes, etc.
I'm working on getting the map to be completely stable and such, the version i have now has some goofy issues with zooming and scrolling, as soon as i have that part cleaned up, i'll make it available.
I don't have fleet stuff in yet either, but thats because 3 years ago there was no way java could handle fleets, as its orders of magnitude more data than planets have.
i plan on spending all sat/sun working on it, so it should be available then.
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