Calvin wrote:
is there a spot where all these tools, and these graphics, live?
No. I'll bring up the entire old site, eventually, which had sidebar links to all within. For now I'm taking a little time here and a little time there to revive a toy here and revive a toy there. I get distracted though, and end up making a new toy or rewriting things that don't need rewriting. But a few things are out there, and probably want some explanatory light shone on them.
http://skyrates.jusque.net/control_pie_70x60.png is the pie chart in my sig. It shows the relative number of islands controlled by the factions. Leading faction in the SE, then in descending order clockwise. You can change the numbers in the url for the width and height you want. If you're still seeing a pie from last round, with yellow in it, try tossing your browser cache.
http://skyrates.jusque.net/skytopia_300x48_9.png is the other thing in my sig. Might be easier to see what it represents by tweaking the url, eg
http://skyrates.jusque.net/skytopia_300x300_11.png My lowly flight license precludes some places from appearing as yet.
It just occurred to me that the sig probably looks horrible in IE; sorry about that.
http://skyrates.jusque.net/what_have_you_done_for_me_lately_1.png and
http://skyrates.jusque.net/what_have_you_done_for_me_lately_2.png were a response to someone suggesting that island control influence should decay over time. The rate in those charts is 0.1% per hour, or a half-life of about 1 month.
http://skyrates.jusque.net/what_have_you_done_for_me_more_lately_1.png and
http://skyrates.jusque.net/what_have_you_done_for_me_more_lately_2.png have a more aggressive decay of 1% per hour, or a half-life of about 3 days. That should be useful for seeing where Alessan has been told to focus his attention. It's the same data used for the 'recent' column of
http://skyrates.jusque.net/island_control, so you probably only want the more_lately charts if you need an image for a forum post.
The preëxisting influence from when I switched on the scraper a few days ago dominates things for the moment. Give it a while before trying to make use of the decaying numbers. Then run around in circles hollerin' about that menacing purple storm cloud on the horizon.
http://skyrates.jusque.net/island_control also has some buttons up the top to sort the list by control lead/deficit for a particular faction.
All toys update once a hour, usually.
If I find myself with nothing to do at some point this week, I'll see about making
http://skyrates.jusque.net/island_leaders not be a picture of cows.
Calvin wrote:
Too many | symbols in the URL, I suspect.
Make sure you link to the urls as they appear here, not the google charts urls some of them hackishly redirect to.
Calvin wrote:
gives an error, Kathryn: Bad Gateway
Hmm, yes. Seems I've just introduced a massive memory leak somewhere. How 'bout that.
(edit) Oh yeah:
http://skyrates.jusque.net/control_lines_short_400x100.png