Isle of Crowns analytical tool

From: griffith@dweeb.fx.com (Jim Griffith)

Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 23:29:03 +0000

I'm finishing up work on an "Isle of Crowns" analytical tool, to be used for
playing the Adventures By Mail game "Isle of Crowns".  This tool allows
players to generate a "power chart" of sorts, which includes sector counts,
army counts, fortress counts, etc., changes in gold, food, and magic
production, etc.  It is not good for determining actions - you're better off
looking at the map ABM provides.  But it does allow you to recognize things
like "hey, that guy is consuming more food than he's producing!".

For now, it runs on SUNs only, although I suspect it will compile on either
RS6000's or DECstations.  It is curses-based, display-oriented, and
configurable for different world maps.  It is based on "iv", my "It's A
Crime!" viewer, which is in turn loosely based on "ve", the visual editor
for empire.  It stores data for different turns in different files, so that
it can generate analytics on the current turn and all previous turns.

I'll probably have this shippable in about a week.  If you're interested
in using it, drop me a note.

Jim

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