House Map

[Locutus]

Do you think that we should be able to post our house map on the house forum? It would help so that we won't expand into our own house's area.

[Liam]

Your leade is able to do so. He only need some webspace and he can link to it in the forum.

[SwordSorcerer]

I think it is a good idea.

Keep them coming

[BattleKing]

[Locutus]

Well, now that presents a new element of strategy into the game, now doesn't it? Espionage and sabotage will be more widespread, and it will be like the Cold War all over again.

I'll be with the Soviets.

[Merthos]

There is already a map sharing feature on Maelstroems ToDo list (somewhere in the 20th I think ). It would allow to enable your own view to other members of your house so they can see it in their map.

[Locutus]

Thanks. Yay

[Emperor_Thrawn]

lol, if they had of done this a while back, I could have really skrewed templar

[Shadowmaster]

i agree with BattleKing

[Emperor_Thrawn]

Awww that means my spies have to be clever

[alphabravo]

using the latest builds of mozilla/opera or firefox (with mozilla + firefox i mean the LATEST builds... ie 1.0.4+ or 1.0.3+ or Deer Park Alpha 1 or a nightly for firefox and not just the last official releases) svg works fine...

however... due to the particulars of the script, and incomplete implication of scripts into the mozilla svg project... the script doesnt work, and due to the requirement of a height and width declaration... they also cant work without modification... or else you will just see the top left "screenfull"

i, of course have made a simple script to add the height and width elements, and maeli said in the german forum that it was on the list...

but when those are done, firefox has complete ability to run both svg and svgz... and i use it for my kosmor maps





regarding the issue of map sharing/merging i have subperfect but useful (will recommence changing the code after my last exam on wednesday) scripts to join maps together (not including radars or WPs on planets) and would expect that maeli's job here would be much simpler - although i use perl and he uses php, and i dont know php, so i cant really say for sure... given that i (or any other user) has to extract the information first and then put it into a map, whereas the original map scripts come from the database, and this should make it different

only possible questions would be:
different maps = different radar colours? - that's what i use [changing the opacity works here... so you can see all the radars underneath the top one]
same thing for planet colours?

but firstly... it's maeli's holiday time
secondly... im sure there are other more important things (esp if this is about 20th on the list)
and thirdly... it's not the end of the world atm... just MUCH MUCH better since the use of SVG maps for people to do it on their own... as they contain actual information, which a bitmap does not


/alpha
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[LinDze]

i would be carefull with that because if u got more then 10 members in your house, there will be at least one spy

[BattleKing]

[Locutus]

Wow. This post started with the house map and ended with something about your browser and espionage.

Mod: image removed

[Locutus]

Well perhaps, we could make it so that you can only view so much around your territory for your command tier. Ex: House leader- tier 1, 1st lvl of subs- tier 2, sub's subs-tier 3, etc...

The house leader views everything, but his subs view their own territory and about 500ly around it. Tier 3 views 200ly, Tier 4 sees 100, Tier 5 sees nothing. The area revealed is only the area controlled by the house. The house leader could show the whole house map to anyone he wanted to, though.