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Kronos Utils 0.6
Tons of UI improvements and features for the web game Ikariam.
Requirements
Greasemonkey 0.8 is mandatory, Firefox 3 very much suggested. Under Firefox 2, layout breaks down so miserably you won't want to run this script. This won't be fixed.
Features
Kissy has written a nice but aging tutorial of some of the main features on the Kronos Utils forum. Unfortunately nobody else has picked up the ball on adding new ones as the feature set grows, but here is one of my own favourite features: the the city panel which shows what you can build, how much resources you need to ship, and from where you might do so:
Ghosted numbers are buildings you need more resources to upgrade; hover them, and the missing resources show up as negative numbers in the appropriate columns on the left.
Credits
Originally based on Kronos Utils 0.3a by Kronos, which added neat little building level blobs in city view. I liked it, thought I'd do a wee bit of refactoring to prettify the code a bit, and before I knew it, it wasn't anywhere like the little hack it started out as.
From there, things added up over time, as lots of people came up with good ideas on the Kronos Utils forum (big thanks to Kissy for his work setting up that) that were fun to hack, and/or contributed other translations, beautiful graphics, icons and the like.
Feedback
As I am but one person and users of Kronos Utils count in the thousands, in order to scale to this user base, I must kindly ask that any feedback you hope to reach me with and in any way affect the future of Kronos Utils, should be directed at the Kronos Utils forum. For scripts the size (about 250 kb) and user base of Kronos Utils, the comments feature below is far, far too under-dimensioned for the wealth and volumes of user feedback; sorry.
Author recommends
Kissy wider menu makes the cluttered header bearable once your empire grows too big to fit all the information. Kronos Overview makes lots of data easier to access and see from everywhere in the game.You could comment on this script if you were logged in.
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This worked with FF 3.0.2 but I upgraded to 3.0.3 and - BUSTED. Drat. Next time I will know better than to upgrade right away, what a bummer. Hopefully an update comes along soon! I've been watching the script boards but not seeing a fix.
Thanks for the great script.
EDIT: Downgraded to FF 3.0.2 and still not working ... another step down to 3.0.1 and still not working. Oh well. :'(
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I'm am using FF3.02 on WinXP and it works. You have to apply Motley's fix for Ike's 2.8 update. See the "script homepage" for more info.
Thanks for the reply, Johan. :)
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(sorry for my english)
@Johan Sundstrom: when will be the next update? Since it doesn't wok with teh newer versions of Firefox?
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The remotely hosted version hasn't been updated to 0.2.8 in full yet, though Motley fixed the most crucial ones some day or days ago while I've been busy irl, so it already kind of works again.
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Utility doesn't work with new versions of firefox 3.0.2 and 3.0.3. Any suggestion
It works fine (in combine with kronos overview) under 3.0.1 version
I'm posting this problem at Kronos Utils forum too.
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It doesn't work
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@silent_gamer: I think you misinterpreted me there; it was a good question - follow the link for more info on inadvisable ways of conduct that *will* get you banned - and some clear reasoning about how it all works. No derogatory remark intended; sorry if I was overly terse.
@camel: Thanks; included in remotely hosted version. (I'll try to get some time to update the version here too at some time.)
@daiei27: Sorry; see feedback section above for bug reporting; I don't do bug tracking for this script here.
@Nick Rosier: Nope; I was hoping subversion keyword expansion would be performed on google code's svn server, but those unfortunately only work if you check out the code with subversion and install from local files. I think more recent versions have dropped the revision number bit.
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@ Mr Johan : sorry for asking unintelligent questions, that's because of my lack of scripts practice since I've been working on other projects about grid computing, but as soon as I find some time I'll be opening the Pro javascript techniques again, thank you for you answer anyway :-)
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please add white-space: nowrap; to .ellipsis style in kronos.css to avoid a display problem in double char server (zh-CN at least)
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I had a version of Kronos Utils v0.5 that had a great military report view. I tried upgrading to this and it did not appear to have one. Also, it did not have http://*.ikariam.org/* as an included page.
I am using FF 3 and Greasemonkey 0.8.2.
Any idea of why v0.6 doesn't have an enhanced military report view for me?
*Edit: tried it again and it works. I expected the plugin to start working immediately, but all of the features didn't kick in until I clicked around for a while.
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On the latest subversion releases I get 0.6rNaN as version. Looks like the revision doesn't get set. Is this still a bug in the script or something @ my end?
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@silent_gamer: Yes. In particular, if you are unintelligent about it. In practice, it will not happen unless you cause Gameforge grief, costs or trouble over it.
(I am well known in that community as the script's maintainer, yet have not been banned over it yet.)
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could they discover when u use such forbidden scripts ??
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Yea, i wonder why this script is forbidden by Gameforge haha
It is similar to their Premium Plus interface :P
Btw, indeed this script is great, even if it crashes sometimes my firefox 3 :/
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This script stopped working for me after I added my 3rd account. Is there a problem with it?
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btw... This script is forbiden by Gameforge.
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Super useful, I like that the script have some options to turn off the thinks that i don't want to see... But in general, the script is Great.