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Yes. Sort of. And it will be awhile. Hope you don't mind the wait :)

With the new version coming out, it appears that no other script maintainer is working on updating an "empire overview" script. oliezekat of Ikariam Empire Board is not going to update his scripts and PhasmaExMachina went out with a bang over a year ago, so clearly he won't be updating "Ikariam ExMachina". I can't play Ikariam without an "empire overview" script because I find it too boring to keep track of what resources I need where, what army/navy I have in which towns, etc. I can't have my citizens going without wine (and they've already started rioting on the test server), so first I'm going to work on an "Ikariam ExMachina" update for 0.5.0. Actually, more than just an update. More like a merge of what I consider the best parts of "Ikariam Empire Board" and "Ikariam ExMachina". Since those scripts are not going to be updated I feel free to alter them as I did not in the past. So that't the first thing on my plate.

As for what will happen to "Ikariam Farm List", "Ikariam ExMachina" has a spy feature roughly equivalent to it. I have never been happy with it, because when I tried it it mangled the data between towns horribly. And also I prefer many small features in "Ikariam Farm List" over the functionality in "Ikariam ExMachina". What I will probably do is to replace the spy part of "Ikariam ExMachina" with "Ikariam Farm List". Once I do that, "Ikariam Farm List" would not live as its own script for future versions because I don't want to maintain multiple copies of essentially the same script.

As far as actually doing all this, 0.5.0 is a major, major release of Ikariam and there's a lot of work necessary to update scripts to the new version. And I'm busy with work and other things, I have some vacation planned in a couple weeks, etc. All of which is to say it's going to be a couple months (and even that might be optimistic) before this script is ready for 0.5.0.

Ok. I updated it to work when using the "mobile" version of Ikariam. I did not test extensively but everything I tried worked as expected. Note that the data in the "mobile" instance is separate from the "desktop" instance, so you'll have to manually readd your targets, rescan hideouts, or follow the instructions on the "About" page for the script to transfer data over. I suggest you do one of these before 0.5.0 hits on any servers you care about because it appears that opening the "desktop" ui when a server is version 0.5.0 with FarmList enabled will corrupt the data FarmList stores and then you'll be out of luck with any attempt to copy data.

(Note that if you try the last option, a few details are going to be a bit different than written since you'll be transferring from domain s123 to m123 with the same script id. If you can't figure it out, don't ask me for more explicit instructions. I'm just going to rescan my hideouts as the only targets I really care about are the ones I have spies in and I'm not going to go to the effort of writing detailed instructions.)

Also, I still plan on working on my "Ikariam Aubergina" script. (Non-sucky name still to be determined. For a large enough fee I'll sell the rights to name it (just kidding (sort of)).) It will be roughly based on Ikariam ExMachina and Ikariam Empire Board with some things changed to be more the way I like them. (Side note, I actually play Ikariam now with both Ikariam Empire Board and Ikariam ExMachina. I prefer the overview tables of Empire Board over ExMachina's (which I disable), but I like many of the small auxiliary features of ExMachina.)

To my mind, the reasons for writing a new script still stand. I really like the new 0.5.0 ui in general and want to use it. The only thing that's stopping me is that important scripts do not work. Clearly, a new script made to work with 0.5.0 would fix that. Secondly, given what Gameforge has said on the forums, I believe that the mobile ui remaining at the previous version is only a temporary solution. I suspect that Gameforge will be moving the mobile version to more closely resemble 0.5.0 when they get some kinks worked out with the performance, appearance, and behavior on mobile devices. That's what I would do in their shoes. And in that light, the solution that works today is only a temporary one.