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Hi HIkariWS, I'm the original author and just saw your comment, read your website and poked through your script code. I'm thrilled that you have resurrected this. Let me start by apologizing profusely for not documenting my code. Ugh. I've learned since then, all my newer code has comments out the wazzu.

From your site:

"ModKit's original author was very skilled with JavaScript and HTML, but he wasn't good on team work and building easy-to-understand code. His code was a mess and I would basically need to redo everything I did before to add my tweaks back on it."

That's an accurate and fair assumption, although I would drop 'very skilled with' and replace 'moderately decent with'. Looking back at my modkit code now makes me laugh at some of the coding choices I made. And the nested timer functions, oooh boy. I had a hard time keeping track of what that timer code was doing while I was writing it...

At one point MK was the 2nd most installed script on userscripts behind Travian Beyond. Beyond was fractured into about 10 different versions and authors, so if I had kept going I'm fairly certain it would have reached #1. (That was before people learned how to game the install count system.) A new version of Travian and the fact that I missed the opening of the next speed server by a week and a half conspired to make me lose interest in development.

Even though it hasn't been updated in 2 years and doesn't work, my script still gets downloaded about 40 times a day. I wonder who these people are, and I wish I could point them all over here.

I'll post a link to this on the original script's about page. Wish you the best with this, I hope you get a thousand loyal fans who all bug you with update requests =]

Hey dude tnx A LOT for the comment! :D

I'm glad you liked my work, and yes you are very skilled! You've done the hardest work, find out where raw data was and readapt it, creatively knowing how it would be useful.

I'm happy you didn't get mad on my opinion that you code was a mess :P If it wasn't underk helping me I'd never be able to make it work again. And without a working version to test it was impossible to do anything.

Anyway, just after v1.0 of my ModKit was ready I got busy with other stuff. Up until today I didn't make a good description here on userscript, and also didn't make a manual and code explanation text. But it is not abandoned thou, when I have the time I will complete my work!

Currently I'm not playing Travian. I donated my brx account to some friends and soon its round will be gone. I don't plan to seriously play Travian anymore, but I wanna keep acess to any friend account to test and maintain ModKit.

Also, I'm happy with the amount of downloads and visits I'm receiving, but feedback had been none up until now. I don't know if anything changed in Travian that broke the code, or anything like that. No translation contributions or but complains also. I don't know if that's due to lack of interest or if everything is working accordingly.

I'd like to keep contact with you! If possible, gimme an email or msn so that we can talk. I don't need help in ModKit anymore and I don't verify you original code, but it'd be nice to have you as a friend!!