3rd party Apps wishlist

[Gandalf Parker]

Maybe some VB or VC programmer would like to do a menu driven Version of some of my stuff. I can provide the basic code for things like random opponents or randomized surprises in independent provinces. My Version of basic is cross-platform (linux and windows) so it isnt very good at making a user menu thing.

[Gandalf Parker]

The --preexec fix is in the next patch so I guess we can start programming around it for things like a game-save utility.

Im also looking at the --scoredump which generates a very nice tabled scoreboard. No running lines but nice numbers. Im thinking someone could easily write a program to add all the numbers together for an overall score. ManScore=armies+research+provinces
It might need some sort of formula to give a weighted amount to things like forts (forts*100?).

Im also still hoping someone will write a routine to save the numbers in scoredump and use them to recreate charts. There are plenty of chart routines out there so the actual graph/chart stuff wouldnt need written, just the collector. --scoredump --postexec collector.exe

[Gandalf Parker]

Looking at my web page for random maps www.dom2minions.com/~dominion/Dominions2/RandomMaps/RandomMaps.html

Im thinking that it might be interesting to do a CGI which will allow making a map. One that allows putting in all of the tons of parameters and then generating a map would be great, then allowing other choices. DomMap, or my various map extending programs, have all of the switches necessary.

Anyway, I thinking....
set the size, amount of water, amount of impassable borders, stuff like that. And then generate a page full of thumbnails of just blank land and sea maps.

Then select from the various color schemes and let it re-do the map adding in the terrains.

then select from various map extensions:
logical province names, special sites, scattered independent owned castles, random monster placements, special AIs, logical independents, middle earth, age of chivalry, etc etc.

It could be carried further into web-based creation of a MOD to go with it. Anyway, then its all zipped up and linked for download. Could be fun. The exe side of it I can handle (dommap, map generation, map extensions) if someone wants to tackle the web-side (form and cgi). It COULD even be tied into Mohansens as a "make a map" option