Anaximander

Neptunes Pride strategic mapping tool -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander Anaximander is considered one of the first people to try and map the known world.

With 64 players, shits gunna get tough. We'll need proper strategic tooling.

Ideas

Not all of these have to get implemented, but each one would be nice.

• Chrome extension which, every hour on the hourly tick, gets the NP JSON dump and POST's it to Anaximander. Thanks to Rob.
• Take a json dump and update the map with it, merging reports from several players. Thanks to Rob and Pi
• Provide a history slider Thanks to Rob and Pi
• Tactical overlays: Econ/Industry/Tech/Fleet/Resources heatmaps, etc. We can use http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmapjs/ for this pretty easily.
• Webhook Notifications for specific triggers. We can tie these up using zapier to email, text, etc.
  • Enemy star rises above a certain industry. (Long live SpaceDetroit!)
  • Enemy fleet above a certain threshold of ships enters view.
  • Enemy fleet launches with your star as a destination.
• Calculating how many ships a fleet will have when it reaches its destination by taking into account industry.
• Shared fleets Thanks martin
• Strategic planning capabilities
  • Multi-stop combat planning, showing rough estimates of survivors at each step, taking into account industry
• Alliance detection
  • Player A's ships land on Player B's star, but star count goes up.
  • Statistical probability that people are allies: W gets tech from X within Y hours of researching it Z percent of the time.
• Overlapping research warning / planner/optimiztion.
• Unspent money nearing tick warning
• See allies unspent money to coordinate resource trades / lending
• See who has reported this tick and who hasn't Thanks Pi

NOTE: To update strategic metadata: PUT Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Body: "payload=" + escape(jsonString)