Excited and thought I'd share

by Anarias

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Anarias2005-07-28 17:23:53
I spent the morning working this out and I'm pleased enough with it to share it with everyone just for fun.

I wanted to know exactly what was happening with the Serenwilde's power, where it was going, where it was coming from, etc. so I spent the morning writing up a script to check the last day's powerlog and then spit it all out in a convenient display. It looks something like this:

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----------------SERENWILDE POWER SUMMARY----------------
The Living Totems brought in 0 power
Elder Moonheart Trees brought in 0 power
0 Fae were brought to the Aspects for a total of 0 power
0 pixies were brought to the Mother Tree for a total of 0 power
0 power was channeled from the Astral plane
The Flame of Glinshari produced 0 power
Serenwilde villages brought in 0 power
0 power was produced through other sources
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The Serenwilde Guilds drained 0 power for monthly maintenance
0 guards were summoned for a total of 0 power drained.
Individuals drained 0 power from the Nexus
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Total power added to the Nexus this month ~ 0
Total power drained from the Nexus this month ~ 0
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This month's net power balance was 0
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Naturally the real thing would list all the numbers but I didn't think that showing such a detailed report of the Serenwilde's power use on the forums would be in good taste tongue.gif
Xenthos2005-07-28 17:27:42
QUOTE(Anarias @ Jul 28 2005, 01:23 PM)
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Elder Moonheart Trees brought in 0 power


Naturally the real thing would list all the numbers but I didn't think that showing such a detailed report of the Serenwilde's power use on the forums would be in good taste tongue.gif
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You're going to want to get someone to chase down those elder moonhart trees, I think, before someone with an axe goes by.

Other than that, it looks nice.

Edit: Cut down the quoted bit, since it's pretty large. And I don't suppose you'd be willing to share the code? wink.gif
Vix2005-07-28 17:35:09
Those trees can only be accessed by a certain few people.

Anyways, I'm worried though about our overall power gain. We gain about a couple hundred power every day I'm guessing, but the cities seem to grow at a much much faster rate. Before the whole Viravain incident Serenwilde was on top of the power scheme... Maybe we should go despotic. Seems to have worked for Celest seeing as they have more power than us now. glare.gif
Xenthos2005-07-28 17:36:50
As long as you can keep the villages, it'll work (they revolt more often). Also, doesn't Celest get power for every supplicant? You only get 1,000 from your Flame, I think, as it's not modified by pixies.
Vix2005-07-28 17:38:47
Yeah, we should get the 10,000 power or so from our flame. evil.gif

Doesn't seem fair that we can have a limited amount of totems but the cities can have an unlimited amount of spikes/supplicants. tongue.gif

EDIT: Though I don't know how spikes/supplicants work so nevermind me.
Unknown2005-07-28 17:43:23
True, but their spikes/supplicants can die (questionably) easy. And we get power for each pixie in (I assume). 1,000 power is the max they get per month from the Star/Necromentate, anyway.
Vix2005-07-28 17:44:01
Ah, right then. See, I don't know how they work. tongue.gif

I'm still worried about our power gain though. Toooo sloooow for my liking. sad.gif
Unknown2005-07-28 17:45:05
QUOTE(Vix @ Jul 28 2005, 12:44 PM)
Ah, right then. See, I don't know how they work. tongue.gif

I'm still worried about our power gain though. Toooo sloooow for my liking. sad.gif
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It's because we aren't despotic, like everyone else. But we're also the Serenwilde, not Magdoring.
Vix2005-07-28 17:46:57
Mmhm. Just after Rockholm I checked our power and we were 6000 less than before because of an excessive amount of guards and distortion. I bet we'd gain faster if we didn't have any villages anyways. tongue.gif
Unknown2005-07-28 17:47:39
QUOTE(Vix @ Jul 28 2005, 12:46 PM)
Mmhm. Just after Rockholm I checked our power and we were 6000 less than before because of an excessive amount of guards and distortion. I bet we'd gain faster if we didn't have any villages anyways. tongue.gif
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Hmm.... Maybe, maybe not. If we went Despotic, not. But, with our current gov't... Not so sure.
Gwylifar2005-07-28 18:36:04
I did something like this when I was Minister of Power. I have two levels of detail in mine. Here's my summary report for the same weave:

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Power Summary    Added   Used    Net
--------------- ------ ------ ------
Persons           1600  -1538     62
Immolations              -100   -100
Nature            4220          4220
Villages          1649          1649
Guilds                  -4000  -4000
--------------- ------ ------ ------
GRAND TOTAL       7469  -5638   1831

For more details, see PLRPERSONS, PLRIMMOLATIONS, PLRNATURE, PLRVILLAGES, PLRGUILDS, PLRNEXUS, or PLROTHER.


Here is an excerpt from PLRPERSONS:

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Person           Added   Used    Net
--------------- ------ ------ ------
Accalia                   -38    -38
Aerenna                   -56    -56
Arandur             24   -216   -192 OVERDRAWN 144

Vix                172    -46    126 Contributor
Zenji               10    -36    -26
--------------- ------ ------ ------
Persons Total     1600   1538     62


Here is PLRNATURE; the others are similar:

CODE
Nature           Added Stolen    Net
--------------- ------ ------ ------
Living Totems     3220          3220
Flame             1000          1000
--------------- ------ ------ ------
Nature Total      4220          4220
Vix2005-07-28 18:39:28
Hehe. I'm a contributor!

Wow, we don't get a lot from the people. I guess our overall gain is pretty good. I should probably stop touching the tree right after the totems bring in power too. tongue.gif
Gwylifar2005-07-28 18:41:07
Some months we gain a thousand from people, some we gain nothing... it depends more on events of the day. This was a day with raids and influencing.
Malicia2005-07-28 18:52:45
We get about 3000 a month just from totems.
Vix2005-07-28 18:59:11
But then we have our monthly guard drain. I'm just sad that the cities gain at a seemingly much faster rate.
Anarias2005-07-28 19:17:43
Going by just the past few days worth of powerlogs it looks like we gain around 2k per day after all is said and done.

And Gwylifar, I like that you have individual people's power tracked like that. Eventually I'll work on mine to keep track of that information too but as of yet I'm still trying to figure out just how I want to do that. Your way of having additional commands to reveal more indepth information seems to be a really good way to do that though. We'll see how it turns out.
Unknown2005-07-28 19:18:50
QUOTE(Vix @ Jul 28 2005, 01:59 PM)
But then we have our monthly guard drain. I'm just sad that the cities gain at a seemingly much faster rate.
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In theory, we have the ability to gain at a sickeningly faster rate. Honey cakes + fae = 10 power per fae. Simple.
Anarias2005-07-28 19:20:57
That is true, if Serenwilde really really wanted to, they could increase the power in their nexus by a huge amount very quickly. That's something that I've only been aware of for just a very short time now but I've been thinking of ways to get people doing just that.
Unknown2005-07-28 22:41:40
It's kind of odd that despite the updates since I used to tinker with things that the gain is still the around the same (But you did say it was with raids and whatnot so the focus was diverted).
Unknown2005-07-28 22:56:36
QUOTE(Anarias @ Jul 28 2005, 03:20 PM)
That is true, if Serenwilde really really wanted to, they could increase the power in their nexus by a huge amount very quickly.  That's something that I've only been aware of for just a very short time now but I've been thinking of ways to get people doing just that.
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People DO do just that, I know Ibaesha is a cook for among other reasons that as well. I know she useally spends heaps of gold on ingrediates to make honeycakes to bring in power.

As for Zenji being at -26 i say dry.gif I got on drew a bit and was looking for honeycombs, found 1, but then got all embroiled in that thing with Etanru. And had to leave do to OOC reasons after that. *sigh*

I really wish there was a way I could get more involed in power additions, Pixies/fae don't seam all that much compaired with when, I assume Vix had hoped over to Water to kill some starsuckers, and starsuckers would leave me needing a Resurgem, closedeyes.gif