Island Value Calculator

[Ekonomista]

I proudly present a new tool created by me "Island Value Calculator" or short "IVC".
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Q: What is Island Value Calculator?
Its a program for doing calculation about how much resources were spent on building and upgrading all existing buildings on your island.

Q: Why is it better than other similar tools?
Its because of very easy and friendly interface, that is designed for faster input of data. IVC can do even more. Every building has its own picture just like the one in TSO game. When moving mouse over picture you get its name displayed. Selecting a building opens new window where u have all upgrade costs for every level (1-5) plus you can see what resources are given back if you want to destroy that building and what is move cost for selected bulding.
[New features may come with new updates]

Q: How do we use IVC?
Open the program. Move mouse on building you want to add and click on it. New window is displayed where you have UpDown input for every level. Choose the desired number of buildings for level you want to add. Close displayed window or press ESC on keyboard to do the math. Building and upgrade costs will be displayed in the SUM part of calculator.
[Everything needed to help you figure out how the calculator works can be readed under (READ THIS FIRST.txt) & "Help" button.]

Q: Is it possible to save IVC input data?
Yes. Tool starts with fresh default zero data. When you start doing input of your buildings it gets automatically saved so when you open calculator again you will see old input data. There is even more. Lets say you put all info from your island and dont want to change it because you want to calculate something else, then press "Export" and save your IVC backup data to any place where you want. Press "Reset" and get reset of IVC to default zero data and start using it again. When you figured out like how much a chain of 40xfarms + 20xmills costs to get to level 5 just press "Import" and load the main IVC data you saved earlier. So in basic you can have multiple save data and use/edit them individually.

Q: What do I download?
Main IVC folder contains:
READ THIS FIRST.txt - manual on how to use program.
IVC.dll - contains pictures for interface.
IVCdata.ini - contains IVC input data.
Island Value Calculator.exe - program for calculating.
[Put main folder on any place on PC and make desktop shortcut of (Island Value Calculator.exe) to start using it]

Q: Will it work on my OS?
Program was made on Windows XP SP3. In basic it should work on all OS but if you experience any difficulties or program is not working on your PC please say it so me/we can fix that problem. Thanks

Q: From where do you get all info for buildings?
The biggest part I get from "The Great Settler Library" made by our good forum moderator peck_ed who have done a great work to help us all know everything about TSO :)
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ALL VERSIONS OF IVC
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IVC (v1.0) /11.05.2013/UI picture: http://imageshack.us/a/img12/2331/mwc.png
IVC (v1.1) /14.06.2013/UI picture: http://imageshack.us/a/img594/9527/k93.png
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UPDATES THAT NEED TO BE IMPLEMENTED (This depends on your needs :))
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QuiGon/Add more gem items that consume gems (Generals,Explorers,Jolly...).
K0sh1/Add API function, add manual input for building number.
MrBranch/Add average resource production calculations.
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HOW TO GET "Island Value Calculator"
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Every one who wants to try out this program please send me personal message with title "IVC" (and place a :D in message because I love them :D) I will reply to your message as soon as I can because I am not online always. Thanks.
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- TERMS OF USE -
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Its very important you read all what is written in this message and tell that to other players too!!!
I need to warn every player about consequences of using or distributing this program to other!!!
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1. Download this program only from my personal share link and no other websites, texts, blogs because they can do harm to you or your PC. Only data that is uploaded to my personal share link will be 100% virus/malware/trojan free and will do no harm to you.

2. It is strictly forbidden to copy/paste my personal share link to any official place of TSO. You dont have the right to paste my link in any thread, comment, global chat, help window, trade window etc.

The only and I repeat ONLY!!! way to distribute my personal share link is by Forum/InGame mail box. If you want to help me improve program, make it grow, be better for all players of TSO please SHARE LINK ONLY BY MAIL BOX!!!

(Rules of Conduct doesnt allow third party links to be shared on any official forum/channel of TSO)

3. Every comment, suggestion, idea, improvement, thoughts, bad/good things etc. that are related to the program itself please comment in the TSO forum thread "Island Value Calculator". And again I repeat YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO POST MY PERSONAL SHARE LINK EVEN IN "Island Value Calculator" THREAD!!!

4. Because I am the creator of this program I have the full rights to say that you will be punished for braking the golden rule DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THIRD PARTY LINKS OFFICIALLY and my personal share link is one of them and CAN ONLY BE SHARED BY MAIL BOX. Else you will be treated by TSO team as one who is breaking the "Rules of Conduct".

5. Ubisoft, Uplay, The Settelers Online, BB, MOD etc. have nothing to do with this program and will not help if anything happens to you because of program. Its my personal work. But they will help punish you if you share link officially because they have "Rules of Conduct" + mine permission to do it.
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Personal Share Link
"will be displayed in personal mail"
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Everything related to my TSO files and the program itself is located in the folder "The Settlers Online". Every new update of program itself will be uploaded to the same folder so all versions will stay visible. Every update is gonna be first announced at the forum thread "Island Value Calculator" and uploaded on the personal share link. Sometimes link needs time to load. If its longer than 30 seconds refresh page and try again.

Thanks for showing interest in my thread and please do not reply to this message but share the link by MAIL BOX!!! to your Guild mates, Friends, everyone who is interested and help me distribute it to others too and give it a chance to grow.
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Best Regards

Ekonomista :D
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[Ekonomista]

I am happy to see people show interest in reading this thread and you all are welcome to comment, say, ask anything about me or program.
Cheers :D

P.S Stay tuned because I am already doing some major changes for next version that will come v1.1 :)

[Joannei]

Hi everyone,

I am not a very experient TSO player yet, but I would like to leave a small "feedback". This program has helped me so far, I am around level 30 and always need to know what is the price of an additional chain production of X...or if I upgrade all these buildings what's the cost. This program has helped me there nicely.

Thank you Eko for a very useful tool to do our daily settling!

Have fun everyone,

Jo.

[Ekonomista]

Thanks for feedback :) I am happy to hear at least 1 voice for now to share opinion :) and I would like to hear critics, new ideas, bad things too and not only its good :D For now because you all dont give me ideas i have less work to do so give me some work :D I am already making v1.1 so hope all like it and I get ideas from you all for v1.2 :) Cheers

[QuiGon]

Great toll :) in next ver. i would like to see : Specialist and building licence . These are staff where my crystals goes

One more time Respect for your hard work ::cool:

[K0sh1]

Thanks for feedback :) I am happy to hear at least 1 voice for now to share opinion :) and I would like to hear critics, new ideas, bad things too and not only its good :D For now because you all dont give me ideas i have less work to do so give me some work :D I am already making v1.1 so hope all like it and I get ideas from you all for v1.2 :) Cheers

The only thing that comes to my mind to improve it is to get API keys to map whole island instantly rather than counting buildings. Now we have to wait for BB to provide us access to it.

[Ekonomista]

Thanks QuiGon for opinion and new ideas. That part will be placed for future to implement so i think v1.2 will have lots of new gem items :) & K0sha1 yes the problem is there is no way to import building data to IVC so all you need is to manually add them but I was thinking at least function of all data about the building itself can be shown here in IVC and i hope there will be lot more ideas to implement :) Cheers


Update on v1.1
For now v1.1 goes well. Some new things are already implemented and on testing. Because of new visual interface there were lots of small things to fix and still got some but here is list what is implemented.

+New science buildings have been added (all 7 of them).
+All buildings now have option to show move cost per level.
+Shortcuts with keyboard like "Ctrl+Alt+R/S/L" have been removed and now have buttons for selection.
+Its possible to import backup "IVCdata" from v1.0 to v1.1 .
+"Help" button was added to say how to use calculator.
+"Copy To Clipboard" button added to copy all sum of used resources so it can be pasted to show people values.

For now its working but still has lots of small things that can be improved and that I need to fix, some from v1.0 some new. Release date was planed after the new science system gets implemented in game so I can check if all new buildings are on same place like in IVC v1.1 and until that i have more time to test and see if there are bugs left to fix. For now plan for v1.1 was to add new buildings + move cost function so v1.2 will be a bigger project because there are gem items that need to be added and probably visual interface will change of the complexity of bigger input data. Cheers :)

[Ekonomista]

And we are updating :) "IVC (v1.1)" is ready and finished so all are free to try it out. You can check how it looks like in the "ALL VERSIONS OF IVC" part where I made picture of every version so they can be compared. Every one who knows my personal share link can go to it and download new version of IVC. If you dont know it and you wana try it out send me a PM on Forum/InGame and I will tell it to you.

Best Regards

Ekonomista :D

[Ramonar]

Hi,
thank you for that nice tool, it is really usefull :-)

So far I found just 1 little bug. It is not possible for me to add steel weaponsmith building. If I click on the Steel weaponsmith icon, program shows me Buther window...

[Ekonomista]

Ahh how could I miss this part. I think I messed something up with the order because added the new building so need to check it. Best thanks for notice on that so I will try to fix it and re-upload on the same place. Will say here on forum when I fix it :) Again thx for feedback. Cheers
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Update on v1.1 because of bug "Ramonar" found about "Steel weaponsmith" showing "Butcher" instead.
-problem was false number "gADVANCED11" it needs to be "gADVANCED21" :)

IVC (v1.1)/13.06.2013/ is re-uploaded to IVC (v1.1)/14.06.2013/

Again sry for missing this part :) so feel free to download the latest version that has fix for this bug. I need to think about implementing an update button to IVC for cases like this so you dont need to download every time from personal share link but the program itself can do the job :) Cheers

[MrBranch]

Perhaps I'm asking a strange question, but why would I be interested in this information?
In general don't care how much I spent, since it doesn't help me in improving my island.
I care about my competitiveness compared to other players; perhaps something like an average resource production calculator?

So, what's the exact purpose of the calculator?

[Ekonomista]

Every question is a good question so here are the answers :)

1. IVC shows all Build/Upgrade/Destroy/Move cost of every in-game building, so you dont have to search on web for that info.

2. It can be used to show what are the needed resources a player has to posses so he can build & upgrade like 5x watermills to lvl5.
Shows cost of building and upgrading a production chain like how much do 40x farms cost to get from lvl1-lvl5.

3. If all buildings are selected a player has on his island, IVC shows total sum of invested resources for all buildings on island.
Best example for this usage is like when you get account reset. Then you know the exact number of resources that were spent on your island.

4. I dont tell people to use IVC because they need it. Its free to use and its a handy tool. At least I think so :D

For now I am the only one who is doing all the scripting to put all parts together. I understand why you ask to use it if you dont have things that are your interest, but in this time I need to build a strong base so I can do better things later. Yea having IVC calculate all production on island, or compare new production chains with old, see what are differences, make produced resources be calculated to gold coins based on TO price you give for what you sell them, what is profit and how much you get, is all possible but lot of work. In basic I want to build IVC to be like a big database for everything a player needs to know. For me its always easier to add one new part to IVC instead to make it all work and all have what a TSO player needs. With these parts v1.0, v1.1, vX.X I try to get feedback from people so they tell me what are bugs, what are better solutions, so I get that part done and dont need to come back. I try to write all ideas on main thread so they are placed for development. Hope I could give some answers to your question "MrBranch" :D Cheers

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IVC (v1.2)
Here are some planed things placed for development of v1.2. List may change with time.

First part will be second input window modifications:
-Move info got now window look.
-Add upgrade times for every building.
-Add production time for selected building.
-Add input/output resources & their consumption/production numbers for every level (1-5) individually.
-Add sum of input/output for selected number of buildings like 5x Mills lvl5 have sum of x & y consumption/production.
-Add time switching for resources production [default,1hr,6hr,9hr,12hr,18hr,24hr]. (Will be a bit hard so may not be implemented yet)

Second part will be main interface:
-Add "Tab"switching.
-Add lot of get items. (Gens,geologist,explorers...).
-Add tabs for buildings,generals,population,storage...(This part is still in thinking how to do it so may not be done in v1.2)

I made me a nice work list here so I will be busy for some time until v1.2 is done and ready for usage :) Cheers