Ikariam Upgrade Watcher

Ikariam Upgrade Watcher (v1.3.2)

• Simple
• An easy way to determine if a building is upgradeable
• Coloured icons to give you better overview
• Showing the building level
• Uses resource reduction bonuses from research
• Uses resource reduction bonuses from buildings in your city
• Automated detection and calculation of the resource reductions
• No pre-settings required from you
• No external scripts requests
• Info box to see the status of resources required for the given building
• Supports GreaseKit and Fluid

Note

• Requires Firefox add-on CreaseMonkey
• Supports GreaseKit and Fluid since version 1.2.2.

Version History

• v1.3.2 (26. October 2009)
  • Fixed icon and tooltip positioning for temple (thanks to Lordshinjo for pointing out the problem).
• v1.3.1 (16. October 2009)
  • Fixed the building cost calculation has been revised in Ikariam version 0.32 which I did not know, so the calculation are all wrong. This is now fixed (thanks to RandomMan for pointing out the problem).
  • Fixed a bug with dot-notation problem for servers which uses such notation (thanks to malus for posting the bug).
  • For servers which are still at version 0.31, the "old" building cost calculation is still supported.
• v1.3.0 (15. October 2009)
  • Building cost database updated.
  • Images are now linked in place.
  • Ready for Ikariam version 0.32.
  • Fixed a bug where the info box is not positioning correctly on palace or residence construction spot.
  • Fixed a bug for servers which use dot-notation as thousand seperator in stead of comma (thanks to Carpediem for pointing out the bug).
• v1.2.2 (27. June 2009)
  • Now supporting Fluid and CreaseKit (thanks to Kahil Young for the suggestion and testing the mod in Fluid).
• v1.2.1 (8. June 2009)
  • Improved positioning of the icons. Icon and info box at construction spot are now correctly positioned.
  • Fixed a bug which caused no resource reduction when a reduction building is being upgrade.
• v1.2.0 (2. June 2009)
  • New: Added icon and info box to construction spot (thanks to giangkid for the suggestion).
• v1.1.1 (26. May 2009)
  • Fixed a bug when NOT using Black Canvas add-on to Firefox, the level indication is not centralized correctly.
• v1.1.0 (25. May 2009)
  • New: An info box has been added to each icon which shows the information about resources for the given building. This can be turned off in the options page.
  • Fixed a bug where in a rare case, an icon is not shown on the wall.
  • Fixed a bug which caused no sulfur reduction bonus.
• v1.0.3 (17. May 2009)
  • Fixed first time running check which caused unnessary research checks.
• v1.0.2 (17. May 2009)
  • Fixed the parsing of the building level correctly for different languages (thanks to oliezekat).
  • Improved bureaucracy-spot check.
• v1.0.1 (17. May 2009)
  • Fixed bureaucracy-spot, not showing if you are not done with that research.
  • Removed alert boxes which shows up at the start.
• v1.0.0 (16. May 2009)
  • First release.

Statistics

• Installations: 17796273 (www.userscripts.org)
• Fans: 73
• Discussions: 58
• Reviews: 8

Description

If you are familiar to the online browser game Ikariam, you will properly have noticed how annoying, it sometimes can be when you look at your big city with it's resources, and you simply do not know which building is upgradeable regarding to the amount of your resources. Ikariam Upgrade Watcher (IUW) is what you need.

This mod attach an icon to each building in your cities (you can see the examples below). Each icon has also a number which indicates the current level of your building. The colors of the icons have different meaning and should give you a fast answer—that is if the building is upgradeable or not.

• Enough resources to upgrade the building.
• Enough resources to upgrade the building, but a construction is going on.
• Not enough resources to upgrade the building.
• Information about next building level is not available.

The calculation of the resources needed to upgrade a given building is done automatically without any requirements from you. That includes all the resource reduction bonuses you get from research and specific buildings in your city. The mod automatically detects all the bonuses.

New in Version 1.1.0

In this version, a small info box has been added to the icons. When you put your mouse over the icon, the info box will show up with information about resources for the given building. Below, you can see examples of the info boxes. There are no info box for black icons, and info boxes for blue icons are the same as for green icons.

• Green number indicates the number of resources you have left after the upgrade.
• Red number indicates the missing resource in order to upgrade.

The info box will be shown on mouse over as default, however, this option can be turned off in the standard options page in Ikariam. When turned off, the info box will no longer show.

New in Version 1.2.0

In this version, I added the icon and info box to a construction spot. In the original design, I thought that when a construction is in process, there is no need for information on the construction spot. However, a user from userscript.org (giangkid) suggested to add an icon and info box to the construction spot, because he wants to upgrade a building sequentially. The infomation of needed resources after the construction will let him know how much resource to be sent from another town. A very good point from giangkid which I did not thought about. Thanks to him for that suggestion.

Note: The infomation in the info box for a construction spot is calculated two levels ahead. This means that the needed resources shown in the box are for the upgrade of the building after the construction is done.

Documentation

(Not available yet!)
If you are interested, you can read the documentation of Ikariam Upgrade Watcher.

Screenshots

Contact/Bug Report

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