Well, their own GNG (general notability guidelines) state it's not about specifics, just having 'plenty' of 'reliable' sources on the subject (preferably secondary). Although it seems the discussion is going the way of keeping the article, this will also secure the article from spontaneous deletion.

I'd say an API with a static export to query out of makes more sense. But no matter, the only useful static exports we have is extension history and events.

Let me outline this one more time, given the last few patches the point just doesn't come across.

Dear devs, we have the dictionaries from the GBF. We can pull them out at will, so whatever the language, we can make sense of tokens. Tokens are unique, yet their translations aren't. So whenever we export something, we either don't know what they are (there's no unique identifier) or there's 3/4 tokens to choose from based on their ambiguous translation in exports of numerous items (not an ounce/gram of overestimation here). So please, just throw us an actual bone. Tokens, not their translations.

Here's my database so far, for those interested. It's slightly out-of-date, and there's a lot of guesses that is going to bite me in the *** when an official static dump is released. All easily solved by the suggested tweak.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7523665/perpetuum-doek.sql

I made a funky error by thinking one pixel is one meter, while in fact it's 1 tile (10 meter). Corrected the artifact feature accordingly. I've also updated the description on how it works, I've noticed some people were using invalid formats.

edit/update: Added an option to see a fit with an agent that has all extensions to level 10, to play around with. Notice however that robot bonuses are not in there (coming very soon), but this was a requested feature.

update 2: the site will now log you back in automatically (starting if you log in from now on, of course). Uses what is called localStorage, or web storage. The website was fairly secure already by never sending your password in the clear (single-use hashed challenge-response), and not having to use cookies doesn't invalidate all that nice security blabla.

update 3: agent overview now shows EP allocated per extension, and the EP/NIC cost at the bottom is now excluding starter extension (so it's the raw amount you've spend so far).

Well, it seems to me the amount of effort required to get AI right is near impossible on a budget when complexity goes up. I once had a talk with an AI developer working at Guerrilla (Killzone is one of their titles), he showed me some impressive tech for letting the AI deal with the player and squad behavior (up to par with scientific research on the subject, e.g. AI and multi agent systems), but it was immensely complex (they had to dedicate PS3 cores to the AI just to handle their shenanigans).

Also, I'm not sure if it was a thing with Unreal, but I remember from working with Quake-engine bots no AI really just 'worked'. You had to litter your maps with hints and waypoints if any human-emulating bot was going to show some decent skills. Again, the amount of effort you have to put in to just get AI barely working is fairly large.

I don't know. I think they did a decent job and it does surprise me more than most MMO's (I guess not behaving human can also be a pro).

It's just a lot of work, stitching together screenshots from the in-game map (that's the only source I know of). Right now it's light (taken from my Cameleon), and heavy mech would right now be a no anyway

By missing a zoom function you mean your tool right? Well the code is all client side, so view the source to see what I did here.

edit: Hmm, that reminded me; the Mercator projector won't allow for any of those features, since the distances will become larger as you move towards the poles. The Perpetuum map is flat, so I'd have to have it use an Euclidean projection. So that's why the generic labels are positioned for now.

edit 2: I'm right now reworking the world to fit a 1 pixel = 60 cm scale. The base map I exported from the game (using the console) has a 1 pixel = 1 meter scale, so whatever math in meters / 0.6 = in-game meters.

edit 3: the mapping tool is now more properly scaled and uses it's own projection class. Also, I've retained the 0 zoom setting, so you can zoom out and watch the islands disappear. Don't get lost!

Don't use Firefox/Safari though, they have *** color profiling.

Ah, thanks for noticing that. Could you post a screenshot? I couldn't find what you mean with IE9 running in IE8 mode.

Yup, and you're discussing fits for new players. Can you do the 1 + 1?

Very well done, pretty much EFT reborn for Perpetuum. Some weeks well spent.

An option to import an extension history import (.csv) from the game would be very useful.

Works perfectly fine here on Windows 7 x64, btw.