Posted on 06 April 2008 by Mike
Ikariam Scripts
Kronos Utils is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that changes the user interface for Ikariam in many useful ways. You can participate in feautres discussion on userscripts.org page.
The script is a little more advanced than GM scripts usually are; it tries to understand (and get an overall view of) what happens in the game as you play it (by peeking over your shoulder, so to speak — it peeks at all views you bring up in the game, while it improves a thing here and there), rather than bashing the servers with http requests, as soon as it needs some piece of data. This means that you should start with a tour to your library (there is a link to it in the left pane of your Academy), just after installing it:
As you probably note, the view has been combined up a bit into a tech tree, where the vertical line shows how far into the tree you are now. Adjacent techs can be researched right away by choosing the appropriate category, techs farther to the right depend on prior advances. Hover a name to see all its prerequisites get checked, and a tool tip about how many Research Points they will take to get to, cumulatively. (You can filter the view to only show unresearched advances by clicking the header. This is useful if you don’t have a large enough screen to see the entire list in one go; chances are you’ll get a better overview with the smaller selection.)
Anyway, go here on each server you play on, as the script finds out what techs you have researched on this page, which it will need to correctly predict how many people fit your in your Town Hall, how much buildings cost, what growth rate each of your cities have, and similar. (You may need an occasional visit here as you learn new such techs too; Well Digging, Holiday and Spirit Level all being good examples.)
Here is a fairly typical shot of three useful core features — the building level bubbles, wall clock completion times and (on hovering a building) a tooltip about how much resources and time will be necessary for its next upgrade:
Not hinted at much in this screen shot are two other hidden features: buildings you have enough resources to upgrade right now get a white background tint instead of the yellowish shown here (both in the level bubble and resource needs tooltip), so you can see in an instant which buildings you can upgrade without further ado and not. You may also browse future (and past) upgrade needs, just by moving your mouse over the tooltip and using the scroll wheel. Some buildings (presently Town Hall and Town Wall Smile will show some additional info in the level bubble — for Town Hall, how many more (or fewer, if you downgrade) people would fit compared to the present, and for the Town Wall, its defense bonus, given the current city size. Finally, click the resource tooltip to hit the game docs for the building in question. Next expansion level will be highlighted, so you can see if it brings any feature you want right now (a new unit for the barracks or ship yard, for instance).
Next up, a heavily annotated version of the improved page header (I’ve moved things about ever so sligtly to fit the city’s income, and made mostly everything clickable):
Especially take note of the population indicator: it shows in red when your town hall is getting full (or already is full, in boldface red). More precisely, it will take on the red tint a quarter before you have to start expanding it, if you want it to be completed by the time your growth hits the limit. Hover it for a time estimate of when that happens, and how late you can start expanding and still make it in time not to lose any population growth. It is not yet adapted to the 0.2.0 corruption mechanics, but I believe it gets it about right when you have 0% corruption, at least — so it’s a best case growth scenario indicator, right now. (If you have formulas or input on exactly how to compute how corruption affects growth rate, I am interested. So far, I have not even understood what the corruption indicators mean precisely, nor what things they affect.)
For each resource in the top resource box, clicking the icon goes to your trading post (if you have one) to buy goods of that type, or double-clicking, to sell it. Clicking on the ellipsis for wine will take you to the tavern to adjust settings. For all the other resources you produce, clicking that ellipsis instead brings you to the trading port — from which you might ship goods to your other colonies. Lastly, if the count of how much is in your current stock is a link, it goes to the place that produces it (the sawmill, quarry, vineyard, mine et cetera). I am considering making the rest of them links to the vineyard/quarry et cetera of your first colony that has one (or maybe the one with the most expanded such resource, if you have more than one), but that bit is not implemented yet.
The warehouse tooltip has become a link to the warehouse, and it has an ellipsis naming the number of safe-from-looting resources you can have in it, given its current expansion level.
The final thing I thought I’d mention right now: I have been experimenting a bit with a build queue. It is far from perfect yet, but it is already at a stage of “works a little when you are babysitting the game anyway, helping you remember to start upgrades you were planning”. The secret sauce is alt-clicking a building to put an upgrade to it at the end of the queue, or shift-alt-clicking to put it first:
April 8th, 2008 at 2:31 am
snake snake
April 8th, 2008 at 2:31 am
jerome de paris
April 8th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
This is broken for me. The bubbles for the building’s level show up but everything else doesn’t work.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
i can’t make this thing with building queue ..
i’m playin on .ro server ..
anything else worlk but this .. nope
April 12th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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April 12th, 2008 at 11:37 am
e fixe
April 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am
i cant use this script anymore… why is that??
April 16th, 2008 at 10:49 am
very usefull, thanks
April 17th, 2008 at 3:45 am
How do you take this thing off Ikariam?
April 19th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I have a problem with the script. I am taking the passage to the main seat out from the diet and he is moving me to one of colonies. I tried a dozen or so times
April 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
please write an README on how make this to work
April 26th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
It doesnt show the building queue, techtree, etc, it only shows me the building levels and when-the-building-will-be-finished-box
April 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
pretty good script…I like it thankyou.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
where is the download link?
April 28th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I get an error installing the script:
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsIFileOutputStream.init]” nsresult: “0×80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://greasemonkey/content/utils.js :: getWriteStream :: line 202″ data: no]
Any clue why I get this? You can hit me up on IRC, if you’d like.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Visite kronosutils.servegame.com for lastest kronos utils
April 29th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
this works great, the only problem i encountered is bubbles in academy. is it possible because i m at com server
thanx for pack
April 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Where can I get this tool?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
good
May 1st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
this product is a good
May 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
e mt fixe
May 1st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Can someone give me a quik How To Install for the browser inept?
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 am
will there be one for Internet Explorer? I ask because it’s like the best web-browser
May 6th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
The features seem to be working as advertised, and are really pretty sweet. I like the building queue feature a lot. I have discovered one glitch however, that didn’t appear until I started using the queue with buildings being constructed. When using the pull-down menu at the top of the page to select the colony I want to view, most of the time it will display the page for the building being upgraded in the selected colony, and the information at the top of the page will stay with whichever colony I was just on. Sometimes, if I select the colony again it will switch properly; other times I have to select a different colony and then try to cycle back to the original desired colony. Once the bugs are ironed out, this will be a very worthwhile script.
cz
May 7th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Never mind. I just realized I was clicking on the time/date next to the town name in the drop-down window, and that’s why I was going to the building under construction.
This is a very handy script.
cz
May 7th, 2008 at 8:31 am
i can’t install the buttons!
i registered to del.icio.us and then downloaded the buttons .exe
it opened the bit comet, after the download was completed, i ran it, but nothing happened!
help me guys! i’d really like tu use this tools!
May 13th, 2008 at 3:20 am
How can I put tool package to work?
May 20th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Hie. this addon is cool … it works fine from home using firefox & greasemonkey …. from office i tried using this addon some part of it doesnt work. Its when i click on a player it does not show the person’s military score, his score & gold amount
can anyone help
June 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Where can I download this tool?
June 21st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
WAY COOL!!!!! Thanks a bunch!
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Bug Report: The loot table is great, but the attack counter isn’t functioning properly. The increment works, but the reset/decrement has a time lag. If you feed your combat report into Ikariam Attack Calculator, you’ll get a different report on what can be attacked without being considered pillaging. The lag seems to be several hours.
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
cool
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
All of the Kronos functionality stopped working this morning !
I have been using Kronos for more than a month now, without any problems (apart from the known bugs) and now “nothing!”
Anyone that knows what’s going on ?
June 27th, 2008 at 1:39 am
toll und wo bekomm ich das nun???
June 27th, 2008 at 10:40 am
tnks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:10 am
@NL-Ikariam: Try installing FireBug or WebDeveloper. Sometimes there’s an error in one of the javascript files and greasemonkey won’t execute it.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
nice
July 1st, 2008 at 12:15 am
Have the same problem as NL-Ikariam (see above). Script is broken since V 0.2.6 (update from 30.06.2008)
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Firebug reports this: Line 3272
current has no properties:
showCityBuildCompletions()greasemonkey.js (line 3618)
improveTopPanel()greasemonkey.js (line 3573)
principal()greasemonkey.js (line 4193)
[Break on this error] undefined
July 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
oh ,my god ,so good
July 8th, 2008 at 3:49 am
illegal script
http://ikariam.wikia.com/wiki/Scripting
August 6th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
backgroud no grahic n white colour
August 6th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
graphic not fully loaded
August 10th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Hi guys…building que is great but is there any building upgrade que…coz i have almost all buildings i need and now i need 2 upgrade them…can i do that with this script???if not will this be posible in some new version of this…anyway thx alot
August 18th, 2008 at 1:45 am
good