Running History of Port Control

[PhoenixKnight]

We got many maps saved from virtually every period. We will put up a feature futurely.

AWESOME!!!!!

[Captain Jack]

Back in the day, we generated 1 map per day. This happened no matter if there were port changes or not. This resulted in tons of maps that were the same. So, to keep things clean, we have cleaned the old maps a few times.

Then, one day, we thought the obvious: we should only generate a map when a change happens. This brilliant idea happened on October 2015.

So, here is the overall picture right now:

March 27, 2010 -> Eternal Glory server starts -> Map at 1st day: http://s2.piratesglory.com/images/maps/ ... 662701.gif

Then, till May 15, 2013, we have about 15 maps online. We might be able to find all the rest if we look at backups.

From May 15, 2013, we got all maps till October 2015 where we started saving only unique ones. The problem though with all these maps is that they will need human filtering before they can be incorporated into a "Look in the Past" feature as such a feature as you need to be able to show off to users when there were changes on the map.

From October 2015 till now, all maps are there and filtered already. We could even extract all conquest moves out of them and log them into the game (as we started logging them only recently).


Sure thing is that such a feature would greatly combo with Biography/Achievements feature, global events, various guild/country logs and more, resulting in a more visualized history in getting the picture on how the map looked at every event.

Therefore, this is something we will surely look to build in the future.

[DezNutz]

Moved from Discussion to Approved Suggestions. Another buried idea that was lost to time.

[William one eye]

+1

I think we need more visible history.
Im certainly interested in seeing more of what happened before I joined the game.
As well the ability to look back and say remember that time...

Would be nice to have an album by date that you can scroll 1 page at a time. Each page is one map. Maybe have a drop down to select a specific date. The album could additionally be divided by chapters, so in the event of a long term war, that war is a chapter containing all map events of the war.

So a port sale chapter might only have a history page a links page and a before/after map page.

A war chapter might have many pages


When possible it should be noted what events were peaceful transitions like gifts, sales, mergers and which were hostile, like captures attempts and wars.

For Each chapter their could potentially be a page for the chapter that provides breif historical context that describes what caused the events, and a index link page that links to what ever relevant information can be found like like forum threads global events, and old news posts if they exist

[Most Lee Harmless]

Spain owned the ports; It was roughly took: in April 27, 2015

If memory serves.. that was just after Barbados was dismantled with Midway and Spain swallowing up their ports : there was an exodus of Barbudans into mainly Spain afterwards.

Thereafter a lot of ports were passed to various newish nations... Mexico being one.

Ah.. the good old days...

[Argo]

+1