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While features are beng added to cities by the 'king and Great Lords all the time, some enterprising players have taken to implementing useful features themselves. Undoubtedly some are carefully hoarded, but others have been made available to anyone who might find them useful.

Please keep this page clean for succinct details about each tool, and add comments and questions to the Discussion page.


Latest Additions

  • Max AP + Quick Tarot puts useful information up the top, as well as giving you a tarot deck without having to select it.
  • Mana Monitor gives you a Mana meter up with your other stats.
  • Tarot Tool Lazifier reduces the effort needed to use the Tarot Tool even further!
  • Message Qty is an old script of Stevie-O's: when you gain or lose stuff, it tells you how many you have now.
  • Grocery Clerk does what all good grocery clerks do: bag your stuff.
  • The Golden Condor Navigator will track your position while you're in the Condor, and prevent you from running into the High Plateau or Strange Crags.
  • Nice Counter keeps track of how many times a phrase crops up in the messages pane. Good for tracking how many old boots you've gotten while fishing, and other such.
  • Secretary places a textarea on the screen somewhere (default at the top) for you to take notes in.
  • Universal Solver tells you which items to dissolve to get the most letters that you really want. Also in an online version.
  • AutoFeeding now has a Greasemonkey script.
  • AutoExit Automatically exits the Space Elevator
  • Safe Fight prevents you from attacking when you have less than a (user-configurable) amount of HP.
  • Stall Profiteer Takes your stall reports and tells you if you're making money.
  • Tarot Tool tells you where your Tarot Deck is telling you where to go, and will find intersections between two tarot readings to narrow down a monster to one tile.
  • Button Masher Clicks any button as many times as you'd like. Works for Quarrel production, bulk purchases, and many other things.

Contents


General

Community-developed features fall into various categories. Not all are useful to all people. None of them can affect the basic gameplay, which is controlled by the Cities server.

  • The easiest for most players to benefit from are in-game modifications - these change the html (WWW page layout language) as soon as it arrives to make the page you view display differently, and sometimes offer new ways to interact with the game (extra buttons etc). These typically require the Firefox or Opera browser, and are written in Javascript using Greasemonkey (a browser extension) which terms them "user scripts". To use these, you need to install Greasemonkey first. Some tools have an in-game component and also rely on other servers, e.g. the Darksatanic Survey collects map data in a database and provides it to others.
In Opera, GM scripts are supported as a special case of the native userjs functionality - but certain GM-specific functions (GM_getValue etc) are not supported. Not all the scripts here need these, but you might find it useful to install this script which provides some emulation of the missing functionality.
  • Some tools are small progams written in a scripting language like Python or Perl, which need a suitable script processor, such as tend to be standard applications on Unix/Linux and Mac OSX systems, but are less widespread on Microsoft Windows.
  • Some tools are conpletely separate web pages with either javascript or some server-side processing which can produce informative output from data you provide.
  • A few Cities APIs for various languages are being developed. These provide a framework for other developers to write tools to interact with Cities, and most players will not have any use for them. Obviously, use these responsibly (no mad polling, mass character creation, etc).

If you use anything here, please take the time to let the developer know about it, maybe by a note on their talk page or by adding thanks here. For adding features like mappers and other utilities that can parse the cities output, Greasemonkey is probably a good bet.


A warning from the 'king

If I see scripts which are designed to give a benefit while negating the cost. ie. the stop-rotation script, then I'll be forced to mess with the HTML so the the scripts don't work. Consider yourself warned. Elseware 16:54, 11 Jan 2006 (GMT)

Resorts to turning head at funny angles again :)

XML Access

You can now view players' inventories and info as XML! Go to http://cities.totl.net/cgi-bin/invent or http://cities.totl.net/cgi-bin/info and you'll notice buttons at the bottom that let you show/hide this information. If it's visible, *anyone* can then go to http://cities.totl.net/cgi-bin/invent.xml?username=myuser or http://cities.totl.net/cgi-bin/info.xml?username=myuser.

What does this mean? You can now make scripts, apps, and web thingies that just take a username as input and poke those two URLs for plenty of user info. Go make those hard knocks calculators, dashboard widgets, and interesting AJAX toys!

NB: We figured we'd leave it to you guys to work out what means what in the XML ;)

Okay, we'll figure it out. And list our findings here

Could it be made such that if no username is given then the results for the currently logged in user are given ? markles 10:12, 5 April 2007 (BST)

In-game tools

Inventory management

PotatoFeeder

Version: 1.02 Dead pets properly skipped, Shakey Flakes and Flake Shakers no longer interfere with feeding. 05:50, 21 June 2008 (BST)

This script feeds your pets, optionally at a specified time daily, and whenever you click the button button. Much like Outfitter and Button Masher, this script will set off a chain of page-loads as it feeds your pets, which can be cancelled.

The script is fairly simple: you enter how fed you want your pets to be (in percentile, but don't use the % symbol), and the script goes and feeds them when you click the button (or when the daily timed feeder triggers). You cannot set individual feeding-levels for different pets, you cannot select the particular food to feed them with, and you cannot select the order they are fed in. On the plus side, you can specify a fed-level greater than 100, and the script will use only the right stuffing-food once each pet hits 100% fed.

You may use this script if you have not completed the Animal Sanctuary quest, but the script will round down when it comes to feeding. (i.e., 100% is still 100%, but 80% rounds down to the bottom of the "mostly full" level, to 76%, and you can only stuff your animal by a single feeding; once it's stuffed, the script will not stuff it further, because there's no good way to tell the difference between 130% and 150% without the quest; I'm too lazy to read the screen and see what the result of feeding is.)

Download!

PotatoEngineer 07:12, 18 June 2008 (BST)

Huzzah! --Tiltowait 21:09, 18 June 2008 (BST)
Yay! Syagrius 05:44, 19 June 2008 (BST)
yayness. My alt can't use it at the moment (because I do NOT want to feed the obsessions my serenity!), but obviously that's more effort to code. My main char however is having problems with a dead elephant in her possession, which is more in the nature of a bug. I guess that by "feed to 90%" you mean "feed until the indication goes over 90%" which is cool although if I find some time (ha ha, but I might have more than you) I might look at the code and see if it's possible to incorporate distinctions based on food-type (do not feed if feeding will push pet above 90%) --naath 10:39, 19 June 2008 (BST)
There's some basic support for it already. I already have something describing which foods are "stuffing-type" foods, so it should be extendable to %-per-food without too much effort. The dead-elephant thing is a bug: I specifically put a little bit of code in there to handle dead pets, though I didn't have a dead pet (other than a Mayfly, which I also specifically avoided), so it's untested. PotatoEngineer 01:15, 20 June 2008 (BST)

Great Stuff, PE. I like the WTH license, you should trademark that ;) A couple observations from usage this morning:

  1. You need to bag food you don't want your pets to have (Carrots, Power Crystals, etc.). That's easy enough, PotatoFeeder won't rifle through bags.
  2. It doesn't feed any pets not currently at your feet. This is to all the folks that maintain a couple horsies and giant dung beetle. I haven't thought up a workaround yet.
  3. I usually don't feed my animals the last partial increment. Hypothetical example: I have a Pet Cloverfield. It has a capacity of 96 Food Points and decrements 1 FP an hour as is normal. It eats Screaming People for 10 FPs per. Each day, I feed it Screaming People at roughly the same time. I don't feed it to 100% full because this wastes the last Screaming Person (my pet needs only 6 of the 10 FPs from the last Screaming Person). So I need to figure out the Percent where I don't waste the last partial unit. For folks with multiple pets like me, this is a least common denominator calculation.

I'll try out the timed feature this weekend. I wonder what happens if I have 2 browser instances going, each with one unique player? --Tiltowait 14:23, 19 June 2008 (BST)

It doesn't feed pets not at your feet? That's a bug; it's supposed to run through your inventory before it feeds your equipment. However, as I'm trying to keep execution time down, PotatoFeeder will start at the top of your inventory, and will stop looking at your inventory once it hits something that isn't an egg and isn't a pet. What's in that first section, that I might be seeing as not-a-pet? It should work with two browser instances, due to my obsession with coding for multiple characters, but I make no promises. It might go a little easier if you have each character feed at a different time, but it honestly should work with multiple simultaneous feedings.
Flake Shakers and dead pets. Also shakeyflakes. --naath 11:04, 20 June 2008 (BST)
As for optimizing food type vs. fedness, that's for a future version. The current version is quite capable of wasting food, if you insist on feeding them to completely or nearly full. Of course, you could simply aim the target a little lower, so if your best (or usual) food feeds 25%, set your target at 76% or so.
Oh, and the WTH license is a variant of the WTF license; I just decided that, while it's nice to be clear on how much freedom the user has, it's really not necessary to be that obscene.  ;) PotatoEngineer 00:42, 20 June 2008 (BST)

I saw the new version this morning, but was already feeding before I installed. I'll try the new version out with pets not at my feet tomorrow. --Tiltowait 15:04, 23 June 2008 (BST)

I've been testing the script all week, messing around with the issue of incrementing through pets not at your feet. The script puts each pet in your active inventory slot that it finds. But it stops on the first pet that's fullness is *above* the fullness setting in the script. It always stops there as far as I can tell. --Tiltowait 21:36, 27 June 2008 (BST)

Grocery Clerk

You tell it what you want in bags, and it puts them there. Great for cleaning up your inventory from time to time without being forced to spend 15 minutes fiddling around in the Sorting Office.

Operating instructions: First, open the config and configure a bag or two. The config screen displays your items in the same order as your inventory, so it's easy to group your bags by item type. Then, once you're done configuring your bags (and you don't need to configure all of them if you only want to automate a couple of them), select the bag and click "Bag it!". The script takes over from there; much like Outfitter, it will reload the screen a number of times.

Download!

Anything to say about it? Drop me a line. PotatoEngineer 23:19, 25 March 2008 (GMT)

Outfitter

Updated: Version 2.1 You people and your lanterns. There's now a checkbox to never unequip Lanterns if you're underground. Happy now!? PotatoEngineer 02:03, 14 January 2008 (GMT)

Overview

This script is the dream of anyone who wears armor or fashion: it can strip you naked, and it can make you wear any number of items, in sequence. It will store any number of outfits. It's also slightly easier on the servers, as it takes roughly half as many refreshes as a normal cities player would take, even if it performs them a bit faster than an alert human.

Basic Usage

The usage should be fairly clear: click "get naked!" to, er, get naked. Click "get dressed" to get dressed with the currently selected outfit. The configuration screen should be self-explanatory, but you will need to click "apply outfit changes" to save your changes to each outfit. The script can equip any exact number of blings; for other multi-equippable items, you'll have the option to equip one or equip all of an item. I recommend you configure your outfits while naked, so all possible items will show. The drop-down select at the top of the outfit configuration is for your held item; most of the time, you won't want one, but if, for example, you like to wander around in a Speedboat holding your favorite alignment wand, and kill things with a Caravel Cannon, you can set up your Speedboat-wearing and Caravel-wearing outfits that way. (It's also good for Goth fashion, where holding a silver item gives you one Goth fashion point.) Note that if you have a caravel, you will get the option to hold a Caravel Cannon once you're dressed. If somebody can tell me what the howitzer on the tank is called, I can add that, too.

In this basic method of using Outfitter, you will always unequip all of your items before equipping your new stuff (with the exception of items that are in the outfit you're changing into, and anything specifically excluded in the configuration options).

Advanced Usage, or the "Only unequip items if space is needed" checkbox

You'll notice a checkbox labeled "Only unequip items if space is needed" below the outfit select box. This changes the way that Outfitter decides to unequip items. When the box is unchecked, you get the "classic" behavior described in Basic Usage. When the box is checked, it's a bit different: Outfitter will only unequip things if what you are wearing now gets in the way of what you want to wear. To be precise: it looks at every "slot" of equipment that you want to wear, and checks whether what you're wearing plus what's in your outfit is larger than the "slot size" of that slot. (i.e., the "bling" slot size is 10, because you can wear 10 blings at a time. "arms" is two, "neck" is also two (but most neck items take both slots), but most other slots ("body", "head", "mirror", "transport", etc.) are one.

What this means: It's now possible to have different "sub-outfits" that only change a few of your slots, and leave the rest alone. You might have sub-outfits for boats (to swap between speedboat and caravel, for instance) or shoes (winged boots vs. magic boots), or pets (if you have more than 12 slots' worth of pets, you'll need to change your pets from time to time to get maximum use out of them).

Things to consider: The blings slot is awfully large. If you're switching between outfits with blings (i.e., a "mining walking" outfit with 3 sun/moon stone blings, and a "mining mining" outfit with 6 misril blings), you might not unequip your blings. In the previous example, there's a total of only 9 blings, so Outfitter will not unequip the blings when switching these outfits with the "only unequip..." checkbox checked, regardless of how much you want it to unequip those blings.

Features/Extras

  • The "werewolf?" checkbox (and its associated time input and outfit selection) can be set to equip a particular outfit at the same time every day. Very useful if you're inflicted with lycanthropy and want to stay fashionable. Just check the checkbox, select an outfit, and enter the time in HH:MM format for when you stop being a werewolf. The script accepts both 24-hour time and am/pm time formats,but not 24-hour formats with "pm"; that'll just confuse it. (Useless information: The outfit selector selects outfits by their "outfit index." For the most part, this won't matter, but if you select your last outfit, then delete it, then make a new (unrelated) outfit, then recreate your old (deleted) outfit, the "werewolf?" feature will equip your new, unrelated outfit.)
  • If you add a glowing item to your outfit (the sun/moon blings, sunday mail, daily mail), that item will only be equipped if it is glowing, and it will be equipped first. This allows you to create a generic "Armored" outfit that can have Sunday Mail, Daily Mail, and your favorite breastplate checked, and you will wear one of the glowing armors if it's useful. WARNING: this part of the script is not toggleable (yet), so if you're using moon/sun blings for fashion purposes, they will not be equipped if they aren't glowing.
  • The "don't unequip lanterns while underground" checkbox does exactly that.
  • The "don't unequip pets" checkbox does exactly that, except when you're trying to equip a pet and need the space (while the "only unequip if needed" checkbox is checked)
  • The "Create Outfit From Equipped Items" button does just that: it wanders over to your equipment screen, and creates an outfit based on what you're wearing right this moment. (Though it's currently pretty bad at determining exactly how many blings you have equipped; if you have more than one, it'll probably create an outfit that has an "equip all" for that bling type.) The checkbox that says "with held item?" adds your currently held item to the outfit, too, as your held item for that outfit.
  • This script uses PotatoConsole.

Download!

PotatoEngineer

I have trouble with items I only have one of being unequipped when I change outfits, could there be an option to not unequip certain things (Like my oil lantern, for example)?--Hamelin 05:09, 10 October 2007 (BST)
If the oil lantern is in both your outfits, it will not be unequipped when you change between outfits. There are two possible solutions here: strip naked and then set both outfits, or wear what you want, click "Add Equipped Outfit" to create the first outfit, change any components, and then click "Add Equipped Outfit" again to create a second outfit from what you're wearing. PotatoEngineer 06:48, 10 October 2007 (BST)
  • Note - the current version has 2.16 in the code but the web version is looking for 2.17. Phw
Fixed. If you're still getting the 2.16 version, clear your web cache. PotatoEngineer 04:21, 12 July 2008 (BST)

Quickdraw

Modified version fixed problems with Ant's inventory search script. Darksatanic 13:39, 28 September 2007 (BST)
  • Could be considered cheating (avoids having to complete a quest)
Rocking!
Modifiled to drastically reduce its load time. The catch is that it no longer removes buttons when you lose/bag an item until you click "Configure Quickdraw" twice to apply the changes. PotatoEngineer 05:20, 22 March 2007 (GMT)
Updated again (same link): fixed the "add current" button (sorta), added support for multiple characters, and added an "aligned instrument" option, at the bottom of the inventory checkboxes, which will automatically select the instrument that corresponds to your last remembered alignment. PotatoEngineer 05:48, 13 May 2007 (BST)
Updated one more time. Now plays nicer with other scripts, like the Tribble Alert script. PotatoEngineer 13:17, 24 July 2007 (BST)
Updated to play nicely with the Item Selector script. PotatoEngineer 08:40, 6 October 2007 (BST)
Bug:- still doesn't work. You can't click the quickdraw buttons if you have the selector script running (or at least I can't). --naath 15:06, 18 October 2007 (BST)
Try making Quickdraw run before the selector script. Or move it to afterward, if it's currently before. (Just click-and-drag the script upwards or downwards in the greasemonkey config area.) Also, updated Quickdraw to get around the latest Greasemonkey patch. PotatoEngineer 22:05, 23 January 2008 (GMT)

Item Selector

Adds a quick-search textbox to find inventory items easily.

If you have any problems with it, feel free to get in touch... just leave a note on my wiki page.

Cities Item Selector Cities Item Selector (below the inventory dropdown)

I think this breaks the Quickdraw script.--Hamelin 22:36, 21 September 2007 (BST)
Noooooooooooooooooooo! Right I'll grab the Quickdraw script and have a think :) Thanks for telling me! Ant 23:06, 21 September 2007 (BST)
OK, I've fixed this, by tweaking Nick's quickdraw script. See above. Darksatanic 13:28, 28 September 2007 (BST)
This script breaks four or five other scripts, too; anything that deals with the inventory at all. This can be fixed in two possible ways: fix all other scripts, and make a special case for all future scripts, or move the box this script creates to below the inventory drop-down. PotatoEngineer 18:27, 18 October 2007 (BST)
I did consider that - I thought that it made a lot more sense above it. If people'd like I can make an alternative version below the normal dropdown, but I think that in many ways it would be better to fix the others. This situation is rather too easy to get into. Ant 23:48, 18 October 2007 (BST)
Ok, I've uploaded an alternate version that places the selector textbox and listbox at the bottom of that frame. Hopefully that will resolve some of the issues with the other user scripts. If you download it and want to switch, there's a line of code that I've commented to turn one into the other :) Ant 23:24, 26 October 2007 (BST)
Side note to script authors: if you want to use the inventory drop-down and be compatible with this script, the inventory is document.forms.namedItem('controls').elements.namedItem('item') PotatoEngineer 19:36, 17 March 2008 (GMT)
Updated the links!
Yay!Now I can...uh...more easily sit and gain AP on holiday island? Gaby 23:23, 16 July 2008 (BST)

Statistics

Message Qty

Whenever you gain or lose an item, Message Qty tells you how many you have left. This script was originally created by Stevie-O, who appears to have gone dormant.

Download!

PotatoEngineer 21:30, 28 March 2008 (GMT)

Nice Counter

Version 1.3: Has the option to count either upward or downward. PotatoEngineer 10:08, 13 January 2008 (GMT)

Commissioned and named by Bubba, this script will look for any number of phrases in the messages window, and decrement a counter every time it finds that phrase. It pushes no buttons, it takes no actions, it just keeps track of how many times that phrase has occurred. The initial value of the counter, and the phrase to look for, are set in the control panel. A counter will appear across the top of the page, on every page refresh, until you tell the counter to go away.

This script uses the PotatoConsole.

Download!

PotatoEngineer 15:46, 14 December 2007 (GMT)

Note: as mentioned, this script was a commission. If you actually use this thing, please let me know how you use it. I'm really dying to know how this script is useful. PotatoEngineer 22:17, 20 December 2007 (GMT)
Right now I'm using it to keep track of how many tribbles I've got. I think it will also come in handy for counting how many Baskets of Plums I've managed to grow - I often plant lots of beans in quick succession with the aim of, say, 20 baskets of plums so I could use this to keep track rather than having to keep count; indeed running it in parallel to button masher I could just sit back and watch and hit the "stop button masher, stop!" button when I had enough plums. --naath 11:06, 21 December 2007 (GMT)
I'm in space, and I'm using it to be sure I don't miss or overlook getting the power crystal from asteroids.--Che-T۞ 05:26, 24 February 2008 (GMT)

User Interface

Max AP, Quick Tarot and more

PotatoEngineer has kindly hosted my evergrowing script of doom (tm). It currently does the following:

  • Calculates time until Max AP (including parties but not hats or fashion)
  • Calculates how many AP required to first aid / heal yourself and puts that under HP (very useful for first aid v dragon stone calculations)
  • Puts current mana under XP
  • Adds a tarot deck ability next to [history]
  • Adds an AP @ ability allowing you to find out what ap you'll have at a certain time (24hr) and puts that under gold when calculated
NOTE: The tarot deck is static and as such monsters which were not in the deck when I made it will not be there, and if they are not available they will still be listed. If you're looking for a rare monster, you might want to use the actual deck first (whale springs to mind).

Get it here Phw 04:13, 21 June 2008 (BST)

Shrink Pets

Pets take up quite a bit of space. Too much I thought (with 4 pets... urgs). So this script rearranges some of the items in a pet box. Snarfer 17:35, 23 May 2007 (BST)

I can't seem to download it.--Hamelin 02:45, 12 July 2007 (BST)
I was server-less for a while, but I'm back --Snarfer 12:55, 15 August 2007 (BST)
I am having some trouble getting this at the moment... ford_prefect 00:02, 2 June 2008 (BST)
Note - after upgrading to Firefox 3 it doesn't seem to work. I did a little playing and apparently you can't use var parent= any more. I changed it to var tparent= and it works fine... Phw 22:37, 21 June 2008 (BST)
That doesn't help me fix mine though! :P Rhapsodie 04:40, 28 June 2008 (BST)
Script's unavailable again. Does anyone have a copy?--LimeHan 06:13, 21 August 2008 (BST)
Not only do I have a copy, my copy also removes the little http://id.cities.totl.net bit at the bottom! And it works! Download! PotatoEngineer 01:22, 22 August 2008 (BST)
It is of note, that little identifier on the bottom is invaluable information for horsie owners who pass their steeds over to another for any reason. When arranging for petsitting, when breeding, when lending a horse for some purpose, any number of reasons, that unique number is the single fastest and most effective piece of information you can have to get it back if your horse is lost in the ether.
It may be a pain in the arse, but before you use this script, make sure you've got that number somewhere you can find it. I recommend a line on your User page, right under your horsie's pedigree information. S. Mackie 08:55, 24 August 2008 (BST)
The ID# only shows up when a pet is held. So script or not, you can't see equipped pets ID#. Kaos Dragon 18:26, 24 August 2008 (BST)
Still, just disable the script and refresh the page, not like it takes that long.--LimeHan 19:38, 24 August 2008 (BST)
My second equipped pet isn't shrunk [1]. - Isambard 22:16, 28 August 2008 (BST)
Fixed! (I think.) The script accounts for evilness now, and should try to fit it into the same data-display area as another table item. To keep the clutter down, the unit for age (days/minutes/seconds/hours/weeks) has been truncated to one letter, so 33 weeks is now 33 w. Just use the same link above to download. As a side note, when you're holding the pet in your hands, it no longer does the shrinking thing. I have decided that this is a feature. (Honest, it's not a bug! Really!) PotatoEngineer 00:24, 7 September 2008 (BST)
It's still not showing hunger level though. Couldn't you replace the pet rating with hunger percent? Not like we need to-hit and the level, since they basically tell the same information (regarding to-hit chance).--LimeHan 00:35, 7 September 2008 (BST)
Fixed again! Hunger level now shows, pet level now doesn't, and I think I've fixed the bug where some pets aren't being shrunk. Again, same link as before. PotatoEngineer 07:47, 7 September 2008 (BST)
Hunger level not showing up for some reason. Can it be fixed?--Che-T♣ 20:02, 28 August 2008 (BST)

Chemical Info Mover

The quest reward for the Blue Flowers quest is at the very bottom of the screen, below even the AP counter, and on low-resolution screens, it's off the bottom of the viewing area. This script moves the information about the chemicals in your bloodstream up into the Abilities box, or right after your inventory if you don't have any Abilities.

Download!

PotatoEngineer 19:46, 30 September 2007 (BST)

Heal The Needy First!

This GM script sorts the selector after "Heal" according to (my criteria of) neediness. It sorts fully healed to the end (and disables them, so you cannot heal them anyway). And anyone needing less than 10 health (I don't like wasting AP).

um, doesn't the drop down do that automatically? the sorting i mean, the people who are fully healed are just at the end of the list. Spugmeistress 15:51, 6 May 2007 (BST)
It normally sorts by percentage of HP. But since people with 1000 HP can't really benefit from a piddly 100AP of healing, this script will sort it so that people who can benefit from random acts of kindness are the ones who get it. (no, I didn't write this script.) PotatoEngineer 15:57, 6 May 2007 (BST)

What PE said. I've tweaked it again an again... I've now come back to just sorted based on the HP players have, with lowest HP first, regardless of max HP. Snarfer 17:35, 23 May 2007 (BST)

doesn't disable the fully healed if there is only one other person on the square with you. Normat 22:07, 5 November 2007 (GMT)

Message Box History

Ever been clicking away, and suddenly notice something happened that you want to read more of -- just before the next page load kicks in? Fret no more and go to http://www.klozoff.ms11.net/greasemonkey/cities-messages-boost.user.js.

  • History is 5 messages, although to increase that is changing 1 line in the source code. Some enterprising XUL-knowing person might try to make a nice dialog to configure it with.
  • History is per-character. (I mostly did that as a test to see if I could make it work. I could.)
  • As an added bonus, it shortens messages like this:
    • You cause 20 points of damage, and receive 40 experience.
    to this:
    • You cause 20 damage, and receive 40 xp.
    This makes most of those messages fit in 1 line of text.

If you like this script, please head over to User_talk:Stevie-O and let me know :)

Update: Someone changed the page structure and broke the multiple-users code. On the plus side, they broke it by adding a 'username' field, which removes the need to try parsing the "Sir/Baron/Earl/Duke Foo MD" into "Foo". The new version has a fixed namespace (it had Hamelin's namespace instead), so you'll need to manually uninstall the old version first. Make sure you check the 'purge settings' box, too. Stevie-O 21:31, 10 September 2006 (BST)

Taller Messagebox

  • Want more rows in your messagebox? Try this - User:Jmb
    • My thoughts are to put various small UI treaks in this - first up is messagebox size
    • To change settings use the Tools->User Script Commands->Set messagebox rows menu
I'm getting 403 Forbidden on uifrig.user.js at the moment. :( Greycat 13:58, 24 July 2007 (BST)
Appears to have a new command to delete the MOTD at the bottom of the screen. PotatoEngineer 18:02, 15 October 2007 (BST)

Spelling Fixes

  • Image:Spellingscript.user.js. Uses a collection of regexps to correct some spelling mistakes. Note that this is really beta and that inventory corrections are disabled to make things a bit faster. Moj 00:53, 13 Jan 2006 (GMT)

Nice Movement Costs

Just a small script that takes the movement/attack cost tooltip and adds it to a small box in road squares.

Cities Movement Cost MrFoo 15:44, 6 June 2007 (BST)

Fast AP Cost Hints

Update: The download link now actually points to the updated script. It handles movement, cutting, and attacking.

  • Fast AP Cost Hints. A while back, Elseware added 'title' attributes to the movement buttons, so that hovering the cursor over them causes a little tooltip to pop up showing you how much AP clicking that button is going to cost. The problem is, that FF's handling of this feature is a bit glitchy, and more often than not, no tooltip is displayed unless the page is reloaded.
Stevie-O

Mana Monitor

Version 1.1: Bugfix release. The value shown was wrong when the player only had 1 mana.

Adds a "Mana" item inside the status box that shows HP/AP/Exp/Gold.

Download here! --Pip 17:49, 20 June 2008 (BST)

Other

Notes on PotatoConsole

A recent update to the Universal Solver, Safe Fight, Button Masher, Autofeeder, Big Brother, and Outfitter scripts has created the option to lump all of the scripts into a single control panel, which starts out mostly invisible. Click the SHOW CONTROLS button, and all of those scripts will appear.

The other part of this update was to make every control box individually placeable, so the scripts you use often can be under your Abilities or Item control,and the scripts you use rarely can be in the PotatoConsole or at the bottom of the screen. All scripts start, by default, in the PotatoConsole, and the console itself starts under the preferences control box. Move the script to another location via the dropdown in each script's control box.

PotatoEngineer 13:42, 15 November 2007 (GMT)

And I've just updated PotatoConsole: now the console will stay open on page refresh if you uncheck the "close console on refresh" box. This means that every single script that uses PotatoConsole has updated. If I need to do more changes to PotatoConsole in the future, I'll create some kind of PotatoLibrary script to handle this kind of thing and keep the number of updates to a minimum. PotatoEngineer 02:36, 3 December 2007 (GMT)
The PotatoLibrary is waiting on the public release of Greasemonkey 0.8; that's the version that lets me summon up scripts from elsewhere. Unfortunately, development on GM is best described as "glacial." They've been close to release for over 4 months now, but recent evidence shows that they're almost nearly ready to release, honest..... PotatoEngineer 17:30, 4 April 2008 (BST)

Golden Condor Navigator

Version 1.4: Vents data is now reported to the Big Brother database, and can be found here PotatoEngineer 01:39, 29 June 2008 (BST)

Tired of climbing out of the Condor so you can remember where you are? Hit a wall, and not sure where you ended up? The Golden Condor Navigator will keep track of your location, even if you hit an obstacle. As an added bonus, it will forbid you from moving onto the High Plateau or Strange Crags. (Side note: when an action is forbidden, it will still refresh the screen, but the Condor will not move.)

This script sends data to the Big Brother database for display. Get a Golden Condor Navigator/Big Brother key from PotatoEngineer here or on IRC, or Cor in-game. While you're at it, why not install Big Brother? The same data-key will work on both scripts. As an added bonus, this script will also track your location underground, if you enter via a cave.

Installation note: the GCN requires a copy of the Glendale Map, and will prompt you to download it when you first install the script. It takes a few minutes, and you will need to tell Firefox to keep running the script a few times, because this initial processing takes so long.

This script uses the PotatoConsole. As a bonus, you may have this script display in one location normally, and in a different location when you are actually inside the Condor; there's also the option to have the control box display in PotatoConsole, but display the GCN's GPS info when you don't have any GPS. (Personally, I stuff it in the PotatoConsole when I'm not using it, and bring it up to under the Abilities box when I'm in the Condor.)

  • Version 1.3 allows you to search the map: just select the search you want, click "find it", and the script will gleefully look for the closest terrain that matches your search. The bits for adding your own user-defined searches is in the configuration, and you can change the maximum distance that GCN will search from your location (default 40 spaces).

Download!

As usual, drop me a line if it fails, succeeds beyond your greatest dreams, or manages to get you a date with a hot woman. PotatoEngineer 20:49, 6 March 2008 (GMT)

Secretary

Version 1.03 A couple of minor tweaks: the textbox now has the same background as all Cities textboxes, and there's a tiny PotatoConsole fix. PotatoEngineer 10:08, 13 January 2008 (GMT)

Adds a notepad-thing to the screen. The default position is the top, but like all of my scripts, it can be moved to the PotatoConsole or any of several other places on the screen. It takes notes and remembers them. That's about it. The width can be configured, and it will always be as tall as the number of lines of text you are displaying (minimum 2 lines). If you get tired of looking at it on every page refresh, you can banish the Secretary to any of several other places for 3 hours by clicking a button in the config.

This script uses PotatoConsole.

Download!

PotatoEngineer 02:42, 3 December 2007 (GMT)

Is the config for this supposed to be in the PotatoConsole? Because it isn't, for me anyway.--LimeHan 05:44, 1 April 2008 (BST)
The default position for this is at the top of the screen. And the config for the script should be in the same box as Secretary; look for the "show config" button. PotatoEngineer 16:44, 1 April 2008 (BST)
Yeah, exactly, can the config for this be in the potato console? And just have it display a nice clean text box with nothing around it somewhere else on the page? There's enough clutter as it is, I don't like extra buttons. Oh, it'd be cool if it looked like the message box too, with the same background and stuff, if that's possible.--LimeHan 17:06, 1 April 2008 (BST)
The config is exactly one button, until you open it. Splitting the script between the PotatoConsole and the actual textbox would be a pain to implement, just to recover half an inch of screen space. I really don't see the point. If you display Secretary at the top of the screen, then make the textbox a little narrower so the button is off the right side. On a side note, how many lines of notes do you keep in Secretary? PotatoEngineer 01:03, 2 April 2008 (BST)

Universal Solver

Version 1.3: PotatoConsole update. PotatoEngineer 10:08, 13 January 2008 (GMT)

A tool for Shamans fighting Huge Reptiles. You have a number of universal solvents in your inventory, but you're not sure what to dissolve to get the most Es, Ss, and Ts, while still getting that Q you're after. Worry no more, a solution is here! Get this script, type the letters you want into the textbox (under the speaking input), and click FIND ITEMS, and the script will list all of the items you have with those letters, ordered by the number of letters in the item. You can ask for just one letter, or for any number of letters. Happy hunting! (Have kudos, comments, complaints, death threats, or letter bombs about this script? Let me know!)

Download! ...or just use the online version.

PotatoEngineer 14:14, 6 November 2007 (GMT)

Safe Fight

Version 1.2: PotatoConsole update. PotatoEngineer 10:08, 13 January 2008 (GMT)

Pretty self-explanatory: if you're at or under the HP Threshold, Safe Fight will disable the fighting buttons. PotatoEngineer 00:48, 29 September 2007 (BST)

Note: Button Masher is designed to click disabled buttons, so it will ignore this script.

Download!

Button Masher

Update: Version 1.61 Fixed that annoying little bug where the config box would display twice after finishing button-mashing. PotatoEngineer 16:30, 28 March 2008 (GMT)

This is the industrial-sized version of Stevie-O's BulkBuy script (wherever it's gotten to). It'll create another controls box on the left side of the screen, below the "say" box. Enter the number of repetitions into the textbox, and click any button, and the Button Masher will cheerfully click that many times. Works just fine for shopping, fighting, moving, crafting, foraging, farming, and the like.

If you enter a number, and then change your mind, there are two ways to cancel: either delete the number, or refresh the page without clicking any buttons. If the button you're clicking has ceased to exist (for instance, you're attacking a creature, and you killed it, so the act_fight_ button turns into an act_move_ button), the script will stop.

There's a half-second delay on actions, and a button is at top of the screen that you can click to stop the script. Also, it stops automatically under the following circumstances: you're mining (and the mine you're on just collapsed), you're purchasing (and your hat just got stolen), you're walking (and your boots/tank just wore out), you're fighting (and your last weapon of that type just broke), or you're fighting (and your HP falls below a threshold set in the Button Masher box).

Leech breeding! If the leech you're attacking with breaks, it will automatically select another leech. Furthermore, it will stop when you are holding a large leech (size configurable by user). Alternately, you can set the script to always use the smallest leech you have available.

When growing beans, Button Masher will automatically climb down any beanstalks if you set the checkbox in the config. It will never use your last AP doing so.

Button Masher will click disabled buttons, if you have another script which is disabling buttons. I figure that if you got around your disabling script, you must REALLY mean it. Let me know if this isn't the case, and/or the conditions where you run into this sort of thing.

This script uses PotatoConsole.

Download!

PotatoEngineer 00:50, 29 September 2007 (BST)

Dead-o-matic

So, to further combat deaths due to end-user error, rampant clicking and occasional carelessness, Cities Dead-o-matic 0.1 is now in widespread beta.

It's a greasemonkey script that will visually alert you to your current HP status within your characters square.

  • HP at >25% is a happy, content green bar.
  • HP at <25% is a concerned orange bar.
  • HP at <10% is an ominous red bar.
  • HP at <5% is a surprise... but trust me you'll know.

http://www.thesarchasm.com/poo/cities/deadomatic.user.js

Install as a normal GM script, it will ask for your username the first go around... I did not include a check for multiple characters - that means you ya mules! PAYG me with any ?'s.

The images are local on my server, if bandwidth gets crazy I may have to rethink, but I doubt it with these.

Known issues:

  • Time-idle backgrounds broken.
  • Not active when tripping.

Feedback & requests appreciated. Would anybody use one for hot/cold if i could jimmy that?

Typical disclaimer: I make no guarantees of the reliability. Use at your own risk. Don't fight mimics with phasers - it still wont save you. -Eyepeel 22:10, 2 May 2006 (BST)

Always make sure you have at least 601 HP before attacking Large Mimics with Phasers. Droll 21:09, 21 July 2006 (BST)

Inline health bar

This GM userscript adds a health bar underneath your character in the centre of the viewport. Health level is shown in green and shrinks to the left as you take damage; the background is shown in white above 25%, orange between 10-25%, and red below 10%.

  • Now shows health bar for other players too!
  • Updated URL for script to better ISP - jmb 18:34, 16 December 2006 (GMT)

Tested on these browser versions so far - reports from others welcome:

  • Linux: Firefox 1.0.4 and 2.0
  • Linux: Opera 9.20
  • OSX: Firefox 1.5.0.6 (thanks MikeJ)
  • Windows: Opera 9.00 (thanks Solune)

by jmb 14:35, 10 September 2006 (BST)

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Max AP Countdown

Hamelin wrote a GM script (for Firefox, of course) that tells you how long it's going to be before you hit max AP. Good for knowing when you need to login next ;)

http://www.jkirchoff.net/misc/citiesmaxapcounter.user.js

  • currently 404ing for me Alaric 08:19, 26 April 2007 (BST)
  • Yeah, I changed hosts and it seemed to disappear off of my fileserver when I transfered everything to the new url. Should be working now.--Hamelin 20:02, 2 July 2007 (BST)
  • I love this script, and use it on all my computers. My only complaint is that it doesn't have a line break before it starts, meaning that it runs together with all the rest of the text in the message box. Adding a line break or carriage return would make it perfect. -- X-Himy 20:28, 4 August 2007 (BST)
    • I noticed that too, it used to make a new line automatically. How do you add a line break into it? I'm not very good with the javascript, if someone takes a look at the code and tells me, I'll add it in.--Hamelin 07:06, 14 September 2007 (BST)
      • (actually, the text box used to end with a new line automatically; it no longer does so since that could cause the message box to scroll unnecessarily.) Anyway, add a "\n" before the text, e.g. messages.value += '\nMax AP in .... --Dragon 08:08, 14 September 2007 (BST)
        • I fixed it, a new version is uploaded with the line break. By the by, mine reads "Max AP in roughly -8254 hours 0 minutes" maybe I should add days?--Hamelin 17:17, 14 September 2007 (BST)

Demoter

Hamelin also wrote (lifted and edited) a GM script that takes out all those stuffy titles on people's names and leaves nothing but their username. This'll prolly take out any other instance of those titles in the game (it is case sensitive) but there's no way around that (I guess).

Currently it blanks out the following:

  • Sir
  • Baron
  • Earl
  • Duke
  • Pvt.
  • Cpl.
  • Sgt.
  • Apprentice
  • Shaman
  • Wizard
  • Smith
  • Armourer
  • Master Armourer
  • MD

But not Great Lord or 'king, that would be disrespectful. =P

http://jkirchoff.net/misc/citiesdemoter.user.js

(It's just for fun)

Just for fun? Are you kidding me? This script is incredibly useful! Thank you so much for making it available. -Scrumbucket 17:56, 14 September 2007 (BST)
Well thank you!--Hamelin 18:49, 14 September 2007 (BST)

Landmarks

Very nifty! Nick 09:35, 11 Jan 2006 (GMT)

Don't Break It

Dragon: I've been trying some changes (removed old link) - I preferred keeping the button and greying it out rather than replacing with a piece of text. More... - jmb 13:52, 20 February 2007 (GMT)

  • Version 2.0 is here. It includes a UI to customize settings, a quick "enable everything" button, the ability to disable the buttons at Alchemists, the "Discard" button on misc. items like Treasure Maps, all actions costing over a set number of AP. http://potatoengineer.110mb.com/citiesdontbreakit.user.js for the script, here for screenshot. --Dragon 05:14, 26 February 2007 (GMT)
  • Latest version: 2.3 Prevents you from attacking if you're holding a healing item. (2.23: Added super-aligned swords, 2.2: Added prevention of shops/vaults, as well as a movement AP threshhold (ever forget to wear your Winged Boots, or not notice when one wears out?).) --Dragon 05:12, 10 September 2007 (BST)
Can we get this rolled into the potato console? There's not much reason for it to visible most of the time I think.--LimeHan 16:26, 21 May 2008 (BST)
Heh, PE is taking over the WORLD. --naath 18:39, 21 May 2008 (BST)
YES, YES I AM. For those with an interest in having it with PotatoConsole and auto-updating, check out this link; the previous version without PotatoConsole is still available, too. PotatoEngineer 05:36, 22 May 2008 (BST)

RealTarot

Having problems finding Snakes? Confused over what monsters are really the same? RealTarot includes in your Tarot dropdown the internal name of monsters alongside their displayable name.

by jmb 21:41, 18 April 2007 (BST)

TrophyTracker

Another GM script which may be of some use for those trying to fill their trophy cabinet - it flags visible monsters that you haven't yet caught (and stuffed and mounted), and also notes them in your Tarot deck.

Note:

  • It doesn't track kills - it updates when you re-select the Cabinet, and remembers betweentimes.
    • could use data from MJ's recent info.xml addition?
  • It has problems with certain indistinguishable monsters (e.g. snakes, mimics, flying/pigs)
  • Likewise with variably-named monsters (n Vorder Man, Gulls, Leprichaun)
by jmb 23:29, 20 April 2007 (BST)
  • Updated 22:58, 21 April 2007 (BST) to fix a minor bug when there is no item element in the page. Thanks PE.

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Tarot Tool Lazifier

Adds your current position to the beginning of tarot messages so that you only need to copy/paste one line into PotatoEngineer's Tarot Tool.

Download here! --Pip 17:49, 20 June 2008 (BST)

Coming soon: Reptile Basher

Still in development...

  • automatic weapon selection for Huge Reptiles
  • colorised thesaurus word based on letter availability

Any takers? - jmb 14:36, 6 October 2007 (BST)

Mapping Tools

Glendale Cities Mapper

Best mapping tool out there, beats DSS any day. Get your key today!! (Requires GreaseMonkey)

DSS Interactive Survey Map

The Darksatanic Survey has its map online in an interactive form. Source code available from the subversion repository

The DSS Mapper now has a mid-range scale map, covering a 15x15 area. It is also considerably faster. Larger scales will follow shortly. Darksatanic 11:59, 26 August 2006 (BST)

DSS AutoMapper

The Darksatanic Survey automapper is now available! If you use Firefox, installing the script will automatically update the map when you move your player. Note that you will require the GPS intrinsic (i.e. you'll need to have done the Time and Space quest). Here's how to get it working:

  • Install GreaseMonkey
  • Get a user key. Ask darksatanic (or darkersatanic, or darkling) in the #cities IRC channel on irc.webcentre.net.
  • Head to http://www.carfax.org.uk/files/dss_mapper.user.js and install the plugin.
  • Head to Cities and enter your key. Press OK to store it.
  • You might want to install the survey link too :)

Source code available from the subversion repository

DSS Survey Link

Provides a direct link from the Cities interface to the DSS map. Requires the GPS intrinsic (i.e. the Time and Space quest).

New version out, opens link in a new window. Darksatanic 23:38, 11 Jan 2006 (GMT)

DSS Locator

This Greasemonkey user script provides a dropdown with a few useful location types (Healer, Hospital etc) which when selected will show the x/y position of the nearest such type known in the DSS database - the displayed text also being a link to the DSS map. jmb 12:40, 13 March 2006 (GMT)

Notes:

  • Tested with Firefox 1.0 and 1.5
  • The script calls this PHP page to retrieve the data from the database, taking query params for x,y and type.
  • The cgi and database run from a free web hosting service. If this hits its transfer limit, the tool will stop working.
  • This add-on uses a dump of the DSS map data from 2006-03-11 so does not include subsequent updates. If it doesn't cause too much server load it might get linked to the live database.
  • Debug output in the messages area - now switchable by a menu item
  • TODO
    • Retrieve a fuller list of location types instead of using a fixed list; alternatively, let the user configure the list themselves.
    • Include icon to show a compass direction
    • Offer several nearest locations, to allow player to go in the most convenient direction.
  • Known bugs and limitations
    • Unique locations are not well handled - e.g. Healers in town with custom names are not found as "Healer"s
    • Data is not live.
    • Script re-requests location on each reload. This is partly intentional - it should update as you move - but at present it can't tell the difference between a move and a reload.
    • The query CGI returns a text string/html snippet; it should be XML and parsed client-side.
    • As most DSS tools, cannot distinguish what map level you are on.

Please suggest desirable location types you might like to have in the dropdown.

  • UPDATE: back on my home server, which is generally up now, as the relocated page is on a server which regularly hits its transfer limit. Those links I'll keep here for the sake of future switcheroo.

Skin

BeBe Googles

If you are up in the Frozen North, you can't wear both the Bebe Googles and snow goggles/shades. Until we have Bebe contacts or LASIK, you can try these greasemonkey scripts. They simply apply the Bebe CSS stylesheet over the cities HTML page.

  • Bebe Styler changes Cities to use the styles from the Bebe Goggles permanently (useful for new characters, the original reason it was created).
There's also a version I modify a bit for my own use as I go along here - at the moment it just fixes grass track images in the Festival and makes the text on grass and swamp squares white since I find it easier to read like that, but read the comments at the top for up-to-date info. --Pip 01:37, 18 June 2006 (BST)

Assorted Tools

  • CitiesBerg Dashboard Widget
    • Watch the price of your favourite market items rise and fall! This widget fetches the current lowest available market prices for the list of items you specified. Powered by citiesberg xml api.
    • Requires Mac OS X Tiger (probably 10.4 or newer).
  • Caverns Route Planner A tool I've bodged together for finding the best route through the Caverns for those about to embark on the Bomb Squad challenge. Feed back appreciated Darksartago 21:08, 29 July 2006 (BST)

Big Brother

See the data!

Update: Version 3.7 Added ambulance-searching and Vorpal Blade snicker-snacking. Fixed a bug where BB didn't show up on the "out of AP" screen, and Golf Clubs no longer report breakage on Vorder Men. PotatoEngineer 10:08, 13 January 2008 (GMT)

Big Brother will collect data about monster drops, ruins and storeroom and ambulance searching, treasure chest contents, monster accuracy, mining, farming, foraging, fishing, flying healer stations, milking, weapon breakage (plus some extra data for custom weapon breakage), armor breakage, cornucopia drops, wood-gathering in both jungle and forest, angry bow upgrades, daemonic weapon melting, bowling, the ballroom, whip-snatching, sand-gathering, fairy nuff trades, Harvey Farm digging, poisoning, thief actions, cute seal kudo losses, dragon ninja dodges vs. silver weapons, equipment wearing out while you walk (also equipment that breaks with AP spending, and Iron Blings), nightly spell drops for wizard-types, mines collapsing, wormholes and summon stones breaking, success rates for player thefts, flash gun breaking, tunnel mining, the odds of getting to the Universe of Shrimp via Astral travel, falling stars from harvest songs, the colors of a Rainbow Wand, what a Northern Rock does, the rate at which a Vorpal Blade eats things (and what it won't snicker-snack), and what monsters eat adventurers the most. (Sadly, the average number of partidges per pear tree has not yet been implemented, and probably never will be.)

Palantir Cor, or leave a message with PotatoEngineer on the wiki (or IRC), to get your key; you can't submit data without it! As always, feedback appreciated, whether it's bug reports, kudos, comments, suggestions, death threats, or letter bombs. PotatoEngineer 19:07, 10 March 2007 (GMT)

This script uses PotatoConsole.

I used the updater, and it still told me I was out of date, on 2.02 rather than 2.1 I then went as far as to uninstall and reinstall the script, and I still get the warning. -- X-Himy 18:32, 9 April 2007 (BST)
Ditto --smudgepuss 19:31, 9 April 2007 (BST)
Clear your web cache. This is a known issue when I update the script twice in succession, but solutions to date have been unsatisfying. The version on the web right now has the right version number, but it was misnumbered for a bit before I fixed it. PotatoEngineer 22:40, 10 April 2007 (BST)

Questr

Questr Enter your username (After pressing the share buttons on your me and inventory pages) and it will tell you your personalised current quest progress for nearly every quest there is with just one or 2 exceptions. All blended together with your Inventory and Citiesberg data for a fresher smoother taste. - Timekeeper 28th April

Just a couple of things... it's saying I've entered the Rainbow Castle when I have only learnt how to make an Astrolabe - rcastle is set 1 when you learn how to make such as thing.
I'm also getting "Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /usr/home/lee/public_html/questr/index.php on line 2065" for Paparazzi
But otherwise all looks good :) --Duke angelsk MD 10:57, 28 April 2007 (BST)
Thanks Angelsk, both fixed. Very noble for a fellow contender :). - Timekeeper 30th April 14:07
Excellent! But one minor quibble.... I've started the Paparzzi quest, and have a picture of Smelly Gerald - the page looks like it's looking for Dirty Martin. Andrewsi 17:01, 29 April 2007 (BST)
Im working on a fix for that variably named guy. Thanks for pointing it out. - Timekeeper 30th April 14:08
Questr now has its own Wiki Page. All feedback to be directed there please. The more the merrier. Ta! - Timekeeper 30th April 14:10

4cities

4cities - Cities Quest Progress

4cities

Shows your progress with Cities Quests, part of the win a Soul competition entries.

Enter your username (must share info and inventory first) and it shows you which quests you have done, can do and can't do next - with explanations of the next stage.

There is also a Reading, Treasure Hunt, Standing Stones, Creature Survey, Trophy Cabinet, Wizard CDs, Herb Collecting, Mixology, Paparazzi, Bomb Squad, School of Hard Knocks and Tarot Card progress page, (mashed up with your inventory and Citiesberg for estimated costs).

Personalized to user for all quests, especially for Standing Stones, Harvey Farm, Paparazzi and Smelly Pete.

Feedback on my talk page please :)

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Mallr

  • Mallr - Gives you the lowest prices for all items on sale at the Mall and compares them to the market prices in a colour coded way.

Will also get the highest prices that vendors are buying items for compares them to the lowest market price available and checks to see if you have that item in your inventory, again in a colour coded fashion

Updates -

3rd May 07 - Now totals up how much money you can theoretically make selling it all at the mall.

4th May 07 - Implemented a tool for Vendors to compare their shop selling/buying prices to their nearest rivals and the markets.


Feedback - Very much appreciated and welcome, good or bad, on my userpage if you would so as not to clutter this page up. Thanks.


12:03, 2 May 2007 (BST)

Timekeeper 12:03, 2 May 2007 (BST)

Snarfer's Mess

A bit of a mess of scripts (grown organically, ya'know...).

What they give you is:

  • Keep tabs on all your alts (I have... too many, 's why I started these)
  • Keep tabs on max AP (when it's reached... no support for fashion/hats, yet, but it does auto-detect partying)
  • Keep tabs on your pets status (hunger... warns when they get hungry)
  • Sort-of nifty "what can I make/need to make, and where can I buy the stuff" script... output could be better I think, but... it's useful. Lots of stuff in there.
  • It keeps all of the data it uses in a sqlite db... nifty for quick SQL sessions ;)

Why not use 4cities/Questr? For one, they didn't exist back then. For another, there's still info you cannot get without a password (your chars' coords for example... and yes, the "nifty script" mentioned uses that). Or the party status. Or your pets' info when you have them "by your feet".

Requires Python 2.4, pysqlite2 and lxml. Maybe more, not sure. Probably won't run on Windows. (I develop them on Debian, where pysqlite2 and lxml are just an apt-get away :))

Docs are scarce ("scares" wasn't too far off the mark either ;))... there's a README now. Just be sure to give them their own directory. Then seed the db with cities.checkap <playername>, and keep tabs on your chars with cities.checkall. "--help" is helpful :) More in the new README. :P

Any questions/comments: email snarfer@kiwu.org, or catch me on IRC. Or maybe write on my User talk:Snarfer

(And this text is as messy... ;)

Sample Output

What cities.checkall gives you (well, actually, what it gives me, right now, but you'll get the idea). Except the colors are missing... 

Baron Jim Snearth MD has 201/225 AP (89.3%). (Max AP in   3h 35m 27s, at      17:14:44)
      Duke Snarfy MD has 227/263 AP (86.3%). (Max AP in   5h 23m 18s, at      19:02:35)
   Baron Aerohead MD has 182/230 AP (79.1%). (Max AP in   7h 03m 03s, at      20:42:20)
     Duke Snarler MD has 180/245 AP (73.5%). (Max AP in   9h 41m 35s, at      23:20:52)
     Duke Snarfer MD has 169/354 AP (47.7%). (Max AP in  12h 16m 32s, at Sun, 01:55:49) PARTYING
     Duke Snarfie MD has  94/260 AP (36.2%). (Max AP in  24h 47m 35s, at Sun, 14:26:52)
                     Goldfish   Bibo is very hungry (48)
                     Goldfish Sparky is very hungry (48)
    Duke Snarfire MD has  41/235 AP (17.4%). (Max AP in  28h 58m 27s, at Sun, 18:37:44)

Web tools

  • A list of everything you can build Compares build.xml against your inventory and gives you a list of everything that you can make. More work needs doing since it was developed against my build.xml / inventory. This is currently hosted on a development machine and hence may not always be available. Is anyone able to host it for me on a more permament basis ? markles 12:42, 29 September 2006 (BST)
Now updated with to allow you to make the recipes - note: making multiple currently doesn't have the discounts applied since they are not in the build.xml file. markles 14:30, 29 January 2007 (GMT)
  • The Hard Knocks Calculator Calculates the number of levels you can complete at the School of Hard Knocks with your current equipment. Ant 00:19, 26 April 2006 (BST)
Just updated it to use the new XML inventory interface. Now should only need one request to the cities server to get the data, and probably less overhead too. Thanks to mikej for telling me about the new interface! Any problem, let me know! Ant 23:16, 25 February 2007 (GMT)
  • Wool Calculator Calculates your AP expenditure when developing your stock of fleece/wool. Ant 00:19, 26 April 2006 (BST)
  • I'm playing with it; I'm also looking at expanding it to be useful for the snark and undead dragon... -- BlaisedeC 06:30, 27 May 2006 (BST)
Cool. Talk about it here. (Also let me know how well it works!) --Dragon 06:52, 27 May 2006 (BST)
  • The Cities Worth calculator. How much is your inventory worth? MrFoo 17:17, 10 October 2006 (BST)
  • The Cities Inventory compare tool. Want to know what you have which someone else doesn't to help you find good trades? Put both names in here, and hit the button. MrFoo 23:20, 27 October 2006 (BST)
  • Time To Max AP calculator. Sadly, you have to enter all of the data yourself (current AP, max AP, regen time, hattedness, fashion sense, party, bleak island, number of monster leagues you're top of), but otherwise, it gives you a good idea of when your AP will top out. It adjusts time to GMT or BST, so it should be accurate to within a few minutes. PotatoEngineer 18:31, 4 May 2007 (BST)

Tarot Tool

  • The Tarot Tool tells you what tiles a monster can be on when you've taroted, and if you've taroted a creature twice, it can usually narrow down a creature's location to one or two tiles, as long as the directions are different. As usual, please send me your kudos, comments, complaints, death threats, or letter bombs. PotatoEngineer 06:13, 5 July 2007 (BST)

Arms Cost

  • The Arms Cost Calculator can tell you how much metal your new Killy Thing is going to need, and how long it'll take you, before you even start sketching. Darksatanic 21:34, 8 June 2007 (BST)

Stall Profiteer

  • The Stall Profiteer can tell you how much money you've made from your stall, based on the reports given by your stall monkey. Of course, this won't consider any goods or money you've deposited or stolen, but it's a way to determine how successful your stall is in general. If you're getting a negative number, then people are selling you more things than they're purchasing. PotatoEngineer

Mixology Shopping List

Download from: stelio.net/cities/mixology.xls (version 2, 100kB)

This is a Microsoft Excel 2002 document that, given your current inventory, will tell you what you need to complete the Mixology quest (and pointers for where you can get stuff from). Full instructions for use are included in the spreadsheet.

Note that this file contains no script. If Excel warns you that this file contains macros then do not use it! For security, I have purposefully not included any VBA automation, so any version of this file that contains macros may be hacked to include malicious code.

Feel free to play with this as you will. If you want it available in a different format (such as an earlier version of Excel, or for a different spreadsheet package) then do let me know. -Stelio 21:11, 11 April 2007 (BST)

You missed one ingredient step -- Baskets of Crushed Plums. (Between Baskets of Plums and Bottles of Brandy, of course.) Otherwise, very nice! (I'm thinking about converting this to an AJAX webpage that will pull the info from the XML feeds.) --BlaisedeC 15:33, 2 May 2007 (BST)
Ah, fantastic! Good spot. :-) Right, I've fixed that and updated the version number to 2. Thank you also for the positive feedback. Feel free to rip this spreadsheet apart in any way you want to achieve a more integrated tool. I merely did what I could, not having the l33t skillz to pick up XML feeds and the like. -Stelio 18:59, 2 May 2007 (BST)

Auto Scripts (bots)

AutoWorship

  • For those who can't stay up to worship or offer at the stones.
Python Auto Worship Runs on unix machines (Linux, Mac OS X, etc) using the at command. It only connects to the server once and no check is done to see if the worship is successful. You are welcome to improve it.
Greasemonkey Auto Worship Obviously you'll need Firefox. This one seems to poll the server once every hour at 10 past.
Just so you know, it's actually twice an hour, at 10 past and at 40 past. This is due in part to the fact that the game considers 30 seconds in the future to be 'in about an hour' (which is why it hits 10 minutes after, to account for system clock skew.), in part due to the fact that there are time zones, most notably India, that are at half-hour offsets from GMT (which is why it also hits 40 minutes after). It could probably be made more efficient by parsing the 'in about xxx' hours, although things are still annnoying because Cities considers 15 seconds in the future to be 'in about an hour'. Anyway, it doesn't do any of that becasue the script was originally written for the Time and Space shrines, which don't give you an estimated time. 69.249.31.63 03:26, 21 October 2006 (BST)
Does this script work for the Standing Stones too? Because I tred it, and all it did is turn off all the Greasemonkey scripts. --Duke angelsk MD 10:47, 7 May 2007 (BST)

AutoExit

  • AutoExit Greasemonkey script which automates getting off the Space Elevator. Operates exactly like Stevie-O's Autoworship script (no great surprise, as it's just a modified version of the latter). Make sure you're standing on the entrance square when you turn it on, and that the elevator has left the starting point.

AutoFeeding

  • For those who have better things to do in RL then feeding babies.
AutoFeedingScript, also written python and requires the unix command at. Also only connects to the server once.
Has anyone thought about doing this as a Greasemonkey script?
Yes, for the love of pete please make it.
All right, all right! There's an AutoFeeder script for GM now! Are you satisfied!? PotatoEngineer 02:37, 11 October 2007 (BST)
Dear god yes.--Hamelin 02:38, 11 October 2007 (BST)
Note: this script is a jealous God script, and it will not tolerate you having any item before The Baby. If you want to drink potions, eat pills, craft things, or hold any item at all except a baby (or a maliciously-named custom weapon, I suppose), you must disable the script to do so. PotatoEngineer 05:41, 11 October 2007 (BST)
<bowing low before the holy PotatoScript> --Tiltowait 18:03, 30 November 2007 (GMT)
Oh, right, other side note: this script will continue to feed the baby until there is no longer a baby to feed, unlike the Unix autofeeder above. It connects to the server once per hour. PotatoEngineer 03:33, 28 December 2007 (GMT)
Current version (1.21): The "activate autofeeding" text next to the checkbox is bright red, for visibility. PotatoEngineer 02:50, 2 March 2008 (GMT)
It failed for me today Sheyona 09:31, 24 August 2008 (BST)

Suggestions

BlogMaker - based on the Firefox extension. Monitors what you do, and creates a narrative automatically. 'Broke another sword, dammit', 'Weather in cloud city: cloudy', etc.

(some ideas for future GM extensions - yell if too likely to weight gameplay)

  • Market plugins: Search on stock and see where cheapest items are
  • Director: Given a landmark, gives direction + distance information when moving (requires GPS)
  • Compass: Always displays true north
  • Diktionary: Corrects speling dainamicly.

These sound OK. In fact the compass could be a real object.

  • How about something to place health remaining (and health bars) for monsters, using intristic abilities or magic opal? And a time one using a pocket watch/intristic Eruantion 17:51, 11 January 2007 (GMT)
The Time and Space quest gives you the time all the time as it were. I think there is a script to show monster health floating around somewhere? --Theendisnigh 11:57, 9 February 2007 (GMT)

X-Himy's Suggestions

I've not the skill to make GM scripts or Firefox addons, but I do have a couple ideas for things I would like to see:

  • Hat-Stealer drop-down
Basically a drop-down menu that lists whatever people have hats (and the hats they have equipped in parenthesis), with a button that let's you steal it. Not sure this is possible with the game code, but it would keep people (such as myself) from just hiding in parties with hats.
  • Pet Equipper/Feeder
Basically something that works like the Outfitter, but especially for pets. An added bonus is if you could use it to feed your pets based on available food, with it calculating the amount needed and not overfeeding or wasting food.
  • Pet Food Reminder
Something that would add in the percentage that each foodstuff feeds a pet. I often forget how much each item feeds each pet, and have to keep flipping back to the wiki.

Let me know what you think of these. -- X-Himy 02:29, 17 February 2008 (GMT)

More Suggestions

I've got a few suggestions, too.

  • Bag It: A script that puts every item on a user-defined list in a specified bag. Advanced version might include multiple lists for different bags.
  • Enhanced Outfitter: Manages different types of outfits separately, so you can for example swap pets out without changing footwear or put your fashion outfit on without taking off your pets.
  • Bigger Brother: I'd love to see the statistics gathered graphed vs. time. That way we could see when item drop percentages change, how the popularity of monsters change over time, etc.

-Scrumbucket 09:20, 27 February 2008 (GMT)

Other Firefox extensions

For those of you using Greasemonkey, there is an extension which works very well with it worth checking out too, Platypus (http://platypus.mozdev.org/). It allows you to make changes to a web page in what is in effect a WYSIWYG editor and save your changes as a Greasemonkey script to be applied to the page on every visit. For example, the text box where all the game actions are displayed is too small for my liking. So a simple edit of its properties within Platypus and saving this as a script lets me always have it's height as 300 pixels and so I don't have to scroll anymore (basic script example here: Dourotextboxsize.user.js.

Not about GM

citieswiki.src, the CitiesWiki Firefox Ubuntu Search Plugin

media:citieswiki.src
There are apparently other ways to go about this, as might be found at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox or