oly-scribe
is a quick and dirty order entry helper for the play by email game Olympia (http://www.pbm.com/oly/) and its latest incarnation Olympia G4 (http://www.shadowlandgames.com/olympia/). As this program has been frankensteined from some python libs in a super quick manner, dont expect it to be perfect in matters of code and functionality. But it did its job very well. At last, no more need to memorize these terrible game order codes!
###Software requirements It has been developed for the game Olympia G4 and Python 2.7x, but should be easily adaptable for other flavours of the game like Olympia: The Age of Gods (TAG).
Features & ultra quick manual
Install Python 2.7x, grab the source code from the github page (https://github.com/wuschel/oly-scribe) and run the program scribe.py.
The program has two main features:
- entry game orders in semi-human language with the help of a autocompletion function. Hit space to autocomplete a word.
- transcribe the entered orders to Olympia order format
Example:
unit 2321 # [2321] John the demonstration Noble
# This is a comment. John will give Yoshi the Gulper all dragons.
# And do some more stuff.
# This could be a fancy order template (not integrated yet).
study ciphered_writing_of_areth-pirn
give Yoshi_the_Gulper dragon 2
take Yoshi_the_Gulper gold all
message "Glory to the Ivory Tower!"
give garrison gate_crystal all
explore
breed centaur centaur
move n
move west
claim riding_horse 1
quarry 5
collect wood 5
After hitting transcibe, these are translated into Olympia order language. You can also cut away comments by using the Clean Comments function.
unit 2321 # [2321] John the demonstration Noble
study 844
give Yoshi_the_Gulper 286 2
take Yoshi_the_Gulper 1 0
message "Glory to the Ivory Tower!"
give garrison 83 0
explore
breed 271 271
move n
move west
claim 52 1
quarry 5
collect 77 5
It is also possible to transcribe noble names into IDs. However, these must be present in the olyG3_transcribedata.py dictionary. Note: It is advised to delete the old noble names from the dictionary.
Issues
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there is a problem with "wood" beeing converted to 77 while being a at the same time. use "COLLECT wood" to avoid this problem.
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the keyword transcription does not stop from transcribing messages, rumours and times articles.
Licence
It is free as that air that we breathe - but check the python licence (http://docs.python.org/2/license.html) to be 100% sure. Hack away! (: