The most complex part is about taxation, population growth and happiness (heavily influenced by the Planetary Management plugin). I tuned it to my own preferences and it reminds me when to tax and how high.
The rest is of a more informational nature, e.g. calculate maximum population including supplies or minimum population to grow more clans on Amorphous worlds. Those are more or less shortcuts that spare me the time to look up tables or combine multiple calculations for a specific result.
Another example is if an orbiting ship has a waypoint in the warpwell I get a notification. Again, an information that can be deduced using the shiplist in the client but much faster for me.
As for the how: I use the formulae from the documentation. I created some rudimentary Python classes for planets, ships etc. and for the turn itself. They utilize builtin methods to print basic informations or to measure the distance between objects. I also have a crude vantage-point-tree implementation to look for objects within a certain radius or the n nearest objects. That, however, was more for an educational reason.
The why narrows down to saving time and get information that are present in the client but lost to me. For instance, all the hover information is hard to get for me because the information is too far away from the mouse. I could move the map so the mouse is at the top right corner too but that takes a lot of time and every click centers the screen again.
All in all it's not much management right now. |
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