Utility Script: Planetary Management Plugin

• Manual
  The manual method performs no automated construction. You manage the planet the old-fashioned way.
• Safe Build
  Builds structures to maximum, ensuring that you are safe from enemy sensor sweeps. This method will first build 14 factories, then 19 mines, followed by 15 defense posts. It will then build the maximum structures, starting with factories, then mines, then defense posts.
• Safe Build No Burn
  The same as safe build, but this method will not convert supplies to megacredits. Use this if you, for instance, expect to have a cash influx on the planet soon, and you're better off holding onto the supplies until that money is available and building more structures.
• Factory First
  Maximize factories, then mines, then defense posts. You will not be safe from enemy sensor sweeps, but you will develop faster.
• Safe Min Defense
  The same as safe build, but once factories and mines are maxed out, this method will not build any further defense posts.

Colonist Taxation Strategies

• No Tax
  Colonists are taxed at 0% (no tax).
• Manual
  The manual method performs no automated taxation. You set the tax rate the old-fashioned way.
• Growth Tax
  If the colonists are at or will be at maximum happiness, tax them the maximum amount you can that will keep them above a happiness of 70. Otherwise, don't tax them, to allow them to grow maximally. This method yields better growth and money over the long term than simply maintaining their happiness at 100, taxing whatever you can.
• Chunk Tax
  If the colonists are at or will be at maximum happiness, tax them the maximum amount you can that will allow them to recover to a happiness of 70 in one turn. Otherwise, don't tax them, to allow them to grow maximally. This method generates more megacredits over time, but costs you a turn of growth.
• Growth Tax >1mil
  The same as the Growth Tax method, but will only tax if the planet has more than 1,000,000 colonists.
• Chunk Tax >1mil
  The same as the Chunk Tax method, but will only tax if the planet has more than 1,000,000 colonists.

Native Taxation Strategies

• No Tax
  Natives are taxed at 0% (no tax).
• Manual
  The manual method performs no automated taxation. You set the tax rate the old-fashioned way. You may also use this method if you are using another script to handle native taxation; this plugin will not interfere with native taxation.
• Growth Tax
  If the natives are at or will be at maximum happiness, tax them the maximum amount you can that will keep them above a happiness of 70. Otherwise, don't tax them, to allow them to grow maximally. This method yields better growth and money over the long term than simply maintaining their happiness at 100, taxing whatever you can.
• Chunk Tax
  If the natives are at or will be at maximum happiness, tax them the maximum amount you can that will allow them to recover to a happiness of 70 in one turn. Otherwise, don't tax them, to allow them to grow maximally. This method generates more megacredits over time, but costs you a turn of growth.
• Borg Tax
  Tax the natives maximally until they reach a happiness of 40, and then continue to tax whatever you can to maintain them at that level. This method generates maximum megacredits in the short term, but severely inhibits native growth. It is most useful for the Borg, who want to extract as much money from the natives as they can before they are assimilated.

The plugin also introduces a new view for each planet, a large view that contains the relevant information, which you can access by clicking the planet picture in the list view.  This screen is informational for now, but I intend to add more to it in the future.  Once in this view, you can continue to the starmap as usual by clicking on the large planetary picture.

This release should be considered a beta.  I have tested it in a few test games and it seems to work well.  I hope you find it useful!  Feature requests are invited.  Bug reports are appreciated. 

You can find the script here:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/174481

A few caveats:

 - Be careful using Colonist Chunk Tax, currently.  It does not account for increased structures on the planet, which affects colonist happiness.  It may put you a point below what you can recover in a turn if you build a bunch of structures that turn.  I hope to fix this soon. 

 - It needs to be run every turn.  If you miss a turn, it will continue to tax at the previous rate.  No structures will be built.

Lastly, there is a 'manual' mode for the methods, which basically tells the plugin to do nothing.  So you can use this with, for instance, bigbeefers native taxation plugin if you prefer, if you just want to use this for structure building, by setting tax strategies to manual.  You can also use it just for the planet list view, if you like, by not running it each turn.

I hope you find the plugin useful!  Let me know what you think and what you'd like to see.  One obvious feature that I'm working on now is allowing you to devise your own building/taxation strategies, and save them.  But that's a big deal, and I thought I'd get this out there as is because I think its useful now.

Lastly, thanks to kedalion for the nuV3 template, without which this would not be possible, and big_beefers scripts, which showed me how to save things in notes, among other things.  Thanks!

-dot

saveObjectAsNote: function (id, type, obj) {
    var sId = "PM" + id;
    if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined" && (id == 4 || id == 5)) {
        localStorage.setItem(sId, JSON.stringify(obj));
    } else {
        var note = vgap.getNote(id, type);
	if (note == null)
	    note = vgap.addNote(id, type);
    	note.changed = 1;
	note.body = JSON.stringify(obj);
	vgap.save();
    }
},
			
initSaveObjectAsNote: function (id, type, obj) {
    var sId = "PM" + id;
    if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined" && (id == 4 || id == 5)) {
        if (localStorage.getItem(sId) == null)
            localStorage.setItem(sId, JSON.stringify(obj));
        vgap.plugins["plManagerPlugin"].saveInitChanges();
    } else {
        var note = vgap.getNote(id, type);
        if (note == null)
            note = vgap.addNote(id, type);
        note.changed = 1;
        note.body = JSON.stringify(obj);
        vgap.plugins["plManagerPlugin"].saveInitChanges();
    }
},
			
getObjectFromNote: function (id, type) {
    var sId = "PM" + id;
    if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined" && (id == 4 || id == 5)) {
        if (localStorage.sId !== "")
            return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(sId));
        else
            return null;
    } else {
        var note = vgap.getNote(id, type);
        if (note != null && note.body != "")
            return JSON.parse(note.body);
        else
            return null;
    }
},

Note that adding these changes will initially reset your builds to default!

document.body.removeChild(script);

I have just installed your script and the Planetary Management menu shows up fine, I can see my planets and set up taxation schemes etc, but applying them does nothing. Similar to what Figak says, I also see nothing in the Planet Detail window, its simply empty.

I have just installed your script and the Planetary Management menu shows up fine, I can see my planets and set up taxation schemes etc, but applying them does nothing. Similar to what Figak says, I also see nothing in the Planet Detail window, its simply empty.

EDIT: It seems if I change the build method of my first planet to something other than manual, the script will actually run when I do something.

Also, some of the search filters are not functioning, the list with "all planets that only have manual methods" is empty despite *all* of my planets being that way.

EDITEDIT:

Learning as Im going. Planetary detail window is only empty until the script has been run on that particular planet. Roger!

Excellent!

One more thing: It seems to break on some of my planets and stop running at that point, particularly one with no available MC or supplies. After that it'll just show Building on Planet 4 out of 19, and Ill have to log out and log in to get it to run Again. unfortunately it'll still break at that planet.

Im gonna try to run it after next host run before I do my stuff to see what happens - or even better, update to your new version :)