M A N U A L
v1.01 (02 may 2004)
Introduction
OrkFiaMan is an all-in-one
tool for orkfia.
It is designed to help the orkfia players to manage their tribes more
efficiently and much faster, by helping them with the various calculations
and formatting some not so easy to read pages from orkfia.
Contents
1. Features
2. General stuff - parsing and formatting
3. Buildings calculator
4. Invasions calculator
5. Military calculator
6. Mini calc
7. Installation
Features
Parsing - orkfiaman will parse the information
from orkfia and fill in he necessary data automatically, so you won't
have to input it by yourself
Formatting - orkfiaman will format many of
the orkfia's pages to show advanced statistics and much additional information
Buildings Calculator - helps with managing
your buildings
Military Calculator - help with managing
your military
Invasion Calculator - calculates the attacks
for you
Target Finder Helper - helps you finding
target with orkfia's target finder
Explore Calculator - calculates the needed
resources for explore
General stuff - parsing and formatting
How to use parsing feature?
Parsing is the easiest way to input the data about your or the enemy tribe
that calculators need. You simply need to copy the contents of the whole
page into the clipboard (see below for the list of pages that can be parsed).
Just press Ctrl+A and then when the whole page is selected,
press Ctrl+C and that's all, if everything is fine and
this is one of the pages listed below then you should already have all
the data into the appropriate places in OrkFiaMan.
Some examples below:
- Buildings calculator
In orkfia, open the management/construction page, then
press ctrl+A and then ctrl+C to copy the page to clipboard, if you have
the OrkFiaMan running the data will parsed automatically.
- Target finder
In orkfia, open management/tools/target finder and choose an appropriate
land size and then results = 100, press search. Then copy the page to
clipboard (ctrl+A, ctrl+C). You can then paste them to MS Excel or some
other similar program for further processing. You can also filter by races
using the list on the right side (like removing the boring eagles from
the results with one click) .
Pages that can be parsed
Management/Construction
Tools/Target Finder
Overview/The Alliance
Overview/The tribe
Actions/Mystics -> Vision, Fireball, Antrax, Poison, Dragon Mage
Actions/Thievery -> Intercept, Recon, Arson, Poison waters, Tempu amplo*
* Due to the changes in orkfia's interface, some of the
spells/thievery parsers won't work, if you find any of them not working
or you have any ideas for improvement just drop me an e-mail.
Under development
- Adding the ability to save different building strats for buildings calculator.
- Adding parser to science, inner sight and management advisor.
- Going to improve the mini calc by adding more things in it.
- Also I have some ideas about how to improve the military and buildings
calculator.
- Some nice surprises :)
The buildings calculator
(keyboard shortcut : F2)
In Orkfia success often depends on how you build your
lands, getting the right balance between resource production and defensive
buildings ... The building calculator is an easy way to manage your lands
without loosing time with calculation. All you have to do is to input
the data and Orfiaman will do the job for you.
How to use it?
Get on and copy it by pressing Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C
when the page is selected. Orkfiaman will parse the dats
and fill the page, displaying dats about your lands and buildings.
You can set the % acres of each building you're aiming at ,orkfiaman with
calculate for you how much to build and the cost in wood/money.
The buildings column:shows your current number of acres
and buildings.
In progress: shows the number of each buildings you are
currently building.
Target: shows the percentage of your total acres you're
aiming for that kind of building (ex: 30 % homes)
To build: shows the number of building you have to build(green)/raze(red)
to reach the aimed percentage.
The page also displays a sum up of your tribe current situation and the
total cost of acres you have to build, calculate the optimal number of
markets for your total acres of land, shows your food and money production
and indicates how much mana you regenerate due to your guilds.. The check
box on the bottom of the screen allows stats to include the buildings
in progress.
Invasions Calculator
(keyboard shortcut : F3)
This page helps you to calculate how much offence you'll have to send
to break into a tribe's defense.
How to use it?
Copy your tribe page, Orkfiaman will parse it and calculate
your military, also displaying it in the page, and show your offensive
power on the left part of the screen, fill in the needed
data (offensive spells running, science bonus and the
kind of attack you would like to make (bottom left of
the screen)). You now see your total offensive power.
Vision or intercept an enemy
tribe and then copy the page (ctrl+A, ctrl+C) and orkfiaman
will fill enemy's details in the right part of the screen.
To get a really efficient result, you also need to intercept
and cast Inner Sight on this tribe, to know how many
units are currently away and the defensive science bonus
of the alliance. All you have to do is to copy the page showing results
of thievery operation and manually input the defensive science bonus of
your foe.
Orkfiaman will calculate how many defense points your
foe does actually have to defend him, just choose how many of your offensive
units you would like to send ( enough to break his defense without making
you loose too much defense while your troops are away) and type it in
the "to send" column. You will now be able to see the ratio
between tour offence and your foe's defense (bottom center: green
if you will succeed, red if you will retreat) and remember
to check if the attack is worthy at the bottom right of the screen, regarding
to your target's size, Orkfiaman will calculate the kind
of gains you will have (based on the percentage of enemy's
land related to yours that is also shown).
Military calculator
(keyboard shortcut : F4)
Military calculator is designed to help with managing you military. The
right balance between offence/defense and thieves is one of the most important
things in orkfia. It will help to quickly calculate the needed number
of units to reach certain goal.
How to use it?
Parsing: Copying your tribe page will update the info
in military calculator.
Military:
• Total: your current number of units.
• In progress: units that are currently training.
• Percentage: % of each units in your total military.
• To train: number of units to train to reach the .
• Total cost: the total credits that you'll have to spend to reach the
.
Target values:
• OPA: Offence per Acre, the raw offensive points your army have in each
land acres of your tribe.
• DPA: Defense per Acre, the raw defensive points your army have in each
land acres of your tribe.
• TPA: Thieves per Acre, the number of thieves each acres of your tribe
host.
Get those values to the level you would like to reach, Orkfiaman will
calculate the units you'll have to train to reach them.
General info: your current OPA, DPA and TPA before they
are modified in any way.
Military upkeep: total credits that are spent each update
to pay for your army's wages before training the new units and after that
(in orkfia this can be seen on the internal affairs page).
Stats: displays your total offence and defense and eventual
modifiers as spells, buildings and science.
Miscs: infos about your tribes like your land size, spells
currently running and eventual buildings. Be sure you filled it right
and checked only running spells in order to prevent miscalculation.
Science: fill in your current science bonus.
Mini calc
(keyboard shortcut : F9)
The mini calc is designed to give you access to multiple features and
allow you to use them while the window stays on top of OrkFia as a kind
of addition to orkfia itself.
Buildings
Shows the buildings that needs to be built or razed to reach your goal.
Get all the info from buildings calc. You can use it so you don't have
to switch back and forth between orkfia and orkfiaman while building you
acres (minicalc will stay on top and won't cover orkfia's window).
Exploring
A short sum up of your tribes that calculate the cost of an exploration,
help full to quickly know what you need to buy from the market before
being able to explore for some acres.
The top of the board shows requirements to explore 1 acre, then fill
in the number of acres you would like to explore; the mini-calc then displays
the total requirements and the cost in market credits of the exploration.
Installation
Step by step installation
1. Download orkfiaman.zip
2. Unpack to a folder of your choice (I'd recommend creating
a folder orkfiaman on an easy to find place on you computer).
3. Make a shortcut of orkfiaman.exe somewhere (like on
desktop or start menu, so you can have an easier access to the program).
4. Start orkfiaman.
The followings are the files contained in the orkfiaman.zip file:
• OrkfiaMan.exe - this
is the program itself
• OrkfiaMan_AgeInfo.ini
- this file contains the age and races information in an easy to read
and modify text file that can be modified with any text editor such as
notepad. (recommended for advanced users only and I'd like to know if
anyone ever finds something that should be modified in there)
Both are required to run Orkfiaman, if one is missing try to download
the zip file from the web site.
After the program is run it will create the following
files:
• OrkfiaMan.ini - stores
the settings and the last info about your tribe and your last foe
• Clipview.dat - stores the history of clipview
Finally I'd like to thank Hardar
for his help on writing this manual and to thank everybody who helped
me with formulaes/information/suggestions/bug reports or even questions
to make one better tool for all orkfians!
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