StarCon Analyzer (Beta)

The StarCon Analyzer is designed for the Strategy Guild's StarCon PBeM game.  

The StarCon Analyzer is a utility that provides a completely new user interface for playing the play-by-Email game StarCon.  StarCon is an  awesome game but the game turns that you get by e-mail or via the web leave much to be desired.  This program is your Graphical User Interface that treats the game turn as raw data and then allows you to view the data supplied on the turnsheets (old info and new) in one place. It also includes computer aided mapping and an Order Editor.

The StarCon Analyzer takes the StarCon turns (both yours and your allies) and processes them so that they are combined together and presented in an Analysis Window. You can view and manipulate one master turn that combines all known information that you have accumulated. The StarCon Analyzer keeps track of worlds no longer seen on the current turn sheets and labels what turn they were seen last.

Various filtering and sorts can be used to manipulate the combined information to find those important things you want without having to study a printout for hours. For example, finding the largest bulk stockpile within three worlds of your home world is done easily.

In addition the Analysis Window contains a Map View which eliminates the need for paper and pencil and those messy spaghetti maps that plague us in the game. The map supports mouse controlled drag and drop to move worlds around. It handles wrap-around worlds easily and you can save the map as a text file suitable for e-mailing to an ally. Your ally just plugs the map file into the StarCon Analyzer program and the same map appears.

The program also sports an editor where you can jot down your plans and orders as you peruse the data in the StarCon Analyzer. The editor presents a Draft Order sheet where you can put in comments about orders your write where the comments get stripped out in the Final Order sheet which is in proper form for submission to the Strategy Guild web site.  The editor generates a Template where incomplete build, unload, art and ship movement/firing orders will appear for you to complete. 

Highlights

• Computer aided mapping eliminates the need for paper and pencil and those messy spaghetti maps that plague us in the game. 
• Intelligent order editing with Intellisense typeahead
• The StarCon Analyzer keeps track of worlds no longer seen on the current turn sheets and labels what turn they were seen last.
• Various filtering and sorts can be used to manipulate the combined information to find those important things you want without having to study a printout for hours. For example, finding the largest metal stockpile within three worlds of your home world is done easily.
• If your allies don't have the StarCon Analyzer (shame on them!) you can generate reports for them in a text file suitable for printing or e-mail.
• Save the map as a bitmap image file to send to your allies.
• Integrated order submission support to make sending your orders to Strategy Guild a snap.