Recent Updates 10/20/05 Updated for the new age except for relations, which are gonna need some work. 08/02/05 One thing I've wanted to do for a while was to actually apply my design skills to the home page. I did this during my lunch hour, so this design probably has a way to go. I tested it on Mozilla and Safari, but you Konqueror, Safari, and other people tell me how it looks. Is it too hard to read? I didn't want to put those images up at first, but found they compliemented the site pretty well. Tell me what you think. I also put in the quick lookup thing down at the bottom. If you want to look up something quickly and don't want to download a 500kb page to do it, now you can. 07/26/05 Forums are up and running! Huzzah! 07/25/05 Lots of general updates. The forums will be up and running with content and whatnot rather soon. A bunch of new definitions and slang words. 07/06/05 Made initial changes for the new age, still have a few things to implement. Added in a cookie thing to get rid of the NEW MSG link in the province info bar. Other minor tweaks and changes. More to come. 03/07/05 Been making lots of changes over time. Just because I don't update the site news doesn't mean I'm not making changes. The site should be 100% updated for the current age, and ready for updates for next age. I'll be putting in the forums next. 01/11/05 Bockman was the first person to take advantage of my Comments/Suggestions page. Thanks! 01/07/05 The Internal Affairs Advisor has been updated. Next is Military Affairs. After that I implement race changes in-guide and then it is back to definition writing. 01/04/05 Updating the interface... Also, added a little link that in the upper right-hand corner that makes helping me update my site really easy. IF you see anything that you want changed, give it a shot. 12/31/04 Updated definitions for the new age already. Three hours after seeing the changes announced. That is about 720 times faster than last age. Glad I made those changes, huh? Actually there are a few more changes to make, but I should have that done tomorrow. Changes to the Utopia interface will be made once the new round is put online. 12/28/04 DONE WITH UPDATES! One day before the end of the round, but still done. I expect next age to finish about 400 times faster now that I've made some significant changes to my guide. More changes to come to speed things up. 12/28/04 Updated everything down to spells. I expect to finish tomorrow. Then I implement changes. Then I update the interface. Then I do further coding to make updating this easier. Then I add in all the pages I haven't finished yet. Then I write more definitions. Then I'm done. 12/27/04 Updated everything down through races. I hope to update through all the spells tomorrow. 12/25/04 The further I get, with updating, the faster it goes. I've read through and checked a few hundred definitions, rewriting dozens of them and making it more dynamic. Still not done, but making progress. 12/24/04 Ok, so Mehul has announced changes for next age and I'm still not done with last age. I still hope to finish before the end of the age. QuantumChaos contributed another 23 definitions. Yay! 12/05/04 I swear I will finish updating for this age before next age. And that next age I'll be faster. Updated more definitions. Got a building efficiency definition from QuantumChaos. Thanks! 11/08/04 More updating, now all definitions down to 'Defensive Specialists' have been updated, and are more database-driven. More to come soon. 10/23/04 Finally updating for the new age. Sorry, schoolwork has been tough. I'm not done yet, but I've implemented a few of the changes so far. There are now 31 LESS definitions, though I've added a few, due ot the removal of happiness as we knew it. 09/30/04 Fixed the interface for the new age. I think. Fixing the actual definitions may take a while. Bare with me. I'm implementing a way to make it take numbers directly from the code instead of needing to comb each definition. That should smooth the process. Added a method of inserting variables into definitions, updating the guide should be MUCH faster in future rounds. This round, I'm afraid, will still take a while. 08/18/04 All of the 'Send messages' subpages are complete (replies, reporting messages, etc). A few more definitions are needed there. The relations page has been established but isn't the way I want it yet. 08/17/04 Fixed more minor bugs that popped up with the location change. More fine-tuning done to mimic game behavior. The 'Send Messages' page is complete. New definitions: 2 08/12/04 Fixed a few minor bugs Updated the Politics page Added the 'The World' page. Search now works with AND or OR New Definitions: 13 08/11/04 Relocated so I could put PHP on the home page. Everyone loves0 updating links, right? Did a small search engine for my site, which you can find at the top of the guide. IT currently does only AND searches, I'll add in OR searches soon. 07/08/04 A few fixes. Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I've gotten a full time job doing cool stuff with genetic algorithms and predictive analytics 06/21/04 Updated for the new age, a whole 3 hours before the deadline. Numerous fixes. Martial Law implemented, I'm unsure of the numbers. It seems that the networth, building, and exploring formulas have changed. Don't trust my numbers yet. Dragon definitions coming soon I changed my mind about putting the code online for the time being... I have a full time job now as a software developer and have discovered that working with unfamiliar code is not easy for me. New definitions: 9 100,000 hits! Holy moly! 04/20/04 Updated for the new age. Sorry for the delay, but college must come first Added a few definitions, more code so it behaves more like the game itself More updates will be made over the next few weeks hopefully, as I get a chance to recover from all the work I've had this semester. I'm working on methods to get around lagging. I'm developing a way for you to have the info file downloaded and viewed from your hard drive. I'm learning SQL so that I can put my definitions in a database and maybe make a search engine or something. I've decided to put the source code for the guide online. It will be available for download in a few days so that people may help develop from home. Please read the README before starting to code. New definitions: A bunch 01/11/04 Fixed up some stuff on the throne page. Got the military affairs page displaying almost correctly... I need to change my code a little bit for it to handle different numbers of generals, but besides that it should be good. Fixed some bugs in the civilian affairs Added the 'None' option to race/personality in the advanced guide section so that people could use the guide without seeing the bonuses or penalities of any of the races on their provs. People who select 'None' for both receive all spells and thief ops, and no bonuses besides those. For the sake of display, it says your race is human and your personality is the Shepherd. 12/15/03 Updated most of the guide for the new age. I still need to change the throne room display. I'm unfortunately in finals week so I won't be doing that for a few days. I am sorry about the lack of updates in such a long time. I can guarantee that this site will not be left to rot for quite some time. I added the whole advanced guide. You can select all of those options to make the guide display like your province does, or you can use the regular guide and have it be all-encompassing. I have been implementing PHP more and more into my guide. While you may not notice any difference, the guide is starting to behave more and more like the actual game. Correct output will be generated when you use the explore, build, science, military, mystics (except for crystal eye), and aid pages. The other pages will be finished shortly. After I get correct output from every page, I will insert the definitions onto each page. There is a LOT of code that has been added. Test it out, try to make it generate an error, and let me know when and how you do it. New Definitions: 3 New Slang: 1 09/15/03 Updated for the new age. Sorry so late, had a lot more to change since I've redone the site in PHP. Lemme know of any errors. Redid the site in PHP. 08/15/03 About time I updated this, eh? I added in definitions for the kingdom page and the politics page. Thanks to BloodRaven forcoding up some pages for me. The dragons and relations pages are soon to come. LittleBro did most of the honor definitions for me. I'm teaching myself PHP, which will hopefully let me make the pages more dynamic. First order of business will be to move this site to a new server. Then I home to php-ize my pages so they load faster with less lag. Late contributed a bunch of definitions, and earned himself a spot on the side menu. Many many bugs fixed. New Definitions: 25 New Slang Words: 2 07/04/03 Finished the Politics page. Check it for errors. Also, Farsy did the definition for monarch. Check that too. New definitions: 12 07/02/03 Many errors fixed. Thanks to everyone who proofread for me. 06/30/03 Updated for the new age. Have a look through and let me know if I missed anything. No new definitions up yet, though the politics ones will be online within a week. 06/09/03 I am very sorry about the lack of recent updates. I've been given a lot of material to work with and have been trying to put it all online in one massive update, but it required more than a month to write, edit, rewrite, proofread, and debug. Thankyou for your patience. The recent news page is up, mostly finished, and is ready for you guys to check it out. Make sure that everything is all right on the recent news page, and the index references to the definitions. It was ok on an initial review, but another check would be appreciated. Forums are next on my list. I have not yet decided how to deal with the genesis server. Currently, I am thinking that I will NOT many accomodations or changes, just because the service level limitations mean that they are not my target audience. A definition for the server would be appreciated in my forums... (*hint hint*) Lots of errors have been corrected, and I thank everyone for their input. I recently hit the 30k visitors mark. That is AWESOME. My second-most popular webpage ever has gotten less than 5000 hits in 7 years, and I've gotten 30,000 in 10 weeks. New Definitions: 52 New Slang Words: 2 04/23/03 I have been making a lot of updates on my local copy, and will be ptting them all up very shortly. School has been very demanding, but I am still working on this site. Bare with me. 04/02/03 Brother Green has given me a forum at UtopiaTemple. Those will be my main forums from now on. The Slang Dictionary is now online, with 110 definitions. To see it, enter the guide and click 'SLANG' on the left. 03/30/03 I'm still alive. I've received about 100 emails, 500 ICQ/MSNs/AIMs, and had a few posts in my forums that have found all sorts of typos and stuff like that. I'll be actually adding definitions shortly. I'll be linked by UtopiaTemple shortly. That is why there is an ad at the top of the page. I hadn't realized that UtopiaGuide.tk made a popup. I have a very effective pop-up blocker (Mozilla) and hadn't seen it. Sorry. 03/25/03 I've been stickied in the Utopia Strategy Forums! 03/24/03 Today was a big day. I went public. There was an enormous amount of traffic (2,207 hits in 24 hours, including 400 in the first hour). I received about 150(!) Instant messages, and only got two bad reviews =) LittleBro has been officially added to the site staff, thanks for your help. UtopiaGuide.tk has become our official URL, please make this the one you share with people. I was expecting about 1/10th the traffic I actually got, and my 15 mb/day transfer limit was almost completely used up. I had to cut the start page down from 35 kb to 300 bytes, now I should be able to handle much more traffic. The Guide has been updated for the new age. Thanks to Secretz, Bloodraven and BigJon for submitting definitions! Do your part! The only reason this site isn't complete is because not enough things have been defined! I apparently made a lot of errors, and people send me a whole bunch of messages. Thanks to all of you. Please post any further corrections in the forums. I may be moving the site to a different location, with faster servers, more space, and more bandwidth (possibly UtopiaTemple). Details to come. There is a possibility I may partner with the Utopia Thieves Guild. I have heard talk of this site running slowly on certain machines. If it takes more than 1/10th of a second to load a definition, let me know. New definitions: 6 03/23/03 The messages page was completed. The index in now up, so people can search for things in alphabetical order (if you see something not in the index, let me know. The non-self spells in the mystics section are now finished. Thanks to Muaddib for his help. Blood Raven gave me a bunch of suggestions for changes. Thanks BR. Check out his site. Changed the layout of this page, tell me if you like or dislike it. I went public at approximately 12 AM EST. The next few days (especially the input and submission of definitions from the viewers) will determine whether or not I bother to continue with this guide. New Definitions: 28 03/18/03 The preferences page is finished. Thanks Farsy for the definitions. Muaddib is now also writing definitions. He just did the non-self-spell definitions, I just have to edit them and they'll be online. New Definitions: 10 03/16/03 Completed most of the Aid page. Completed the War Room page. New Definitions: 6 03/14/03 The Kingdom Growth History page is now complete. New Definitions: 11 03/03/03 The Mystic Affairs page is now complete. I also cranked out the 'Our History' page. New Definitions: 40 (A new record!) 02/25/03 Just my luck, when I finally have time to work on the guide, the server is down so I don't have anything to work with. I managed to define some things anyways. New Definitions: 4 02/15/03 Sorry about the lull in definitions, I have been very sick and very busy recently. The forum pages and definitions are up, but the threads are not. New Definitions: 10 02/03/03 I have thrown together some forums, which can be found here The forum definitions will be up shortly. New Definitions: 0 01/31/03 More definitions have been put in throughout the guide. New Definitions: 28 01/28/03 I transferred most of the pages to my school email server, so that I wouldn't be limited to 15 mb of bandwidth per month. Let me know if any links don't work. I put in the civilian affars advisor and the science advisor. Definitions for those pages to follow. New Definitions: 9 01/22/03 The exploration page is up and complete. I put the war room page up, but no definitions on it yet. New Definitions: 7 01/18/03 Farsy finished the exploration definitions, those will be up tomorrow. Lightstorm did all the definitions for the self-spells, which I have put up now. I made the magic page. New definitions: 28 01/15/03 I wrote short blurbs about each race. Beckham is doing happiness levels. Belldandy is doing personalities. Lightstorm is doing magic. Farsy is doing the definitions for the exploration page. I put up the Internal Affairs Advisor page and the Behead this Advisor page. Belldandy helped me with the definitions for the personalities, which are now up. One definition shy of the 200 mark! New Definitions: 19 01/14/03 Ok, our writing staff has more than doubled in the past 24 hours. Now, I have Belldandy from Acumen University and Beckham also writing for me. I think I might just sit back and watch! =) Farsy did most of the write-ups for the military page. Which is now online. I wrote the javascript code to show definitions for items selected from lists. Farsy has been really busy. She cranked out the definitions for all of the thief ops. Well done Farsy! New Definitions: 29. 01/13/03 Ok, I put in a few hours of crunch time, rewrote some definitions I did the whole internal affairs advisor page. I think there are still a few formulas to put in and it isn't completely verbose, but it is good for now. I'm pretty sure I updated all definitions for round 19, but I'm not sure. Double-check for me. Great news! I might be partnering with Acumen University. Their students could help to provide me with definitions (mostly to replace my poorly written or incomplete ones), and their students and teachers could be able to use this site as a study guide. We just have a few more details to work out. Did some spelling/grammar checking, but I still have more to do. New Definitions: 34. 12/23/02 Sorry about the lull in updates. School has kept me busy, and I don't have a laptop, so there is not much I can do over xmas. I have a beginning to the 'Internal affairs advisor page, but it has not been posted yet. Lightstorm will be working on the magic definitions soon. I have been informed that this was posted in the HaJ private forums. I'd like to ask HaJ to please remove this from their forums until I have more to show. Please. If you would like to contribute though, email any definitions you come up with to datrevsta@excite.com 12/12/02 Sciences are done! Yay! I have been working on it over the past few days, but from now on, my news is gonna be done in chunks. I talked to Brother Green, and he said that he did not want to link to my site unless I putup his banners. But I'm a anti-spam, anti-popup, anti-banner kinda guy, so, no. Maybe if this site doesn't get much traffic. Total new definitions: 15. 12/06/02 I FINALLY finished the growth page minus one or two definitions. Thanks again to Lightstorm for all the typing. While there is still quite a bit left to do, the guide is almost usable. New definitions: 29. 12/04/02 More work on the buildings, should hopefully be done in a day or two. I promise. 12/03/02 Back from thanksgiving break, I will have all of the buildings up shortly. 11/19/02 Finished the news page, I have a couple events in there right now, eventually they will be assembled into examples of the different stuff you will see in the news. 11/18/02 Ok, I'm back, had midterms this past week. More work on the news page 11/15/02 Things are moving along at a good pace. I completed the side menu (finally) Lightstorm did some of the stuff for the Paper, I'm putting it together right now. There are going to be examples of all sorts of attacks and things like that. I'll upload it shortly once I remove locations and put in all the different types of attacks Lightstorm is working on sciences now 11/14/02 I created a 'growth' page. A lot of the messy code was cleaned up, this page should now work on most browsers I got Lightstorm's growth descriptions, and put them into the growth page. 11/13/02 I completed most of the side menu descriptions, I'll have it finished by tomorrow. 11/12/02 Completed the throne page, updated everything for round 16. Lightstorm says he has completed the buildings information (that was REALLY fast. Way to go, man), so that will all be up shortly. Completed about two-thirds of the side menu, the rest of it will be finished shortly. 11/11/02 The guide is back online, ready to take off. I've got a friend who goes by Lightstorm who will be helping me out with this. Updated almost everything from age 14 to age 16, now we can start making actual progress again. Added the browser settings module below. There will be a browser test there shortly