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Would it be feasible to pass Age names through the standard display filter for the shard status page, so that (for example) we see "D'ni-Ae'gura" instead of "city" and "So-and-so's Relto" instead of "Personal"?

Oh, I'd like to see that, too, it's however quite complicated:
Even the individual game server managing an age instance currently does not know the user-visible name of the age, let alone the central tracking server (which coordinates the other servers and forwards messages between them, for example for inter-age chat). So, as usual it would be technically doable, but a whole lot of work

On a semi-related note...

Diafero: could you add a redirect link in this forum section to the Shard Status page? Just as a quick way for people via their browsers to see who's online.

The status page is actually still a WIP and waiting for some awesomeness by Tweek. That will be done once it's ready (and I think Hoikas will have to do it, or I will just add a global announcement - I can not add redirect links).

diafero wrote:Oh, I'd like to see that, too, it's however quite complicated:
Even the individual game server managing an age instance currently does not know the user-visible name of the age, let alone the central tracking server (which coordinates the other servers and forwards messages between them, for example for inter-age chat). So, as usual it would be technically doable, but a whole lot of work

If you're able to run a function on the strings before printing them, I have a function from prpl-uruki that "prettifies" the Age names.
It uses libHSPlasma's plString right now, but it should be easy enough to port to std::string or char*.
http://dev.zrax.net/hg/prpl-uruki/file/c72db1067593/src/kiUtils.cpp

Oh, of course that would be doable, but I definitely do not want an age filename <-> visiable name table in the server. It's already bad enough taht each linking responder decides about that itself...

This is by no means a good solution, but I've been using a greasemonkey script I hacked together.

Can that script perhaps use the file(s) shipped with the Offline KI? They contain a mapping for *all* the ages.

That would be the optimal solution, but the script would have to read in and parse those files, which is already probably more than I can handle, and before it could do that it would have to locate the files, which would probably require displaying a file selection dialog and storing persistent data, which is definitely beyond me.

So, uh, feel free.

Or it could fetch the files from the web and cache them somewhere...

Last time I did greasemonkey scripting is three and a half years ago. The script I wrote back then was rather largish though (some thousand lines) and it even had an auto-updater... but I forgot most of what I learned . But, I think if I spend time on this, I'd rather do it right... and that's a huge task, not sure when I am motivated enough for it (not to mention the time factor).

But, anyway, I think your script is a good solution for those that can not stand the filenames in that list!