MapSmart for the perfectcompetition.net gamer

What is MapSmart?
MapSmart is my attempt to bring power and fun to the perfectcompetition.net gamer.
As the name suggests, I started out focusing on the map. But there's more. As listed below, I have some excel projects under development, and only the last one is in anything resembling presentable status. However the future of MapSmart will most likely develop into something different from anything I have begun so far, and most of the things I have started will probably never be completed. That's how it works, you try things out, most directions fail, and through an iterative process, you make something better, something perhaps unanticipated.


1)Time Estimator
estimates real world time at which periodic in-game events occur.
this is useful if you want to log in just prior to the turn of the game-year, or other similarly periodic in-game event.
Status:Under Development

2)Gamer Query
collects information about the last time each player signed in, indicating when they are active. This would be useful for selecting other players to create 24/7 management teams. Or to time the pricing or other action against a competitor.
Status:Under Development

3)Production Planner
given constant information about the relationship between the Inputs and Outputs of each good in the production process, and given also the updated information about supply shocks, automatically and immediately show which goods are desireable to produce to avoid producing a good which requires an input which is currently under a supply shock. As an added feature, list the required buildings to produce a selected final good.
Status: Some data collected, development not begun.

4)Apartment Building Planner
Shows where the best place is to put an apartment building
Status:not started, tools in place

5)Anything Locator/MapSmart Proximity
Take whatever jumbled manually pasted map data there is from the game in a microsoft excel sheet, and automatically clean it and digest it and remove duplicates and produce a big map. Then allow this map to be searched and allow the user to paint a perimeter around the desired objects of a desired perimeter square distance. This is useful if you are trying to look at the big picture of where things are located, especially relative to each other. This one was(and is) a bit of a chore. I learned some new tricks, namely how to retrieve the tips that pop up when you scroll over.
Status:working, pre-beta

6)Real Estate Price Checker/Theoretical Leasehold Price
Avoid overpaying for land or selling too cheaply by checking what the game's government would offer you as a leasehold price if that plot of land were being sold by the in game government. The theoretical leasehold price. This is nice also for seeing at a glance where the rock-bottom prices are, and also where an apartment might be best(see #4 above).
Status: beta, some polishing make-pretty work possible.

I intend to provide a free copyrighted version of some of this online soon.