I'll look into it. I'm sure I'll be able to fix the zombie worlds. But I'm hoping to find the root cause.

I've added an experimental map option to view military forces. At the top, you'll see a menu labeled "Standard". If you click, you can switch to "Military" view, which shows space forces and ground forces for each world. [The third option, "Resources" is not yet implemented.] Let me know if you find...

I've updated the server with the new Siege Mechanics. They turned out to be much more complicated than I thought, so there's still a few rough edges. Here's how it works (roughly): 1. If you're conquering independent worlds, nothing changes (no siege). 2. If you're conquering another empire's world,...

George, I'm thinking that more savvy players will be able to gain some unfair advantages over others with this. It's possible to automate many of the more tedious parts of the game, such as: 1. Deploying reinforcements to the capital from all the shipyards (what I'm doing) 2. Looking for worlds at ...

I've published the JavaScript source on GitHub, in case you want to look at it for reference: https://github.com/kronosaur/Anacreon-Service

Look here: https://github.com/kronosaur/Anacreon-S ... /Site/code

FYI: I definitely support this effort. The official policy on scripts/bots is designed to be permissive, as long as it does not interfere with the experience for other players. More here: https://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=8610

FYI: I just updated the Terms of Service to include a section on writing scripts and bots. The section reads: You may write non-commercial scripts and/or bots to access any of our services, provided you adhere to community rules: don't try to gain unauthorized access, don't degrade the service for o...

Sorry about that. I tried to limit the rate of requests being made after the server went down at ~7:30 CDT. I didn't mean to intentionally tax the server with a malicious intent. No problem. I never thought it was malicious. And I'm glad I had a chance to harden the server. Additionally, I have cre...

Anacreon is back up again.

I've added some basic limits that should, I hope keep the server going. In practice, you should never hit a limit, even if running a bot (unless the bot misbehaves). But if you do run into a limit, please report it (either here or in Ministry).

While it's bad that unrestrained use of the API overtaxed the server, I think it's good that players are finding new ways to engage with the game. As the player base expands, most likely the use of scripts to call the API will expand and start to tie into concerns that I think Finnian expressed las...

I think someone wrote a bot to deploy fleets; the server was getting hit with dozens of requests per second. I need to add some countermeasures to drop requests if they happen too often--otherwise it will overload the server. I'll bring it back up as soon as I have the countermeasures written. Hopef...

Glad you like them! These should be live in the Era 4 Alpha game. Refresh the browser, if necessary.

Just read over it, seems like a step in the right direction. So invading ANY world controlled by another player will result in a "siege", but invading independent ones won't, correct? This will go a long way towards preventing the so well-known "blitz" attacks that can topple even the largest empir...

An immediate question I have from the spec is: what's the advantage of allowing multiple simultaneous sieges? If the besiegers will ultimately have to fight it out anyway, why not have this occur at the time that the second invader lands, rather than a cycle later after one of the two besiegers has...

I've posted a proposal that is in line with WTVd0's ideas here: https://ministry.kronosaur.com/record.hexm?id=70283

Basically, I'd like to introduce the concept of a "siege", which is equivalent to "rebellion" except if the siege succeeds, the world changes control to the attacking empire.