Read population directly from the game

[suhrmann]

Read population directly from the game

[NiHoel]

A few remarks:

• You do not need to support version 1, so looking at line 933 to 976 is sufficient.
• Everything is based on the GUIDs of the assets (see params.js), so you may need to keep a lookup table.
• Every time you issue a request, a new screenshot of the game is evaluated (so most requests won't return any information)
• You can even retrieve a list of all islands seen so far in the statistics screen (which I currently do not use)

[suhrmann]

As the Python API does not provide all data - maybe C++/C# egomeh / anno1800-scripting-api does.

It looks quite promising.

[suhrmann]

Thank you very much for your infomration!
With "screenshot" you don't mean an image but the technical state of the game, right?

[NiHoel]

I mean an image. I'm not reading from memory.

[Cahllagerfeld]

I just tested the UXEnhancer for Population Reading:

1. As @NiHoel said, its based on the GUIDs of this file. This means we would have to refactor the whole Dataset we currently use to work with the Data we get from the Server.

2. In the reference Repo where the Enhancer is already used, the Data are received by polling every second. My suggestion would be to implement a "recording function" which starts polling and ends polling when the record button is clicked again. This way the caused networktraffic shouldnt get that huge.