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@ZeTa:

Are userscripts allowed?

(brower run, client side JS/jQuery scripts)

I'm not talking about scripts that would automatically play parts or all the game for you based on a set of conditions and rules. (so, not an AI)

Just ease of life improvements that would do:

These scripts would *not*:

Basically, I'm talking about uTools (parts of which I wrote /brag xD) and to a lesser extent Utopia Angel, that people use for Utopia - only such scripts for Visual Utopia.

There's already people posting and using various Attack Calculator spreadsheets in Excel, and I remember writing and releasing publicly a 3rd party tool for building many years ago (outdated now). I bet there's people using various tools/scripts right now.

uTools and Utopia Angel (and more) are allowed in Utopia, so please allow us to use similar tools here. Again, I'm not talking about the forbidden scripts that some people use in Utopia to automatically play/farm the game for them (even when away from computer), or excessive use of automation. I'm just talking about reducing some of the more tedious parts of the game, and changing the interface a bit more to my liking.

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The only problem I see with it is that some people might consider this "cheating", if it gets too elaborate. I don't really see that many things which could be significantly improved/elaborated upon. Thus the players using this would not have an unfair advantage over the others, but would just save a bit of time and effort, as I said earlier.

I don't like releasing unfinished/unpolished/unoptimized stuff, but once I get some stuff down, I'll make suggestions and offer useful code bits to the public, if you allow it - some of which could be my official suggestions for the game.