Tyranny

Tyranny v1.3

Most players are just regular Leaders of a race, but to be a real Tyrant you've got to control the flow of information very, very tightly! The one who knows the most has the best chance to win. So the whole deal is to squeeze the most information out of your game data.

Download Tyranny now. (77 kB)

Tyranny will read your game data and compare your empire to all other empires using easy ratios and percentages. It will keep track of the maximum number of ships, planets, starbases. It will also show you the differences between the game data of the previous turn, the current game and the maximum number of ships, planets etc. recorded.

Tyranny was written to be called from a DOS batch file every turn, and writes the statistics to a plain text output file. It will therefore run smoothly in the background and you only have to view this output file to get the most recent info. Tyranny offers information no other VGAP util gives. An ultimate challenge for the statistic freaks.

Tyranny is the third in a series VGAP utils called Timo's Tools.
I consider Tyranny to be ShareWare. This ShareWare version available for downloading here will be fully functional in till august 1997. After that it will only work for all first 25 turns of any game.
An unlimited version is available by me for an equivalent of US$ 5. Please read the information enclosed in the Tyranny archive file for details. Another option is to register it online - see below.

Tyranny works for:

DOS and Windows
Planets.exe v3.0 and Winplan.exe v3.5x
Host.exe and Phost.exe

This release includes Hypertext formatted (HTML) docs. Unzip the TDOC_HTM.ZIP file into a separate directory.

Tyranny v1.3 is compatible with Host 999.

Update info:

v1.3    January 1998     * added DOS paths to game directory
                         * added default config name
                         * added custom race names
                         * bugfix: races that were not properly
                           killed/killraced would cause shifting PBP
                           scores and garbage values.
                         * added user-definable PBP message header in
                           the config file to enable Tyranny to recognize
                           the PBP message in non-English host versions.

v1.2    May 1997         * added a config file with to give the user more
                           control over Tyranny.
                         * modified the command line interface
                         * bugfix: games without capital ships caused
                           Tyranny to crash (Wandering Tribes scenario)

v1.1    April 1997       * added an option to select the races to display in
                           the Stats.txt file.
                         * modified the command line interface
                         * added Priority Build Point parameters

v1.0    November 1996    Initial Release

Download the shareware version now: tyran13.zip. (77 kB)

If you would like to register both Tyranny and ShipSoul, there is a special package that included both the latest versions of ShipSoul and Tyranny: VGAP GamePack ST.
You can do the registration on-line on the Internet at the ShareIt registration service at: http://www.shareit.com/programs/100692.htm.
Alternatively, you can go to http://www.shareit.com and enter the program number there: 100692.

The registration fee for the package is $20 (20 US dollars). Upon registering you will receive a registered version of ShipSoul and a registered version of Tyranny by uuencoded e-mail. These unrestricted versions does not have the build-in shareware limit of 25 turns and will work on game data of Planets v3.0 for DOS and Winplan v3.5 for Windows.

Register Tyranny and ShipSoul online!
Visit the ShareIt Online Shareware Registration Service

Customers in the US may also place their order by calling their toll-free order number 1-800-903-4152, available 24 hours a day. Please make sure to have your program ID #100692 ready. Please note: this number is for orders only and is not qualified to provide customer service, technical support or to give information on the status of your order in any way. Please contact ShareIt directly at their European office (+49 221 2407279) for these inquiries.