Re: PIA - the Planetarion Intelligance Agency
Thing is when parsing a scan (news scan or jgp) or a galaxy status screen it records coordinates of planets sending out-of-gal-defence. But since planet and ruler name of those planets are not included in the information given on those screens, they are not entered in the database by the parser. My solution would be to have the database search the PA data dumps for those coords and find the ruler and planet names and enter them into the DB. When a planet is moved, the PA dump and the database would not match (same ruler and planet names, but different coordinates (or vice versa)), and the database would be updated with the new coords. This might be doable, but what happens if an old scan is entered into the mix, taken before a planet moved? Could lead to problems... But then again, that's true also for the current system where you change coordinates manually so...
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