AnkiEmperor - Build your own empire (aka AnkiWarrior 2.0)
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Hi,
some of you might remember AnkiWarrior. Well, I have made a new plug-in to overcome some design drawbacks; it is called AnkiEmperor. You can find it in Anki's shared plugins.
Here is a copy of the description text:
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AnkiEmperor is a plug-in to add another level of fun to reviewing cards in Anki by providing a game-like scenario.
With AnkiEmperor, you will earn gold for each card answered. This gold can be used to unlock new cities and build constructions (such as parks, skyscapers, famous sightseeing spots) within these cities.
As you earn more gold and build more constructions, your rank will improve.
How long will it take you to become Emperor?
AnkiEmperor is an extensive enhancement of AnkiWarrior. I have decided to create AnkiEmperor after a lot of community input on AnkiWarrior.
Please note that after installing/updating AnkiEmperor, the first start of Anki might take a few seconds longer as usual as the AnkiEmperor database is created/updated.
Tested on Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.10. On some systems the font size is a little bit too big. This will be fixed in a future release.
Features of AnkiEmperor include:
- Earn gold by answering cards and build constructions
- Your rank advances based on gold and constructions
- Fanfare sound and message on major achievements
- Scoreboard to compare with other players (Total and average score)
- Initially 7 cities in Japan
- Additional countries, cities and constructions in future updates
- Automatic update check for new AnkiEmperor version
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For the future I will probably first fix any bugs which will come up in the first days after the release. Soon afterwards, I want to create a webpage where everybody can upload his/her favourite spots, cities and countries and integrate these with AnkiEmperor. Would be nice to have the whole world to choose from.
This way, AnkiEmperor might also be useful as some kind of tourist guide, we can all discover places we didn't know about.
The problem with AnkiWarrior was that it was fixed from the beginning. Now with AnkiEmperor, there are no limits and additional constructions, cities or even countries can be added with later updates.
You can use AnkiWarrior and AnkiEmperor at the same time, although I personally think AnkiEmperor is more interesing and there is no need to use AnkiWarrior anymore.
I would be really glad to get any feedback about AnkiEmperor. Please do not hestitate to contect me here or via e-mail. AnkiEmperor is based on a lot of ideas wich came up in the AnkiWarrior thread. Thank you for that! I hope you will enjoy this new plug-in.
Additionally I have created a Website to add new cities (for now only in Japan) and constructions: http://ankiemperor.hallojapan.de/viewCities.php
If you have favourite spots in Japan which you would like to see in AnkiEmperor, please add them using the website! They will be included in an update release of AnkiEmperor, which means more constructions to build for everybody 
Proxx
Last edited by Proxx (2012 March 31, 5:48 am)
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Hey,
thanks for the nice replies! Glad to see the feeback is positive
To address some questions:
@HonyakuJoshua: Yes, I programmed it myself. Took quite some time... but I learned a lot of python en route.
@Copycatken: There is no syncing in AnkiEmperor right now. It is planned for a feature release but it doesn't have highest priority right now.
If you have any suggestion or feature requests, please let me know!
On a side note, I must say I was quite surprised to see people with around 5000 gold in the scoreboard already. Guess I need to add new constructions faster than I anticipated. Or maybe I am not reviewing enough cards myself 
Hi,
currently that message pops up with a 2% chance when answering a card. It is a kind of prototype for a reward given to you when you did well, like studied a long time, answered 10 cards in a row correctly and so on. But that algorithm isn't implemented yet.
I can see that it is confusing to get a random reward, I'll try to implement something nicer as soon as possible
Is there a difference between the number of gold given when you answer hard vs good vs easy? Could be nice to make the randomizer that gives out gold have slightly higher probability of getting triggered when you answer easy or good. So a "hard" would be 2%, good would be 3% and easy would be 4%.
My deck is pretty mature so I only get about 20-30 cards a day. I can't grow my empire as fast as you guys 
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Could you consider adding a per-deck disable feature? I have 4 decks, one of which is for German, and the cards there go much, much faster than Japanese (300 cards for 15 minutes). I tried disabling Emperor for it, but afterwards realized, halfway through my Jap deck, that the setting was anki-wide and all my decks were affected
Also, is there a way to have AnkiWarrior not overtake the right-hand panel thing? (Without disabling it.)
I'll look into it.
Fadeway wrote:
Could you consider adding a per-deck disable feature? I have 4 decks, one of which is for German, and the cards there go much, much faster than Japanese (300 cards for 15 minutes). I tried disabling Emperor for it, but afterwards realized, halfway through my Jap deck, that the setting was anki-wide and all my decks were affected
Thanks for the info, this is actually a bug. The setting was meant to be only deck wide. I'll fix it in the next version.
Awesomesauce 
I didn't really get into ankiwarrior, but I like this one so far.
Last edited by Zgarbas (2012 March 20, 6:43 am)
Also, is there a way to have AnkiWarrior not overtake the right-hand panel thing? (Without disabling it.)
I tried to look into this, but I don't understand exactly what you mean. Are you taking about AnkiWarrior overtaking AnkiEmperor? Or did you mean AnkiEmperor? In The AnkiEmperor settings, you could disable "AutoOpen" (for each deck), which would keep AnkiEmperor running in the background but prevent it from automatically opening on deck load.
Fadeway wrote:
Could you consider adding a per-deck disable feature?
The bug is now fixed in 1.0.1 (available for download in the shared plugins, you should also get an info in AnkiEmperor on your next start) and deck options are now only deck wide
In general it would be interesting to know how you feel about the progress you're making n AnkiEmperor. Too slow, fast or just right? That would be interesting for adjustments of the algorithm. Also the amount (i.e. number of cards) you study each day would be intersting.
Last edited by Proxx (2012 March 20, 1:32 pm)