Intel

It costs nothing to gather

The client already fetches map data when you log in. Grepobot indexes what is already arriving rather than asking for more, so building this history adds no requests at all. Indexing is always on; the layers you draw over it are the setting.

Silence, drawn on the map

Three overlays: score, alliance colour and label, and silence — a pill on each town reading something like 9.4k, twelve days or more, shrinking. The full sentence is in the game's own tooltip, along with the town's and the player's points and how they have moved.

Players are flagged rather than scored: abandoned, dormant, collapsing, expanding, shrinking, protected, unravelling, surging. Listed, never averaged into a single number that would hide which of those it is.

A table you can act from

The Intel tab is a table of towns and of players, with distance as a column and filters for all, ghost, dormant and recently changed, plus 'my ocean'. Every row is somewhere you can go.

Which is the point of building it as a table rather than only as a map layer: a colour on a tile tells you a town is quiet, and a sorted list tells you which of the quiet ones is closest to the town you would send from.