Currently I have a simple little module for my org's bot that outputs some useful tower information:

Which has been somewhat useful, but what would be the most useful would be to have the ability for a higher ranking member to do something such as:

!tower add 60 90 Greater Omni Forest

which would get stored so when someone did !towers command, it would output the above quoted information as well as the org's current land tower ranges, and locations. i.e.:

Current Tower Locations for Organization 'Pretty Pony Patrol'
Land Range       Location
60 - 90             Greater Omni Forest

This *could* later on even be automated, so that land lost or won by the org would automatically adjust the locations and land ranges - this would obviously be quite a bit more coding work, however.

I would do all these things myself but, again, very limited knowledge... guess i'll just give some ideas... : o

Just some ideas:

 * if an org is attacked, add them as owner of the LCA
 * if an org lost a war, set the owner of the LCA to empty
 * if an org lost a field, set the owner of the LCA to empty
 * save the orgname of the org whichs wins a war (not as owner)
 * allow to save gas change time, so the module can conduct the
    gas states (they won't change as long the field isn't lost)
 * maybe assume gas change time when somebody attacks a field w/o known time (and mark it as unconfirmed)
 * include sow gas changes (Do someone know how it exactly work? Is the gas lowered for 1h from first attack or last attack?)
 * an interface to query for tower fields by orgs, by faction, by a certain gas level, by level range, ...
 * link it with the battle/victory commands to show all attacks on a certain tower field


These are just my two cent when I thought about towerfield tracing some weeks ago... but nothing coded yet

If the owner is set, it will be always 100% correct. If no owner set, the state of the field is just unknown. This assumes the module can always detect the correct field which is attacked. This sometimes failes: on DNW Galway Shire #4 is not opened but attacks on field #3 are detected as attacks on #4 by bebot.

My idea was to set the owner of a field if:
 - the field is attacked
 - someone tells the bot the owner

If a field was destroyed by an org it should become an unknown status (with a link to the last tower message of the field . I think it happens more often that the winners don't build themself.

Another point crossed my mind: the tower gas times are reset on server restarts imho, so the module should track the server status via the xml file and reset the timers on serverup.