Hello to all readers,
After 2 years of hard work, he is finally mature enough and he is ready to show himself (he is a bit shy). We have the great pleasure to present you :
Synopsis
Created in November 2020 for the LC team by HartyShow (developer and designer, but very little graphic designer 
) and Pelite (co-designer and tester), TK-Tools was originally just a tool for creating offensive plans. At that time, as Gettertools users ourselves, we were looking for an easier and faster way to design offensive plans on a more modern and practical interface. Always in search of optimization, it gradually became a complete project (and more and more complete every day) that we want today to make accessible to all the Travian community.
With a dozen servers to his credit, TK-Tools knew how to please his beta-testers. All the teams having used it decided to continue to use it on their next servers. TK-Tools has now reached a sufficiently stable and complete version and that's why we are presenting it to you today.
Please note that we are French, so the translation may not be perfect. The French version of this post was published a few hours ago at this address : Lancement de TK-Tools : digne successeur de Gettertools ?.
What exactly is TK-Tools?
TK-Tools is a website containing an extremely complete set of tools helping every kingdom to organize and optimize itself using as few external tools as possible. Tired of juggling a Gettertools, several spreadsheets and several other online documents? TK-Tools provides everything you need in one place!
How does it differ from the famous and ancestral Gettertools?
For the past 15 years, Gettertools has been a staple in kingdom management. As the game and team strategies evolve, it is now outdated in terms of functionalities and outmoded in terms of interfaces.
TK-Tools presents itself as a more modern alternative, adapted to current strategies. It is more oriented towards team management and grouped actions. It includes many tools that feed off each other, both useful for group operations and for daily administration.
The diversity of the calculators is not yet very rich but makes our future goals.
What are the strengths of TK-Tools?
First of all: TK-Tools is intuitive, simple to use and easy to interface. As you can probably see from the logo at the beginning of this post, we are not graphic designers and we believe that "the best is the enemy of the good" (P. Etchebest - 2016). The watchword is therefore simplicity.
Offensive management
Creating quick and easy offensive plans:
First of all, it is possible to create several offensive plans at the same time and to duplicate past plans. There are three key steps to creating a plan:
- the choice of attacking kingdoms and players and targets,
- the assignment of attackers to targets, which can be done automatically,
- the management of the orders of passage and the details of the waves.
The interface is colorful and allows you to quickly see the available players as well as the content of each attack (type of attack, with or without off, with or without heroes, with or without siege, ...). In addition, there is a lot of information to quickly identify errors and imbalances in your conception.
Easier visualization of offensive plans:
Three different views are available to analyze your operation and detect the slightest flaw or error: a classic summary table, a strategic table and a detailed view by attacker. All the information and colors will allow you once again to quickly track down the slightest inattention.
Complete offensive planner:
The planner is also very colorful and structured to present information in an efficient, concise and very complete way. Your players can confirm/confirm their availability for each attack before the day of the attack and once the attack is over, confirm/confirm the actual attack.
Defensive management
Subcontracting rights to sitters and managers:
Sitters are important in TK-Tools, they have non-negligible rights on the co-managed account. They can declare their attacks, update their troops, participate in defenses, generate spies (via counter spy plans) and consult their planner (only defensive sendings and spies). Team leaders also have all these rights and more for all other team members.
Facilitated attack(s) declaration and team declaration analysis:
On TK-Tools, all players (and their sitters) can declare their attacks manually or by copy/paste from the Rally Point. Entering a launch time for each attack provides a reliable estimate of the attacker's movement speed and Tournament Square.
All the statements of the players of a team are then listed with three different views: by target, by attacker and by strategic view. The aim is to facilitate the analysis by the managers. It is possible to insert notes and opinions to keep a history of analyses and threads of thoughts.
Counter spy plans to recover valuable information:
The analysis of statements can be greatly facilitated by setting up counter spies. The principle is simple: first, all attackers and potential targets must be captured with their estimated times of impact, travel speeds and Tournament Square levels (thanks to the attack declarations).
Then, team members can generate their spy plan, which is designed to intercept opposing armies seconds before they are sent to each of the potential targets: lots of "potential" but caution is advised in these situations! Keeping an eye on the XP of the heroes to know at what times the heroes were or were not present in the attacking villages and thus get clues about fakes and real attacks.
Defense request management:
You can create defense requests by specifying the target to be defended, the arrival time and some other parameters. In response, members can easily see which villages they (or their sitters) can and at what speeds. They can then enter the number of units sent to create an alert in their planner.
Full defensive/spy planner:
On TK-Tools, the planner is not just for attackers; defenders and spies also have entries on their planner with all the necessary details as well as alarms so they don't miss their sendings. For spies, there is also a confirmation/infirmation system for shipments to inform leaders of the progress of counter spy plans.
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(incoming in few days). Waiting this update, I will manage that manually so you can still have access to TK-Tools
