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What's Hyperiums Launcher ?
It's a java utility that analyses Hyperiums data and displays them graphically. It also has a planet search engine, a fleet calculator and some other features. It only uses public informations provided by DaGod, so you don't need to enter your login and your password.
 
Before launching Hyperiums Watcher for the first time :
Please check you have a JVM properly installed. If you don't know what it is, follow this instructions :
  • go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html
  • click on DOWNLOAD in the JRE column, at the row corresponding to your plateform
  • accept the term of the license by clicking on the ACCEPT button
  • click on the link "Download j2re", the filesize should be displayed just after this link (FYI it's around 10Mb for Windows plateform)
  • install the downloaded file
then your system should be able to start Hyperiums Watcher.
 

How to launch Hyperiums Watcher ?
On Windows plateform, you can use the hw.bat script or simply click on hw.jar (but in that case, you may have some memory size troubles).
On Linux plateform, you can use the hw.sh script.
 
Directory contents :
planets contains the daily planetlists updated by DaGod. Each file in this directory must follow this pattern : planets-YYYYMMDD.txt
players contains the daily planetlists updated by DaGod.
maps contains the daily jpeg maps updated by DaGod.
data contains generated files that you shouldn't edit. At the first launch of HW, a file is generated for each day. If you're installing a new version of HW, it's better to not re-use this files.
 
Warning :
Do not try to stop Hyperiums Watcher before it has downloaded the seven files (planetlist, playerlist and the jpeg maps), i.e before its main window is appeared. If there are some network troubles, please check there's no incomplete file before restarting HW.
 
How to use it :
Here are information about the less intuitive features :
  • the delta information is the number of tag switches between two alliance groups. Delta0 is between red group and green group, delta1 is between green group and blue group and delta2 is between blue group and red group.
  • you're always able to zoom in and out on any map or any graph by using the mouse wheel, whatever the mouse mode is (select/move/zoom). In fact, I've added the mouse modes especially for those who don't have a wheel on their mouse.
  • there's a contextual menu (with right mouse button click) on the result table of the search engine, which can add an alliance to one of the three alliance groups.
  • there's the same contextual menu on the alliance ranking table.
  • there's also a contextual menu on the blackholes table, which gives you the ability to see the history of the blackholed planet.
I think the other features are quite easy to use and don't need real explanations.
 
Known bugs :
keyboard problems with planet search engine on linux plateform