Populous Reporter or PopReporter is an abandoned application TedTycoon wrote in C# at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. The application can record statistical changes in a Populous game such as the total number of followers, buildings and spell shots for each player throughout a whole game. It stores this in a report file which can then be opened by PopReporter where it shows all the statistics at any point in time of the game as well as being able to draw population charts.

I was mainly inspired by the game statistics that is shown at the end of a game in Age of Empires II. The game shows columns of each thing such as total buildings destroyed for each individual player and highlights the winner in each column (normally the person with the highest total). It also showed you a population percentage with symbols indicating when there were attacks and large changes.

 

 

PopReporter tries to mimic that by showing the totals of all the different types of followers, buildings and statistics for each player and highlights the winning player for each column. You can select what the current time is in the game allowing you to see the statistics half way through a game. It also displays certain averages like each player's favourite spell etc. It also draws three different population charts; one showing the population as a percentage, one showing population with the maximum being 800 and one showing the population with the maximum being the highest maximum that there was in that specific game.

TedTycoon possibly lost interest to this due to other things in life therefore the project remains half finished. One of the most difficult things about this project was drawing the charts where you need to calculate the correct sizes and locations of where the lines and captions go.