Currently, you can see a LIVE/DEAD country's PREVIOUS countries (reverse lookup).

Has there been any thought about a DEAD country's current/subsequent countries?

Basically a forward lookup of what is currently in place.

Example:

Current:

Country of Y (#2)
DEAD
Restarted from Country of X (#1)


Suggestion:

Country of X (#1)
DEAD
Restarted AS Country of Y (#2)


This could later be chained like the following:

Country of X (#1)
DEAD
Restarted AS Country of Y (#2)
DEAD
Restarted AS Country of Z (#3)
LIVE

Um, I think the way it runs in the database is only on the 2nd countries creation does it fill in that data, so it would require a bit of database adjusting to keep track forwardly.

How about adding it to the API then so that us 3rd party devs can extrapolate the data ourselves? :)

It could make an excellent metric for some war stat(s).

+1

I think backwards lookup in the API would be epic for 3rd party devs. I guess either forward or backward would be fine, or both, but it shouldnt be necessary.

Im thinking all that would be needed is an extra column in the ranks update, called restartof#, with default value of 0 for all originals(including latestarts) then for all restarts its the number of the country it restarted from instead. This would be enough for 3rd party devs to track everything through their tools automatically.

Agreed. If we don't have the resources to develop a forward lookup, at least post the data in the API updates so someone with the motivation will work on it for a 3rd party tool.

implications:

1) Tracking restarts of known suiciders.
2) warstats
3) ?

3) general user friendlyness

- I think one of the main issues with ee is its extremely clunky to navigate.

For instance when you go to the scores list and see a country you might want to look up its news, message it, send an alliance offer to it, spy it, grab it, or just search it... why isnt this an option right there on the scores list? there should be a link to spy it, or search it, or check its news, or message it, right there. instead you have to remember or copy its number, if you remember it wrong there could be a disaster of some kind, and even if you dont its so fcking 90s navigation.

Maybe create a new [SUG] thread about it. :D

With the current UI, I'd think a right-click (on the country name or #) -> context menu for things you can do to interact with that country would be cool.

That way, you don't have a million links cluttering up the screen if you don't want them.

^^ I like that idea a lot..

But, alas.. no development..

I think that can be done with a browser plugin that anyone can make, no?

I didn't think about that, but yes, a plugin could be made to do that.