Disclaimer:I am fully aware that the "established" organisations will probably have much better, more sophisticated techniques in their arsenals for this sort of thing so this is aimed at the fledgling regions that are considering developing this stuff - if you are willing to share them guys please step forward.
These are all Pipe derived tools so should be considered as a starting point rather than a solution to your intel needs - you can get your pet developers to add the functionality that you desire
First up is :WA Applications
This simply queries the WA page and captures the nations that have applied to join the WA - it returns these records along with links to those same nations
"So what," I hear you say," I can get THAT info from looking at the WA page itself" and you would be quite correct.
However, subscribe to the RSS for this pipe and your RSS reader of choice will start to build up a history of which nations have applied - instead of having only who has applied in the last few minutes/hours you have access of who has applied since you started to track them
The links provided via this feed only point to the nation, but they can be reformatted to add the nation straight into your dossier - if your pet geek is on the ball he could probably arrange for this to happen automatically
Now the above may be considered as overkill by all but the most paranoid security chief so Admissions will probably be of more immediate use to most, recording those nations that have actually joined the WA. Again the link could be reworked to add the subject nations straight into your dossier if you so desired
Now if you do start using either of the above to populate your dossier it will soon become full of deadand/or dormant nations - so how to cleanse the data and make sure that you are only tracking nations in the WA or those applying for WA status? Simple, Departures will return links to those nations who, for whatever reason, have chosen to leave the WA - again with a subtle reworking of the links this could be modified to allow you to remove nations from your dossier that you no longer need to track
None of the above take into consideration WHERE the nation is at any of the given stages - the vast majority of WA activity no doubt goes on in the feeders and many of the nations there play no part in extra-regional events - but to filter out those would require another layer of coding rather than the simple lists that these three pipes supply. If you want to take this onto that next stage please be my guest & please feel free to return to this thread and share!
Remember, if we co-operate there will come a point when there is real danger that peace will break out!
Ok, I didn't knew this until now. Thanks for the info
