Getting Started

1 Getting the Browser

If you don't have the Firefox browser installed, you need to do that first.

Install Firefox

Once you have Firefox installed, us it to open this page for step 2.

2 Installing Greasemonkey

If you don't have Greasemonkey installed in Firefox, you need to do that before any scripts can be installed in step 3.

Install Greasemonkey

3 Installing Astro Empires Tools

A. You have Firefox running and using it to view this page.
B. Greasemonkey is installed and enabled. Enabled meaning the monkey face on the bottom right of the browser is smiling and not grey.

If A & B are both true: Install Astro Empires Tools

If Greasemonkey is not enabled, right click the monkey face, select 'Enabled'. If you right click the face again, you should see a check mark next to 'Enabled'.

You know AET is running when the options link is visible at the top right of your AE screen.

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If you click that link, it opens the options, the page you turn things on and off. But lets not go there now. we need to set AE 'Display Settings' first.

AE Display Settings

Open your AE Display Settings, which is under Account > Display. Set the following items.

A. Display Width set to '1000'
or 'Increase Maximum Width' will not work.

B. Skin set to 'AE Original'
or nothing will work.

Now that you have your AE settings correct, click that link near the top for AE Tools options.

Now scroll down to the 'Format Numbers' setting.

C. Format Numbers set to the same delimeter and decimal as your AE game settings.
just for consistent number formatting for everyhting.

AET Quick Setup

Now things are working fine, but we need to set a few details for everything to work as expected.

1. Highlight players - For no player highlighting, uncheck this box and skip the rest of step 1.
Scroll down to the Highlight Players section and find 'My Guild Tag', enter your guild tag with brackets. Also, for 'Allied/Pact Guild Tags' enter all friendly guilds, seperated by commas, and for 'Enemy Guild Tags' enter all hostile guilds, seperated by commas.

On 'Individual Player color Overrides' no guild tags are used, only the player name. player name=color seperated by commas.

2. Colors - Color names may be used in place of the hex value. Color helper is near the bottom of the configuration page. Hex values must start with a # symbol followed by 2 digits each for red,green,blue.

3. Program Learning - Some information may be needed on pages different than the one you are viewing, so we need to visit a few pages so the script can learn what it needs to function 100%.

A. Visit the Economy page.

B. Visit the Trade page.

C. Visit the Structures page.

Setup Complete. You can visit the configuration page and make changes as often as you like. Changes take affect immediately.

You can now play AE with extra tools, or lets look over some OPTIONS first.