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PK Satellite Overlay available

If you haven’t noticed yet, google satellite map overlay is now available on latest android PK clients.
(Check preferences to enable or disable satellite map overlay.)
pk-sat
Apple users will need to wait for approval of the already submitted app in Apple’s AppStore.

PK Advisor updated to reflect specialization changes

Extra subpage with PK Tradepost prices added where leveled items, gold and food are separated.

And a minor update to the PK Advisor and PK Product Chain Browser subpage changing the bonus values for each specialization to reflect the announced update as mentioned in article 100 of Parallel Kingdoms Update Hut.

New items “Flag Decorations and Pet Faces” will be added to PK Trader a while later after the update is available and some trades occurred at the trade posts.

Trade Post only flags (sold for food):
flag_artflag_sword_and_skullflag_unicornflag_steelflag_totemflag_battle_axeflag_dog_houseflag_easter

only limited time (for 500 food in TP, and for free for 10 new players celebrating the 500,000 user on PK.)
flag_500k

Craftable flags:
flag_floraflag_crystalflag_rubyflag_leatherflag_diamondflag_ice

additional dog faces:
wolfwolf_blueeye_maskwolf_dark_maskwolf_grey_maskwolf_red_mask

new boar pet faces:
boarboar_blood_maskboar_happy_maskboar_scarf_maskboar_stripe_mask

new roc hatchling faces:
rocroc_golden_maskroc_green_maskroc_raven_maskroc_white_mask

new dragon pet faces:
dragondragon_blue_maskdragon_green_maskdragon_red_maskdragon_yellow_mask

Update will occur on tuesday 14 june 2011 10 a.m. CST.
Special service for people from other timezones: (see actual CST time on the right of this blog)

PK Trader Hat Stats History and other VIP updates

This time, an update for those of you having VIP-accounts.

NOTE:
You do not need to be VIP, most of the functionality of this site is absolutely sufficient for most users.
VIP accounts, need a username and password, and are able to do live queries to the database, and they will have to be patient, as this can take a while.

PK Trader can now plot on demand Hat Stats for given time ranges, if you are interested in the development of hat score over longer time periods.
This is comparable to the Price Chart Analyzer which can be queried for every ever in PK used item for a very long time period, and also with a lot of complex analytical methods, which I will not explain to you.

pkhathistory2

Further I included top of the page menus for all VIP available subpages, to make it easier to navigate.
This looks the same as already done on all other subpages.

CST clock now to the right of this blog

Since many of you were confused and complained about at which exact time game updates will happen when they are announced, I included a CST-synced clock to the sidebar here in this blog.

So next time you see an PK update hut announcement with a date+time given in CST which might not be your own timezone, and you hate to search the internet for a working timezone calculator, you can check this clock for the actual CST time.

Hope you find that useful,
AngryMinotaur

PK Trader Badge Advisor

As you might have noticed there are lots of new badges to complete in PK.

If you want to prepare for those and check the upcoming costs and required resources, checkout the new PK Badge Advisor subpage !
badge
Costs are calculated dynamically based on actual market prices.

There are also a lot of valuable hints on how to get badges, fast and cheap and also which badges can be done efficiently in parallel.

PK Trader Product Chains update

a few minor updates

Main page indicator table is now sortable (still troublesome with minus values, javascript is so stupid)

Chain Browser now also shows quick profit graphs
RED means loss, so the suggestion is to buy this one in a TP and save some GOLD

0-Halvar%27s+Resin

GREEN means profit, so the suggestion is to create that item by yourself, and sell it for FOOD
1-Dead+Metal

inserted thousands marker for better reading, here and there

fixed some errors on the hat analyzer

  • wrong gold calculation due to thousands marker
  • selected cheaper weapon for hanzo, now longbow instead of trap

PK Trader participating in World-IPv6 Day june 8th 2011

PK Trader is proud to announce its participation on world IPv6 day, june 8th 2011.

IPv6 is the next generation of the internet, using different addresses and slightly different protocols to communicate, as the end of IPv4 is near.

You can check if your own IPv6-readiness here: http://test-ipv6.com

PK Trader is already available in IPv6-only for a longer time using the URL: http://pktrader.dyn.majimoto.net

For the World IPv6 Day – Event, PK Trader is also offering Dual-Stack mode on its common URL: http://boogie.homelinux.org

This is a great chance for you to test your own connectivity to the new internet:

IPv6-only: http://pktrader.dyn.majimoto.net
IPv4+IPv6: http://boogie.homelinux.org

Feel free to ask if you experience problems or for any other technical questions.

Greetz,
AngryMinotaur

Specialization Tokens Trading Tip (UPDATE)

With the introduction of Specialization Tokens for the maxed out players, we expect the leather price to stop ascending after the latest ability of taking over old flags and buoys.

The price for leather went up from about 250 to almost 380 within the last week, but as tokens will be available for hunting epics and finishing dungeons I think a lot of people will go hunting and set down that price again. (Since a lot of people do dungeons now, we will see lower prices for chi, acorn, troodont scales, dark essences and dragon and roc eggs.)

Also the major appearance of monks all around now makes sense since you will be able to trade those earned tokens there together with a rather high amount of food for items like:

  • Interior Decorations (Cost: 100 Tokens, 100 Food)
  • Exterior Decorations (Cost: 150 Tokens, 150 Food)
  • House Decorations (Cost: 230 Tokens, 400 Food)
  • Armor (Cost: 400 Tokens, 250 Food)
  • Weapons (Cost: 450 Tokens, 250 Food)
  • Hats (Cost: 760 Tokens, 300 Food)

All of these items, are class(specialization) specific and wether the tokens nor the items can be traded,
but if you change your specialization you can earn different token to buy other class items.

See update hut for images and further explanations.

PK Trader Tip for weapon / armor upgrades

Want to know how infused armor is looking before actually spending lots of money, here’s a tip how to preview your desired weapon/armor:

Enter in your web-browser:
http://www.parallelkingdom.com/DisplayLayerImageGenerator.ashx?displayLayers=leaf_bow,leaf_bow_banish,leaf_bow_ruby

Just try the different weapon/armor names, metals and gems to find whatever eyecandy weapon/armor you’re longing for.

For a short example see: http://guide-wiki.parallelkingdom.com/index.php/Talk:Easter_and_Earth_Day_2011

Don’t forget to go to the PK Advisor subpage, which will tell you how much gold you will need to max out your current weapon with gem and metals.
Or if it is maybe more cheap to buy at a tradepost by listing historic latest selling prices for that kind of weapon/armor.