As always there is a lot of space for improvements in design and linking data together.

A few things on my todo list are:

• change the font styling of numbers for the front page price table (yes, annoys me too)
• show active users visiting the site in the last 10 minutes (almost done)
• google maps integration with kingdom map overlay (although this is not so hard to implement as it may sound, I got a licensing issue with this as google wants to have free access to sites using this feature, but who wants google to index our kingdoms territory ?)
• kingdom maps download and kingdom members only content (planned)

PK Trader
hourly generated indicators for most traded items, compared to the last 24 hours

PK Trader Blog
this blog you are reading right now, with latest information about this site

PK Product Chain Browser
a fast profit finder for products,
highlighting the cheapest price in gold and food to buy at a tradepost or produce it by yourself,
based on tradepost data for resource prices

PK Price Chart Overview
price development of selected items in the last month, generated daily

PK Price Chart Analyzer
a much more detailled and powerful chart analyzer for all ever traded items

PK Trader Chat
site internal chat, just in case you feel alone when not in PK

Other external reference sites

• PK Average Prices (PerBlue) – A link to PK’s official average tradepost prices
• PK Maps (Sourceforge) – A link to a collection of PK maps published by the PK Empire
• PKed.de Forum (german) – A link to the german PK Help Forum
• PK Forum (PerBlue) – A link to the official PK Forum

At the moment, I’m running this website at home which means you are eating up my internet bandwidth.

So, I try to keep the number of people having access to this site quite small.

Further, I only allow people access if I can trust them not to give their credentials to others.

Don’t blame me if you cannot access this site someday or sometimes.
Don’t ask me to add your friends, I’ll ask you 😉

I always liked trading simulation in games, and already did something similar for a game from the X-Universe series.
So it was only a matter of time that I come up with a trading advising site for PK.

For me, this is a hobby project only for fun and your PK profit. Nothing more – nothing less.

The whole site runs on a Mac mini 2006, using Apache.

• Content Management is done in Rapidweaver.
• Chart plotting is done by ChartDirector.
• Everything else is scripted in Perl and PHP.

Meanwhile the DB has been migrated from SQLite to MySQL, which is a lot faster and doesn’t suffer from locks during multiple concurrent updates.

The first response that I got for this site was:
OMG where do you get all this data from, this must be illegal.

Short answer: no it is NOT illegal.

All data is officially provided by PerBlue Inc. on their website, which I fetch every hour and do some calculations on it.

The source of all evil can be found here:
http://parallelkingdom.com/TradeData.aspx