Stephen Muller wrote the underlying library that many of the scripts use. Many of the scripts were contributed by other players and you can find numerous forks of the original work. One of the most popular is cxreg's for his glyphinator program. The maintaners of tsee's will try to keep it up to date with cxreg's work.

It is a good idea to register at http://www.perlmonks.org, so you can get help with your Perl installation and scripts.

Instructions to get Perl scripts running on your Windows system

1. Before you begin, you will want a decent text editor. Notepad++ has been recommended. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net (I prefer gvim, more powerful, but more complicated.)
2. There are a couple different distributions of Perl. Active State & Strawberry and with Starwberry you have the option to install onto a portable drive. We'll use Portlable Strawberry for onto the fixed drive as well.
3. The instructions below are for Strawberry Perl
4. If you prefer Active State Perl, go here.

Download Strawberry Perl at : http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html

1. Get the latest which will be of the form: strawberry-perl-RELEASE_NUMBER-portable.zip RELEASE_NUMBER is will be a number such as 5.12.3.0
2. Pick where you will install it. You can put it on a USB drive and use it on any windows machine, or just put it on a C: drive. Either way, I would put it in directory. I will use myperl on a USB drive. (So my path will be E:\myperl)
3. Unzip into your destination directory.
4. Run portableshell.bat and it should open up a commandline

Setting Up Games Lacuna Client

For Strawberry Perl

1.  Start commandline using portableshell.bat
2. cd into \myperl\tsee
3. cpan . (Please look carefully, there is a dot after the cpan, and it is required! This does take a long time. Rather than download pre-compiled versions like active state does, strawberry will compile them itself.)
4. I've gotten errors with installing Number::Format, to get around it I call cpan again
5. cpan
6. cpan> force install Number::Format
7. That should get Number::Format installed. At this point you should have all relevant modules installed

Setting up lacuna.yml

1. Copy this file to your tsee directory and rename it to lacuna.yml and then edit it. (lacuna.yml is the default name in many scripts.)
2. Edit with a text editor that respects line endings. (notepad++ works well enough)
3. Don't add the items after the # sign, I'll just put a short explanation there.

server_uri: 'https://us1.lacunaexpanse.com' # The server url.

api_key: anonymous # You can get an api key, but anonymous works. If you start modifying many scripts, it would help track features people use.

empire_name: Your Empire Name # Your Empire name

empire_password: Sitter Password # You can use your main password, but it's not a good idea for security.

session_persistant: 1 # If you are going to run more than one script, this will make sure you don't have to login each time which costs rpc.

• In the shell from myperl\tsee and assuming you have lacuna.yml at \myperl\tsee\lacuna.yml

type: perl examples\docked_ships.pl

(You should get a listing of all your docked ships.)

You must first obtain a stars database, your options are as follows:

1. Goto https://github.com/lemming552/Lacuna/blob/master/data/glyph_blank.zip
2. Unzip into \myperl\tsee and rename to stars.db
3. If you grabbed the blank, run the command: perl examples\star_db_util.pl (And skip the steps involving stars.csv)

1. Download stars.csv from http://us1.lacunaexpanse.com.s3.amazonaws.com/stars.csv
2. now run: perl examples\populate_db.pl --db stars.db --csv stars.csv

Now we should be able to run glyphinator

# perl examples/glyphinator.pl --do-dig --send-excavators 

This will start an archeology search on every planet with an archeology ministry
and send all excavators from all colonies.