Maptrick
Maptrick is a Helper Applications created by CHPP-ste1n (László van den Hoek). Maptrick is a webpage containing statistical information about countries, usage of training types and screening of bot diffusion in the Hattrick game.
Coolness
Maptrick has features such as the Coolness rating, the Hall of Cool and a Challenge Suggester, all of which are tools commonly used by flag chasers.
Other features
It also showed the full history of all leagues and current waiting lists to join. It was helpful in predicting the next countries to join the Hattrick family. Sadly, this useful section of the website is not working anymore (since 2015).
History
At the end of January 2007, CHPP-ste1n announced his resignation from the game, due to lack of time. He transfered the website administration to HT-Thomas.
On September 18, 2007, the site was effectively cut away from the World Wide Web by the IT staff of the University of Amsterdam where the website was hosted.
Another hosting solution had to be found. weird_ed of Alltid Hattrick stepped in instead, and is in the process of installing Maptrick on Alltid servers. Unfortunately, the port to Alltid failed. Maptrick was created as a hobby project, and contains lots of sub-par code and queries, and lacks good documentation, which both precipitated its ejection from the (shared) server and made it harder to port to the (already strained) Alltid servers.
With the planned merger between Hattrick and Alltid it was time to revive Maptrick as an independent site again.DerKanzler got the ownership of Maptrick's CHPP license and put Maptrick back online, with the Coolness calculator and, since the 27th of November, the Hall of Cool.
14th October 2008. This day marks the first day of the return of Maptrick. The site does not offer very much yet. You can only calculate your or others coolness. But this is only the first step to a complete new Maptrick.
My name is Peter Kanzler and my Hattrick username is DerKanzler. CHPP-ste1n made me the new owner of Maptrick's CHPP license. I want to revive all other parts of the Maptrick site as well. I wanted to stay as close to the original while giving the site a new, fresh and modern look. The next feature which will be implemented will be "The Hall of Cool".
The server is located at my university. Let's hope it will be able to deliver good performance 24/7. Though it might not be the fastest one all around the world. The site should look good in every modern browser.
