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Re: Damage calculations

Tue, 16 November 2004 07:37

Kotk

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It is not possible to predict battle outcome with 100% accuracy. Actual battle outcome depends on lot of unpredictable things. I have seen people losing battles that they testbedded about 10 times.

Equal init fires random, fleets get random weight bonuses, they often move randomly, cost (so exact tech levels, BET, CE and IS or WM) affect attractiveness, missiles have their random accuracy, often not all the ships in fleets are fully healed, there are lot of possible different battle orders and odd quirks in battle engine. The starting position can be often vital, if it is planned 4-way battle then there just sole fift guys scout can completely turn the tables.

Since the battle outcome is quite often so random anyway, does someone expect a tool that can be more accurate than the real life? Best you can do is to address it bit more "statistically".
1) Best case scenario for side A,
2) best case scenario for side B
3) average outcome for about 50 battles

Should be possible to give out in seconds by modern computers. Wink

[Updated on: Tue, 16 November 2004 07:38]

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		Re: Damage calculations By: Kotk on Mon, 22 November 2004 18:14
		Re: Damage calculations By: Kotk on Mon, 22 November 2004 18:59
		Re: Damage calculations By: Kotk on Mon, 22 November 2004 21:06
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		Re: Damage calculations By: Staz on Tue, 23 November 2004 13:18
		Re: Damage calculations By: Kotk on Wed, 24 November 2004 07:46
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