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Looking for "my" battlesim files... Wed, 11 June 2008 17:12 Go to next message
wumpus

 
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Hi everyone,

as I've mentioned elsewhere, my race checker and online battlesim generator have been offline for a few months due to the server they ran on having been shutdown permanently.

The circumstances of my new hosting have made a rewrite necessary (and it was about time anyway, the old code was very much "evolved")... and the battlesim generator is almost ready for a v1 release.

However..... I'm missing something fundamental, namely the "initial" battlesim files. I've found, on my hard drive, the "original" battlesim by OnlyAnEgg, but I remember that I had added/modified some of the stuff in the ZIP that my generator generated.

So.. if someone still has a battlesim.zip as generated by my battlesim generator, please send it over Smile (Either as PM attachment - it should be small enough I imagine - or post a link or leave a PM and we'll work out another way of getting the files to me)

Thanks muchly in advance Very Happy



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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Thu, 12 June 2008 04:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Do you mean Battlesim in java? I have it on my disk, dated 13. Jun 2005. Zip, 91kB.

BR, Iztok

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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Thu, 12 June 2008 13:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hmm, no, that won't be it...

A loooooong time ago, "OnlyAnEgg" set up a stars game with 16 races covering the vast majority of the PRT/LRT combinations which are interesting for battle purposes, got them all to tech 26, and collected all the MT toys. The point was to enable players to test max-tech battles with more or less arbtirary fleets on either side. This was, mind you, well before the battle system was well understood, and certainly before anyone had gotten very far into examining stars data files.

In any case, this was all a very useful tool, but given that (as we now know) targetting is influenced by miniaturisation, the fact that the game is at max tech limits its usefulness for some specific situations.

Thus, I took his files at some point, and set up a webpage where the player could select the tech levels they wanted, and a small program would generated a copy of the "original" battlesim, but with the techs selected by the user.

Its *those* files I'm after Smile (my original script to do all this went the way of the dodo :/)



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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Thu, 12 June 2008 15:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You hear the fluttering of bat wings...

was it called mybsim.zip?

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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Thu, 12 June 2008 22:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Fri, 13 June 2008 03:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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A loooooong time ago, "OnlyAnEgg" set up a stars game with 16 races

Got that one too. A self-extracting EXE of size 792kB. Where to send it?

BR, Iztok

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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Fri, 13 June 2008 03:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You're not talking about this one?

http://www.starsfaq.com/download/battlesim.zip

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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Fri, 13 June 2008 09:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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wumpus wrote on Thu, 12 June 2008 13:00

A loooooong time ago, "OnlyAnEgg" set up a stars game with 16 races covering the vast majority of the PRT/LRT combinations which are interesting for battle purposes, got them all to tech 26, and collected all the MT toys.

That's the battlesim.zip. I think it's available from other places as well.

wumpus wrote on Thu, 12 June 2008 13:00

Thus, I took his files at some point, and set up a webpage where the player could select the tech levels they wanted, and a small program would generated a copy of the "original" battlesim, but with the techs selected by the user.

Its *those* files I'm after Smile (my original script to do all this went the way of the dodo :/)


So as I understand it, he's looking for one of the modified copies generated by his script.



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My question still stands...

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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Sat, 14 June 2008 04:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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LEit wrote on Fri, 13 June 2008 15:25

wumpus wrote on Thu, 12 June 2008 13:00

Thus, I took his files at some point, and set up a webpage where the player could select the tech levels they wanted, and a small program would generated a copy of the "original" battlesim, but with the techs selected by the user.

Its *those* files I'm after Smile (my original script to do all this went the way of the dodo :/)


So as I understand it, he's looking for one of the modified copies generated by his script.

I have a file called battlesim_wumpus.zip which was generated by the script with tech modifications. Wumpus is that what you are looking for?

mch

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Re: Looking for "my" battlesim files... Wed, 18 June 2008 16:17 Go to previous message
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Micha wrote on Sat, 14 June 2008 10:06

I have a file called battlesim_wumpus.zip which was generated by the script with tech modifications. Wumpus is that what you are looking for?

mch


That sounds like it Smile

sorry I haven't answered the posts to this thread sooner - for some reason either the forum wasn't showing up yellow or I was overlooking it...


In any case: the "beta" of the new battlesim generator is online and working; it suffers from some of the same not-totally-satisfactory issues as my last attempt did, but it should be useful already:

http://stars.bregalad.de/battlesim.html

Comments and feedback welcome Smile

There will be more work on it in the coming days.

The race checker will also return, but that will take a little longer.... (I started with the battlesim generator as it is, for the simple form which is available now, easier to do than the race checker.)

Enjoy Very Happy



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