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Calculating Race Scores

Mon, 11 February 2019 17:43

ricks03

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I often play/host games where we use a handicapping system, requiring more advanced players to leave points left over in the race design wizard. That's also helpful to apply race point design adjustments (like paying an extra 95 for NAS if JoAT).

I'd like to code a utility that automatically checks the race design points left over.

When I look at the PlayerBlock code up on GitHub, I don't think that the point total is included in the race file (it must be calculated by the EXE). Does anyone know of code that duplicates the calculation from the Race Design Wizard?

Thanks!

Rick

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Re: Calculating Race Scores

Sat, 16 February 2019 20:22

m.a@stars

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IIRC, both FreeStars and Nova have the RaceWizard code, points calculation included. I should have my own (js) version stashed somewhere too. Rolling Eyes

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Re: Calculating Race Scores

Sat, 16 February 2019 22:07

raptor

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If FreeStars really has it correct, then I think here is a good chunk of it:

https://sourceforge.net/p/freestars/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/Ser ver/Race.cpp#l136

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Re: Calculating Race Scores

Sat, 16 February 2019 22:30

ricks03

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That's awesome - thanks! Now hopefully I can tease the race file values out, and then calculate the race score.

[Updated on: Sat, 16 February 2019 22:33]

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Re: Calculating Race Scores

Sat, 16 February 2019 22:41

raptor

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I think I found more code from Nova:

https://sourceforge.net/p/stars-nova/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/Com mon/RaceDefinition/RaceAdvantagePointCalculator.cs

I can't verify accuracy of any of these.

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Re: Calculating Race Scores

Sun, 17 February 2019 02:56

m.a@stars

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Yep, that's the beast, hardcodes and all. Notice the Freestars team tried to make it more readable. Cool

Also, beware integer math. You better test results thoroughly.

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Re: Calculating Race Scores

Tue, 08 February 2022 01:47

ricks03

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I've spent ... a while ... looking at, and testing bits and pieces of the Freestars code for determining the Advantage point scores for a race.

And my final conclusion is even the basic PRT/LRT code is wrong, even taking into account the PRT/LRT combos that do something extra in combination with other things (mostly TT and NAS). So I can't see how it's really worth trying to fix that part, yet expect the more complicated part of the calculation to be correct.

Nova code appears to have similar problems.

So while there's certainly the problem of me just having it wrong, even at a fairly basic level it's not quite right even before I get into all the variation built in.

Anyway, other ideas and pointers appreciated if you've got them.

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