A question about XML name...
Most of things are consistent ... Deflection is named "Deflection", Accuracy is named "Accuracy" but Cloaking is named "Cloak" ... any reason?

Hmm ... the Component seems to be pretty complete thing only that ram scoop flag seems missing (needed for "ships with ram scoops receive 125% mine hit damage" rule).
Oh ... it is in XML as EngineType ...

[Updated on: Tue, 21 February 2006 23:28]

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LEit wrote on Tue, 21 February 2006 19:31

Battle.cpp is still very preliminary. But, the 1/500 min damage thing is something that should be fixed. There is no reason to keep it (other then to abuse a bug) and keeping it would require more work then getting rid of it.

Fine by me. I had the hazy feeling it was some drawback of the engine itself, but I've recently read about it being just a "stopgap" of some kind. So, by all means, squash it.

I think I'll be making a serious attempt at getting the thing to compile and run on my good machine and see what a few pokes do...

{I had a look at the AutoHost Client files at Sourceforge. It seems most of the battle simulator is already done!
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/autohostclient/autohos tclient/src/stars/ahc/plugins/battlesim/
}
They've included the 1/500 min damage, tho.

[Updated on: Wed, 01 March 2006 07:37]

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ninja_squirrel wrote on Sat, 21 October 2006 04:34

If anyone can suggest a good free compiler I can use to compile it myself, that would also be great. Tried Mars, but I can't figure out the STL stuff.

Depends on platform?

Most cross-platformish suggestion is probably to combine platform-specific flavor of gcc + Eclipse for IDE.

For Windows (most widespread platform) download Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ It got both basic IDE and C++ compiler.

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ninja_squirrel wrote on Sat, 21 October 2006 03:34

Hey, I've ported ConstB's advantage point calculator into Flash, but I am not getting consistent results. I've never buggered around with C++ compilers before, and the free ones seem to be a pain in the butt for a non C++ guy. Could someone please compile zz.cpp with all of the couts uncommented? I need to see where my results are diverging from his.

You don't strictly need ConstB's code for that. You better directly use Stars! own RaceWizard to test what every minute variation in race design does to end result and compare with yours.

You also need to be real careful with how you are inputting actual race values to RW code, as it uses some weird conventions someplaces such as tech cost.

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ninja_squirrel wrote on Sat, 21 October 2006 23:24

I don't really need to start testing other races until I can get the default ones to come up right (they don't. not even close)

If you compile that zz, do not uncomment all couts! It will spam you dead with tons of data. Only planet value is considered about 4000 times during points calculation for one race. Uncomment/comment (and if you need add) couts step by step.

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ninja_squirrel wrote on Mon, 23 October 2006 03:05

Someone got me sorted with DevC++, so I was able to debug my planet hab calculations successfully. For the default races, the results are perfect now. Time to start comparing with the real race wizard now...

Great to hear. Reminds me a lot of the trouble I had with my Javascript port (no ints by default either) where I had to explicitly cast to int most calculations.

Only I did it *before* ConstB had nailed down his own bug crop, to help him debugging his code... Took some zen and a steady hand with Stars! own RaceWizard.

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