| is there a battle simulator anywhere? |
Wed, 06 July 2005 08:43  |
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 dreadlordnaf |
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I thought i heard talk long ago of some sort of stars utility that was a battle simulator. Something that would let you input the stats of ships then see how the battle would most likely be resolved. Anyone know of this or where you can download it?
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| Re: is there a battle simulator anywhere? |
Wed, 06 July 2005 16:25  |
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| Micha | 
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| crr65536 wrote on Wed, 06 July 2005 19:51 |
IIRC that "battle simulator" consisted of just some pre-made Stars game files. Moreover, IIRC it starts with all techs at 26, which could affect the targetting (less Boranium cost of some ships, etc.). It seems to me that you'd be best to build your own test bed, with races as closely approximating the actual ones as you can, and using Alchemy to block queues so that you can get the tech levels right. Of course, the battle sim is probably your best bet if your battle will involve MT components.
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There _is_ a utility that does what dreadlordnaf describes: input the stats of the ships. See the link in my post. However it has it's limits.
I used to test battles with the battlesim.zip but attractiveness is indeed not always right, not to mention battle board positions ... It's indeed best if you build your own testbed, fitting the game exactly with player numbers and techs as close as possible. That's what I now usually do (except for quick non complex battles).
mch
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| Re: is there a battle simulator anywhere? |
Tue, 12 July 2005 16:36 |
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| Staz wrote on Sun, 10 July 2005 13:52 |
Setting the "count" to 0 should do the trick. I'll add a "delete slot" button though.
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Version 0.22 is up on the site now; this has a "delete slot" button and (primitive) support for energy dampeners.
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| Re: is there a battle simulator anywhere? |
Wed, 13 July 2005 04:57 |
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| iztok |
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Hi!
| Staz wrote on Tue, 12 July 2005 22:36 |
Version 0.22 is up on the site now; this has a "delete slot" button and (primitive) support for energy dampeners.
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I've checked your tool. Very nice work, but check the following output line:
> Round 2 : Alien Beam Nubian [15@5%,4500] shields regenerate from 0 to 4500 dp
It seems program regens shields even after they are dropped.
I also had a minor problem with saving after download. It was saved as a .ZIP, not .JAR.
BR, Iztok
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| Re: is there a battle simulator anywhere? |
Wed, 13 July 2005 16:35 |
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| iztok wrote on Wed, 13 July 2005 09:57 |
I've checked your tool. Very nice work, but check the following output line:
> Round 2 : Alien Beam Nubian (15 at 5%,4500) shields regenerate from 0 to 4500 dp
It seems program regens shields even after they are dropped.
I also had a minor problem with saving after download. It was saved as a .ZIP, not .JAR.
BR, Iztok
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The regen of dropped shields has been fixed - version 0.23 is available for download.
The download problem is down to your browser/windows settings I think. I'll have a think about the best way to try and make the download independent of browser settings.
Please keep the comments coming in.
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| Re: is there a battle simulator anywhere? |
Wed, 13 July 2005 17:57 |
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| crr65536 wrote on Wed, 13 July 2005 22:12 |
Out of curiosity (and it's your program so obviously it's entirely your choice if you want to do this) how much trouble would it be to make it into an applet so you could run it in your browser?
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It would be very simple, but applets run in a very restricted "sandbox" and can't access local files so you wouldn't be able to save/load battles.
There are ways around this, but it's not that simple and would require the user's explicit permission every time which would be a bit annoying.
I have also looked at using Java Web Start for launching this, but Yahoo! Geocities (which is where the site is hosted) doesn't support the right MIME type mappings.
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| Re: is there a battle simulator anywhere? |
Fri, 22 July 2005 18:06 |
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Version 0.24 is now available on the site which allows you to specify the initial damage level for each token.
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