Frood AACalc Dicey / Sim / Odds Calculator: Updates and Opinions

You have done a darn fine job!  Thank you for your efforts!

Just noticed a very annoying display glitch…

When using a BB to bombard…

Display came back with the word “Bombarding” over and over in large type and repeated about 100 times down the page.  Then at the very bottom… the results.

I’ve gotta say, Great Job Frood!

I can see this becoming more and more of a possible “go to” roller.
Certainly for people that may not want to register at the various Clubs (DAAK, FoE) to use their rollers.

I know Switch has a link for this in a few places but I’m also going to add a link to your roller in the PBEM Hints, Tips thread in the Play by Forum area.

@frood:

More changes at http://frood.net/aacalc/ :

• Option to swap the Defender’s and Attacker’s units. This way you can see what might happen if you decide not to attack and your opponent then attacks you instead with the same forces.

Now this is an awesome idea!  No more accidentally putting the defender in the attacker slot or vice versa and having to reset the boxes and start over!

For DAAK, FoE, and some of the other clubs I was more talking about the “rating points” aspect.

There if you play a rated game and you win a game you get X points, and the loser loses Y points and they keep track of the players total pts.  However, there are ways to play unrated games if you wish.

I see you’re roller as a great way for players to play unrated games without playing in a specific club.

For example, if I just wanted to play friendly PBEM games and not worry about rankings your dice roller will work great.

Up until being aware of your roller, I’m not sure if there was another roller to use without joining a Club.  It’s free to join, but you still have to join.

Your roller has a little more universal appeal in that aspect, in that you don’t have to “Join Frood” to play.

In terms of differences, I’m not sure if there really are many.  They do provide game #'s.  However in DAAK I’m not really sure what the purpose is other then to distigiush one game from another.  I think the purpose was to automatically enter the emails for games started and to be able to go back at anytime and check a log of your rolls, although I’m not sure if that works at DAAK.  For FoE, they DO keep a log and DO NOT email the results.  So, I play a game there, log in, pick the apporpriate game # and do my turn including combat and Non Combat and submit it and FoE stores the information in the game log.  I like FoE at times b/c it means you aren’t getting bombarded by emails if you are playing multiple games.  You just go to each game log and read up on the turns.

I’m not sure if that is a path you’d want to go down.
I mean assigning game #'s, such that If I were to play Jen or Switch I just type in my game number and your roller automatically populates an email line with the appropriate players and game conditions.  Obviously one of the players would have to set that up at the start of the game and then get a random game #.  But again, I wouldn’t want to suggest you do that, as it seems like an awful lot of work and perhaps storage space and could possibly cause a whole series of other issues.

For the most part I think yours might be a bit superior in that you can roll a battle X1000 (5000) times and see about where you should come out then go a head and roll for real.  The others simply roll the battles and don’t provide any of the helpful ancillary information.

BTW, did you ever fix that glitch where a battleship doing shore-bombardments would do them every round if you didn’t take the ship out of the attacker pile and if you performed a 1 round at a time result chart?

Also, any way you could have it go through a scenario but stop when it becomes 80% likely you’ll loose aircraft on your attack?  If not, that’s ok.  If it already does but I don’t see it, then let me know!

So much easier sometimes to just have it run to the end instead of doing 3-30 individual rounds just to avoid the risk of loosing a plane!!!

Well, feel free to say ‘no’ to any of my ideas, Dan.  I get much worse on this board then just a “not feasible” or “too much work” heh

Is that unit left counter basically analyzing by Low Luck or you using a different equation?

Also, I find it extremely annoying that I have to re-enter an email address EVERYTIME I roll another set of numbers.  Please, pretty please, with a cherry and sprinkles on top, return it so that the e-mail field (and the territory field) do not reset anymore!! (bats eyelashes and unleashes the bambi eyes!)

I also notice that battleships when damaged don’t seem to be moving themselves into the damaged catagory.  I’ve been doing it manually the past couple of times, but it could be very easy for someone to forget to check it.

BTW, thank’s for turning the AA Guns off after round 1 now too.

Really, I’m not trying to be nit-picky, honest!  I love the program!  It’s easy and convenient!

Hope so.  There’s a reason I don’t program these things….I cannot STAND looking at code all day…that’s also why I stopped pure code webpage design after HTML 4.2, come to think of it…

Hey, it seems that the boxes for inputting numbers are reeeeally thin, which only allows for a person to see a single digit rather than double digits if attacking with double digits.  Is that intentional?  Or did you jsut run out of room on the page?  :-P  BTW, I think it’s a great calc.  Used it a few times myself.

I have room for 2 digits, but I ahve a large monitor and high res…