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That's not how accuracy works in-game. Accuracy is the chance of doing max damage, if they fail the accuracy roll then they do min damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by fervalosious
Dogs do 5-10 with 60% accuracy. Since cavalry only has 5 hit points, even a "miss" from a dog will do 5 damage and will thus kill a cavalry. Dogs + Cavalry will always kill each other 1:1 until one side runs out.
First Post updated.
Sorting units by hitpoints should now properly sort all units including general. Discovered that the sort routine (which is only used for Guard Dog and Cavalry attacks) caused the General to randomly migrate through the unit list in certain cases. After changing how i check for the general he is now always sorted to the end of the list of units in the player army. Attacking bandit camps with guard dogs should now be much closer in results to the that of the game.
Again please note that your results with this simulator will most likely be different from the results of the game because of the fact that both the game and the simulator make use of a random number generator and mostly likely not the same one.
Battle simulator in this case now says:Quote:
Originally Posted by ron7
109 recruits, 10 bowman, 14 militia, and 12 Cavalry lost and win the battle which is very close to actual listed loses :P
Updated again to version 0.0.5.4 in order to fix a bug discovered by Aurorah dealing with the multiple battle simulation.
updated again...changed out war guide for a FAQ. will re-add war guide in next version since the zip file attachment size limit got raised. had to remove war guide to keep zip file size under the old limit.
Still seems to be working well. Extremely useful in calculating and understanding the attacks.
Also helps in understanding that the battles in this game are pretty unsatisfying. I am at level 22 and you just have to accept that you will lose a lot of attackers and it will take a long time to rebuild the population. Not a lot of fun and I have almost given up on the game many times. The idea that you only get 1 population every 15 minutes whether you have 50 people or 1000 is ridiculous.
Updated the program. New version is 0.0.6.0
You combat that with bread -- every 25 bread is another settler, basically.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron7
Selak, thank you for all the work you have put in on this. It has worked great for me as I've gone along. I'm especially appreciative of the multiple waves feature in this version.
Pilot
If there is anyone interested in trying to port the program over to be able to run on a Mac, please mail me in-game or send me a PM. I wish I knew what I had to do to make it Mac compatible but since I do not own a Mac and have no way of testing it, I can not work on porting.
Selak, im just getting to adventures now, and I am finding that all the troops in the adventures, are completely different than the ones in your simulator. I was wondering if you could add the abillity to customize three wild card troops. This way no matter what adventure I was on I would be able to set the stats for the troop myself.
If someone could add the info on the various adventure troops i could add them to program.
thing i would need to know:
Hit points the unit has
max damage from unit
min damage from unit
hit chance of the unit
any skills of the unit
attack order of the units
Unit names
if there are multiple sets let me know that as well and maybe i can get it to treat all of them as one set. I have not made it to adventures yet (still stuck waiting on unit to kill chuck and metal tooth).
Ok i got the information for the "Stealing from the Rich" adventure and I am working on getting that into the program.
This is the adventure im working on.
http://www.siedlertools.de/wiki/Sumpfhexe
Use google chrome and it will auto translate the webpage for you. It has all the troop information you need here.
whats the name of that adventure.
I am breaking up the units by adventure and the US translation doe not have one called Swamp Witch.
the adventures that got from the store:
Bounty Hunter (tutorial adventure)
Traitors
The Dark Priests
Stealing from the Rich (got the info in the program just need to make it simulate battles)
Sons of the Veldt
The Nords
The Black Knights
The Dark Brotherhood
The Island of Pirates
Outlaws
Secluded Experiments
Not all the adventures are in the store if i remember correctly.
ok. Those are the ones i have names for and will make spots for. I have the first one completely in and it just needs some more testing before I figure out how to release it. Adding the one adventure in has bumped the zip file size beyond the size allowed for attachment atm.
You should make a mac version of this!
i have sent the source to someone that is looking into making a mac running version. I have no idea on the status of the conversion though.
I have made some changes to the program since then and have no idea if the stuff will convert easily anymore. I am in the process of adding in the troops from the different Adventures you can find.
I like the emphasis of the red text, it's comforting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Selak
It's just that using the computer to fight my battles makes me feel a little less manly.
It kind of just just makes me feel like a computer simulator it playing my game.
Hi everyone, Selak has been kind enough to share his source code with me, and I've begun porting it to PHP, and now have the basic features working online for anyone who either doesn't want to use the German site, or doesn't want to/can't run Selak's version of the combat simulator.
The new sim is online at: http://castleempiresim.com
NOTE: This sim is currently in alpha testing, and may still be buggy, so you may want to verify your results against another sim for a few days while I get the kinks out.
Darn! When i try to unzip this i get a "corrupt data" file message.
What are you trying to unzip it with?Quote:
Originally Posted by StillaUte
And if you can't get it to work you can always use http://castleempiresim.com it's even more up to date!
Outstanding!!!! thank you.
I get this too. Both with windows & with WinRar... (WinRar turned off for windows unzip).Quote:
Originally Posted by StillaUte
What version of zip did you use to create it & was it 32 bit or 64 bit? (I'm on a 32 bit XP system.)
You can also go here to use the online version by [TC] Draxxon.
Noob Question: I've tried to download this, but all I keep recieving is a file called, "attachment.php". Any suggestions would be helpful....Thanks
Try CastleEmpireSim.com it's based on a newer version of the same code, but supports adventures, and has other tools as well.
It's a nice combat simulator. Thanks!
I just announced a major upgrade for the online combat simulator in the forums over here.
I find the older version to be more accurate. Example is when I send 150R and 50S the new one says on average I could lose 123R and 17 S. The old said I would lose 142R. I lost 143R. I have a spreadsheet of what it said versus what I lost. And the spreadsheet was made based on the previous version which was more accurate.
I like the older version better. The simulations of possible wins/losses for same battle are very different, and I find it confusing. So confusing that I'll end up sending 200 recruits.
Yea older was far better imo. I don't even understand the new one. Seems when i sim something i get 3 results and the 3rd results says i always lose everything....don't quite understand that. Can we choose which one we want...id like that better....
the old version is still available via the link at the top of the page.
As soon as I can get it finished tomorrow, I will add the Christmas Adventures to the Combat simulator on CastleEmpireSim.com. I will post an update here as soon as it's ready.
The piece that I find interesting on the sim is that it will theorize a better result by substituting 'lesser' troops. What game feature would explain better results from sending 55 bowmen in a mix than sending 55 longbow? I don't need the answer in specific ... I just find it interesting.
Due to the way that troop losses are handled in the battles, the computing power to "calculate" the best mix is not something that can be easily implemented on a web server. (It takes a lot of calculations already) However, in order to work around this, and still provide similar functionality, I am working on a feature that will allow you to see what other people have used (their simulations) to beat the same troops. This should help you to make more informed decisions....
...unfortunately, it will probably be after the first of the year before this is ready.
Take your time.
I'm not 100% that you understood my point from your response ... let me be specific:
Beat Metal Tooth by Demacia: 2 waves - 120 R / 80 C then 60 R / 50 M / 15 C / 55 B / 20 LB which will lose 1 out of 8
versus replacing the 55 bowmen in wave 2 with an additional 55 LB
Beat Metal Tooth by Demacia (sort of): 2 waves - 120 R / 80 C then 60 R / 50 M / 15 C / 75 LB will lose 1 in 5
so my REAL question is: is this an accurate prediction of the combat engine? or are there nuances that cannot be (reasonably) duplicated in the sim?
PS my family moved to Missouri years ago and I'd leave to visit them by saying I was going to "Misery"
The way the Combat system in Castle Empire works is using a random number generator, so there will always be fluctuations in it. The combat sim tries to predict what an average battle will be, but it *IS* using a simulated battle. We don't have access to the real code, and have to make our best efforts at simulating it. Because of this, and the fact that the number of different permutations that *COULD* be sent against the same set of bandits is almost infinite, (and the results are unknown until the simulation is run since damage is tracked for each *INDIVIDUAL TROOP UNIT*, not against the group as a whole like in a lot of other tabletop RPGs), it is VERY difficult for the Sim to define an IDEAL number of troops without spending hours calculating each simulation.
The other problem, is that *IDEAL* for one person is not ideal for another. One player may think *IDEAL* is an acceptable number of the cheapest troop loss with the least amount of expensive troops needed. (Meat shields) Another player may want to spend a LARGE amount of resources to create a nearly unstoppable army that takes zero losses. Unfortunately, the first player probably won't like the ideal of the second and vice-versa.
These are the main reasons why I'm planning on implementing this as a "History", so that you can see other winning combinations (if any have been run), and decide for yourself what is acceptable and what is not. That's the main reason the simulator is there, to try to help you to figure out what you can send from the troops that are available to you. (Especially if you're like me and don't always have a lot of every type of troop, and are rather stingy to boot ;) )
I just posted an update to CastleEmpireSim.com. All adventures should now be working. More info is available at http://forum.castleempireonline.com/...mbat-Simulator.