SE4 Map analyser

[Aiken]

Yes, it would... I just figured out that my request was kinda silly: average percentage of resources (as well as total res for finites) will be always the same, so no need to calculate it. Sorry.

[Suicide Junkie]

True, but you would still need the program to output the count of planets, which wasn't in the list yet.

[Baron Munchausen]

Do you know the format of SE IV map files? Or is this only reading the text files (Quadrant_types and System_types)? If it is only using the text files, the use of 'random' ('any') values would make analysis rather difficult. If you can actually read map files it would be interesting to produce statistics on how connected systems are as well as planetary tallies. Number of systems unconnected, number connected to only one other system, number connected to two other systems, etc.

[Suicide Junkie]

The point of this would be to read the mod, and tell you how fair the random maps are expected to be without a lot of playtesting and map generation.

[PvK]

Hmm. Number of planets, and number of planets per system, and distance between systems with planets of a certain type, also have effects on balance. Balance is also different depending on Empires' traits. If ya really care that much.

PvK

[ May 22, 2004, 02:45: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Suicide Junkie]

It sounds like you think this is intended to analyse existing maps...
It will not.

Rather, it will read the mod files, and generate stats to tell you the average balance between the different homeworld choices.

Remember that colored circle graph of atmosphere distributions somebody made a few years ago?
This will be an automated way to generate that and more.

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Status update:
Phase 1 - Basic UI, data structures & mod detection
-= completed =-
Phase 2 - Read in planetsize.txt & initialize planet stats (names & facil/pop space)
-= completed =-
Phase 3 - Read in secttypes.txt & add to stats (atmo/surface distributions)
-= completed =-
Phase 4 - Read in settings.txt & add to stats (SY rates)
-= completed =-
Phase 5 - Read in systemtypes.txt & initialize system stats ("any" types calculated from phase 3 info)
-= 50% =-
Phase 6 - Scan requested quadrant in quadranttypes.txt & sum up final results
-= 0% =-
Phase 7 - Fancy presentation, graphs & such.
-= 0% =-


The phase 3 and phase 2 info can be seen currently in some list boxes which will not be visible for the finished program.
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/tools

PS:
To decode the stats:

code:

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Const STAT_NUM = 1

Const STAT_FAC = 2

Const STAT_FAC_DOMED = 3

Const STAT_POP = 4

Const STAT_POP_DOMED = 5

Const STAT_GG = 6

Const STAT_ROCK = 11

Const STAT_ICE = 16

Const STAT_VAC = 0

Const STAT_H2 = 1

Const STAT_O2 = 2

Const STAT_CO2 = 3

Const STAT_METH = 4

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STAT_NUM is the number of duplicate planetsizes with the same name.
(for mods which duplicate say "Tiny" so that tiny moons will randomly have 4, 5 or 6 facility slots instead of just 5 all the time)

When looking for a planettype, add the atmosphere and surface. So an Oxy Gas Giant is 2+6 = 8th number in the list.
This is the count of oxy gas giants of the planetsize named on the left.
Entry # 6 should always be zero, since there are no vaccuum gas giants (0+6)

[ May 22, 2004, 22:21: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Argh... I've got a screen full of lists, which themselves have many 5-10 entries, each entry consisting of a list of 10-20 stat counters.

I'm suffering from stack overflows in my brain, and it looks like this stage is going have to do a lot more than I initially thought...