Could anyone use a design analyzer?

[Alneyan]

I would find an use to such a tool, especially if including the following data: hitpoints of the ship (can you tell I am too lazy to launch the simulator every time for every single ship in my armada?) and the value for 150% of its total cost. (Same reason here, but this time with retrofitting) So in short, I will use it if you make this program, as it would make checking known designs less of a problem.

[Tampa_Gamer]

If it works, might not be a bad idea to send it off to Aaron. It would be great if the AI used some sort of analyzer for its designs.

_TG

[Ed Kolis]

Glad to hear people are interested... now keep bugging me, otherwise it'll never get done!

Alneyan, what do you mean by "value for 150% of its total cost?"

[Baron Munchausen]

What would be really useful is a program that loads and analyzes AI-design creation files, letting you make global changes to all ships of a given class (all attack ships, all cargo ship, etc.) and save them to the file. This would dramatically ease the process of tweaking AIs.

[ May 21, 2004, 23:19: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Tally up the costs for all three resources, and add 50% more.

This is an important number since you can only retrofit the ship to designs which have a lower cost than that.

It would be really really neat if you could have it generate an SE4-style graphical result too...
Something like I did for these ships:
http://www.geocities.com/hohoho611ca...ml#ubernaught2

Manually counting component abilities and drawing those with MS paint was a chore, but it turned out so nice.

[ May 21, 2004, 23:40: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Iansidious]

Get too working MAGGOT!! You will work to death you have to! Just a friendly NAG.

[Fyron]

Manually counting component abilities and drawing those with MS paint was a chore, but it turned out so nice.

This is why you use screen captures...