SE4 damage simulator

[Suicide Junkie]

After some late night discussions with Captain Kwok on IRC, we found a way to explain the effects seen in leaky armor systems.

I have written up a simulator which will give you the exected damage stats for NON-armor components.

Fill in the hitpoints per component on the top row, followed by the relative number of each component on the second row.

Press calculate, and the stats will fill in.

On the bottom right there is a spinner to choose how accurate you want the recursive calculation to work to. A smaller number means it will take longer, but be more accurate. Start with a setting of 0.001 to avoid unbearable processing times, and only increase if nessesary.

Find it at:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Tools
Se4damagesim.zip

[Fyron]

I guess I was transparent...

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, you didn't stay up till 4am when we were getting down to the mathy details.

[Fyron]

Didn't you already do all of this years ago? I seem to recall pretty much all of the info Kwok posted over on SE.net being posted by you in the B5 Mod thread some 2 years ago...

[Captain Kwok]

The big discovery Last night was how important the number of re-rolls in the damage calculation can influence the distribution of damage to components.

[Fyron]

I thought it was already understood that they were rather important... I did use them when trying to explain the structural supports to you, did I not?