Just an idea for a future enhancement.

I noticed that in the ship capture table, there is only one field for CombatOdds. Normally, I'm assuming this works just fine because the default ships that are built in have the same combat odds for both offensive and defensive. However, one of the games I play in, there are some custom ships made by the sysop that have different offensive and defensive odds.

I generally like to add custom ships to the database so I can use them with the ship capture calculator. However since there's only one entry for combat odds, for ships that have different offensive and defensive odds, I end up having to make two entries for the same ship (one having the offensive, the other having the defensive).

So yeah, my suggestion would be to add another entry in the ship capture table so that the calculator can properly calculate based on whether the ship is being offensive or defensive. =)

-JAG

done. i added it. i never took into account the fact that they could be different which i why i got complaints on edited games
also, i realized that i use the same algorithm for online and offline players. this algorithm works for players online but i think it is different for offline players. anyone know the offline one off the top of your heads?
earth.

you rock earth!

...not sure what the algorithm for the offline players are though.

-JAG

They are similiar except for the ship that fights 4:1 when in defensive but must be online, otherwise it fights less. Look it up.

Nik