Attack rolls simulator

Hi everybody,

I published a beta version of a simulator for attack and damage rolls. Let me know of any bug or suggestion!

https://dfcsim.cub3.net

Sample run: https://imgur.com/a/4v3lECs

Very nice! Only suggestions as of now are some more data visualization, including:

Weapon mean / variance
Cumulative / "do at least this much damage" graph
Raw data table in addition to graph

I was wondering... is it clear how the website works? You need to click on the green button (the one with a graph on it) to start and plot the simulations result. Then you click it again to make changes. Or just add new simulations.

Each simulation can be edited/plotted independently.

That was not clear immediately but since there is little else to click a bit of try and error makes that clear rather swiftly.

So far it looks good, in particular for the BTL this is a welcome addition as those are a pain to calculate. Have you posted a link to this on the TT-Combat website? Developers tend to be more open to math they do not have to calculate (or at least not to much).

Good work but I second Lordprinceps that it could be easier to analyse if the data visualization was not only the graph.

Have you posted a link to this on the TT-Combat website? Developers tend to be more open to math they do not have to calculate (or at least not to much).

What do you mean? Contacting them directly?

Good work but I second Lordprinceps that it could be easier to analyse if the data visualization was not only the graph.

Taking note of that, thanks! Just in case: if you hover with your mouse over the graph it will give you the exact values of each data point.

What do you mean? Contacting them directly?

Frankly yes, and/or post a link on face book (sorry if you have done so already). Tools such as these make some discussions over weapon damage more accessible to both players and developers. I can assure you that calculating BTL by hand is a pain.

I mentioned their account on the Twitter announcement (both TTCombat and Hawk Wargames), but never received any interaction from them (response, retweet or fav).

I also announced it on the biggest Facebook Dropfleet Community I found, but I have no idea about if they follow that.

I expected that putting it in this forum would also help to get their attention .

It'd be nice to have an average damage (probability(damage)* damage) summary to go with each simulation too

Nice work!

fantastic tool

now i can show all that the Beijing Mass Driver is better then the BTL! ^^

against a 4+ Armor the MD6 is at 3.8% doing 1 or more DMG while the BTL does at 6.3% 1 or more DMG
so the Massdriver performed almost double as good, on average

sure at 3+ armor the BTL gehts better, but the massdriver gehts a lot better at 5+ armor

Armor 4+

@Dread

Now we can look at the number of Ships that have 3+, 4+ and 5+ Armour. Also you do your argument a disfavour by ignoring shields, as with those the BTL damage drops off significantly while the "normal" weapon systems are less affected.

Also one of your statements is simply false, the Beijing Massdriver does not

almost double as good, on average

it´s damage against 4+ armour ships is 3 on average.
While the Cobra Laser does an average of 2,85. So around 5% more.
For 3+ armour those values change to 2,67 for the Massdriver from the Beijing and 2,71 for the Cobra BTL.

If you are referring to 50% of the cases you should rephrase your statement, lastly I think this is not really a fair comparison as the BTLs tend to spikes at both extremes. Furthermore this is mostly relevant in cases where ships are reduced to 1 or maybe 2 Hull, while on "fresh" or healthier targets the average damage is far more important.

I would argue that for those target types both weapons are quite similar with maybe a small advantage for the Beijing mass driver, if we also consider fire arcs, Flash and the high chance that the BTL does 0 damage.
Even for 5+ armour the difference is only 3,33 against 3 in favour of the mass driver so +11% as I mentioned earlier the bigger difference exists in regards to shields.
There the Cobra damage drops to 1,65 while the Beijing Massdriver only drops to 2 which yields a 17,5% increase.

Considering the Cobra Laser is a Cruiser sized weapon it is holding up rather well with the Battleship sized Mass driver Battery.

We could know be mean and compare the Beijing Massdriver with the Viper Laser which gives us:

5+ Armour: Viper 5,35 / 6 Dice Massdriver 3,33
4+ Armour: Viper 5,1 / 6 Dice Massdriver 3
3+ Armour: Viper 4,84 / 6 Dice Massdriver 2,67
4+ Passive: Viper 2,93 / 6 Dice Massdriver 2

While never twice as high as the Massdriver we see an increase in damage between 46,5% and 81,3%.