New tool announcement! "Ground Attack Calculator" Want to...

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688 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes ago

New tool announcement! "Ground Attack Calculator" Want to...

New tool announcement!
"Ground Attack Calculator"

Want to attack that colony, but not sure how many clans you'll need? Not sure how many defense posts it might have, and how that will affect your chances of success?
Well, wonder no more...

This handy spreadsheet will quickly give you all the information you need, after simply entering the # clans on the planet. It will tell you how many clans you need to attack, if the colony has max defense posts, no defense posts, or a number that you choose.

The tool will display information for Lizards, Fascists and normal races, in combination with each other, for attack and defense. (Will even tell you how many LCCs or D7s would be required to take over a planet.)
Also gives some defense information for normal races on how to secure themselves against drop.

Link:
https://goo.gl/NUuyYE

688 days, 4 hours, 23 minutes ago

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That is quite the improvement over the website I've been using (http://www.vgaplanets.ca/vga-planets-calculator#ground_combat), thank you!

687 days, 23 hours, 34 minutes ago

mursu

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Very nice. This will certainly be handy. Thank you for your contribution Psydev!

687 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes ago

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Are the wasps in?

687 days, 21 hours, 23 minutes ago

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Thanks this is really useful. Now I can stop using Excel every time :)

687 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes ago

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Thank you! This is more detailed than my usual go to calculator:
http://www.vgaplanets.ca/vga-planets-calculator#ground_combat
On this occasion I notice that it includes a RGA calculator, but no pillaging calculator.
Anyway, currently my calculations are very easy. I always need at least 10 clans to take over a planet ;-)

687 days, 21 hours, 3 minutes ago

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Hah yes, my process so far has gone like this:
0) pillage thoughtlessly for 15 turns or so
1) calculate max number of clans based on temp
2) calculate max dp based on max clans
3) reduce about 10 to simulate structure decay for pillage
4) hit 15, 1000, 1, 1000, [number of dp] in the ground combat calculator
5) iterate a few times to get the ratio of clans needed for capture

It is pretty much a perfect place to apply a tool. Thanks!

687 days, 19 hours, 44 minutes ago

mekusi

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nice, thanks

687 days, 18 hours, 2 minutes ago

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Glad to hear it's useful. If you have feedback/suggestions, lemme know.
I try to make tools that I want to use to solve common problems in games. :P

@TheDuke,
> "Are the wasps in?"

No, they aren't. It didn't even occur to me to include them, actually.
As Lizards, I did a lot of clan dropping on Horwasp, so I guess it would be useful for them.

Did we ever figure out if remaining Defense Posts can give Wasps a defensive bonus in ground combat?

684 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes ago

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Anyway, I've actually started playing the 'Wasps and now I'm curious.

I have some questions about Horwasp ground combat and defensive burrows.

- What do "small", "medium" and "large" burrow sizes mean? (What is their range, in terms of number of burrows on the planet?)
- Is there a place i can check how many burrows there are on a planet? (v0.2 changed it so the number is expressed as a % of total population, rather than absolute number of burrows).
- Do Birds get to see how many burrows are on a planet with super spy?
- How many total burrows do you get relative to population?
- Lastly, what is the forumla for ground combat and burrows?

684 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ago

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@Psydev: Burrows increased a planets combat mass, the formula is here; http://help.planets.nu/horwasp-combat-strength

But it might have changed as you seem to already suspect.

I ran some ground combat tests early this year, but I was mainly looking for bugs and don't really remember what burrows did regarding ground combat... not sure if they did anything at all for ground combat.

681 days, 23 hours, 5 minutes ago

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@Glyn,
Yeah, I just figured out that burrows have no ground combat advantage. I thought that was their purposes, lol.

They are only for planetary combat, like defense posts. There appear to be no ground defense modifiers for Horwasp.

(I assume Defense Posts from normal races remaining on planet are not counted...)

@TheDuke,
So there ya go: treat Horwasp as a normal race for ground combat purposes.