Frood AACalc Dicey / Sim / Odds Calculator: Updates and Opinions

Short version…

1.  e-mail glitches happen.  Fortunately they are rather uncommon from Dan’s server.  The down side of that is that, since they are so uncommon, when they DO occur, people expect there to be a reason for it, so they go looking for one.  And site changes are an obvious place to try to pin the blame.  That is the downside of being more reliable than DAAK… EVERYONE expects THAT dicey to screw up.

2.  Many people dislike change.  Rapid change in particular.  They want TIME to get used to new concepts, new things.  Folks who ahve been gaming for pretty much any amount of time online have used a Dicey that was little boxes that you put a number in, and then click a button to run it.  When a new version comes along that is different, it takes folks time to get used to it.  Some never will.

I think that sums up most of the past several dozen posts.

One last thing…
Frustration happens.  Gods knows I have been a bit frustrated with the losing streak I have been on of late (about 90% of my past 10 games).  And when you are TRYING to improve, and trying to get better, and there is no recognition of that (using my example I keep losing), the frustration can boil over.  The good news is that, for most folks, once it boils over, the pressure is relieved.  That frustration can be even greater when it is something that is your personal creation that is creating the pressure, especially if it is pressure from something outside of you and your creation.

So um…  yeah… what Darth said.  :wink:

Dan-

I apologize for my brash comments, they were born out of frustration.  I do appreciate all your efforts, in fact I think your dice roller is far superior to any I’ve seen, that’s why it sucks when it stops working.

Dan, did you delete your rant?  That’s too bad it was a good one!  :lol:

Hey Dan!

If you are looking for another opportunity to rant at someone….  :-D

I know you are just sitting around with nothing to do besides listen to whining from ungrateful users so I thought I would give you something to do. :-D

I like both the text box entry format and the individual unit boxes but as I use each method I realize that what I am doing is mousing then keyboarding, mousing then keyboarding.  It would be really nice if I could add or delete units just by mousing, especially when I’m using your awesome website :mrgreen: to examine the odds of potential attacks.

Is it possible to have the text entry blank and the individual boxes on the same page and have increment/decrement buttons next to each unit type?

This would allow a cut and paste text string entry to then be modified by a series of “what if I brought an extra tank, fighter, battleship” clicks.

So, uh, since you are just sitting around doing nothing but waiting for my brilliant ideas, I was wondering if you would have this up and running by Friday?

:evil: :evil: :evil:

WHAT!!???

How dare you say that to ME?  :-D

Anyway…  I can see how needing javascript would slow things down.

I guess I will just have to live with this inferior product… <sigh>:wink:

Keep up the good work and if I come up with any more boneheaded ideas I’ll be certain to demand you implement them immediatelly.  :-D</sigh>

I tried running 1 sub vs 1 sub in AACalc 2.0 and it would allow combat to occur.

I tried various combinations of abbreviations (as per the example) with no success.  I verified no check boxes were checked (not chicken subs).

Any ideas?

Hmmm.  I left out the key word “not” in that first sentence.

I was running a sim of 1 sub 1 bmb v 3 tran and AACalc 2.0 was not recognizing the existance of the sub.  I added one to the defender side and still no subs.  I removed everything except the subs and still no subs (no combat).

I shifted to AACalc 1.0 and the subs were recognized just fine.

If it happens again I will book mark it.

I could prolly write up a thingy in JavaScript.  Someday.  Lol.

Thanks Dan.

We have actually had a few games that were approaching the 99 unit limit on some large scale battles.  I doubt we will ever need to be worried about 999 being a limit.

Let’s all vote, should Ender change his name back to Frood?

I vote yes…