A good. stable Dicey is hard to find…

Dan’s dicey at Frood might be easier to integrate…

I’m willing to do something, but I have no idea how to make a Java app talk to a php script. PHP/HTML is all I know. If you can give me some pointers though I can build something. If tripleA sends HTTP requests we’re in the money - just request eg:

http://frood.net/aacalc/diceserver.php?roll=5@2&3@3&1@4

and I can make a script to generate/send the dice - that would be way easier than the sim itself. Actually you’d have to separate out sub dice because they can’t hit planes.

I also have a page that just rolls dice - http://frood.net/dice/ - it doesn’t send e-mail though.

My idea for a dice roller here on A&A.org would be integrated into the forums. You would enter some special text in your message and the result would be a message posted by a “bot user” with the results of your rolls.

The drawback is that it could create a large number of messages in the thread. So to solve that, I’m trying to think of a way to only add/update one post per battle. The post would include the results for each round of rolling but would just be programmic “edits” each time a round of dice is rolled.

frood,

I’m a little out of touch with your tools. What/where is you Java app? Is it a standalone desktop application or a Java applet on a webpage?

If it is standalone (or a servlet), then you can use HttpClient to connect to a webpage easily. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/

It’s a PHP script. In the other thread it’s been explained to me that TripleA sends an HTTP request, so I can make it work - it would be just like requesting a web page.

Okay - http://frood.net/aacalc/triplea/ can take the same variables as the  old MARTI serve (I think)  - test it out and let me know if anything is missing.

this one works, but i don´t know if it works for triple a…

http://www.rjware.net/WGMC/AHAA/diceroller.jsp

rjware is the actual dice roller that is used by the DAAK framework.  It goes down about once a week and has extended down time about once a month.

I’m biased but I like the in house roller since you don’t have to go back and forth between the site and your email.

The in-site has really grown on me, esp with the “aaa” command that calculates hits.

It has gotten pretty easy to type:

aaa 1@2 3@3 …. etc.

I agree, I really like the in-house best - keeps everything in one place and saves the record. But this thread is about diceys for TripleA, is it not?

Rolls: 10@1.9; Total Hits: 210@1.9: (6, 2, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 2, 1, 1)

Rolls: 120@1; Total Hits: 23120@1: (3, 2, 6, 1, 5, 3, 6, 3, 2, 6, 5, 5, 1, 2, 3, 1, 5, 3, 5, 6, 3, 1, 5, 2, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 5, 3, 2, 6, 2, 2, 4, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 5, 6, 6, 3, 2, 4, 3, 6, 6, 1, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 5, 2, 2, 6, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 5, 4, 1, 1, 5, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2, 5, 6, 5, 2, 4, 6, 4, 3, 1, 6, 3, 2, 6, 3, 3, 6, 5, 3, 4, 5, 1, 1, 6, 1, 6, 4, 4, 3)