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by szurkey
Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:14 pm
Forum: Star Fleet Battles
Topic: Speeding Up Damage Allocation
Replies: 8
Views: 14249

To be honest I shouldn't have even chimed in as I am a Federation Commander player and Have only played SFB once (and never allocated any damage lol).
Not true. I'm perfectly okay with you chiming in. Most SFB players would be shocked and appalled at the version of "SFB" I play. I use a modified ...
by szurkey
Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:57 am
Forum: Star Fleet Battles
Topic: Speeding Up Damage Allocation
Replies: 8
Views: 14249

They say NASA spent over a million dollars developing a pen that would write in zero g. Russia used a pencil.
Even I'm not that bad. I originally got the TI-89 for math, physics, and engineering classes.

Now if I were to buy one of the soon to be released iPads, download the latest SDK for it ...
by szurkey
Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:52 pm
Forum: Star Fleet Battles
Topic: Speeding Up Damage Allocation
Replies: 8
Views: 14249

While the results are slightly skewed for large amounts of internals, they are much less skewed than the Fed Commander damage allocation system, and as fast or faster than Fed Commander damage allocation system.

As for speed, here's a process analysis:
My Method:
Input number of internals
Wait ...
by szurkey
Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:57 pm
Forum: Star Fleet Battles
Topic: Speeding Up Damage Allocation
Replies: 8
Views: 14249

Speeding Up Damage Allocation

For those who interested, here's the code I use for my TI-89 graphing calculator to generate 2d6 results for the DAC. I only use it for when more then six internals are needed.
sfb()
Prgm
ClrIO

[1,0,0]->d
[0,1,0]->e
[0,0,1]->f

[1,0,0,0]->g
[0,1,0,0]->h
[0,0,1,0]->i
[0,0,0,1]->j

Prompt x
While x ...