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Post by JLSigman on Mar 24, 2005 19:10:15 GMT
Working my way through Book 8, and there's a battle where your damage is halved. But when I put 0.5 in the GS endurance, I actually lose no endurance. Is there a way to get it to calculate half damage? This is the downloaded version.
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 2, 2005 20:53:52 GMT
Hmm, I see Outspaced has moved this here. I'm not sure you meant this about LWAC, since 'GS endurance' makes it sound like you're using the original StatsKeeper (which has the multiplier box mislabelled 'GS's Endurance loss' in LW mode). Moreover, using StatsKeeper, I get exactly the same result: '0.5' causes EP losses to be multiplied by zero, and '.5' causes it to spit out an error ('NaN', Not a Number). At first glance, it seems to only take the first digit of the multiplier you enter (and if that digit is '.' it doesn't like it). That said... No, there's no way in LWAC to take half Endurance losses.  I'll put it on the to-do list. Could you let me know what section of the book this is in? It might be helpful to see what it says about rounding up or down... |
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Post by outspaced on Apr 2, 2005 21:43:12 GMT
Statskeeper is slowly being phased out, I think. Jon's been talking about discontinuing it for about 3 years now as updating it holds up publication of new books. Best to get your replacement system working smoothly, Peregrine  Edit: JLS, you might be better posting problems with Statskeeper directly to the Project Aon Mailing List because Jon Blake, the project coordinator and guy in charge of coding it, rarely has much time to visit these forums. I meant to add this earlier but got distracted. Sorry. |
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Post by JLSigman on Apr 3, 2005 11:00:22 GMT
Peregrine - I'm using the Statskeeper you can download and install. Is that not the latest one?
outspaced - Didn't know the guy didn't post here often, I'll put together a list of two things I had asked about Statskeeper and put them in an email, thanks.
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 3, 2005 11:53:17 GMT
Well, there's Statskeeper and there's the Lone Wolf Action Chart. Statskeeper runs in your browser--it's written in Javascript, by Jonathan Blake, and is available in online and offline versions. It's the default play aid for the Project Aon editions, is simple, clean, and mostly effective, but has a number of problems and limitations. The Lone Wolf Action Chart (LWAC) is a standalone program. It's written in Java, by me, and runs offline only. It's meant as a sort of enhanced Statskeeper, overcoming some of the older play aid's limitations. This forum is theoretically for LWAC questions and discussions. Seems Outspaced is giving LWAC a gentle nudge into the limelight, though, and moving Statskeeper questions here.  |
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Post by outspaced on Apr 3, 2005 14:42:46 GMT
Statskeeper is always going to be severely limited, and I've heard a number of complaints from my own friends about how it uses cookies to save the game; if you blitz your cache regularly, you also wave goodbye to your saves. (Of course, you can protect cookies in various ways, but it's best to assume people don't do that. ) So yeah, pushing LWAC into the limelight, by moving this thread here, for example, is an attempt to make sure your proggy fixes/implements everything that Statskeeper doesn't. BTW--I think I've said before how impressed I was with LWAC, but I don't mind saying it again! |
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Post by snfcn on Apr 3, 2005 16:36:18 GMT
The section about halved EP is here. It doesn't say anything about rounding up or down. Personally, I think Statskeeper too bulky. And from the screenshot picture, LWAC takes a lot of space too, though it does seem to simplify a few things. Personally I like to play with the books to one side of the screen and my own mod of SK to the other (It is basically a 'scratch-paper-space' with the combat table). When I come to the section above I usually solve the problem by doubling my EP and cutting it in half after combat. |
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 3, 2005 22:36:54 GMT
LWAC, unlike Statskeeper, runs in a separate window, so you can put both the text of the book and LWAC at full screen size. Yes, it's bulky: I designed it that way. ;D I hated having to flick back and forth between panels in Statskeeper, so everything you're likely to need at one time is all there. If your resolution is high enough, as in the screenshot, you can fit the full width of a PA text in your browser and LWAC side by side.
As for people with lower resolutions, well, I'm working on that. If anyone wants to design a better layout for it...
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Post by JLSigman on Apr 3, 2005 23:41:18 GMT
The Lone Wolf Action Chart (LWAC) is a standalone program. It's written in Java, by me, and runs offline only. It's meant as a sort of enhanced Statskeeper, overcoming some of the older play aid's limitations. OH!!  I didn't realize the LWAC was a program, I'd always assumed it was just the charts. I'll download that and try it. |
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I'll put it on the to-do list. Could you let me know what section of the book this is in? It might be helpful to see what it says about rounding up or down...
I didn't realize the LWAC was a program, I'd always assumed it was just the charts. I'll download that and try it.