Wyrdysm Games

Well, some of you may remember a while ago on the meta 2 ship design thread that i posted some ideas for a way of easily comparing the stats of almost any custom weapons. i have since dabbled with it a bit more and made it more balanced, adherent to the game and reliable for any explosive, missile, beam or simple projectile weapon. so, without further explanation (which would take up a lot of space) here are my titillated formulae:
unlike a standard dps calculator it factors in how good a weapon is at hitting it's target (as compared to a range 1000, 0 dev, 180 arc beamer). hopefully this will be useful for a lot of large fleets that need balancing (eg jwa's starwreck fleet). here is a handy excel document where you simply input all the fields and it gives you an effective dps number. (note: input bullet speed for beamers as 1, it's got a trigger to handle that)

UPDATED SPREADSHEET WITH MASS AND POWER (includes metagame weapon stats)

UPDATE: i've been working on a new set of torunament rules which allow for a greater degree of freedom for competitors. one of the main things i wanted to introduce was custom weapon stats, and so i've modified the previous calculator to output in mass and power values, and also so that it a. suits the style of competition better and b. has anti-powergaming protocols ^^

Oh this looks very handy, much easier than just guess work by fighting all the different combinations, which is why I gave up on making fleets which they never really worked...good job!

This will come in very handy if I ever get my fleet going. How hard would it be to make a version for point defense and missiles as well?

missiles work already, i've worked out the relationship between turn speed, bullet speed and range and it's been factored into the effectiveness calculation. point defence is rather more difficult though, as they function very differently to normal weapons. hopefully in the future it may be possible, but personally i don't really like pd anyway

In the fourth term of the effectiveness equation, in the deepest parentheses, there is an "S" with no subscript. What does is represent?

oh, that's meant to be bullet speed (S_b) i must of missed that out when i neatened it all up

ed: i've updated the first post and corrected the error, thanks for pointing it out!

been playing around with the weapon balancing spreadsheet and realised that excel uses radians not degrees *facepalm* i've corrected it now, and better balanced explosive damage. also included are the effective dps stats of all the metagame weapons except the drones

I have no interest in the metagame... but... I have to know, vid, how did you figure this formula? This is just crazy sauce. It's... like... the epicness of math embodied...

haha it's not tht epic, i just made an addition to the standard dps formula to integrate the average explosive damage (i could explain it, but the last time i wrote it down it took up an entire page =/ ) and i just factored in all the cahnges to effectiveness as values close to 1. that means that they all have a very slight change individually, but together can be quite dramatic. it's a kind of comparison to the hit chance of a range 1000 beamer, although it's not really probability of a hit, as that would take lots and lots of research...

basically i just looked at hoe the weapons worked in the game and tried to convert the effects of changing each value into a mathematical formula ^^ the complicated bit is when i start using linear programming to maximise dps =3

updated with a weapon mass and power calculator

even more updates, mainly to reduce the power consumption of high speed rotation turrets and stationary weapons