I think I fixed the Sub / Destroyer issues for AA Europe, except for the air units being able to hit subs only if Destroyer is present.

Hey Jennifer, thanks for the donations. That’s nice. Now I’m getting closer to being able to buy another variant. But no rush, I still haven’t broken in the AA Revised that I bought with the first few funds. I almost feel bad inviting them because I enjoy playing with my sim so much (unlike you, I can easily spend a day or a week staring at code, too bad it’s not my job). Anywho, it’s not for the money. If I divided the hours I’ve put into this by the cash, I’ve maybe earned a nickel for every hour… It’s just fun to make something that others actually find useful.

And you and Switch (who is also a gold-level donor ;) ) sure put in your contributions at this site, and to the sim as well with the rules clarifications and feature suggestions. Heck, if Switch hadn’t pointed out that my page was borked, I wouldn’t have embarked on this latest frenzy of modifying it. And Jennifer’s idea of being able to preserve certain units is a really sweet finishing touch. I think this makes the sim way more useful and realistic in that it reflects decisions a human player would make.

Okay, enough of the love fest. One more question I had is whether I should modify some of the default values, specifically:

• should LHTR be the default initial ruleset?
• should 1000x or 5000x be the default sim mode, rather than “Once”?
• should the abort ratio start with a default value of say 50% to at least minimize catastrophic results for the attacker?
• any other suggestions for defaults?

Also, now that there’s the ability to bookmark scenarios, I could create a set of quick links for preferred settings, or unit combinations. Can you suggest, or even create links for, some of your most common defaults? I know that for R1 anyway there are a lot of battles that could be preset, to be experimented with slight variations for opening strategy.

Not to be nitpicky myself, but I just noticed that on the links page of this site (not in the forums) it still says that my sim does not have e-mail notification. Also, it is referred to as FROOD. frood.net is my domain name (and I don’t like to use all CAPS) - my name for it has been AACalc. Call it frood.net/aacalc/, or just AACalc.

So if whoever has the power could fix that I’d appreciate it. Thanks.

Thanks. I’ve added a new subpage with some links to some preset scenarios - Pearl Harbour etc. You can play with them and tweak them this way or that to see how you like the odds for variations on certain “standard” battles.

Maybe there’s not much point. But now at least if there’s some glitch, I can be sent the link as a sort of “bug report” so I can reproduce the exact error.

No, frood doesn’t stand for anything. It’s a word from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It refers to “a really amazingly together guy”as in “A person who really knows where his/her towel is.” See for example: “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who knows where his towel is.”

I was racking my brain for a good short domain name when this one just came to me two or three years ago. Not sure how it came to me at the moment, as I hadn’t read the book in a while – I just suddenly remembered it as I was trying to think of short words that might still be available as domain names.

For more definitions see http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frood&defid=1247024 although one of them is also “moronic jerk” - oops! Oh well.

As for the defaults you’d like, spell them out exactly and I’ll make a link or a button to preload those options at once. It makes sense to have a quick way to toggle between sim and ADS modes.

Or, I could have it set cookies that would save your preferences, so you wouldn’t have to re-enter them.

Some updates:

Fixed bug where AA guns stayed selected in the form after running battle for a single round of combat once.

Added “D. units to be left alive” to simulate strafing attacks.

Added average battle duration to averaging mode.

Check if you have cookies enabled maybe?

I haven’t seen problems myself, but obviously there is some issue that people are experiencing.
It would help if people would post here as code (next to the quote button) the full contents of the OOL box and also post the URL of the page as they’ve submitted it.