PS I hope the dice gods curse you mightily, UPS5224621124104939. And watch out, I am on rather close terms with some of them…
Man, I would not want to be on the blacklist of someone who has the power and ability to write code to skew random results based on a UserID.
Don’t get me wrong–I’m a huge fan of the efforts you have made to provide free tools for A&A style gaming. I also appreciate all the effort you put into parsing user entries for battles in your new calculator.
I’m just saying, it became like staring at a system prompt, rather than a GUI. Many people wouldn’t have a clue what to do if they had a system prompt staring them in the face. Now, is a GUI superior to a system prompt? Not if you’re trying to add a prefix or suffix to several hundred file names in a given directory! While it may not be nearly as powerful, a GUI is generally considered friendlier (but some GUIs are actually counter-intuitive and pretty yucky). You just happened to migrate from a no-questions-asked interface to one where people need to figure out how things work–at first glance, people have no idea how forgiving your input field was–it’s only by playing with it that people discover the speedier entry of attack/defend units. (I’m still not sure yet how one would have changed the OOL for attack vs defense, since I wasn’t looking to spend time figuring that part out)
It’s possible you may just have lost a good number of people who are seeking an intuitive interface to a battle calculator. At the very least, I’d like to suggest keeping the old OOL entry with default values in a separate location as it was before.
I don’t know that I have anyway of uploading the bitmap I use for ABattleMap, but I’d be happy to share it with others. I created it for the BigPieces (View–>use BigPieces)