• Registered: 2007-10-23
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Starmada/VBAM Construction Assistant-Gunship Clairification

I have a little question about my v3.01 Starmada/VBAM Construction Assistant!  (Hereafter called the "CA")

I can see in the formulas in the CA that, in agreement with the rulebook, the Gunship tag is applied to a ship when the ORat is SEVEN times more than the DRat.  However, I can also plainly see that the CA applies the Gunship maintenance cost to the VBAM area once the ORat is FIVE times more than the DRat (without also applying the Gunship tag!). 

So:  I am getting charged for Gunship maintenance without a Gunship tag!

Is there a good reason for the CA to do this, or is the CA in error?  I would love to have checked the current CA in the Yahoo Forum, but I only have Open Office and I can't read the formulas in that version.  As it was, I had to have my programmer girlfriend fix the v3.01 so that OpenOffice can work with it!

Pending correction here, I have fixed my copy of the CA to properly cost for maintenance.

Also, if anyone needs an OpenOffice formatted Starmada/VBAM CA, please let me know!

Thank you for all of your expertise!

KJ

  • Registered: 2005-06-08
  • Posts: 760

Re: Starmada/VBAM Construction Assistant-Gunship Clairification

I have not tried that one.

Have you looked at the shipyard? When I added VBAM stats to it, I wrote it so that the Gunship cost was only added to the VBAM stats if the ship qualified as a Gunship.

All of the calculations are visible and I use Open Office to update it. I changed some of it a while ago so that it can be used by Open Office and Excel.

Take a look and let me know what you think.