NationStates Jolt Archive

The NS-related software and spreadsheet thread

There are many programs (for your PC or as scripts on diverse servers) and spreadsheets somewhere on the internet, which could be great for RPers if they actually knew they existed. There is no way to inform NSlers using your software/spreadsheets about updates, especially if your contribution is highly popular. That is the reason why I started this thread: Post links to your programs or spreadsheets and state the category of it. I will include it in the list here and your users can subscribe to this thread. Developers can post updates and users, who subscribed will no longer bug you with errors of older versions :)

Categories:
The format is always: Name (creator): link to the program/spreadsheet (required OS/spreadsheet program)
GDP Calculators
NSEconomy (Commerce Heights): http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/ (website)
Sunset's Calculator (Experimental) (Sunset): http://www.sunsetrpg.com/economystatistics.php (website)
Pipian (I have no idea who created it): http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php

Military calculators
Completed Calculator (The Evil Overlord): http://www.geocities.com/versionizer/CompletedCalculator.xls (Excel 2000)
Detailed Calculator (I have no idea who created it): http://www.geocities.com/versionizer/DetailedCalculator.xls (Excel 2000)
Lightweight Calculator (I have no idea who created it): http://www.geocities.com/versionizer/LightweightCalculator.xls (Excel 2000)
PBMC Export Calculator (Sunset): http://www.geocities.com/versionizer/PBMCExport.xls (Excel 2000)
Layarteb General Sheet (Layarteb): http://www.theforsakenoutlaw.com/Files/Layarteb_General_Sheet.xls (Newer Excel versions)

Election generators
Belmorian Election Generator (The Belmore Family): http://www.abelmore.com/Electionzip.zip

Scorinators:
Leagion (Rejistania): http://www.chd-koeln.de/rejistania (Linux/Mac OS/Windows with Java)

...and bump!

I like it (Bump in disguise)

Good idea, but what program do I need to extract ".tar.gz"? Isn't that a Mac extension?

Good idea, but what program do I need to extract ".tar.gz"? Isn't that a Mac extension?

It is a Unix extension. An archive of GNU tar was compressed by GNU Zip. For me this is easier since I am a Linux-user. WinZip can open it without problems in every version I know.

It is a Unix extension. An archive of GNU tar was compressed by GNU Zip. For me this is easier since I am a Linux-user. WinZip can open it without problems in every version I know.

Ah....so it does....Thank you.

Leagion reached version 0.0.9.

Most changes are only internal, but one new feature has been introduced: variables in the custom fixtures. Some minor things were also introduced, but only to tweak scorination a bit. The URL is unchanged.

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Election generators
Belmorian Election Generator (The Belmore Family): http://www.abelmore.com/Electionzip.zip

Scorinators:
Leagion (Rejistania): http://www.chd-koeln.de/rejistania (Linux/Mac OS/Windows with Java)

What do these do?

What do these do?

Election generators create results of elections based on basic data like districts population, number of parties and such. And scorinators... well, are used scorinate matches, mostly World Cup matches. What to scorinate is? To generate results/scores of matches based on rank, RP-bonus and random numbers.

BTW: Feel free to propose software not fitting into these categories!

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Sticky for this perhaps?

I have a killer spread-sheet that I use to track budget, income, expenditure, and military forces.

would you like to share that with us =P

I have a killer spread-sheet that I use to track budget, income, expenditure, and military forces.
Is it possible that you could either:
a)Upload it, so other people can download it
b)E-mail it to myself or Rejistania for us to upload it so we can all experience the 'killerness' of it!

The OSN has a very cool* system for this called GUSTO at http://osn.jink.org/. Granted, you have to join the OSN to be in it. It's more advanced than the nseconomy version as that's based off of the old GUSTO tables.



*OK, OK, I'm part of the OSN

The OSN has a very cool* system for this called GUSTO at http://osn.jink.org/. Granted, you have to join the OSN to be in it. It's more advanced than the nseconomy version as that's based off of the old GUSTO tables.


Some of the results from that spreadsheet are posted semi-regularly to the GUSTO blog, found at http://gusto.jactivism.com.

Example (http://gusto.jactivism.com/test/November042004.xml)

GUSTO calculates everything from GDP to interest rates to estimates of military power. It does a lot. ;)

Is it possible that you could either:
a)Upload it, so other people can download it
b)E-mail it to myself or Rejistania for us to upload it so we can all experience the 'killerness' of it!

Yes I can just gimme a few hours. I have to work tonight, perhaps when I return.

BUMP

I have several military spreadsheets available. One I created, the others culled from the old NS (pre-Jolt).

TG me with your email address, and I'll be happy to send them to you.


TEO

First: I am no webspace provider! There are free ones and they are not bad!

Second: a small bugfix and update increases the version of leagion to 0.0.9a

Anyone who wishes to use any or all of the five Microsoft Excel military calculators I have on file may TG me with their email addresses. I will send the calculators by email to any player that desires it.


TEO

I included the 5 calculators and made the new category military calculators for it.

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(encore une fois)

updatified, Layarteb, you could simply posted here instead of mailing me.

Tank you, I wa looking for won of theze threds!

:p

bump

*wishes he wasn't such a dunce at Java*

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Reji could you add it to the main list?

http://www.theforsakenoutlaw.com/Files/Layarteb_General_Sheet.xls

Keep in mind people that it is a working model and that you need to know how to use formulas in Excell to use it to its fullest extent.

Reji could you add it to the main list?

http://www.theforsakenoutlaw.com/Files/Layarteb_General_Sheet.xls

Keep in mind people that it is a working model and that you need to know how to use formulas in Excell to use it to its fullest extent.

errr sorry, but isn't it the one I added?

Bump for this being such a good topic - I enjoy the whole complexities of working out your nation's details, but it can get a bit time-consuming and tedious at times. Great thread!

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let's bump this up again, for reference purposes

let's bump this up again, for reference purposes

yes, let's.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=383377&highlight=power+calculator

That's my power calculator - post your info, and I'll work out how powerful your nation is in various aspects, plus some really cool other stats, and post it back! Version 2 may be along shortly.

Bump

Demo, yours is no real calculator.

Cool! :cool:

I'm working on my spreadsheet. It'll take a (long) while to get finished for public use, but here's a glimpse of what it is being built off of. (I'm going to make the divisions editable, and make the interface MUCH more streamlined over the next few weeks)

To add in values, you must edit the formulas, as for the column of the M1A1 inside the counted divisions, you must change the multiplyer for the # of divisions you have.

http://www.geocities.com/anomaly149/original_calculator.xls

As I said before, I will be modifying this heavily. The divisions are actually from Teh Ninjas (love those things lol, and have purchased quite a few I think), but feel free to alter all you want. You can enter any value in for the unit numbers, but don't touch the totals areas... they will auto-compute. It is for Exel 2k3 I think.

If you have any advice whatsoever, please tell me. I'm redoing it, so the first page will be nothing but totals for everything, and you only edit the later pages, but that's a ways off

Nice, I'll include it after told me what it is (no Excel here) and made it a bit more userproof. Don't trust users to touch your formulas. :)

Ah. I'm color-coding the next version, and anything in red will be a no-touchy zone. Also, anything on the first page will be a no-touchy zone as well. And it will say "No Touchy anything red or anything on the first page" in big font on the first page. I'm nearly done with the land pages and am moving on to air, sea, space, and missile command soon. Logistics for each can be found in the individual section, and hopefully this will be easier to use.

Newer version of the military calculator: (my private insanity)

http://www.geocities.com/anomaly149/troops_for_NS_dudes

It's an exel document that shows you most of its information on page one, but you can edit your ground forces on the following pages. I tried to make sure it was clean, but if it's not, you are free to edit any green square. As for areas under ground troops for unattatched units, select the original row under that heading, and insert a (small, 1 row by 4 columns) set of cells to make more room if you run out. You can add more until you have all the cells you need. Remember to shift cells down though, or else you'll really mess things up visually. (I'll make another version that is easier to use in this reguard, and that allows for fleets and airwings)

Good work, Rejis and all the creators! :)

ThirdGeek seems to be having problems (I got an error message saying "My SQL Server Has Gone Away.")

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Yeah, so do I. Ouch. I hope it's up soon...

bump!

(as should be done, if it does not obtain sticky status)

I'm half way done with my newest MT military spreadsheet version (version .66). I plan to complete this spreadsheet and transfer completly to FT. It's a little bit complex, but it works (trust me ;))

bump!

(as should be done, if it does not obtain sticky status)

It is linked from a sticky already!

it is? Which one?

Pity that alot of these don't work exactly right any more, ah well.

Yeah mine needs updating I can tell you that.

mine is still being finished, but oh well. When it is, it'll be interesting, and that's all I'm saying LOL.

hmm..yeah...i was hoping to get the Belmorian Election Generator ...doesnt seem to be working

if anyone here has a copy, I think I can host it

I have a copy of v2.2 of his Election Generator, I'll give you a copy and we can both host it.

cool...please post here the link when you put it up:)

Pacitalia, can you E-mail it to me? My adress is anomaly149@yahoo.com

TAG, so that I may observe these magnificent calulators later, when I don't have work hounding me.

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A couple of Leagion-related questions:

1. How can I resume a season halfway through? I've tried reading the help page but I can't make much sense of it, and I don't fancy adjusting league tables myself - I just know I'll botch it up.

2. Can I fix it so that two teams are prevented from playing home games on the same matchday? As any policeman will tell you, it's not always a good idea to have local rivals playing at home at the same time.

okay, for the questions:
1. if you =simto a certain amount of matches, a leaguedef.resume.lgn is created, executing it resumes a season.
2. only via custom fixtures. if you have said leaguedef.resume.lgn, you can edit it's custom fixtures.

okay, for the questions:
1. if you =simto a certain amount of matches, a leaguedef.resume.lgn is created, executing it resumes a season.
2. only via custom fixtures. if you have said leaguedef.resume.lgn, you can edit it's custom fixtures.

By executing it, do you mean typing " java leaguedef.resume.lgn " in the MS-DOS prompt?

java leagion leaguedef.resume.lgn

BTW: rename before resume us a good idea. it already happened to many leagion users that they overwrote this file. "ren leaguedef.resume.lgn newname.lgn" does the trick for you

Brilliant. Thanks for that. :)

Tag for interest

Another quick question - are there programs out there for scorinating rugby / american football matches? Or will I have to resort to some creative use of Leagion?

Another quick question - are there programs out there for scorinating rugby / american football matches? Or will I have to resort to some creative use of Leagion?

Sports with multiple types of scoring that produce different ammounts of points *and* are dependent on one another (tries and conversions, touchdowns and 1/2 points after) are a bugger to get to grips with.

Most people offering to score American Football games use (i.e. 'host and get to play with' a version of Madden, a practice I've always disliked.

So the quick answer is 'probably not, and good luck with that'

I was thinking something along the lines of scorinating each match twice; once for tries/touchdowns (assuming all conversions are good), once for penalties/drop goals/field goals.

Horribly complicated I know, but hey, it might work.

I was thinking something along the lines of scorinating each match twice; once for tries/touchdowns (assuming all conversions are good), once for penalties/drop goals/field goals.

Horribly complicated I know, but hey, it might work.

I did an uber-simple rugby scorinator for the Rugby World Cup that scored all 4 ways of scoring at once (Tries, Conversions, Penalties, Drop Goals) and had each with a different likelyhood of happening. Then it added up all the points scored and viola.

Tries were most likely, then Penalties, then Conversions, then Drop Goals. You obviously couldnt score more Conversions than Tries, of course. T'was uber-simple and basically it meant, RPing = Winning.

I did an uber-simple rugby scorinator for the Rugby World Cup that scored all 4 ways of scoring at once (Tries, Conversions, Penalties, Drop Goals) and had each with a different likelyhood of happening. Then it added up all the points scored and viola.

Tries were most likely, then Penalties, then Conversions, then Drop Goals. You obviously couldnt score more Conversions than Tries, of course. T'was uber-simple and basically it meant, RPing = Winning.


Sounds interesting. Where did you get it? Or was it your own work?

My own creation, it was. TG me your email addy and I'll mail it to you, if you like. An MS Excel sheet, weighing in at a grand total of 20KB.

Complex, it ain't.

EDIT: Scratch that, I'll upload it to my webspace instead. Much simpler.

RugbyScorinator.xls (http://www.starblaydestudios.co.uk/RugbyScorinator.xls)

There we go. Uber-simple and hopefully explained well enough. Done in Excel 2002, in case anyone's wondering about compatability and such (not that it does anything more complex than random numbers and multiplication).

That works a treat - good work fella!