Babylon 5 Wars Ultimate Fleet Builder
Version 1.01
by Peter Zunitch (Shalbatana)
REVISION HISTORY 1.01 (August 21, 2007)
- Fixed a bug that prevented all enhancements from working
- Ordered the missile types and took out some duplicates.
- Updated Armaments Data Sheet
FEATURES
- Build a fleet of 13 different ship typess, and up to 150 of each for a max fleet of 1950 ships.
- Full support for 95% of all standard rulles & costs involved in purchasing your fleet.
- All legal ships from every supplement inncluding Showdowns 1-11, Variants 1-6 (inc. 6 bonus material), and all titled - supplements through The Great Crusade.
- Dynamic updating based on year of battlee (will automatically give you refits & upgrades).
- Legal checks for variant limitations, deeployment restrictions, in & out of service dates, hanger space, Rules Compendium & Supplement.
- Auto re-allocation of hanger space and aall necessary relevant costs.
- Missile, mine & special weapon purchasess and allocation checks.
- Add up to 6 different types of enhancemeents (50 of each), including weapon upgrades, expert crewmen & pilots. The program will calculate the costs for you.
- A Printable summary of all you�ve purchaased, complete with special notes and warnings about your fleet, and without all the junk you don�t need.
- Partial support for composing fleets connsisting of multiple races.
- Works off standard Excel program. No addd-ons or plug-ins needed (created in Excel 2000).
- Program advises on rules, and tells you when you have broken them, but does not restrict you from doing so (to accomodate specialized scenarios).
OTHER INFORMATION
A Widescreen monitor is preferable, but not essential.
Please download the instruction manual for how to use, known bugs, and more.
If you have an idea you would like to see implemented. Let me know. EMAIL ME HERE
PLEASE HELP
I would love help proofing my data and filling in the blanks. It may take an hour out or your life, but would save me an eternity to something I have already put in countless hours on. If you could, please download the ship data sheets. Choose one or two major races, or a few smaller races. Double-check the data and fill in the blanks for Out-of-Service dates, weapons, etc. Pay particular attention to the sections noted in the bug list. Please highlight any changes you make. When you�re done, email it to me.
As an alternative, you could add any fan-made races or ships, or double-check the weapons or enhancements data for any erroneous or missing data. Anything would be a huge help. The less typing and skimming through books I need to do, the more free time I will be able to devote to building new features and bug fixing.
Finally, one more thing you could do is fill in any other ship data you would like to see appear. Perhaps more weapon info, or engine efficiency or whatever. More data means more features I can implement.
DOWNLOAD NOTE: If you cannot download from this page, Please go to My4Shared folder
SPECIAL THANKS
To Steve Austin for providing his ship data.
To everyone on B5Wars.net for help in clarifing the rules when I was confused.
To Rich for saying "I wish this [fleet builder] thing would calculate all the other costs and add-ons too". The line that gave me the inspiration for this project...(you bastard! :) )
TRIVIA
Who? - I'm just a fan of the game, and of the Babylon 5 Universe.
Why? - To make the game easier to prepair and to say thanks.
How Long? - Not including my original attempt years ago, I have worked on this about a year, averaging approx 5 days a week for about 2 hours a day. So about 520 hours.
How? - Lots of trial and error. The hardest part to figure out was the variants check. After that was the Hanger allocation. The thing that took the most time by far though was entering all the data.
More? - For stuff I have already made, check the readme. For stuff coming up. There is a good deal. Many items are B5 related (though not necessarily B5Wars), and much of it is very close to completion.
When? - This program will continue to be developed for a little while longer if there is enough interest. I have a few refinements I would like to make. Look for one more major overhaul. After that I will only tweak if something is not working correctly.
