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Umm, just as the Topic says. You know in EVN in the shipyard it shows the Acceleration and Turn as words; poor, good, very good, excellent, etc. While in programs like Mission computer and Output from ConText, you get numbers.
Is this an Engine driven thing (the EVN engine converts the numbers to the correct words) or is there a word file some place with replaceable words so that someone might change how those things read out?
My money is on the engine, if only because what plugins I have seen and the only TC out (Polycon) didn't change anything but could have.
In any case, does anyone know what the conversion values are? In other words, what number value equals a poor rating, what number value equals a good rating, etc.
Thanks
Well, since no one else was responding, I went and did some quick testing to find the answer.
In each chart, the number on the left is the actual data value, and whatever is on the right is what the Shipyard Info box reported.
(EDIT) In regards as to whether or not the actual words are engine-fixed: As I can't find any resources either in the Nova Data Files, or the Application itself with those words, I'm going to have to assume it's engine fixed.
On a related note, I found that at certain points, the Shipyard Info box will have an off-by-one (always less) error when reporting a ship's speed (I wasn't paying attention at first, so I wasn't looking thoroughly for where it broke):.
Speed: 0 0 1 0 <-- 2 1 <-- 3 2 <-- 4 3 <-- 5 5 6 5 <-- 7 7 8 7 <-- 9 9 10 10 100 100 110 110 120 120 126 126 127 126 <-- 128 127 <-- 129 128 <-- 130 129 <-- 140 139 <-- 150 150 200 200 210 209 <-- 220 220 230 229 240 240 245 245 246 246 247 247 248 248 249 249 250 250 300 300 310 310 320 320 330 330 340 340 350 350 360 359 <-- 370 370 380 379 <-- 381 380 <-- 382 381 <-- 383 382 <-- 384 383 <-- 385 384 <-- 390 390 400 400 410 409 <-- 420 419 <-- 430 430 440 440 450 450 500 500 510 509 <-- 520 519 <-- 530 530 540 540 550 550 551 551 552 551 <-- 553 553 554 553 <-- 555 555 560 559 <-- 570 569 <-- 580 580 590 590 600 600 650 650 700 700 710 709 <-- 720 719 <-- 730 730 731 730 <-- 732 732 733 732 <-- 734 734 735 734 <-- 740 740 750 750 Turn: Conclusion: 0 N/A 0 = N/A 1 Terrible 1-10 = Terrible 10 Terrible 11-20 = Poor 11 Poor 21-30 = Average 12 Poor 31-40 = Good 13 Poor 41-50 = Very Good 14 Poor 51 ++ = Excellent 15 Poor 20 Poor 21 Average 22 Average 23 Average 24 Average 25 Average 30 Average 31 Good 32 Good 33 Good 34 Good 35 Good 36 Good 37 Good 38 Good 39 Good 40 Good 41 Very Good 42 Very Good 43 Very Good 44 Very Good 45 Very Good 50 Very Good 51 Excellent 52 Excellent 53 Excellent 54 Excellent 55 Excellent Accel: Conclusion: 0 N/A 0 = N/A 1 Terrible 1-129 = Terrible 10 Terrible 130-249 = Poor 100 Terrible 250-380 = Average 110 Terrible 381-550 = Good 120 Terrible 551-730 = Very Good 125 Terrible 731 +++ = Excellent 126 Terrible 127 Terrible 128 Terrible 129 Terrible 130 Poor 140 Poor 150 Poor 200 Poor 210 Poor 220 Poor 230 Poor 240 Poor 245 Poor 246 Poor 247 Poor 248 Poor 249 Poor 250 Average 300 Average 310 Average 320 Average 330 Average 340 Average 350 Average 360 Average 370 Average 380 Average 381 Good 382 Good 383 Good 384 Good 385 Good 390 Good 400 Good 410 Good 420 Good 430 Good 440 Good 450 Good 500 Good 550 Good 551 Very Good 552 Very Good 553 Very Good 554 Very Good 555 Very Good 560 Very Good 570 Very Good 580 Very Good 590 Very Good 600 Very Good 650 Very Good 700 Very Good 710 Very Good 720 Very Good 730 Very Good 731 Excellent 732 Excellent 733 Excellent 734 Excellent 735 Excellent 740 Excellent 750 Excellent
This post has been edited by Eugene Chin : 19 October 2008 - 05:01 PM
I confirm the results of Eugene Chin for the current version EV Nova 1.1 on Mac OS X.
I checked the Turn and Accel cutoffs exhaustively, and I can verify that the speed does display off by one for some values, although I did not try to list them all.
EV Nova ship info words
Turn N/A 0 Terrible 1-10 Poor 11-20 Average 21-30 Good 31-40 Very Good 41-50 Excellent 51+
Accel N/A 0 Terrible 1-129 Poor 130-249 Average 250-380 Good 381-550 Very Good 551-730 Excellent 731+
This post has been edited by Qaanol : 26 January 2011 - 02:31 AM
I thought you could change the names for those values, but not the values themselves. I think there is an #STR resource in one of the Nova Data files which has the labels, but it's been awhile since I've dug around in the #STR's. You might not be able to edit them without ResEDIT, which can be hard to find and is Mac-only.
@meaker-vi, on 26 January 2011 - 11:38 AM, said in Acceleration & Turn - How is 600 converted to "Very Good"?:
You might not be able to edit them without ResEDIT, which can be hard to find and is Mac-only.
I can’t do anything about the latter, but ResEdit is here.
MissionComputer can edit STR# resources - is EVNEW not able to?
@david-arthur, on 26 January 2011 - 12:38 PM, said in Acceleration & Turn - How is 600 converted to "Very Good"?:
Yes it can.
Good call. STR# 2002 “misc strings” entries 245-250 are:
245 Excellent 246 Very Good 247 Good 248 Average 249 Poor 250 Terrible
And entry 396 is “N/A”, though I suspect that might be used for other things too.