.: Forum :: Massive Update to CN Calculator :.::.

I've just uploaded what is possibly the single largest update to my Cybernations Calculator since I first made it public. Part of what spurred me to update it is that I finally figured out all the environment calculations, so I've included those. A few of the other things I've added are the rest of the wonders, military fields and upkeep, land calculations, and more. Naval fields and upkeep aren't included in it since it'd be difficult to extract individual units from just a number on the status screen. So much has changed in the calculator that despite all my troubleshooting I'm sure there are still some latent bugs in there, so let me know if you find any.

-C2Talon
Infinity. Nihility.

Firstly, im being an idiot and posting here because your forums has detected this to be spam when i try and create a new topic ¬¬

Hi I'm not 100% sure how to replicate this bug.. but..:

1. I copy paste my info into the handy box
2. Edit the missing fields, nuclear pos. aircraft level, etc.
3. Change my future nation to include a different resource, replace fish with gems
4. Calculate an extra 1000 infra purchase
5. To the future design, add the improvements I can now purchase with my extra population eg: 5 statium, 5 banks 5 police etc.
6. calculate to update it.

MY stats                  Orig                 future                        difference
Total Income	         536,337.41	1,716,710.64	         1,180,373.23
Total Infra Upkeep	379,967.25	379,967.25	          0.00

7. Hope to compare this future income to my Original with the different resources, so add the same improvements, to the orginial and

Total Income	         536,337.41  	536,337.41	          1,180,373.23
Total Infra Upkeep	379,967.25	379,967.25	          0.00

The underline numbers dont update, infact the second reverts to the original setup level :/ This isnt a big bug, it just means I have to write stuff down/copy and paste to compare 2 future setups, which is more of an annoyance :/ Esp as the "Original setup" +1000 infra has no meaning, why would i want to see stats of my nation without the improvements, which I'm going to buy as soon as I can. Pretty sure this didnt happen last time I came on this site, the only thing I'm doing different now is; I have replaced a trade resource, so maybe this is causing the error?

Anyway i doubt you'll get round to fixing this, as you sound like RL is taking over again :) But thanks for a great tool, and if you do find an hour to try and sort this, it'd mean alot to a CN newbie whos uses this site almost everyday.

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Firstly, im being an idiot and posting here because your forums has detected this to be spam when i try and create a new topic ¬¬

In the "News" forum, only replies to threads can be made. The "General" one is where new threads can be made. I should probably just hide the News section from being in the forums list because of that; although that's another matter.


As far as the rest goes, I know exactly what you're doing, I just have to explain the why you're getting what you're getting, since it's not actually a bug or anything. What the calculator does is use the "current" information as a base when calculating the "future" information, and only in that way. That is also why the future side doesn't have as many fields to fill out, since it only calculates changes one way.

With that mind, when you added improvements/resources to your current side to match your future side without changing anything else, the calculator had a new base to work from. From the looks of your numbers, it had no changes to calculate between current and future side, since the improvements/resources on one side matched the ones on the future side.

Now, if you wanted to compare two future scenarios, which seems to be what you wanted to do, you could do one of a few things:
1. If your browser has multiple tabs or windows as needed, use them to calculate different future scenarios to easily compare them.
2. Use the back button and/or forward buttons on your browser to browse through previous calculations.
3. Copy/paste numbers you want to compare into notepad or some other text editor.
4. You could also write down the numbers you want to compare as you suggested if you had to.

There might be more, but those are just things I've done to work around the limitation of the calculator being able to only calculate one future instance at a time.


I hope something in this clarified it for you. I know I'm terrible at explaining things, so if anything didn't make sense just let me know and I'll try to clarify. Or maybe I was just so terribly off the mark on understanding what you were asking, let me know in that case as well.

-C2Talon
Infinity. Nihility.