[Player-Owned Ports: Voyage Calculator]

Oops, yeah. Boat stats would effect that. 8^/

 

a) I've got up to Reinforced Ram, Cannon x2, Golden Hull and Refitted Shipwright.

b) The Captain stats are M:140, C:240, S:120 and Lvl 1.

c) I'll grab screen shots if/when it happens again.

d) No effects. I try and hit 100% naturally. If I can't make it, I start looking at any upgrades / crew I can purchase. If it doesn't help me, I don't buy it.

 

Hmm, still not sure what the issue is. Since you seem to be the only one having problems, and without more information, I'd probably guess you accidentally type something in wrong.

[Player-Owned Ports: Voyage Calculator]

First off, awesome job with the calc and ALL the updates that have been made to it.

 

I have noticed that occasionally, seafaring does not match up with Runescape's calculation. Right now, the calc is showing 2040 on a journey that Runescape shows as only 1825. I've triple checked that I've got the crew data entered properly, but cannot see where the difference is coming in.

 

Here's my data (listing only lvl, seafaring and traits):

 

Captain (1): 110 (second row, 1st column)

Eastern Overseer (5): 190 Solidarity (5r, 2c)

Eastern Guide (4): 520 (4r, 3c)

Eastern Bannerman (5): 0 (5r, 3c)

Exploding Golem (5): 0 Staunch (3r, 5c)

Cyclops (5): 20 Rallying Cry (3r, 2c)

 

This was on a 2000/2000/2000 trip, so there was obviously a need for Morale and Combat, otherwise I'd just pick all Seafaring.

 

I'm trying to see which crew is involved in the disparity to clear things up. I'm including the cells these crew are positioned in the calc.

 

That's not really enough data to get the full picture. Could you post

 

a.) The deck items/hulls/rams/etc. you have

b.) The full stats of the crew/captain you're using

c.) A screenshot of the Runescape interface showing the values for each stat.

d.) Are you using any effects?

 

Thanks!

[Player-Owned Ports: Voyage Calculator]

 

Thanks for the detailed report. I've updated the calculator with this, and added you to the credits. :)

 

No problem! And do note (this may or may not have been added already, I'm not sure) that the random event effects are additive, too.

[Player-Owned Ports: Voyage Calculator]

Thanks for your input; I did think it sounded like a considerably bigger job, but not that much!

 

Of course, those numbers are assuming you're just doing a naive brute force of all possible combinations. It might very well be possible to be smarter about it by weighting different crew/captain/items/etc. depending on the goal (i.e. if the goal is for 10000 morale, guys with 0 morale would get weighted a lot less than guys with 1000 morale, so use all the guys with 1000 morale first, then consider the rest etc.), allowing the optimal result to be found sooner. However, this would be a lot more complicated to code, so I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

[Player-Owned Ports: Voyage Calculator]

• We should be able to enter ALL the voyages on offer (stating which special missions are mutually exclusive) and the calculator work out the best setups, given our criteria, for four voyages (this obviously includes at least one special voyage), three voyages, two voyages and one voyage. In addition, something to consider would be a box by each voyage to type in the success rate below which you just won't do it, so it can automatically skip showing you a terrible result which you definitely won't like!
  

As it stands, you can, for example, easily send off two voyages at 100%, but then be left with something at 55%. It would be extremely useful to calculate for all voyages at once and know you can send out three at, say, 85% at least, even before seeing what new voyages appear as you send them off. The reason for giving it for four voyages AND three etc. is that if the calculator gives you four voyages at 60%, you can decide against that and look at three and see that it's something like 90% and go with that.

 

Sorry to be so demanding, but perhaps consider it a challenge?

 

That's not computationally feasible. For just 2 ships, if you have 3 captains and 23 crew, there are just over 5 trillion possible combinations to check (5044177841472 to be exact). You could cut that down somewhat by throwing out voyages that don't do better than say 80% for one goal, but that still leaves billions of combinations to check, which simply takes too much time.

 

For reference, 1 ship with 3 captains and 23 crew has around 5 million combinations. This takes my browser about 5 seconds to calculate, so that's about a million per second. A billion combinations for 2 ships would then take about 1000 seconds, or about 16 minutes. I don't know about you, but I don't want to wait 16 minutes for the computer to tell me something that will save a few percent on the voyage.

[Player-Owned Ports: Voyage Calculator]

Minor bug in the calculator:

 

When calculating the stat boosts based on which shipwright, the additional bonus from the higher shipwrights is additive, not multiplicative.

 

I.e. for the nautical shipwright, the bonus should be 1.03 for morale, 1.03 for combat, and 1.05 for seafaring, not 1.0506 for seafaring.

 

Proof:

 

Here's a screenshot of one of my current voyages:

 

 

and here is the output of my program (which, incidentally, is much faster than this JS one) used to pick that voyage setup:

 

 

Input stats for which to search:

0 0 10500

Bonus: Item(1.03,1.03,1.05,1.03,,0)

Best result has a 100.70% chance: Item(1792.2,2214.5,10573.5,2157.85,,0)

Best item1: ornate rigging with stats 0.00 Morale, 0.00 Combat, 1050.00 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed.

Best item2: ornate rigging with stats 0.00 Morale, 0.00 Combat, 1050.00 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed.

Best captain: anne skulltaker with stats 674.65 Morale, 1266.90 Combat, 624.75 Seafaring, and 612.85 Speed.

Best ram: battle ram with stats 0.00 Morale, 515.00 Combat, 0.00 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed.

Best hull: hull of storms with stats 412.00 Morale, 412.00 Combat, 945.00 Seafaring, and 309.00 Speed.

Best crew:

sea witch with stats 612.85 Morale, 0.00 Combat, 1349.25 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed

cartographer with stats 51.50 Morale, 10.30 Combat, 1349.25 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed

cartographer with stats 10.30 Morale, 0.00 Combat, 1338.75 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed

cartographer with stats 20.60 Morale, 10.30 Combat, 1428.00 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed

cartographer with stats 10.30 Morale, 0.00 Combat, 1438.50 Seafaring, and 0.00 Speed

 

 

(All my numbers there already have the bonus multiplied in to save some computation)

You can calculate that by hand to see that it matches up with the stats in the picture.

 

If the bonus were instead 1.0506, then the result would be

Best result has a 100.76% chance: Item(1792.2,2214.5,10579.5,2157.85,,0), a difference of 6 in seafaring.

 

This is very minor, but still incorrect.