NationStates Battle Simulator

[Sad-States]

NationStates Battle Simulator is now back in Development! If you find any bugs contact TheMintiestJackalope on Discord or report the issue here.

WARNING: Do not use even forces. It will crash the program.

TAKE NOTE:

For those who think NSBS is still being actively worked on; to sum it up, it isn't. The original developer is no where in sight and I have detached myself from NSBS. This is Sad-States speaking and I am going on the official record that I have absolutely have any ideas on releasing any updates or maintaining NationStates Battle Simulator due to the happenings in the region of Audax in January of 2018 when the region of Auratus which was led by the at-the-time Delegate of Audax, Aglrinia while he went rogue and purged Audax.

In light of this, I realized that the main developer chose Auratus over Audax and in accord of the Traitors Accord and the Audax Codex, any traitors to the region of Audax of any government shall never be permitted to rejoin the region unless a autonomous vote was reached through the current legitimate government. This law was introduced first seen in use by one of my communities/regions Audaxia the Key Keeper Act after the first purge when I founded Audaxia as a temporary refugee region and it became our home for a good amount of time, and made it through most of Aglrinia's set ups to get the region in drama. The Key Keeper Act was pretty much refurbished under the pretext government of the Audax Order; which was the Dominion of Audax (the first stage of the incarnation of the Audax Order/Bold Order). With that all being disclosed, I am not stating NSBS is forever dead. It could be back tomorrow, next week or in a decade. However, I can assure you that I won't be the one starting the motions for it. If NSBS returns, it's on Articalla; not me.

As most of you already fully well know the fact that I have been working on a online-based battle simulator that was originally intended to be the online-version of the original NSBS Java program. So yes, my program was first known and openly called [b]NSBS: Online for a good dang bit of time. However, in light of my resignation of NSBS and for the reasons I explained above; I will remain true to the NSBS userbase and continue to work on this project under a new, unique project name NSABS: Online instead. Find out more about NSABS: Online on our discord server: https://discord.gg/cy5UQwY[/b]

::Disclaimer::

(Once NSABS: Online is released, any mention of this project will be removed from the official NSBS post. Also take note that NSABS: Online is still a debatable project name and a different name may be chosen in the future to better suit the AudaxTec team. If this route of action is taken all of our users will be informed ahead of time via our Discord.)

Good day everyone and I give my final best of luck to the NSBS Project and hope it's original developer can bring it back alive in the future.

Nationstates Battle Simulator

Proudly developed by Hoydia with the support of Audax!

The High Elder of the Audax Order has stated that the region of Audax no longer supports or is attempting to maintain NationStates BattleSimulator.[b]

[b]FAQ

What is NSBS and what it does?
NationStates Battle Simulator is intended to be used as a role playing supplement and Battle Simulator for the site of Nation States. It's designed to take input from the user of different factors of a battle: Force Count, Morale, Technology Age, Training, Combat Experience, Logistics, and Intel. It uses those factors to simulate the outcome of a skirmish to be roleplayed out afterwards. This allows for constructive roleplay, as the outcome of the battle isn't decided by story arc alone.

How do I download it?
Click the button that says "Download" or click this to automatically download it.

I found a bug, what do I do?
If you have found a bug, post it here and Articalla will get back to you sooner or later.

It says the file can harm my computer? Is it a virus?
No, it isn't a virus. It's a .jar file, which is executive. Meaning, regardless it's going to have that message appear. If you are interested in looking at the code just in case, here's the Repository.

Does it uses my nation's stats?
Currently, it does not use Nationstate's stats. The sole reason for this is that Nationstates is a political simulator, not a military simulator.

How do I run it?
Once you have downloaded it, you must have Java downloaded. If you do not, then please go to this site and download Java. Once that is done, then right click on the .Jar file and hover over 'Open with' then click 'Java(TM) Platform SE Binary'. The program should begin to run.

Change Logs

Version 0.0.1A Added all the initial features Planned features -Casualty Calculations -Morale Calculations -More detailed output

• Reformatted the victory calculations
• Implemented, then removed casualty calculations due to issues
• Commented out some code due to it making the process tedious
• Features Planned/Still Being Worked On

• -A retreat option
• +-More detailed output

Place holder.

[list][*]improved a majority of the User Interface
[*]Started working on the backend for the actual neat bits.
[*]"Comming soon! Unit desgin and assignment." --Hoydia

[Sad-States]

How to Use
There are many, many factors to war. Often in roleplaying, it's difficult to fairly decide the outcome of a battle.

Enter me, with an idea. The program is packaged in an executable JAR, so just run it like anything else. The Jar is in the root directory. The program calculates different factors, physical force count, troop morale, level of technology, the level of training, troop combat experience, logistics, intel, and supplies. Enter the two sets of values for each team, then hit Run Simulation.

Calculating your Forces
This doesn't mean your total entire military. Simply put, it's how many troops you're throwing at the specific battle.

Calculating Morale
Your troops need to have hope. If they've been on a constant losing streak, they'll be less likely to fight their best. Each division/squad/etc starts at 100 Morale. With each loss, subtract 10. With each victory, add 10.

Calculating everything else
Everything else is treated on a scale of 1-10. Now, before you go and ask questions, pay attention. I made this for people who want to act like adults for roleplaying. Quantifying arbitrary values is hard, so what I'll due it describe what each parameter does. It's up to ou and your enemy to decide the actual values.

Technology: This value is how technologically advanced your country is. Here's a few examples:

WWII: Russia - Tech 3 'Murica - Tech 7 Britain - Tech 5 Germany - Tech 9

Medieval: England - Tech 7 Chinese - Tech 9 Vikings - Tech 2

Hope that makes sense

Training Rating: This value is how well trained your fighting force is. If your soldiers are hyper-elite, near-super humans that have undergone years of training, they'll be higher on the scale than a bunch of kids thrown into battle.

Combat Experience: This value is similar to the training value, but vastly different. This value relies on hoe battle-hardened your forces are. Nations with more wars in their history should have higher values, while newer nations would have lower.

Logistics: This value is the ability for the non-combat personnel's ability to move supplies to and from the front line.

Intel: How much the intelligence the nation has over the other. If one country has been flying spy planes over the other for years, they'd have the higher value. Can also be measured by how much critical information you know about the enemy for the battlefield.

Home Team Advantage: Fighting on your home soil gives you an advantage.

[Sad-States]

Known Bugs or Errors
Since NationStates Battle Simulator or NSBS is still in Alpha, meaning design is coming after getting the program to actually work. There's going to be bugs along the process. These are the most known bugs.

[Solved] Receiving "A Java Exception has occurred" error!

This is caused by running the program with a outdated version of Java. If you get the error, please update Java.

[Solved] Program freezes after clicking "Run Simulation"

"About the freezing after pressing Run Simulation, the issue is that I had to break it to try and debug a certain issue, but now I've figured it out. Expect it to be fixed sometime in the next few hours." -Articalla

[Solved]Not a supported file on Chromebook

"You just need to download the Jar file, and if you have Java installed, execute the Jar like most other programs." -Articalla

Even Forces causes NSBS to freeze

This is being looked into.

[Sad-States]

Reserved

[Sad-States]

Gallery
Within the Spoilers contain images of what the program looks like, it's inputs abilities, and so forth. Enjoy!

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[Sad-States]

Contributors: - For everyone who assisted and is currently assisting.
Vandinium - For coming up with the idea, and brainstorming. As well, actively finding bugs and tedious features.
Articalla - For developing the Interface, program, and handling known bugs.
Sad-States - For finding Bugs, Testing and Graphics.
Audax - For all of their assistance and knowledge supplied.

To Do List

• Mobile Version
• Fixing the infamous freezing bugs. (Including the even force freezing bug)
• Revert to the old calculations or revamp the calculations.
• Adding more themes
• More options and forces such as vehicles, airplanes, and so on.
• Numbers under the sliders.
• NSBS: Online

[Turtia]

Contributors: - For everyone who assisted and is currently assisting.
Vandinium - For coming up with the idea, and brainstorming. As well, actively finding bugs and tedious features.
Articalla - For developing the Interface, program, and handling known bugs.
Sad-States - For finding Bugs, Testing and Graphics.
Audax - For all of their assistance and knowledge supplied.

To Do List

• Mobile Version
  
  • This will be a mobile version of Nationstates Battle Simulator. The development and any porting will start soon.
• Launcher
  
  • Instead of being forced to right click, hover over something, and then click again. You only will need to click atleast once to launch the program. I know, 'Murica.
• Fixing some minor bugs.
• Revamping the calculator, making things more faster and less tedious.

How's the mobile option going? I want it but I'm on a iPad, it looks awsome
O O
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[Jadentopia]

This is glorious. Good work!

[Sad-States]

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How's the mobile option going? I want it but I'm on a iPad, it looks awsome
O O
\__/

Currently it's slowing down due to the original developer, Articalla no longer maintaining it. No worries, I am going to begin maintaining it until he returns. If you have any questions, feel free to telegram me.

Edit: Since the original developer is active again, which also makes the mobile feature is a possibility again. Once we stabilize the computer version and get it into BETA/e.c.t. We we will discuss a mobile version feature for NSBS. Currently our major goal is to get the computer version of NationStates Battle Simulator to actually work with all of its contents in the fastest, most efficient, and enjoyable ways possible.

[Sad-States]

This is glorious. Good work!

Thank you, I hope you are enjoying NSBS!

[Ectarlars]

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS AWESOME

[New Austzeland]

Looks great. I'll be sure to download this as soon as I can!

[Democratic Union of Cydonia]

ill download it and give it a try. looks really good so far!

edit: I downloaded it and tried it. Looks cool but unfortunately It keeps getting stuck after I hit run simulation then it eventually just turns into a black screen.

[New Carloso]

Oyus.

I must try this ASAP.

[Kheiastan]

sweet baby jesus this is wunderbar
I hope this gets stickie'd somewhere

[Sad-States]

The current build is broken, I am uploading a older, yet stable version of NSBS in a bit.

Articalla and I are looking into the issue and I will fix it as soon as possible.

Link to the stable build: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/spvophydmq3bmd7/AAB4SAxHMoo1RIqtT9XTdZrfa?dl=0

[The United Remnants of America]

*Sees Atlasians downloading it*

I have to DL it to keep in the loop. Gimme.

Also, from the pics, it looks pretty chill. But I'll wait for the last couple bugs to be worked out before downloading.

[Sad-States]

*Sees Atlasians downloading it*

I have to DL it to keep in the loop. Gimme.

Also, from the pics, it looks pretty chill. But I'll wait for the last couple bugs to be worked out before downloading.

We'll have it fixed as soon as possible.

[Versail]

I will have to add this to phone later.

[Schwere Panzer Abieltung 502]

Noice! I won't be using it just yet but I totally want to exploit some bugs

[Justin States]

Cool, finally someone does something like this.

[Versail]

Those who have chromebooks can not use this by the way.

[Sad-States]

Those who have chromebooks can not use this by the way.

That will be noted, can you telegram me a screenshot and in more detail of what is exactly happening?

[Versail]

Those who have chromebooks can not use this by the way.

That will be noted, can you telegram me a screenshot and in more detail of what is exactly happening?

It just says that chrome does not support this file type.

[Sad-States]

I will have to add this to phone later.

The phone build is still under way, we'll get a alpha out of it as soon as possible. However the current build of NSBS needs to be fixed.