If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long will they last and when will they need to be...

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long will they last and when will they need to be...

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> War In The Pacific - Struggle Against Japan 1941 - 1945 >> If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long will they last and when will they need to be...

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long will ... - 7/14/2004 10:10:25 PM

Tanaka

Posts: 4378
Joined: 4/8/2003
From: USA
Status: offline

....replaced. In other words how long will mines last before you need to replace the bulk of them???

_____________________________

Post #: 1

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:24:35 PM

Bradley7735

Posts: 2073
Joined: 7/12/2004
Status: offline

Mines located in friendly hex's decay at 1% per day. So, that comes to about 50% every 60 days (a little less, but I like to think in terms of months).

If you start with 600 mines on Dec 7th, then around Feb 7th you'll have about 300. On April 7th you'll have about 150 mines. etc etc.

By the way, I REALLY like the method for mine decay. I always thought that Mine were WAAAAAYYYYY to effective in UV. Now you can't just mine the crap out of the slot. They'll decay fast enough to be historic.

bc

(in reply to Tanaka)

Post #: 2

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:28:52 PM

von Murrin

Posts: 1760
Joined: 11/13/2001
From: That from which there is no escape.
Status: offline

Formula for a friendly base is: Current Mines - Current Mines(.01) = Remaining Mines

Remaining Mines becomes Current Mines for the next turn and so on. So: 600, 594, 588, 582, 576, 570, 564, 558, 552, 546, 540, 534, 528, 522, 516, 510, 504, etc.

The question remains. Do mine fractions round up, down or are they kept? That's what I want to know.

_____________________________

I give approximately two fifths of a !#$% at any given time!

(in reply to Tanaka)

Post #: 3

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:33:18 PM

tsimmonds

Posts: 5498
Joined: 2/6/2004
From: astride Mason and Dixon's Line
Status: offline

Depends on how low you are willing to let the number of mines fall. Since you lose 1% a day it is easy to figure out that:

after 18 days you are down to 500
after 40 days you are down to 400
after 69 days you are down to 300
after 110 days you are down to 200
after 179 days you are down to 100
after 338 days you are down to 20
the last 20 last almost forever.

Results will vary depending on how WitP handles rounding.

_____________________________

Fear the kitten!

(in reply to Tanaka)

Post #: 4

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:34:05 PM

Bradley7735

Posts: 2073
Joined: 7/12/2004
Status: offline

The way to check if the calculation rounds down or up is to place exactly 50 mines in a firendly port. Then check back in a day and see if any decayed.

50 *.01=.5 If the .5 rounds up, then no mines decay below 50 in a friendly port.

bc

(in reply to von Murrin)

Post #: 5

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:34:37 PM

von Murrin

Posts: 1760
Joined: 11/13/2001
From: That from which there is no escape.
Status: offline

Exactly. ROUNDING!!!

This I want to know.

_____________________________

I give approximately two fifths of a !#$% at any given time!

(in reply to tsimmonds)

Post #: 6

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:35:20 PM

von Murrin

Posts: 1760
Joined: 11/13/2001
From: That from which there is no escape.
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: Bradley7735

The way to check if the calculation rounds down or up is to place exactly 50 mines in a firendly port. Then check back in a day and see if any decayed.

50 *.01=.5 If the .5 rounds up, then no mines decay below 50 in a friendly port.

bc

Care to try? I'm at work.

_____________________________

I give approximately two fifths of a !#$% at any given time!

(in reply to Bradley7735)

Post #: 7

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:37:38 PM

Bradley7735

Posts: 2073
Joined: 7/12/2004
Status: offline

Maybe I should have said 49 mines. Of course .5 would round up to 1. So, I don't think you'd decay below 49 mines if there is normal rounding on the calculation.

It's also possible that a minimum of one mine decays each day.

(in reply to von Murrin)

Post #: 8

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:38:35 PM

Mr.Frag

Posts: 13410
Joined: 12/18/2002
From: Purgatory
Status: offline

Pretty simple to tell, stick 100000 mines in a port and watch. You'll know quick enough if it rounds up or down.

(in reply to Bradley7735)

Post #: 9

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:38:48 PM

Bradley7735

Posts: 2073
Joined: 7/12/2004
Status: offline

I wish I could try. I'm at work too. In fact, I'd probably get in trouble if my boss see's me on the forum.

;-)

(in reply to von Murrin)

Post #: 10

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:39:05 PM

von Murrin

Posts: 1760
Joined: 11/13/2001
From: That from which there is no escape.
Status: offline

Yes. This must be answered; it's been annoying me for a week now.

_____________________________

I give approximately two fifths of a !#$% at any given time!

(in reply to Bradley7735)

Post #: 11

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/14/2004 10:40:20 PM

von Murrin

Posts: 1760
Joined: 11/13/2001
From: That from which there is no escape.
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

Pretty simple to tell, stick 100000 mines in a port and watch. You'll know quick enough if it rounds up or down.

Ok. I'll go play with the editor when I get home.

_____________________________

I give approximately two fifths of a !#$% at any given time!

(in reply to Mr.Frag)

Post #: 12

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 12:12:20 AM

ShakyJake

Posts: 16
Joined: 8/7/2002
From: DeKalb, IL
Status: offline

Just to back up what Bradley and the others have said, there are also additional tools you can use to determine how many mines there will roughly be in the hex after decay.

You could also use the original equation for exponential growth and decay:

X=X0*e^(-r*n), where:

X is current value,
X0 is initial value,
r is the rate (calculated to be 0.0100503358 for 1% decay),
and n is the number of days you're looking at.

Also, there is a much more friendly equation one might use, being:

X=X0*(1-.01)^n,

with the same variables as above.

There might be rounding cutoff error at play that'll make any results you get from the equations a little different than what the game gets, but this should be pretty handy for determining roughly how many mines you can expect after a given period, or how long it would take those mines to decay to a certain point.

(in reply to Tanaka)

Post #: 13

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 12:15:39 AM

Mr.Frag

Posts: 13410
Joined: 12/18/2002
From: Purgatory
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: ShakyJake

Just to back up what Bradley and the others have said, there are also additional tools you can use to determine how many mines there will roughly be in the hex after decay.

You could also use the original equation for exponential growth and decay:

X=X0*e^(-r*n), where:

X is current value,
X0 is initial value,
r is the rate (calculated to be 0.0100503358 for 1% decay),
and n is the number of days you're looking at.

Also, there is a much more friendly equation one might use, being:

X=X0*(1-.01)^n,

with the same variables as above.

There might be rounding cutoff error at play that'll make any results you get from the equations a little different than what the game gets, but this should be pretty handy for determining roughly how many mines you can expect after a given period, or how long it would take those mines to decay to a certain point.

Oh! The pain! The horror!

I'm back in math class!

Seriously ... great for spreadsheets.

Now, give an agreggate sum version of that so I can handle repairs of factories increasing production output over time at the expence of supplies

(in reply to ShakyJake)

Post #: 14

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 2:08:11 AM

Charles2222

Posts: 3993
Joined: 3/12/2001
Status: offline

Does the game keep track of dead or dud mines? I ask this because mines don't vanish even if they aren't lethal anymore. Naturally any minesweeper would have to sweep them all up, not just the live ones, which means, that the game should keep track of dead mines. If the game keeps track of dead mines it would take minesweepers longer to clear the water of mines, so, if one were to mine the living daylights out of an area and all were to go dead, there still would be some advantage beyond the scale of their lethality. BTW, anyone know if aerial recon can spot a mine or two or occasion (especially if at low altitude)?

(in reply to Mr.Frag)

Post #: 15

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 9:52:28 AM

ShakyJake

Posts: 16
Joined: 8/7/2002
From: DeKalb, IL
Status: offline

quote:

Oh! The pain! The horror!

I'm back in math class!

Seriously ... great for spreadsheets.

Now, give an agreggate sum version of that so I can handle repairs of factories increasing production output over time at the expence of supplies

Heya Frag, Engineering student here, so it seems I practically breathe mathematics.

I haven't bought the game yet so I don't know exactly how the supply costs work, but I seem to remember you saying that the facilities started off damaged and would repair 1% each day? Is the cost of repair each day for a facility directly proportional to the amount of damage it currently has? And 1% is indeed the amount repaired per day? If so, then that aggregate sum you're asking for is a snap to calculate.

Let:
C = the supply cost per day for each 1% of damage to the facility,
X represent the %damage (and also number of days to repair).

Your equation for the total cost to upgrade/repair a facility would be:

Total Cost = 0.5*C*(X�+X)

Again, since I don't have the game I don't know if this is exactly how it works. Either way, tell me if this helps you, or more particulars if you would like me to give you something you can use.

(in reply to Charles2222)

Post #: 16

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 2:41:28 PM

AmiralLaurent

Posts: 3351
Joined: 3/11/2003
From: Near Paris, France
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

Does the game keep track of dead or dud mines? I ask this because mines don't vanish even if they aren't lethal anymore. Naturally any minesweeper would have to sweep them all up, not just the live ones, which means, that the game should keep track of dead mines. If the game keeps track of dead mines it would take minesweepers longer to clear the water of mines, so, if one were to mine the living daylights out of an area and all were to go dead, there still would be some advantage beyond the scale of their lethality. BTW, anyone know if aerial recon can spot a mine or two or occasion (especially if at low altitude)?

I think disappearing mines in minefields are not no more fonctionning but are lost by sea causes and either sink or are carried away by currents aftert heir moorings break, then being washed on beaches or exploding on reefs. If you want to be really realistic, a small part of those mines should appear as 'hostile' for both sides in the same hexs and the hexs around, but in reality the probability to hit a drifiting mine was rather small (even if tens of ships did during the war and the years after, but the probability is still small) so I think this is not required in the game. Minesweepers were occasionnaly sweeping these mines but the real danger were minefields. Moored mines floating under the sea are far more dangerous than those floating over the waves.
On the other hand, the fact that minefields need to be maintained by DM and ML is historical and is well simulated in the game, as a minefield will disappear without a regular visit by those ships.

As for air recon watching mines, it happens during the war but all sightings were probably drifting mines or errors. Planes flying very low (for ASW or ASR) report mines from times to times... at least in Europe, where the numebr of mines dropped is far more important than in the Pacific before the 1945 minelaying mine by B-29s.

(in reply to Charles2222)

Post #: 17

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 3:09:42 PM

Mr.Frag

Posts: 13410
Joined: 12/18/2002
From: Purgatory
Status: offline

quote:

Heya Frag, Engineering student here, so it seems I practically breathe mathematics. I haven't bought the game yet so I don't know exactly how the supply costs work, but I seem to remember you saying that the facilities started off damaged and would repair 1% each day? Is the cost of repair each day for a facility directly proportional to the amount of damage it currently has? And 1% is indeed the amount repaired per day? If so, then that aggregate sum you're asking for is a snap to calculate.

Let:
C = the supply cost per day for each 1% of damage to the facility,
X represent the %damage (and also number of days to repair).

Your equation for the total cost to upgrade/repair a facility would be:

Total Cost = 0.5*C*(X�+X)

Again, since I don't have the game I don't know if this is exactly how it works. Either way, tell me if this helps you, or more particulars if you would like me to give you something you can use.

Basically looking at this:

Factory = X + Y

X = production output, Y = Damaged

Each turn assuming supply (which we have to assume or you just can't work the math), Y = Y-1, X=X+1 until Y=0.

I need to Sum of X based on X+Y over the duration of Y. The Cost of Y is easy enough to figure out.

Most of the production stuff pretty much falls into this type of catagory.

Where it gets complicated is these need to be expressed based on a Variable number of turns.

ie: X = 100, Y = 100, but whats the total for 30 days? ie: I need to look into the future a variable number of days to produce results and forcasts of when things will be needed. Something like x+(y-days)! ?

< Message edited by Mr.Frag -- 7/15/2004 8:16:47 AM >

(in reply to ShakyJake)

Post #: 18

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 8:42:25 PM

ShakyJake

Posts: 16
Joined: 8/7/2002
From: DeKalb, IL
Status: offline

A few more questions, then, just so that I'm sure I understand what you're saying. Do your variables X and Y sum to 100? Or are you saying that production starts at 100 + 100 additional which is damaged (such that when fully repaired both sum to 200?). Also, 1% is repaired daily? Additionally, do you know what the cost is in supplies for production points, and for repair? Are both of these directly proportional to to production points and damage percentage, respectively?

(in reply to Mr.Frag)

Post #: 19

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/15/2004 9:03:32 PM

Mr.Frag

Posts: 13410
Joined: 12/18/2002
From: Purgatory
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: ShakyJake

A few more questions, then, just so that I'm sure I understand what you're saying. Do your variables X and Y sum to 100? Or are you saying that production starts at 100 + 100 additional which is damaged (such that when fully repaired both sum to 200?). Also, 1% is repaired daily? Additionally, do you know what the cost is in supplies for production points, and for repair? Are both of these directly proportional to to production points and damage percentage, respectively?

X can be any value (functional production). Y is an upgrade to the functional production (generally 100, but can be less). Each turn, Y has a point repaired and X increases by that point. (not a percent, an actual point so y-1)

I need the X over time view ... ie: whats X's output on day 11?

Basically if x = 5 and y = 5 on day 1, output = 5, day 2 output = 6, day 3 output = 7, etc ... I need the sum of the outputs taking the Y (repairs if any) into account.

< Message edited by Mr.Frag -- 7/15/2004 2:05:20 PM >

(in reply to ShakyJake)

Post #: 20

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/16/2004 2:11:30 AM

ShakyJake

Posts: 16
Joined: 8/7/2002
From: DeKalb, IL
Status: offline

Okay, I see what you're saying. Instead of a damage percentage applied to a facility that it must work off, it's just a generic production points system? That's actually a bit easier to calculate (while making a lot more sense, too). In fact, we wouldn't even really need to do any fancy math for this, but just use a geometric approach.

If you were looking for the daily production points output of a facility for any day "n", your formula would be:

X = (starting production) + (n - 1)

And the daily number of damaged production points would be:

Y = D - n + 1

Where "D" is the starting number of points which are damaged.

Pretty simple. Plugging n=1 for day one into both these equations, you'll find that the daily production output on day 1 is simply the original starting production, while the number of damaged prodcution points is "D", being whatever the beginning number of damaged points was.

For the sums of these equations you are looking for, for the total production points produced over a period and also the total damaged points over a period, we get into that geometric approach I mentioned. If you were to chart the output and the damaged points for each day, you would notice that they are both really just triangles, and the area of those are easy enough to calculate.

The formula for the sum of all production points over a period until day "n" becomes:

XX = n*[ (starting production) + 0.5*(n-1) ]

Using your example from another thread, of a facility that starts with 100 undamaged points + 100 additional points which are damaged, you can plug in n=1 into the equation to find that the total output for day 1 is the 100 points from the original undamaged points on the facility alone. If you want to know what the total output of the facility is on day 30, then you'll find XX = 30*[(100)+0.5*(30-1)] = 3,435 production points have been produced.

For the total number of damaged points in the facility over a period until day "n", your formula would be:

YY = 0.5*n*(2*D-n+1)

Again, D is the beginning number of damaged points, like 100 from the above example. If you plug n=1 into the equation, you'll get YY = 0.5*1*(2*100-1+1) = 100, so that on day 1 there are 100 total points damaged. Plug in n=2 for day 2, and your total will come out to be 199. Plug in day 30, and you'll see the facility has totalled YY = 0.5*30*(2*100-30+1) = 2,565 damaged points on day 30.

*long breath, and a beer*

So, does this help you out at all? Again, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but these formulas will give you the sums of all production and damaged points over a period. If each production point and repair point entail a specific supply cost, then just call the total cost:

Total Cost = XX*(supply point cost) + YY*(repair point cost),

and you're all set. Good luck, hope this helps.

-Jake

(in reply to Mr.Frag)

Post #: 21

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/16/2004 10:45:05 PM

Mr.Frag

Posts: 13410
Joined: 12/18/2002
From: Purgatory
Status: offline

Thanks, thats exactly whats needed!

(in reply to ShakyJake)

Post #: 22

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/19/2004 10:12:41 PM

Bradley7735

Posts: 2073
Joined: 7/12/2004
Status: offline

Well, I haven't done any real testing, but...

I'm playing allies vs the AI in the long campaign (dec7th to 1946)

I haven't added any mines to the ones that start on the map. When I get to about mid to late February (approx 70 - 80 days), the mines have decayed to single digits.

Now, I'm not a big mine fan but I think that if mines degrade to approx zero in 70 days in a friendly port, it's too fast. I think the calculation is more like 2%, not the 1% the manual states.

Of course, I don't really know how long mines lasted historically. I know the sea can be tough on anything in it. Maybe these are realistic decay rates?

Just thought I'd post what I saw.

bc

(in reply to Mr.Frag)

Post #: 23

RE: If there are 600 mines at Truk on turn 1 how long w... - 7/19/2004 10:35:46 PM

Damien Thorn

Posts: 1107
Joined: 7/24/2003
Status: offline

I loved mines in UV so I think you can guess my views on having mine decay.

1 What is the rate of decay in a non-friendly hex? Shallow water and deep water?

2 What ever happened to the air-dropped mines we heard about when WitP was in development? There is no air mission to drop mines. Did that get cut from development?

< Message edited by Damien Thorn -- 7/19/2004 4:24:12 PM >

(in reply to Bradley7735)

Post #: 24