Utilities/Calculators

Calculators

Attractivness Calculator Spreadsheet

• download target.zip 7kb
• source: offsite download at Stars! FAQ
• author: Art Lathrop

Spreadsheet for calculating the relative attractivness (for targeting order during battle) of ship designs

Battlesim Testbed

• download battlesim.zip 58kb
• source: offsite download at Stars! FAQ
• author: Ben Setala
• Superceded by #Wumpus's Stars! Battlesim generator

Set of game files for conducting battlesim testbeds in, allows for most PRT/LRT combos and all races are at max tech with all MT components. Unzip into a new directory and edit the links to suit your own directory structure.

Bombardment Spreadsheet

• download Bombardment.zip 2kb
• source: offsite download at Olden Stars Host

Russian excel file for calculating packet damage(I think)

description at Olden Stars Host: Рассчёт бомбардировок в Exel

Bombing Spreadsheet

• download bombing_95.zip 7kb
• source: offsite download at Olden Stars Host

Excel file for calculating population & installation kills from mixed bombing fleets.

Chaff Sweeping Calculator

• download chaffsweep32.exe 87kb (self extracting zip)
• download ChaffMine.zip v0.3.2 6kb
• offsite download at Stars! Autohost
• authors: Dan Neeley and LEit

A program that estimates the number of chaff needed to "chaff sweep" a minefield.

Hab kit

• download hab_kit.zip 48kb
• source: offsite download at Olden Stars Host
• author: John Stranart

Hab kit is an excel macro to filter the New Player Reports for habitability. Contains instructions.

Opt Move

• author: LEit

Utility that allows you to enter max warp and distance and it punches back the optimal warp settings and distance for travelling that distance. Very useful for ship movements that are fuel-limited or time constrained like shifting population or orbital adjustors.

Packet Damage Calculator

• download pacal.zip 17kb
• offsite download at Stars! AutoHost
• no homepage, originally hosted at Stars! AutoHost
• author: abcraig

Program for calculating the impact and effects of packets at different speeds and at different sizes

Packet Location Calculator

• download PLC.zip 913kb

homepage: Stars! FAQ

• author: James McGuigan

Program for predicting the future location of mass packets and fleets. Accurate over multiple years. Released under GNU Public Licence, source code included in zip file.

Planet Sniffer

• download Planet Sniffer.rar 332kb

Population Growth Rate Formula

• download pben3.zip 136kb

S.B.Posey's Spreadsheet

• download posey.zip 107kb
• homepage: Stephen Posey's Stars! Page

Expansive spreadsheet for calculating most of the guts within stars, including jamming, movement, cloaking, colony projection, planet habitability, tech trade probabilities, research timescales, minefields and more

Stars! Calculator

• download Starscal2.5.rar v2.5 155kb
• download Starscal3.06.rar v3.06 217kb

Stars! Xpert

• download Strxprt.zip 123kb
• offsite download at homepage
• homepage: Jeff Donville's Stars! Xpert Page

The Xpert is a calculator for cloaking, bombing, packet damage, weapons damage (with respect to capacitors, deflectors, computers and jammers), fuel consumption, and planetary resources.

Terraforming Spreadsheet

• download TerraForm.zip 538kb
• source: offsite download at Stars! FAQ
• Contains Visual Basic scripts
• author: Karl Peninger

Spreadsheet for calculating the most optimal order for terraforming planets in an alliance.

TeamTT8

• download teamtt8.zip 76kb

TT8v2

• author: overworked(OWK)

This is the second generation of the Ugly_TT spreadsheet for calculating terraforming values and "best race" to colonize a given planet.