Ships & Modules

Turn the cloak off. >_>

Dear PyFa Team,

I started using PyFa recently, and have a potential tool addition that you may find helpful for your users. Back in 2009 I wrote a lot of math for the motion model in EVE (notes can be found at http://tinyurl.com/kttjr7y). In these notes I elaborated a vector differential equation model for ship motion in EVE that turned out to model ship motion accurately. The response from Destiny software team was quite positive on the accuracy and capability of this model. His response is linked here http://tinyurl.com/nb2nu27 (note that I used an alt in my correspondence with them at that time).

At the time of my writing, my goal was to develop and communicate a deep understanding of the physics model behind ship motion in EVE. I did not originally have an interest in writing tools or simulations to help the community because I feel understanding is an end unto itself. My recent interactions with EVE players at FanFest, however, has led me to believe that it would be quite helpful to use the orbit model to assist with fitting for kiting ships.

Like the DPS graph window, PyFa could produce a graph showing the orbit velocity, orbit distance and angular velocity possible for the fitted ships as a function of the orbit command distance. The closed-form equations for this are included in the ‘Orbital Motion’ section (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I3y922Akj6NkFCtfp8xfwLeUNgDn9xis83z23u19o4g/edit#heading=h.a4vj0zeth3oy). Please let me know if you have questions about the approach or the results.

I have created a github account, and installed some of the packages needed to run pyfa from source. Once I have mastered this, should I create a fork and try to add this capability myself? I have a variety of other tool additions that I would like to make, but I want to do something simple first. Thank you.


Warm Regards,

S. Santorine, Ph.D.

Ms. Blitzmann,

Thank you for your note. I am new to the git process, so I'm learning how to do that part. I think there are a lot of opportunities to apply some of the theory to improve a fitting tool. Sadly, I have limited time these days, so it will take me a while to get anything going. Thanks for making an open source tool so that the community can participate in improvements.


Regards,

S. Santorine

Dunno if this has been noted yet, I'm lazy so haven't looked.

When making fits with lasers and putting in faction/t2 crystals, it makes the (1000/4000) behind the crystal, which I assume means the estimated amount of rounds.
However, when exporting it, it comes out as 1000 ammo charges (at least when exporting through browsers), so it comes out like this:

Here I just copied as EFT and added the *1000.
But when inspecting the fitting via IGB, it will show 3000 Conflagration S under Charges, as also said in the DNA

Hi, I noticed the passive shield regen in PYFA is different to that in EVE. PYFA typically says that the shield regen will be much larger, than what EVE says, even though its the same ship/fitting/skills :P

Is it because PYFA is showing the shield regen when my shield hit-points are at 33%? (33% is the area where shield regeneration is at its greatest, and for comparison 0% or 100% shield hitpoints is its weakest).

Thanks.

If I could suggest an improvement, is to add more info when the mouse is placed over an entity to give information for stuff like the above ^. Like for example: when you mouse over the Scan Res.: (scan resolution).

Is there a reason why the DPS graph can't display sentry DPS properly? They have a massive dramatic drop to 0 DPS once past their optimal and half of their falloff.

edit; Oh yeah I meant to update this, I'm just being dumb and forgetting the 60km control range. Its weird how the graph deals with it, but pretty unimportant in the grand scheme.

Ah, what I mean by effects is ship role bonus, how a MWD affects your ships velocity / mass, etc. Skill requirements are attributes which are easily incorporated into the next release (which is out now) =)

Thanks for the continued work :D

So, a problem was brought to me about the v1.3.0 release.

I fumbled and accidentally included some test databases when I packaged and first uploaded the releases. Someone let me know about the issue yesterday, and the release packages have been updated to clean up this junk.

However, obviously we cannot retroactively remove these files from installations that downloaded v1.3.0 before I got around to cleaning them. Please check your pyfa install directory for the saveddata folder and remove the extra files in there.

Thanks =)

Not at the moment, no. To keep things streamlined, only items that can be added to a ship proper in some way are included in the market browser. The Cargobay is a newish feature, having arrived in the Kronos release of pyfa. Before then, there was no point of including exotic dancers in the market list. However, when cargo support was added, the market tree was not updated to allow for all the items you can store.

I've made an issue on guthub for this: https://github.com/DarkFenX/Pyfa/issues/148 Feel free to continue discussion