Obvious Question #1: Are you using Dynamic Arrays?

Just for fun, I would try:

My version used static arrays because they're quicker to write to. That's trading speed for memory, but since each sector would probably need to store data... not much memory would be sacrificed. But to each their own.

I am still working on the debug part of the assets valuation script. I need to add some error checking and test multiple times before I will be comfortable with it going out.

The values for valuation are as follows:

Valuation

Planets
  L0 - 0  (product and figs are still valued)
  L1 - 40,000
  L2 - 60,000
  L3 - 90,000
  L4 - 200,000
  L5 - 850,000
  L6 - 1,000,000
  Fighters - 170 / unit
  Shields - (10 * number * 170)
  Ore - 65 / unit
  Org - 90 / unit
  Equ - 120 / unit

Ship
  Cost - Total Purchase of bare ship
  Fighter - 170
  Shield - 170

Grid 
  Sector - 1,000 each

Credits - Credits
  Player and Cit combined

I do not know a way to anticipate the relative potential of assets. There are way too many variables involved that are not objective (player ability being one). Possibilities also exist that an L6 planet would be worth less than an L5 planet in reality, however product and fighter production may level that out.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

I don't think assigning a monetary value to assets is all that realistic. A better approach may be to determine and overall offensive and defensive scores. This would simpify things a bit as you really don't care how much was spent on resources, simply what resources are currently available for offensive and defense.

Calculating the offensive score would be fairly easy - the total # of fighters plus the amout that could be purchased with the available cash at the current fighter price. An option here would be to modify the offensive value by the attack odds of the best invasion ship available. Product on planets would have no offensive value since it would have to be converted to cash in order to buy figs, unless there were some way to determine if ports were available for the conversion. Even then hoarding product could count against the defensive score as an invader could liquidate those assets to help fund the continued invasion. So it's probably best to just ignore potential product value.

Calculating the defensive values would be a bit more involved. Sector fighters would get multiplied by 1.1, fighters on L2 or higher planets would get multiplied by 3 (you may have to take into account military reaction here if it's something other than 0%), and manned ships in planet orbit would get the ships defense rating. You would also need to factor in planetary shields and fuel for q-cannons. I'm not quite sure how you would value cannon fuel - basically any sector setting other than 0% could potentially make any fuel only worth 50% of the units available. Otherwise MBBS/non-MBBS would determine the fuel value. Also, credits on a planets could potentially count against the defensive rating as they can be used by an invader.

Anyway, this should provide a more meaningful ranking system as it could show situations where no one has enough offensive resources to overcome anyone elses defenses.

The script is not intended for use during game play, only after a game is over using whatever game conditions were set for ending a game. A stalemated game is where the corps involved agree to the stalemate and this script should probably be used as an FYI and and not a "I have 1M more credits so I win".

The game contains too many variables to provide finite information. A planet defends at 3:1, but we have ships that attack at 0.5:1 up to say 8:1 - the player determines which ship he will be attacking with and it is not always the 8:1 ship due to its fighter capacity or whatever reason. I have used different ships on the same invasion based on the situation. The 8:1 offensive ship may also have 1.0 defensive and you would have to choose between valuing the offensive or defensive odds (is the player a hunter or a pod in waiting?).

With that said, the script should show what corps were best positioned in the game, and people will be able to draw their own inferences based on the raw information that is also provided (ie., fighters / planets / grid / cash / ships). If nothing else, it should make the smack a little more interesting.

I had thought that the original proassetcheck script was nothing but something to write during a weekend, not really that good of a script, but people seem to like it even with the general information it provides. This script may or may not prove to be of interest, but I've had fun writing it.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

The script worked out perfectly. I am very pleased with the results, and it listed everything I had hoped to list for game end results. You can view my examples:

Outpost-4 TWGS Game B TradeWars Academy
Outpost-4 OCS TWGS Game A

Both taken off our two TWGS.

Thank you very much for all your effort into this. I'll try to keep my future ideas down to "smaller" tasks

Looks Great!