The EVE IGB Tools Forum

I received a message this month!  lol

I received a message this month about the skill calculator (http://eve-igbtools.com/Tools/skillCalc.aspx), and it not calculating attributes correctly.  Reading the message and checking out myself, it surely didn't look right.  So I checked out the code and looked up the original forum post from Tripoli (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.as … adid=81368) and discovered that it worked as designed.

Here is the first Message I received:
Out of curiosity, do you realize there is an error in calculating attributes on your site? Enter Learning Skill 0 Primary Att 18 Secondary Att 17 Skill Rank 5 Train to Lv 1 Starting SP 0 And increment the Learning Skill rank by 1... You'll notice when going from rank 2 to rank 3 the Actual Primary Attribute drops back to 18.02 but the Actual Secondary Attribute seems correct... Then change the Learning Skill Level to 4 and the Actual Primary does increase (albeit, still lower than it should be) but the Actual Secondary Attribute drops to 17.28.... Increase Learning to 5 and both Actual Attribute values increse (again, though not to the correct value) Surely this is a mistake?

My first Reply:
Wow, Your right, I wonder what's up with that?  I know it used to be correct, I used the tool all the time.  I don't have access to the forums currently to look up the algorithm I am using, I will take a look at the code and see if I can find out what I screwed up.

Thank you for pointing this out.


Users first reply:
Please let me know when you find it, as I am curious myself :)
What language are you using?


My final response:
The calculation I am using if from http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.as … adid=81368

It is based off the fact that the attributes shown in your skill sheet are not your actual base attributes but truncated attributes.  I know while I played the game, myself and a lot I flew with checked training times to in game against the eve-igbtools calculator and the training time was always really close.  Maybe off a couple minutes over a long skill; nothing which mattered to us much.

Please let me know if you are finding that the training time calculated with eve-igbtools calculator is much different than whats being calculated in game.

Thank you!

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