FFXIV Crafting Simulator

[Rainsphere]

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First and foremost, my source code is NOT public, so I'm not really sure where you're getting your information, but it's false. Also, to claim that I falsely advertised would be to claim that I said it was 100% accurate, which I did not.

1) Cookies are the only way to store the information without requiring users to create an account on the site and store the information in my own database. So, for security, I chose cookies.
2) I have a menu at the top, the main page is for update announcements.
3) Thanks.
4) Better to speak of the functionality of the simulator, rather than the empty space, don't you think?
5) I have donation requests on the main page and the simulator page, because those are the two most used landing pages. (simulator page due to generated links).
6) I pay for this site out of my own pocket. It also took quite a while to code it. The ads help to pay for the site itself. People on Twitch ask for donations during their videos in an effort for compensation for their time and energy spent on their feed. It's really no different.

[xPeAcEx]

SniP

I am not going to argue semantics with you. In a way you promoted a crafting simulator yet nowhere did you say that it doesn't work for 3 or 4 star crafts. I just think credit should be given where it is due. You did credit reddit but not the actual post on reddit, good chance you could get in trouble if you credited ffxiv.lokyst.net so perhaps create a thread and ask for screenshots and make your own algorithms, i and others wouldn't mind helping

1. Exactly the point i was getting at, personally i would have avoided cookies and have had them create accounts while storing the data. In my own case, all my cookies are cleared at the end of a session so none of that data is saved so the option to have an account would be valued.

[xPeAcEx]

5. and 6. were addressed and i don't mind one or the other but i wouldn't use both, just a personal choice. I don't mind seeing ads but as i and others said, it felt overwhelming so perhaps you can scale down without eliminating them entirely. Try reaching a goal to keep the site running for a year like mozilla or wikipedia do, if you reach that goal through donations then the ads disappear for that year. Give people an idea of where you are in your funding goals for the site.

Keep up the good work!

[Nyalia]

This is the best simulator I've yet found. I find it to be perfect for calculating how many times I can fail a synth and still succeed at a craft, and it's great for seeing how various rotations hold up vs each other. The best use for it that I've found is in determining what combination of progress skills will finish a given synth with a given set of stats. There's nothing worse than using a combination of skills you think will finish your synth only to find yourself a couple points short.

This is not a simulator that will tell you your estimated final HQ %. It does not take into account success chances or simulate conditions. It's purely a static tool for modeling various crafting scenarios. It answers questions like, what would my final HQ % be if I failed three Hasty Touches? and how many Tricks of the Trade do I need to get a 100% HQ chance?

The biggest downside / missing feature is that you cannot easily model failures or conditions. I'd love to see a feature added where you can mark specific steps as being failures to see how it changes the outcome. CP and Durability would still be deducted, but no quality or progress would be added. Also, the ability to mark a specific step as having a Good/Excellent/Poor condition, multiplying the quality gains by 1.5/4/0.5 for that step. It doesn't need to know any of the condition rules (like, excellent is always followed by poor, poor and good are always followed by normal, goods have a 25% chance of occurring, etc), it just needs to model the quality changes that the condition brings.

The developer told me he was going to look into implementing that idea when he can, along with a way to see the gains a single step provides by mouse-overing the step. I'm really looking forward to those changes!


And what do you mean, there are ads on the internet? The internet has been ad-free for years! (https://adblockplus.org/)

[Morari]

At this point FFXIV Crafter and the FFXIV Crafting Optimizer are functionally identical, but I love using them both. Good work!

[xPeAcEx]

2. In most web design choices the update section is small section or a tab interested users can navigate to. Personally i wouldn't have that as the main page but if you were really intent on it perhaps do something similar to the page where you select the crafters. Have the user select "General Info", "Updates", "Donate", "Simulator", or "Recipe List". At least to the general user, they are coming to your site to use the simulator and i feel that the main page should reflect that. Also doesn't hurt to have a how to use guide somewhere.

4. I haven't given the functionality too much of a test since the thing i really cared about (3 and 4 star recipe's) didn't work. The design and UI of the simulator is just as important as the functionality of it, i'm not saying this to offend you, just giving constructive criticism.

[Archadius]

If nothing else, this is an excellent tool to find out before you perform a synth, exactly how many progress actions (and which) you will need to reach the finish. Without it, your very first synth of an item could be a case of trial and error, which means big money if it's your first time performing an endgame craft synth that comes out NQ because of a silly mistake.

Been only using this for a month or so now, but am so glad I started, it's great! Thanks, and keep it up OP! ^_^

[Sanguisio]

Amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!

[NJA]

This is the perfect tool for when I'm designing rotations, VERY useful. Works well on a iPad. Thanks!

[SummerRider]

The tool looks very useful. As a side question did you manually enter the list of all the recipe details, or is there some trick to getting that data out of the game?