FTL Fleet Builder

[schnickers]

Hey space cowboy,

over the last weeks, I tinkered on a Online Fleet Builder for FTL. It's now in a stage where I'm comfortable to share the current state. Please take a look and if you like let me know of any bugs or usage issues you encounter. Feedback is highly appreciated. The current approach is a little more in favor on mobile usage but should work ok on desktop too.


Current Capabilities

• Build your fleet by adding ships, selecting upgrades, define weapon arcs and add titles and heroes,
• The Fleets are currently persisted on your local storage
• There is a print view with a very rudimentary print layout
• NEW: Select a legendary fleet
  
• NEW: Export/import fleets
  
• NEW: Clone ships
  
• NEW: Improved hero and title hints in ship edit view
  
• FIX: Some upgrades and special rules naming
• NEW: Edit ship names and show them on edit and print view
• NEW: Fleet and Ship validation and violations are shown
• FIX: Prism and Flicker Squad Special Rules
• Update: to version 1.1 -> onepagerules.com/2020/11/13/ftl-updates-game-jam-today/
• Update: to version 1.5 -> onepagerules.com/2021/01/22/big-warfleets-ftl-updates-more/
  

Possible Features

The following ideas have popped up currently:

• Sharing fleets (sort of, via import/export) currently
• Basic Rules Reference and Lookup
• Battle view, where you can track damage and activation
• Validator if the fleet follows the rules
• Handle individual bonus for Legendary Fleets.

Tech Stack

For those interested. The web-app is written with JS Framework Nuxtjs, uses the Vuetify Material Design Framework and is hosted on Heroku.

Last but not least

opr-list-builder.herokuapp.com/warfleets-ftl/build

Note: the server is in hibernation/paused if not used, and needs a little (~30 seconds) to "wake up" sometimes. This might change depending on the development of this app.

Cheers and kind regards

[elthamare]

This is great!

The print version is amazing. There are some outdated rules definitions, though. I know it's really useful to have the rules written, but maybe it can be optional to avoid this.


I know how much effort is involved in this project, so thank you.

[schnickers]

Thanks. Glad you liked it

Oct 18, 2020 20:55:33 GMT elthamare said:

There are some outdated rules definitions, though.

Do you have an example? Do you mean some upgrades or special rules?

[elthamare]

I have used it for a couple fleets, so it's not a comprehensive test, but the definitions for the Titles Defiant and Avenger are different to those in the Core Rules (in the builder it gives a +1 to a stat, while in the rules is a situational buff).

I know that the rules are frequently updated and also there is a Patreon version, so maybe it's that and I don't have the current version.

[schnickers]

Ah, must have slipped through... will be fixed in a minute. If you stumble upon other missing changes, let me know.

[elthamare]

Another one: the Stealth rig now gives +1 evasion instead of the enable/disable mechanic.

[schnickers]

Got it. I also checked the Common section and found some small changes that I missed. Should be updated in ~10 minutes.

Changes

• Add missing common upgrade "Precision Rig" (Gets +1 accuracy)
• Change common upgrade "Stealth Rig" (Gets +1 evasion)
• Tweak "Weapon Batterie" rules text
• Clarify rules text for "Deadly", "Fragile", "Overheating", "Relentless"

[Ed Davidson]

1) Ship Names
Although the system lets me name each ship - the name does not persist beyond the input page - it doesn't appear in the online fleet listing and it does not appear in the printable version either
Also if I make a duplicate of a "named" ship - there is no ability to indivdually name the duplicate. Work In Progress I assume?

2) Rules enforcement
I was able to give a ship 4 identical Upgrades - In the Core rules it says that each upgrade can only be used once per ship

3) How does import/export work?
I exported a fleet to clipboard - then saved it to a text file
When I tried cut and pasting the text file into the "Import" box the system crashed/Hung/whatever.
HOw am I supposed to do an import?

That said - this is a great tool in the making. Keep up the good work! I'm already a happy user.

[schnickers]

1) Ship Names
Although the system lets me name each ship - the name does not persist beyond the input page - it doesn't appear in the online fleet listing and it does not appear in the printable version either
Also if I make a duplicate of a "named" ship - there is no ability to indivdually name the duplicate. Work In Progress I assume?

Yea, I removed the unique names mostly because I was polluting the different views and I was not sure if it was really necessary. That said, I can re-add them and give add an edit option for the name.

IMPLEMETED

2) Rules enforcement
I was able to give a ship 4 identical Upgrades - In the Core rules it says that each upgrade can only be used once per ship

Yes, currently there is no fleet validation. I would go with a alerting system, read: allow the violation but inform the user. AFAIK, there are the following restrictions:

• Stay within the point limit
• no duplicated upgrades within ship
• no duplicated heros within fleet
• only 1 hero per full 300 points fleet point limit
• squadron count <= 2x ship count

Am I missing something? Some legendary fleets have alterations but those are for the future...

IMPLEMETED

3) How does import/export work?
I exported a fleet to clipboard - then saved it to a text file
When I tried cut and pasting the text file into the "Import" box the system crashed/Hung/whatever.
HOw am I supposed to do an import?

How it Should work:

1. Hit Export button
2. Copy String (e.g. using the copy to clipboard button), make sure you don't catch any whitespaces at start or end
3. Hit import
4. In the dialog, paste export-string and hit apply

Just checked it, worked for me. You can send me your export string than I can debbug locally. And/or you can try with this:


eyJpZCI6Im16dXd6bGZlIiwibmFtZSI6IkNyaW1zb24gVm9ydGV4IiwiZmFjdGlvbiI6Im1hcmF1ZGVycyIsInBvaW50TGltaXQiOjEyMDAsInN5c3RlbVZlcnNpb24iOiJ2MS4wIiwiYXJteUJvb2tWZXJzaW9uIjoidjEuMCIsImxlZ2VuZGFyeSI6ImNyaW1zb24tdm9ydGV4Iiwic2hpcHMiOlt7ImlkIjoienVqcCIsIm5hbWUiOiJCZWlnZSBQaGVhc2FudCIsImJsdWVwcmludEtleSI6ImtpbGxlciIsImNvc3QiOjcwLCJ1cGdyYWRlcyI6W3sic2xvdEluZGV4IjowLCJzaGlwVXBncmFkZSI6ImdyYXZpdHktYnVtcGVyIn0sbnVsbF19XX0=

Oct 20, 2020 11:12:30 GMT Ed Davidson said:

That said - this is a great tool in the making. Keep up the good work! I'm already a happy user.

[elthamare]

Thank you for all the hard work.
I saw a typo when selecting weapons as upgrades, it says "stength", without "r".

I'll play a 300 points battle this weekend and will print the fleets. I'll let you know how it goes.

[schnickers]

Cool, let me know how it (the printed sheet) worked in action.

[Ed Davidson]

Thanks for the speedy response to my issues etc. Love that you've fixed ship names - with multiple models of the same type its good to be able tie the IDs on the Roster with the IDs on the models.
I've seend import/export working - I'll put my issue down to user error!

One more thing: The Print Header says "Fleet Rooster" - I think it is meant to say "Fleet Roster"

Anyawy - Thanks for you hard work & responsiveness in getting this together.

[Ed Davidson]

Oct 20, 2020 15:56:24 GMT schnickers said:

Cool, let me know how it (the printed sheet) worked in action.

I had a quickie 2 ships a side play test last night - the printouts worked fine for me.
Quick and easy to produce too.

[schnickers]

Oct 20, 2020 15:56:37 GMT Ed Davidson said:

One more thing: The Print Header says "Fleet Rooster" - I think it is meant to say "Fleet Roster"

*cough... probably 

[manyslayer]

Oct 20, 2020 16:04:33 GMT schnickers said:

Oct 20, 2020 15:56:37 GMT Ed Davidson said:

One more thing: The Print Header says "Fleet Rooster" - I think it is meant to say "Fleet Roster"

*cough... probably 

No, its just a homage to the Red Chicken Rising set of spaceship rules.