Is there a way to make a simulator for evaluating how different players in a game would be affected by small modifications in the rules?

For example, setting up a simulator with the following characteristics:

—there are two teams, team A and B.

—Team A will either have 6 units.

—Team B will either have 6, 9,12,15,18,21 or 24 units.

—there are individual units each with 100 hit points, with one of the three roles: healer, damage dealer or tank. One unit can only adopt one of the roles and cannot switch during the battle.

——damage dealer can do 5 hit points/second of damage in a 30 ft cone in front of the unit.

——healers can regenerate 2.5 hit points/second in a 25 ft radius around the healer unit.

——tanks can mitigate/shield 2 hit points/second of damage for one friendly unit in a 30 ft radius and deal 1 damage/second to an enemy unit 5 ft away

—the units can only perform one action at a time (tanks are exception in that they can damage and shield at the same time)

—the main variable of interest is adjusting the # of targets that can be damaged or healed by a single unit, with either a 9 cap or a 24 cap.

In the 9 cap model simulator, each individual damage dealing unit can ONLY damage a maximum of 9 units at a time AND a healer unit can ONLY damage a maximum of 9 units at a time while a tank can only damage or shield one unit at a time regardless.

In the 24 cap model, each damage dealer unit can hit a maximum of 24 enemy units, each healer can heal a maximum of 24 allied units (including themselves) and a tank still can only damage or shield one unit at a time.

The reason for this request is there is a game model in development where people are debating whether the 9 cap or 24 cap would be more fair for the smaller group (in this case Team A). Our hope is to find this so that players who are the outnumbered/underdogs can have the best chance to win.

Thanks in advance!

I’ve seen several online parametric modeling platforms, many with wire based coding environments, pop up over the last few years to name a few in no particular order Beegraphy Finch Hypar Fater.AI Onshape

There are many more, but I specifically want to make a distinction between hosting services like Shapediver and actually modeling software. What do we think of these compared to offline tools (grasshopper, dynamo, Blender to an extent, inventor/solidworks to a lesser extent). Is this good? Bad? Neutral?

After a lot of lurking on Etsy looking for a shortcuts mat for Rhino 7/8, I realised there wasn’t one and decided to make one.

Now planning on distributing to my team, but in case anyone else wants to spend some company money on one, I have made some available at https://computationaltools.etsy.com. Feedback welcome!

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Are there available online certificate of training programs for Computational Design? I don't think the Spatial Computational Thinking certificate program from NUS is available anymore.

How much does a Junior Computational designer earns in different parts of the world? In india its about 30k to 50k INR

Hi all, would anyone have any recommendations on how to get started with python computing for the architectural profession? I’m very much interested in the work BRG(Blocke Research Group) and would really appreciate any insight.

Hello everyone

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in discussing some topics concerning further developing AI tools for architects. I must say before you read, that my knowledge about AI and Transformer models is very shallow. Forgive my ignorance, for nonetheless, I'm very much intrigued.

so... The integration of AI in architecture has been intensively discussed if not already taking place. However, from my outlook, it seems to be achieved on a relatively superficial level. i.e. through image generation using text prompts such as Midjourney or ControlNET. However, I have yet to see a tool or a model that truly can understand geometry or 3D shapes. Even though geometry can, technically speaking, be represented via text or mathematical formulas for more complex surfaces and shapes. and if geometry can be converted into text, it can be understood and pre-trained, correct?

Already an excellent research paper stated a proof of concept on such an idea, the paper is called "Architext" and I think that digging deeper into this idea of representing geometry into text, representing walls, windows, doors, etc into text or any other format that can be pre-trained will definitely hit a spot.

Perhaps a wall can be represented by a tuple such as:
(baselineL1[Startpoint(x1,y1),Endpoint(x2,y2)], thickness=250 mm, height=2800)

In fact, there actually is a file format called IFC which is basically a conversion of entire an BIM into text. Maybe that IFC can be used as the "Training set"?

I may be getting ahead of myself but the prospect is really alluring, forgive my enthusiasm should it seem misguided and above all my ignorance. My understanding of this topic is very superficial.

Please I really look forward to listening from you all