LanxCalc - A blind phalanx calculator

Hello everyone!

Given that the tool I'm making should be completely functional soon (just working on some QoL features), I'm getting it ready for sharing.

• Info: LanxCalc is a relatively simple program that can assist you in calculating return times of fleets you see on sensor phalanx scans.
• Author: Savage
• Website: (no website, all updates/info will be within this forum post)
• Support: send me a PM on forums and if I don't reply within a day or two feel free to contact me by sending PM to savage#6278 @ Discord
• Download:
  • Google drive zip: https://drive.google.com/open?…GVXpdq0_ef1FhPWmvcA-D0JLb
  • FileDropper zip: http://www.filedropper.com/lanxcalc09b
  • Filehosting zip: https://www.filehosting.org/fi…31836/LanxCalc%200.9b.rar
  • Google drive msi: https://drive.google.com/open?…rYLPBcyEYPjNTqeTs9jaolW7_
  • FileDropper msi: http://www.filedropper.com/lanxcalc-09b-amd64
  • FileHosting msi: https://www.filehosting.org/fi…5/LanxCalc-0.9b-amd64.msi
  • Github: https://github.com/markomavrinac/lanx-calc/

• Screenshot:

• Browser: Standalone program for download, no browser needed.
• Compatibility: Windows platform
• Languages: English

Plans for the future:

• add load/save uni feature
• add new ships when their stats are definite
• export report into a text file
• maybe add ACS support to calculate return times of multiple fleets in ACS, not sure yet as it potentially over complicates things

Please consider the tool has only been tested on a x6 server so there might be issues in other unis (however there shouldn't be since the formula is universal). Again, if there are any issues feel free to contact me and I will rectify them ASAP.

How it works:

For the example here, I will be using my own overview info, but it is applicable to a simple phalanx scan results.

Next to uni settings, all you need is following info: target's drive levels (spy report), origin and destination coordinates and fleet composition (slowest ship in fleet, the rest don't matter).

This provides a return time of said fleet as you can see in a screenshot below:

Please take note that you still need to guess the speed of the fleet you're scanning!

In theory, this way you could also calculate someone's return time from debris field assuming you get the right time the target collected the debris. All you need to do is leave coordinates the same (same as moon to planet transport).

Recall from deployment gets a little tricky though! When expecting a recall from deploy, note the time between your scans and note the time when you first notice the fleet being recalled.

This can be impacted by your internet performance as well as server lag, so I suggest trying it out with a friend since sometimes it's smart delaying return time by a second or two to compensate for said problems.

In this scenario, I recalled the fleet, noted return time as the time one second after it was actually recalled and set time between scans to 2 seconds.

This of course gives you multiple possible return times so the program returns a range (from - to) of possible return times. I would still pick the latest possible return time but still left the possible times in, in case someone was afraid of target possibly being able to escape even at low time intervals.

Special thanks to Fajki and the rest of Fenrir A-Team for helping me get this done right. It would be a long and frustrating experience making this alone.

Have a nice day!

Thanks guys

It's more directed towards new player who have bad understanding of blind phalanx + it really does save you time.

Until recently, I wasn't really good on the subject either, take into account I play in the speed uni and you literally have seconds to calculate everything and in most cases you simply don't have time plus if it's a big hit adrenaline plays its part in concentration and efficiency.

It takes about 20 seconds to determine return time under a lot of stress in my opinion, but if you've got time anything goes of course

OK cool, I get your point.

But take into account newer players could appreciate something like this.

I've had two problems so far, one of them was misinformation. I followed a blind lanx guide from balkan forums, turns out the process was badly described, right from the part where you don't note things in server but rather in relative times to the part where they flat out failed in the part where you deduct recall time from arrival time in case of early recall and all.

This one cost me a hit.

The other time it cost me a hit was just bad luck, but I know that every time I'd have a chance to hit said target (since it's x6 fleet) I'd spot target's fleet on deployment with about 10 minutes left before landing.

I got adrenaline rush which I don't really enjoy if I want to keep my head straight, looking around the room for a notebook, a proper pen, trying to make defender recall and then in the end it was "omg what was the slowest ship in the fleet again?".

First time I think I forgot to remove double the excess time from the recall and missed the hit by 10+ seconds.

I know at least for our test cases all return times were exact (including early recalls) so I won't have to worry about this anymore.

There's still the part of determining when the fleet was sent so I think not all of the skill is being drained by this, if you can't determine it, you will fail again.

Not sure what's the difference in using this or excel spreadsheet except that you need microsoft office or online tools for the former and the sheet probably has more features considering that it's older, but I'm not done working on this anyway (even though some thing were purposely left out for the sake of simplicity).

After doing this 20ish times, I'm sure I'd get it automated in my head but I play in a dead uni and get a chance to use this once a month at best, a lot of other unis are like that. There's simply too little action in many unis for an average new player to have a good foundation to learn.

Also, missing a calculation usually means your target whose moons you just popped is going into a very long vmode at least, if not permanent. I don't want to let that happen over a mistake on paper

But after all, I get why you might not like using this and it's cool. Cheers

OK, here's an idea for you guys. -> Don't use it if you don't like it

Well Mr. Stukov, on this occasion , not only do I offer you a modern way to calculate return times, but I also offer you a modern equivalent of well.... you! Real avatar material!

Tnx Asto

Nono, don't take me wrong! I was just out of a super boring lecture and coffee machine broke so it was just morning me

Today I pretty much finalized everything and I'm just waiting for the green light from GF, only 3 new ships left to add but since the update isn't officially out I don't want to add anything until I'm sure base speeds are correct

Thanks Grom!