X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=yarrg%2Fweb%2Fdocs;h=6f754bff46e258472de8c5d413723ab7fa8eb117;hb=4c6a28f4cbed2ed351697f63f30fb4827259f6a9;hp=48a0062f70c6953d8744e5981ce5807875966a9d;hpb=850e6582f48afb204e4f1d1710002a3bb6dac0a4;p=ypp-sc-tools.web-live.git diff --git a/yarrg/web/docs b/yarrg/web/docs index 48a0062..6f754bf 100755 --- a/yarrg/web/docs +++ b/yarrg/web/docs @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ After getting the results, you can untick various trades individually, and select `Update' to get a new plan. The unticked trades will be excluded from the voyage plan (if any) and also from the totals. -

Vessel capacity

+

Vessel capacity

If you don't specify a vessel or a vessel capacity, the trading plan will not take into account the fact that your voyage will be on a ship @@ -115,9 +115,9 @@ like:
sloop
The capacity of a sloop, leaving no allowance for rum and shot -
sloop - 1% -
The capacity of a sloop minus 1% -
20t 13kl +
wb - 1% +
The capacity of a war brig minus 1% +
13t 20kl
13 tonnes (13,000kg), 20 kilolitres (20,000l)
sloop - 100l 100kg
The capacity of a sloop minus 100l, minus 100kg @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ all the preceding terms. The first term may be a ship name or abbrevation instead. If the first term specifies only one of mass or volume, all the subsequent terms may only adjust that same value. -

Expected losses

+

Expected losses

In theory if you were guaranteed to have a trouble-free voyage it would be worth trading goods at very low margins. However, in @@ -157,14 +157,15 @@ to do.

-Trades whose margin is less than the expected loss are never selected. -For example, if you select 1% loss per league, and plan a voyage of 5 -leagues, then any trade with a margin of less than 5.15% would be -completely excluded (5.15% not 5% because the loss works like compound -interest). Theoretically very profitable trades which are close to -the expected break-even point because of the distance can also be -rejected by the optimiser in favour of shorter distance trades with -theoretically smaller margins. +Trades whose margin is less than the expected loss are never included +in the suggested plan. For example, if you select 1% loss per league, +and plan a voyage of 5 leagues, then any trade with a margin of less +than 5.15% would be completely excluded (5.15% not 5% because the loss +works like compound interest). Theoretically very profitable trades +which are close to the expected break-even point because of the +distance can also be rejected by the optimiser in favour of shorter +distance trades with theoretically smaller margins, if it's not +possible to do both.