Stages of Success

[ad1217]

One of the things that DebRefund has that this doesn't is stages of success (e.x. Green is < 6 m/s and gives 90%, Yellow is < 10 m/s and gives 75%, Red is > 10 m/s and gives 0%). A configurable version of this would be nice.

I was working on it, but I don't know C#, so it could take a while.

[magico13]

I have concerns about adding too many features that are the same as DebRefund, so I'm not quite saying no to this, just a bit wary of it. DebRefund's speeds appear to be configurable in the settings.txt file, however. Adding similar functionality would not be difficult, but if I do it will have to be sufficiently different to not just be a copy. (ie, a return percent between 100% for a slow landing of 3 or 4 m/s, to a 25% for 12 m/s or something along those lines, with the return directly proportional to the landing speed.)

[ad1217]

I was thinking about that earlier and kind of like it better. It just seems
that "damage" (terminal velocity) should affect the return more than just
success/failure.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:21 AM, magico13 notifications@github.com wrote:

I have concerns about adding too many features that are the same as
DebRefund, so I'm not quite saying no to this, just a bit wary of it.
DebRefund's speeds appear to be configurable in the settings.txt file,
however. Adding similar functionality would not be difficult, but if I do
it will have to be sufficiently different to not just be a copy. (ie, a
return percent between 100% for a slow landing of 3 or 4 m/s, to a 25% for
12 m/s or something along those lines, with the return directly
proportional to the landing speed.)

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[magico13]

Implemented as a second recovery model (Variable Recovery Rate) where if the velocity is between two cutoffs then the recovery percentage is determined by a quadratic following (where x0 is the low velocit cutoff and x1 is the high velocity cutoff) av^2+bv+c = recovery with a = (-100)/(x1^2-2_x0_x1+x0^2), b = -2_a_x0, and c = a*x0^2+100 (giving 100% return at v=x0 and 0 return at v=x1). The default uses cutoffs of 6m/s and 12 m/s resulting in this curve:

With that, I'd say this issue can be closed :)