One of my ongoing projects over the past couple of months has been to reverse-engineer the design formula that DVG uses to build and balance pilots for the Air Leader series of games. The first step was to spreadsheet every printed pilot card in the Eagle Leader run, which was a non-trivial but oddly-relaxing data entry project.

Then the analysis started. That was considerably less relaxing.

I still haven’t isolated the formula that DVG actually uses (and I have, at times, had serious doubts that it actually exists, or that they follow their own math if it does exist). But I do have a ~85% solution that I’m considering “good enough for now.”

If you’re one of the 0.3 of my readers who are interested, you can get it on my main DVG resources page.