JD Walter
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Joined: 6/20/2003 From: Out of the Silent Planet Status: offline
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Hi jcrohio, quote:
Question 1. I think I have done this right - below is a picture of the victory screen which shows an Axis decisve victory. My question is the screen says "must deliver 11 CPs to Wake Island" or it is an Allied Decisive Victory. Unless I am reading this wrong it only delivered nine. Why is it an Axis victory? Hmm, interesting question. I, too, had the same reaction upon seeing your screenshot. But thinking about it, it appears the "Best Result if Failed" applies to the US (AI) side, not to your own, i.e., if you fail to deliver 11 CP's as Japan, you enable the AI to score a decisive victory, not limit yourself as Japan to no better than an American decisive (Automatic Victory). Although enabled, the AI still must score the requisite number of superior VP's to exceed yours and merit a decisive victory. If it doesn't (or if, as in this case, your own score is greater), the proper victory level is still calculated and scored. This would account for why you were indeed able to score a decisive, even though you had delivered <11 CP's. It would be interesting to see Gregor or Roger explain their meaning here. quote:
Question 2. When you get your search reports in, do you launch strikes on the first report or wait for more to see how accurate the report is? I usually wait for an update. Initial reports are fragmentary and overstated; most everything looks like a CV on the first pass over to a searchplane. But if I have a hunch that's my opponent's main strike force, I launch. I play a lot of MP, and he who launches second dies first. quote:
Question 3. The speed button - what is the logic of setting the speed lower than 9? When there is a lot going on I use the Run 5 button. When nothing is going on I use the other buttons. Regardless, play stops on most actions anyway. Just curious why you would need to slow down 5 minute intervals. Never noticed you could do that. I've played CAW since the Apple II+ days (1984), and figured I knew most of the interface functions already. I'll have to read the manual again this weekend. Like yourself, I just Run 5 at the appropriate moments. quote:
Question 4. I keep getting intermittent flashes. I have read about them occurring in the combat screen but I am getting them on all screens. JUst curiuos as it doesn't seem to be causing any problems. Sounds like a videocard driver issue. Recommend you check to see if you're running the best (not necessarily latest) drivers for CAW. What I mean is, some games run better on the ATI or NuVidia driver versions prevalent when they were programmed. For example, Civ 4 worked better with Catalyst 4.12 rather than the v.5 series ATI had available when it was released; this was because the game was programmed 18-24 mos. earlier, when v.4 was in use on the Radeon cards. The new Catalyst v.5-series drivers actually caused corruptions and artifacts on screen, which disappeared when I stepped my drivers back to v.4.12.
< Message edited by Def Zep -- 6/15/2007 6:27:46 AM >
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