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ORIGINAL: pad152

Japanese Aircraft Production?

Is the player in control of what to build? (like ability to build Nells in 1943)? I always hated when I changed an aircraft factory in WITP to build an older aircraft type, only to have the computer change it again some months later sending the factory production to zero again for the second time. Either the player is in control or the computer, not both!

Is there a report that shows what factories are building and their status (on, off, damaged, etc.)? It was a lot of work in WITP finding factories that were turned off.

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ORIGINAL: Long Lance

Very good! I also see AC-Pool switches in the production screen.
Is there now perhaps even a Form TF-button in the Ships-in-Harbour-Screen?

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ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

The displays and reports are essentially the same as WitP. However, the option to upgrade or not IS in there.

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ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

The displays and reports are essentially the same as WitP. However, the option to upgrade or not IS in there.

Created by the amazing Dixie

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ORIGINAL: pad152

Is the player in control of what to build? (like ability to build Nells in 1943)? I always hated when I changed an aircraft factory in WITP to build an older aircraft type, only to have the computer change it again some months later sending the factory production to zero again for the second time. Either the player is in control or the computer, not both!

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ORIGINAL: 2ndACR

Why in the world is it 44/1 if that is the case........they were being built in 1941.......even if very slowly?

Where's the Any key?

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ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

I'm guessing that the (44/1) means that the plane type is available on January 1944 and that the factory can produce a total of 4 per month when retooled...with 0 retooled at this point.

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ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

The displays and reports are essentially the same as WitP. However, the option to upgrade or not IS in there.

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Light industry uses 20 resource points per day and makes 2 supply out of it.
Heavy industry uses 15 resources and 2 fuel per day and makes 1 supply and 2 HI.

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ORIGINAL: Caesaren

What means the 8944 behind the resourses at Akita for example?

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ORIGINAL: fremen

Wait! Wait! I was confused here.....
The all aircraft production capacity in Tokyo at start is 30 Sonias????????????????????
OMG!!! This is the grave to japanese fanboys...

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ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

Ok, here are the basics of the new production system. I am still learning this myself, so if I make a mistake, I apologize in advance.

Manpower doesnt require resources anymore. You got em, you get em.

Resource centers create 20 resource points a day.
Oil centers produce 10 oil points per day.
(Neither produces supply)

Light industry uses 20 resource points per day and makes 2 supply out of it.
Heavy industry uses 15 resources and 2 fuel per day and makes 1 supply and 2 HI.
Refineries use 10 oil points per day and produce 9 fuel and 1 supply.

Ok - I had to read the manual on that and it made my eyes hurt. So after a breather we look at the Jap situation at start. I break the Jap production into distinct areas, these are:

Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, and Hokkaido - collectively Home Islands. I do it this way because Ominato is a level 5 port (between Honshu and Hokkaido) and Shikoku only has a level 4 port and frankly I am not sure resources will flow over these areas. I think it had to be a level 6 in WitP to flow, so better safe than sorry. (There is a level 3 port at Tsushima connecting Korea with Kyushu but again, I dont think this is big enough to allow the movement.) Home islands are area 1

Korea, Manchuria, and northern China is area 2
At start there is a small pocket at Hankow that isnt connected by rail to the rest of northern China, but is connected by road. I call this 2a as again, not sure if stuff will flow.

Formosa is area 3

Vietnam is area 4

Thailand is area 5

Canton is area 6. Hong Kong will NOT be included in this display for area 6. I found a possible bug in the factory capture routine and I am waiting on confirmation of if its WAD or not.

Area 1 produces an excess of resource points in all areas except Honshu. Honshu is down about 112k a day resources (thus the reason the port size on those 2 choke points is important).

Area - res pts - - oil pts - fuel - - Produces:
-1-- - <52,500> -- <7820> -- <2545> - 18,035 supply + 9000 HI/day
-2-- - + 26,900 -- <600> --- <720> -- 4080 supply + 1800 HI/day
-2a- - <1400> ---- none ---- <80> --- 200 supply + 80 HI/day
-3-- - + 3200 ---- + 80 ---- none --- 160 supply/day
-4-- - + 4500 ---- none ---- <40> --- 100 supply + 40 HI/day
-5-- - <600> ----- <200> --- + 140 -- 220 supply + 80 HI/day
-6-- - <900> ----- none ---- <120> -- 260 supply + 120 HI/day

So over all the Japs are down 20,800 resource points per day (1040 resource centers). 854 oil centers (8540 points), and in addition to the oil they are short 3365 fuel a day.

This isnt really all that bad as far as oil/fuel. Palembang alone has 900 oil and over 1000 refineries. But there are only around 1400 resource centers in the "historical" area the Japanese captured meaning the Japs have to go out of their way to try to take them intact. Areas in Oz and/or India or a push deeper into China may be warranted.

Japs start with 6.8 million resources and 3.2 million oil, so they really arent in that bad of shape.

Edit: Oops, missed the island of Sakhalin (north of the home islands), There is around 500 more resources (10,000 points) and 30 oil centers there also.

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Heh. Here is the current Jap aircraft pools sorted by plane production: Is it any wonder why you dont have to worry about "Uber CAP" anymore?

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ORIGINAL: fremen

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Heh. Here is the current Jap aircraft pools sorted by plane production: Is it any wonder why you dont have to worry about "Uber CAP" anymore?

Oh...great, great...i dont have to worry about JAPANESE Uber CAP anymore. But, what about the HELLCATS Uber CAP???

Thanks! Thanks to the AE Team to include the Editor, much work to do before any game starts..

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ORIGINAL: Long Lance

Fine! I always wondered why it is not there in WitP!

And the 'back'-Button in Squadron menu now does always work?
In Witp, it does not work if you open the Airfield-screen by clicking on the AF-symbol, only when clicking the base and then selecting AF in the base menu.

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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Ok YH, I'm starting my first production spreadsheet for AE. A couple of comments and questions.

According to my calculations, there's enough oil for 12.9 months of refining. Now, oil's only purpose is to produce fuel (and a bit of supply as a byproduct). With Palembang's 900 oil and 1000 refineries, assuming no damage to either, no more shipping out of oil. Now we have to ship in 1000 oil per day and ship out 9k fuel per day. Pretty interesting.

Now, looking at resources. Resources are used only for heavy and light industry. They both produce varying amounts of supply and heavy industry produces HI. Based on the costs (in resources) and and production at currently owned resource centers, there are enough resources on hand (6.8 million) to last 78 months! To me that seems a bit excessive. Is there another use for resources that you haven't mentioned?

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ORIGINAL: pad152

Ok I'll ask again, How do you find a factory that's been turned off in AE?