Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Xenocide

Add a Harry Turtledove Alien Invasion scenario.

Mike

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Spend PP to resurrect sunk ships

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Spend PP to resurrect sunk ships

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ORIGINAL: oldman45

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Spend PP to resurrect sunk ships

I don't think that is too far fetched if the ship shinks in a shallow port like PH.

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ORIGINAL: pad152

I don’t know what is scheduled for patch 2 but, here are some requests.

AE Requests for patch II
I believe the following changes will help make AE more manageable for the player.

HQ’s
1. Some method to determine if a unit (LCU, Air group, etc.) is receiving the benefits of a HQ.
2. Fix the command structure, so each HQ shows up in the list of HQ’s. (Combined Fleet, 6th Fleet are just some of the HQ’s that don’t show up). The current HQ command structure doesn't seem historical.

Industry & Production
3. Change color of city/factory name if turned off or out of supply and/or a list of factories that are turned off/out of resources.
4. Make aircraft and engine factories more scalable, just doubling the size of a factory just doesn’t work in AE because of the limit resources. It’s too easy to crash the Japanese economy doubling a factory.
5. Show the short and long term costs for increasing a factory, there is no way to determine the cost of increasing a factory, show the increase in Hi, resources, fuel.
6. Undo command for changing a factory, so you see the cost of the increase before committing a change to increase.
7. Show Daily/Monthly/Year to Date totals of Hi, supply, resources, oil, fuel. The player should not have to rely on third party apps, the info should be in the game.

Pilot Management
8. Method to return pilots to pilot pool, some air groups have excess pilots and there is no way to return them. This would also allow an training air groups to send trained pilots back to the pool if/when needed.

Pilot Training
9. Increase the speed of pilot training, it's too slow after patch 1 and is now useless for shorter scenarios.

Land Units
10. The game shows destroyed Air groups, ships, but not land units, add land units.
11. Show the name of LCU's lost even if the whole LCU is not destoryed, when ships are sunk in the ops and/or combat report.
12. Show the name of LCU's in a different color in the list of land units, that are less then 50% of their TOE.

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Spend PP to resurrect sunk ships

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ORIGINAL: oldman45

What would you call the west virginia? You are right though PP's are a bad choice but I always thought there should be a system to raise ships that are in port that sink. Several of the ships in Pearl would be considered sunk by AE standards but were raised and eventually rejoined the fleet.

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Spend PP to resurrect sunk ships

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ORIGINAL: bklooste

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Spend PP to resurrect sunk ships

This is a really good suggestion and the code should already be there with the old returning carriers. Note Japan re-floated some ships in Japan in 44-45 as well . Prob should be restricted to lvl 9 ports.

Big Change though is Pearl should now sink 5-6 BBs on average. Would really change the ahistoric Pearl loitering as well.

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ORIGINAL: Montrose

When you click on a heading of a list (eg 'Ship Name') to sort the list by that criteria - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop the scroll bar going to the middle of the list. It should default to the top of the list, to save more tedious scrolling. Hope that makes sense.

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ORIGINAL: pad152

I don’t know what is scheduled for patch 2 but, here are some requests.

AE Requests for patch II
I believe the following changes will help make AE more manageable for the player.

HQ’s
1. Some method to determine if a unit (LCU, Air group, etc.) is receiving the benefits of a HQ.
2. Fix the command structure, so each HQ shows up in the list of HQ’s. (Combined Fleet, 6th Fleet are just some of the HQ’s that don’t show up). The current HQ command structure doesn't seem historical.

Industry & Production
3. Change color of city/factory name if turned off or out of supply and/or a list of factories that are turned off/out of resources.
4. Make aircraft and engine factories more scalable, just doubling the size of a factory just doesn’t work in AE because of the limit resources. It’s too easy to crash the Japanese economy doubling a factory.
5. Show the short and long term costs for increasing a factory, there is no way to determine the cost of increasing a factory, show the increase in Hi, resources, fuel.
6. Undo command for changing a factory, so you see the cost of the increase before committing a change to increase.
7. Show Daily/Monthly/Year to Date totals of Hi, supply, resources, oil, fuel. The player should not have to rely on third party apps, the info should be in the game.

Pilot Management
8. Method to return pilots to pilot pool, some air groups have excess pilots and there is no way to return them. This would also allow an training air groups to send trained pilots back to the pool if/when needed.

Pilot Training
9. Increase the speed of pilot training, it's too slow after patch 1 and is now useless for shorter scenarios.

Land Units
10. The game shows destroyed Air groups, ships, but not land units, add land units.
11. Show the name of LCU's lost even if the whole LCU is not destoryed, when ships are sunk in the ops and/or combat report.
12. Show the name of LCU's in a different color in the list of land units, that are less then 50% of their TOE.

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I really look at the ops report for ship/troop/squadron reinforcements, lost ships, port/AF expansions and ship repair info. The rest is just filler that I need to visually blank out.

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Pilot Training
9. Increase the speed of pilot training, it's too slow after patch 1 and is now useless for shorter scenarios.

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ORIGINAL: Jonathan Pollard

It may not require too much code to automatically convert torpedo hits into bomb hits against the ships at PH that were torpedo-proof on Dec. 7 such as the Maryland.

So much WitP and so little time to play.... :-(

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ORIGINAL: Pascal

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ORIGINAL: Jonathan Pollard

It may not require too much code to automatically convert torpedo hits into bomb hits against the ships at PH that were torpedo-proof on Dec. 7 such as the Maryland.

I even had a torpedo hit on the Pennsylvania at PH. Since when were torpedoes able to enter an empty (of water) drydock?

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ORIGINAL: tigercub

Make aircraft and engine factories more scalable, just doubling the size of a factory just doesn’t work in AE because of the limit resources. It’s too easy to crash the Japanese economy doubling a factory.this one for the japs is needed the rest i like 2 but what the guys can do and will do for the patch 2  we can only hope.

Tiger!

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ORIGINAL: pad152

10. The game shows destroyed Air groups, ships, but not land units, add land units.
11. Show the name of LCU's lost even if the whole LCU is not destoryed, when ships are sunk in the ops and/or combat report.

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As Terminus says, it can't be done.

And I think that it is actually modelled in the game, if not stated as such. With 80 Sys damage and 80 Major Flotation damage, the ship will stay in PH for a long time. If it is sent to SF it will sink on the way. So it has to remain at PH repairing till such a time as it can be refloated {Sys and Major Flotation repaired to such a level that it can be sent somewhere without sinking}.