EUBanana
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Joined: 9/30/2003 From: Little England Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: TheElf ok EU, you are now my advisor. Give me a number. Give me the total number of A/c that should be reasonably assumed to participate in a single combat without breaking the game. There has to be a hard number, that is the way code works. There is only so much room in the game for 1s an 0s. What is your number? I'm sure it's not going to be so simple as tweaking a constant somewhere. Knock on effects and all. However... I think as an upper ceiling you probably it able to handle something like a 1000 fighter CAP. This is what the most death starry 1945 CV forces will be packing, so is surely the very highest number a high value CV force will be rolling with. This is a scenario which players will often get into. And as CV battles are high impact, thats the priority for getting things working. But. I imagine in the existing setup if you just increased that constant to 1000 things would get very bloody, so that is not an answer, it brings in other problems. So, I think it would be best if, rather than scaling everything up to three times what it is atm, things are broken up somehow, as CT says. So incoming raid size is capped (), and the CAP is also capped, thus enforcing a series of smaller combats rather than one ginormous one. Alas, I dont think thats how it works as CAP seems to be a fixed number for the whole hex, so I guess that is not possible. But we definitely know that smaller air combats work fine so trying to engineer things to make sure thats all you see seems sensible and the least impact approach. It would be historic, too. Failing that, maybe if the CAP maximum response was scaled to the number of incoming aircraft that might work (possibly not scaled in a linear manner either). That way megacaps might not work so well against smaller number of bombers. Also if the ablative escort thing was fixed, then that could surely help, as the root issue in huge battles seems to me to be the foolproof escorting, and all else flows from that.
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