Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Post your wishlist requests for future updates here

Mine for now

Change folder structure to put saves, non stock content, and mods in Documents/My Games folder or similar.

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ORIGINAL: Lobster

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Post your wishlist requests for future updates here

Mine for now

Change folder structure to put saves, non stock content, and mods in Documents/My Games folder or similar.

You are a Micro$oft planted spy, yes? They are the only ones who would want to scatter a game's files across the expanse of the hard drive.

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ORIGINAL: berto

A "structural" issue: reorganizing the games' files and folders.

Let's take a look at just one game, East Front.

In East Front, there are

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[root@berto East Front]# ls -1 | wc -l
5282

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5282 files, all of them in the top-level game folder. There is no hierarchy, no organization. It's hard to wade through and find stuff in all of that morass.

This is what I propose:

Retain the main, top-level folder: various .exe & .dll files, for the game engine, the editors, and whatnot; also .ini & other configuration files; and any miscellaneous files not covered by the following.

Under the main, top-level folder, these folders, most of them new:

Graphics: all .bmp, .bit, .jpg, .png & any other graphics files

Pictures: all .bmp, .bit, .jpg, .png & any other picture files

Sounds: all .ogg, .wav & any other sound files

Scenarios: all .scn, .scl, .map & .org files, also any special scenario docs

OOBs: all .oob & .obx files

Saves: all .btt, .btl & any other save game files

Manuals: all .pdf, .doc, .rtf & other documentation and text files (.hlp files?)

Logs: error, AI & other log files

Tools: CSlint files, unit viewers, maybe some encryption tools, etc.

Mods: (details to be described at a later date)

I would recode the game (not difficult) to look for files

first, in their "proper" place, in the appropriate folder as described above; if not found, then

second, in the main, top-level folder

In this way, we can transition from the current layout to the new one. The game will still work whether all or only some of us adopt the new folder layout, or in the meantime keep the current single-folder layout. (Eventually, we will all want to have the same file/folder organization of course.)

I'd like to move on this fairly soon.

Thoughts?

deal with mods and other user customizations?

Now throw into the mix the suggestion to move/install stuff in Documents/My Games?



In many and unfortunate ways, we are constrained by what has gone before. It would be great, now with 2.00 or in a future version, to break all ties with the 1.00 legacy past and start entirely afresh. But I don't see that happening. Hence the back burnering of the File/Folder Reorganization Project, perhaps for good.

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(in reply to Lobster)

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ORIGINAL: **budd**

another zoom level and mouse wheel zoom

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ORIGINAL: PawelM

something about air strike which I do not like: I plot an air strike at certain location and I loose LOS on the hex=> air strike does not arrive.
I would like the airstrike to be able to occur even then. Imagine and aircraft which was called by ground units arriving and although friendly units have lost sight of the target then air units can still locate it if it is still there! They have their own eyes and if they arrive to the requested sector for support they do not require ground units.... Attack whatever is there they find... this would be a nice and realistic addition to air strikes IMHO...

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ORIGINAL: dgk196

Hello...

I'd like to see a little more target type 'accuracy' for attacks by aircraft. By that I mean, if you send out some aircraft to attack tanks at least if they get the target wrong they attack another vehicle.
having your aircraft armed for taking out tanks then promptly attack an adjacent infantry platoon really is kind of odd. I flew in the service, we rarely mistook people on the ground for vehicles of some kind. So, maybe a botched mission would be limited to attacking a similar target, maybe just not the specific one you had designated for attack. When you send out your ac to attack a gun installation it should at least attack some kind of gun. Not a truck, not a tank, not an infantry platoon. It might be over the top for some, but, could you make it an option? Maybe hook it up to a 'slider' that ran from no target type mistakes to a 'drop your bombs anywhere and head for home' attack. Thanks for listening. By the way...installed 2.0... great, very much appreciated. Thank you very much for what must have been some very hard work!

Dennis

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ORIGINAL: Josh

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ORIGINAL: dgk196

Hello...

I'd like to see a little more target type 'accuracy' for attacks by aircraft. By that I mean, if you send out some aircraft to attack tanks at least if they get the target wrong they attack another vehicle.
having your aircraft armed for taking out tanks then promptly attack an adjacent infantry platoon really is kind of odd. I flew in the service, we rarely mistook people on the ground for vehicles of some kind. So, maybe a botched mission would be limited to attacking a similar target, maybe just not the specific one you had designated for attack. When you send out your ac to attack a gun installation it should at least attack some kind of gun. Not a truck, not a tank, not an infantry platoon. It might be over the top for some, but, could you make it an option? Maybe hook it up to a 'slider' that ran from no target type mistakes to a 'drop your bombs anywhere and head for home' attack. Thanks for listening. By the way...installed 2.0... great, very much appreciated. Thank you very much for what must have been some very hard work!

Dennis

+1
Planes hitting anything *but* your target
There's this indestructible T-34 and you send in some Stuka's and all they can find and hit is a...truck. Had me cussing a lot at the screen hehe.
Oh and mousewheel zoom please.

Other than that great work with the update, many thanks

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ORIGINAL: Josh

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ORIGINAL: dgk196

Hello...

I'd like to see a little more target type 'accuracy' for attacks by aircraft. By that I mean, if you send out some aircraft to attack tanks at least if they get the target wrong they attack another vehicle.
having your aircraft armed for taking out tanks then promptly attack an adjacent infantry platoon really is kind of odd. I flew in the service, we rarely mistook people on the ground for vehicles of some kind. So, maybe a botched mission would be limited to attacking a similar target, maybe just not the specific one you had designated for attack. When you send out your ac to attack a gun installation it should at least attack some kind of gun. Not a truck, not a tank, not an infantry platoon. It might be over the top for some, but, could you make it an option? Maybe hook it up to a 'slider' that ran from no target type mistakes to a 'drop your bombs anywhere and head for home' attack. Thanks for listening. By the way...installed 2.0... great, very much appreciated. Thank you very much for what must have been some very hard work!

Dennis

+1
Planes hitting anything *but* your target
There's this indestructible T-34 and you send in some Stuka's and all they can find and hit is a...truck. Had me cussing a lot at the screen hehe.
Oh and mousewheel zoom please.

Other than that great work with the update, many thanks

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Generated battles allow you to go past 1945 but won't let you select Axis Soviet vs Allied USA. I realize that you want to sell future versions of the game but I wish I could do some post war "what ifs" with what we have.