Can someone explain to me the difference between this and combat reporter? Is one preferred over the other for particular reasons? Thanks
Combat reporter looks just at the combat reports and sigint, which is then put onto a map and saves your combat reports over time. Tracker does some of the same but also looks at the actual save file to give a larger picture of the economics, oob etc. It is much more involved, it's free and you should download it to have a look.
Not really necessary for US players, but it can be a help. Not really needed for smaller campaigns either.
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Can someone explain to me the difference between this and combat reporter? Is one preferred over the other for particular reasons? Thanks
Combat reporter looks just at the combat reports and sigint, which is then put onto a map and saves your combat reports over time. Tracker does some of the same but also looks at the actual save file to give a larger picture of the economics, oob etc. It is much more involved, it's free and you should download it to have a look.
Not really necessary for US players, but it can be a help. Not really needed for smaller campaigns either.
Yes I never saw a response, from what I've been able to find combat report required one version of java be installed but this required another so before going through trying to get it setup I wanted to understand which most are using and why. I've got most of the basics down about the game now it's on to tactics what works and what does not work and I need something to help me analysis each turn, combat report is helping but never really understood the different in this and that.
WitPTracker used to be restricted to Java 6, but no longer. The latest version works with any release of Java.
Just be sure you are using the 32-bit version of Java 6, 7, 8, what have you, even if you're using a 64-bit operating system... (as I learned the hard way )
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The only thing I can't find is the combat report in tracker. So far it seems really good, a bit over my head at the moment at everything presented but seems self explanatory with some time. Under Intel Operations I can see my ASW air units attacking but can't find where the info on the combat report is presented. Can someone help me to locate this? Thanks
The only thing I can't find is the combat report in tracker. So far it seems really good, a bit over my head at the moment at everything presented but seems self explanatory with some time. Under Intel Operations I can see my ASW air units attacking but can't find where the info on the combat report is presented. Can someone help me to locate this? Thanks
The combat report is not read in. Too much data unfortunately for the DB structure and Java memory requirements.
Answer to 1 ; you have to use the little Arrow to the extreme right of the page, all else is clickable but not working.So the Arrow on the same line as the "name'.zip file on the right.
I dunno enough to answer question 2 so thats still open.
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I've posted this on the tech support page but thought I might get a result on this page.
Looking for some help and hoping I've made a simple error to fix.
Today I got tracker working. Yay!
When I went back into the game to load up the saved game I got a "saved game failed to load" message. I've tried starting a new scenario and that works as expected. I tried every slot that had a saved game in with the same result except for slots 198 and 199 which decided to load just fine.
Any pointers greatly appreciated and if more information is needed let me know.
I've posted this on the tech support page but thought I might get a result on this page.
Looking for some help and hoping I've made a simple error to fix.
Today I got tracker working. Yay!
When I went back into the game to load up the saved game I got a "saved game failed to load" message. I've tried starting a new scenario and that works as expected. I tried every slot that had a saved game in with the same result except for slots 198 and 199 which decided to load just fine.
Any pointers greatly appreciated and if more information is needed let me know.
Thanks
Steve
Hi Steve - Not sure if your remember me... another Brisbane lad.
Anyway, sounds a little strange. You have the witptracker.properties file configured properly, pointing to the right file and location?
Could you please copy the file into the witptracker folder and configure the saveMode = 0 and the right file name. Make sure you delete all the trackerdb.* files and try to initialize.
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This is the properties file? I think it is good as tracker worked quite ok.
Now this might be the problem. When I downloaded I sent it to the Matrix Games Folder. I should have selected a folder somewhere else perhaps?
# WitPTracker AE properties file # Directory of the game Dir=[C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition] # Type of game. 0=AI, 1=PBEM GameType=[1] # Side you are playing. 0=Japan, 1=Allies Side=[0] # Password. Only needed for PBEM Password=[xxxx] # Name of the base save file SaveFile=[wpae006.pws] # Mode the program will look for save files. # 0 = just in the local folder # 1 = just in the game folder: [Dir]/SAVE # 2 = local and then if not found there, the game folder SaveMode=[1] # Text to put in the header of the main window Header=[wpae006] # Turn cycle (days per turn). 1 or 2 are supported TurnCycle=[1]
This is the properties file? I think it is good as tracker worked quite ok.
Now this might be the problem. When I downloaded I sent it to the Matrix Games Folder. I should have selected a folder somewhere else perhaps?
# WitPTracker AE properties file # Directory of the game Dir=[C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition] # Type of game. 0=AI, 1=PBEM GameType=[1] # Side you are playing. 0=Japan, 1=Allies Side=[0] # Password. Only needed for PBEM Password=[xxxx] # Name of the base save file SaveFile=[wpae006.pws] # Mode the program will look for save files. # 0 = just in the local folder # 1 = just in the game folder: [Dir]/SAVE # 2 = local and then if not found there, the game folder SaveMode=[1] # Text to put in the header of the main window Header=[wpae006] # Turn cycle (days per turn). 1 or 2 are supported TurnCycle=[1]
Looks okay and I have never had a problem with it inside the matrixgames folder. But you might as well experiment and put it on your desktop. But as you can read other files - correctly???, it doesn't really make sense...
Try a fresh install of tracker and see if it still poses a problem.
The only other thing that I can think of is that you have applied the patch since the old save files and now you need to use the correct dll for that save.
If you started the game pre-patch, you need the old dll and then the turns after the patch you need the new dll ...
get me ?
edit1: What I mean is the associated save needs the dll it was saved with... edit2: If this is the case, you can open the file in WITP-AE and resave it using the new Dll and then as long as Tracker has the new dll, it will read. ;-)
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The only other thing that I can think of is that you have applied the patch since the old save files and now you need to use the correct dll for that save.
If you started the game pre-patch, you need the old dll and then the turns after the patch you need the new dll ...
get me ?
edit1: What I mean is the associated save needs the dll it was saved with... edit2: If this is the case, you can open the file in WITP-AE and resave it using the new Dll and then as long as Tracker has the new dll, it will read. ;-)
Just to be clear: WitPTracker 1.10 (latest version) uses the pwsdll7.dll file, not the pwsdll.dll file from the game. This is one of the new changes.
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