barrykimmerly
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As for other theaters, we are developing a system of Theater Boxes to represent other fronts in WitE2 (like Western Europe, North Africa). These boxes will have events that can be triggered based on what's in them. In theory we could remove these boxes and replace them with a playable map area in the future (thus moving from WitE to a multi-front game, but that's way off in the future). We currently expect that the game will be structured to allow historical flow of units between the map and the theater boxes for those that want to follow the "historical flow" (and most likely for the AI), while it can also be set to allow player management of the forces (with consequent impact on the events). This system will take time to properly develop, but we feel it's the best way to deal with this going forward. Thanks for the explanation Joel. I have another idea to submit to this forum however: As always I fully accept this approach and love this whole game, and game system, but what about this: In the interim, (Before this game encompases multiple fronts in one game release), would it be possible to create a utility that modified the contents of the, "East front box", and, "West front box", with data from game saves of WITE2 and WITW? In this way players could play both games, (As long as they kept the dates in sync), save the turns.... then run a separate utility that would rewrite the contents and state of the respective other front boxes with the data from the game turn saves. In this way you could in effect play both fronts using WITW and WITE2 when it comes out. If this would be too much of a diversion of effort would 2by3 allow another agency to write a utility that would do this? I am NOT volunteering as I do not have the programing skills for a project such as this but I wonder if there is the will and the talent, "Out there", among this community to do this? Is this something that you guys would even want to have?
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Barry
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