Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: AllenK

Abort front bomber, thanks.

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ORIGINAL: AllenK

Where it came from.

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ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Hex with port, where German ships are.

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ORIGINAL: AllenK

Yes please. X on the Queens.

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ORIGINAL: AllenK

Sorry, all points to increasing damage. I think that should give us an X to target the Queens with.

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: Orm

By rerouting. The computer uses less than optimal convoy lines.

But the trouble is that the program often seems to revert to the less than optimal route when another resource is added to the transport net. So when I have freed up enough convoy points to transport another resource from USA to UK and I order it transported the program decides on a less than optimal route and thereby 'stealing' cps from another transported resource and that one either goes idle or 'steals' more convoy points. At several points I have decreased production by adding another resource that I have enough convoy points to transport.

Routing convoy points just shouldn't be that hard!

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: Orm

By rerouting. The computer uses less than optimal convoy lines.

But the trouble is that the program often seems to revert to the less than optimal route when another resource is added to the transport net. So when I have freed up enough convoy points to transport another resource from USA to UK and I order it transported the program decides on a less than optimal route and thereby 'stealing' cps from another transported resource and that one either goes idle or 'steals' more convoy points. At several points I have decreased production by adding another resource that I have enough convoy points to transport.

Routing convoy points just shouldn't be that hard!

OK, don't have time / access enough to figure out where to post this but I have been meaning to ask the crowd and Ronnie / rkr1958 in particular about an idea I have.

Experienced WiF players can figure out how many CPs are needed to produce how many BPs where. The MWiF program frequently disagrees.

If the "Saved BP" counters can be located in the Game File, couldn't the value of those counters be simply modded at almost any point to create the BP totals that are correct?

So on the first turn of the game, every power saves one Build Point. Then whenever the players need to over-ride the MWiF decisions, they just edit the value of the Saved BP counter, which I believe is stored on the map as a counter. ???

I would not suggest trying to create / add / remove / take-to-zero one of these counters. But if the value of the counter was changed when needed, I would think the other programming logic & routines wouldn't notice, perhaps?


Might get to be in town one night later this week, we'll see. Thanks for feeding the jones in the mean-time, when I get out to the side of the job-site where the phone works.....

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: brian brian
OK, don't have time / access enough to figure out where to post this but I have been meaning to ask the crowd and Ronnie / rkr1958 in particular about an idea I have.

Experienced WiF players can figure out how many CPs are needed to produce how many BPs where. The MWiF program frequently disagrees.

If the "Saved BP" counters can be located in the Game File, couldn't the value of those counters be simply modded at almost any point to create the BP totals that are correct?

So on the first turn of the game, every power saves one Build Point. Then whenever the players need to over-ride the MWiF decisions, they just edit the value of the Saved BP counter, which I believe is stored on the map as a counter. ???

I would not suggest trying to create / add / remove / take-to-zero one of these counters. But if the value of the counter was changed when needed, I would think the other programming logic & routines wouldn't notice, perhaps?

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ORIGINAL: Dabrion

Or just change the interface to be able to point-and-click route? Should work like this:

1) click on resource/oil/factory
2) click on a port (MWiF asserts there is a railway connection from 2) to 1), if 2) is a minor port decrease port capacity)
3) click on a series of sea zones, starting in a sea zone the port 2) is adjacenton to (MWiF assert there is a convoy chain, then decreases that chains capacity)
4) click on a port in the last sea zone of 3)
5) click on a factory/port/city (MWiF asserts there is a railway connection from 5) to 1), or 5) to 4), if 4) is a minor port decrease ports capacity)

Would be nice to be able to save entire and also sub-graphs. For example, I usually design my convoy graph in a composite way, one for India, one for Africa, one for Americas, etc. And they can have different layouts depending on what stage the game is in.

This could be implemented on top of whatever logic is already in place to make the ridiculous suggestions.

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ORIGINAL: Dabrion

Or just change the interface to be able to point-and-click route? Should work like this:

1) click on resource/oil/factory
2) click on a port (MWiF asserts there is a railway connection from 2) to 1), if 2) is a minor port decrease port capacity)
3) click on a series of sea zones, starting in a sea zone the port 2) is adjacenton to (MWiF assert there is a convoy chain, then decreases that chains capacity)
4) click on a port in the last sea zone of 3)
5) click on a factory/port/city (MWiF asserts there is a railway connection from 5) to 1), or 5) to 4), if 4) is a minor port decrease ports capacity)

Would be nice to be able to save entire and also sub-graphs. For example, I usually design my convoy graph in a composite way, one for India, one for Africa, one for Americas, etc. And they can have different layouts depending on what stage the game is in.

This could be implemented on top of whatever logic is already in place to make the ridiculous suggestions.