Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> Scenario Design and Modding >> RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 Page: <<   < prev  1 [2] 3 4 5   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/27/2019 12:26:35 PM   
Kull


Posts: 2625
Joined: 7/3/2007
From: El Paso, TX
Status: offline 		Hi Andy - Running Scen 1 "computer-v-computer" and have it to 1/20/42, but so far no activation. Will keep going and see what happens. Keeping save files every 5 turns in case you need then.

_____________________________

AE-Japan Setup

AE-Allied Setup

Japan Air-Engine Plan

(in reply to Moltrey)
Post #: 31
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/27/2019 6:37:58 PM   
mind_messing

 

Posts: 3393
Joined: 10/28/2013
Status: offline 		Any chance of a changelog Andy?

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 32
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/27/2019 6:53:26 PM   
Kull


Posts: 2625
Joined: 7/3/2007
From: El Paso, TX
Status: offline 		I have to stop testing for a while, but here's the Japanese intel screen on 2-17-42






Attachment (1)

_____________________________

AE-Japan Setup

AE-Allied Setup

Japan Air-Engine Plan

(in reply to Kull)
Post #: 33
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/27/2019 9:07:29 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Perfect thanks the scenes above are ok then that’s good

(in reply to Kull)
Post #: 34
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/27/2019 9:08:07 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		The first post has much of a change log as I have

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 35
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/27/2019 11:16:34 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Thanks Kull spotted a small error in scen 2 updated above these are ok please remember you need to delete the existing AI files the attached only have 1 AI variant at present and the existing alternate AI files are now INVALID so please delete from your scen fine i.e. aei002-XX.dat all of the files aei002.dat-01 to aei002.dat-14 should be deleted or moved for now I will get around to updating variants with new baseline later

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 36
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/27/2019 11:17:09 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Scen 10 is in testing now and I should have that done this weekend

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 37
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 8:26:51 AM   
Sardaukar


Posts: 9847
Joined: 11/28/2001
From: Finland/Israel
Status: offline 		Would these work for Scen 26 (DaBabes Lite)?

_____________________________

"To meaningless French Idealism, Liberty, Fraternity and Equality...we answer with German Realism, Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery" -Prince von Bülov, 1870-


(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 38
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 11:33:43 AM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Not sure haven't checked

(in reply to Sardaukar)
Post #: 39
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 12:48:45 PM   
mind_messing

 

Posts: 3393
Joined: 10/28/2013
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

The first post has much of a change log as I have


I think having a proper one would help with:

1. identifying bugs.
2. promoting uptake.

I don't for a moment doubt your ability or knowledge of AE's code, but as someone with one game in progress, I'd like a little bit more information regarding changes to things like industry and aircraft stats before making the decision to switch over.

Can this update be applied to a game in progress?

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 40
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 12:53:26 PM   
Alfred

 

Posts: 6685
Joined: 9/28/2006
Status: offline 		No.

Alfred

(in reply to mind_messing)
Post #: 41
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 1:12:04 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		I have no way of going back and recreating a full change log - sorry

I don't think the update can be applied to games in progress as I no longer have the ability to stamp the scenarios as official

(in reply to Alfred)
Post #: 42
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 3:13:38 PM   
Kull


Posts: 2625
Joined: 7/3/2007
From: El Paso, TX
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Thanks Kull spotted a small error in scen 2 updated above these are ok please remember you need to delete the existing AI files the attached only have 1 AI variant at present and the existing alternate AI files are now INVALID so please delete from your scen fine i.e. aei002-XX.dat all of the files aei002.dat-01 to aei002.dat-14 should be deleted or moved for now I will get around to updating variants with new baseline later


Hi Andy - a few comments and suggestions:

1) I realized there could be a conflict with the existing AI files, so I changed the files to work with "scen106" for my testing. Which is still ongoing - will post more on that later.

2) Anyone overwriting the existing scen1 & 2 with these downloads will also need to delete variants 15-20, since those were added in your 2012 AI update.

3) Lastly, since these are true replacement scenarios (not test version like the 100 series), I suggest you include files named aei002.dat-01 thru aei002.dat-20, even though they are nothing but copies of aei002.dat-00. Just knowing how "things work", a not insignificant portion of the user base will neglect to delete the older AI files, and this way you can "idiot proof" the installation process. Or, to use nicer phraseology, reduce the number of steps needed for a successful installation.

_____________________________

AE-Japan Setup

AE-Allied Setup

Japan Air-Engine Plan

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 43
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 4:26:55 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		It takes a lot of space on the forum to upload 20 AI files wont fit on a post. I will think about it

The key change is the extra bases with really helps the AI the main thing is to use the correct AI file with the bases

(in reply to Kull)
Post #: 44
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 5:06:08 PM   
PaxMondo


Posts: 9750
Joined: 6/6/2008
Status: offline 		THANKS Andy!!!!!!!




_____________________________

Pax

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 45
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/28/2019 10:56:58 PM   
JeffroK


Posts: 6391
Joined: 1/26/2005
Status: offline 		Gday Andy.
Soviet activation.

I have noticed a major movement of the Kwantung Army on Dec 8, 41 moving to Port Arthur.
Add this to Kull's post #33 showing the Kwantung Army to be below the garrison number could be the reason.

But, In hundreds of solo games I have never seen the AI use this as a trigger to wake the Red Army?

_____________________________

Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum

(in reply to PaxMondo)
Post #: 46
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 11:31:42 AM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		its not that the AI ignores Kwantang Garrison requirements that's how I got away with raiding Manchuria in the first AI I ever did for WITP AE

In original WITP the Japanese had a massive number of duplicated LCU's to help the AI out as it was a moron that unbalanced PBEM and the Japanese campaign and made it very very ahistorical

In AE we removed a lot of the duplication and went down a level in granularity in terms of OOB research - all well and good but it made the Japanese AI totally innefectual it was not only a Moron but a Moron with only the hisotircal assets and japan was on the ragged edge in history - losing assets because the AI is a bit thick was too much.

So I got round this by raiding Manchuria totally unscrupulously for the 1st 3 years of the war then sending them all back for 45 - it gave me the assets to help the AI out without damaging PBEM or the Japanese v Allied AI campaign.

So that's why the AI ignores Manchurian Garrison requirements and why a lot of my 'sweeper' routines borrow from Manchuria.

In scen1/2 its probably not quite enough which is why the Ironman sequence was born to try and put back in the extra duplication the Ai needs to function effectively (then as always taking a good thing too far I just got sadistic :) which is where the Tier 3 Ironman came from)


(in reply to JeffroK)
Post #: 47
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 12:00:12 PM   
Moltrey


Posts: 297
Joined: 4/11/2010
From: Virginia
Status: offline 		So Andy; if I have started a new Scenario 1 with your new AI files as Allies, do you think there is anything bad enough in this Manchurian stuff to warrant me standing by for another version and restarting?
Thanks.

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 48
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 12:51:57 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		I am 99% certain Scen 1 is ok
99% scen 2 is ok

Its the ones I am working on now that are causing me the sissues

(in reply to Moltrey)
Post #: 49
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 1:54:29 PM   
Yaab


Posts: 4552
Joined: 11/8/2011
From: Poland
Status: offline 		Andy, what about the Wirraway/Boomerang bug? The Pearl Harbor surplus ships? The Chinese Cavalry icons and bugged MG devices in China?

All my findings from scen 100 are here
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4037697&mpage=8&key=

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 50
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 2:28:42 PM   
Kull


Posts: 2625
Joined: 7/3/2007
From: El Paso, TX
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

It takes a lot of space on the forum to upload 20 AI files wont fit on a post. I will think about it

The key change is the extra bases with really helps the AI the main thing is to use the correct AI file with the bases


Yep, you are right - that increases the file size to 2.8MB, so it won't even fit in the War Room (max of 2.0MB).

As for my test, I ran the game out to 3-2-1942 and still no activation, so I could not replicate the bug.

In addition to the issues noted in Yaab's above post, LCUs 5800 & 5851 should change device 984 (180mm static CD guns) to 1080 (Improv. AFV Lgt). In the original release, device 984 was some type of small Dutch armored vehicle that disappeared in subsequent releases, and the 984 slot was given to the large CD guns. As result, two should-be-mobile units are now locked in place.

A minor issue is that pilot 984 (Flatley J.H.) has an "Is Leader" code of 22177, which is a blank slot in the Leaders database. It should point to 22072

< Message edited by Kull -- 9/29/2019 2:30:11 PM >

_____________________________

AE-Japan Setup

AE-Allied Setup

Japan Air-Engine Plan

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 51
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 2:36:08 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Ok YAAB thanks I thought I had processed these clearly not will go back over

(in reply to Kull)
Post #: 52
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 3:43:49 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Nice spot Yaab re applied the changes to scen 1 and 2

(in reply to Moltrey)
Post #: 53
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 5:55:17 PM   
Yaab


Posts: 4552
Joined: 11/8/2011
From: Poland
Status: offline 		Thanks! Wirraway finally vindicated! Can the Empire rebound?

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 54
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 8:06:50 PM   
GetAssista

 

Posts: 2732
Joined: 9/19/2009
Status: offline 		Hi, Andy! Great you are still at it!

Couple things I see on the Japanese side that make me wonder:

New Scen2 has some very generous streamlining of R&D paths for Japan: final Oscar and Tony upgrading to Ki-94-II, final Tojo to Frank-a, final Zero to Sam. Can really help the R&D even without skipping over the models, since now one can concentrate all the factories on one fighter model each IJAF and IJNF and crank R&D points from the very start. It was not like that in a classical Scen2 AFAIR.

Also, Tojo is using the usual Ha-34 like in Scen1. I recall Ha-35-ed Tojo was Scen2 trademark since forever? :)

< Message edited by GetAssista -- 9/29/2019 8:10:04 PM >

(in reply to Yaab)
Post #: 55
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/29/2019 9:49:13 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Ha 34 is correct as was streamlining to min changes must have missed factories

(in reply to GetAssista)
Post #: 56
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 9/30/2019 10:01:59 AM   
Sardaukar


Posts: 9847
Joined: 11/28/2001
From: Finland/Israel
Status: offline 		Thanks Andy for your great work!

_____________________________

"To meaningless French Idealism, Liberty, Fraternity and Equality...we answer with German Realism, Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery" -Prince von Bülov, 1870-


(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 57
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 10/1/2019 2:36:07 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		I never really get to play the game....no one ever wrote an AI script !!!

When we developed the editor the hope was others would come forward to write scripts so I could play the game but no one did !!!!

Ah well means I can read what the AI is going to do !!!

(in reply to Sardaukar)
Post #: 58
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 10/1/2019 5:18:24 PM   
rustysi


Posts: 7472
Joined: 2/21/2012
From: LI, NY
Status: offline
quote:

New Scen2 has some very generous streamlining of R&D paths for Japan


Not sure this is such a good idea.

_____________________________

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Hume

In every party there is one member who by his all-too-devout pronouncement of the party principles provokes the others to apostasy. Nietzsche

Cave ab homine unius libri. Ltn Prvb

(in reply to Andy Mac)
Post #: 59
RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 - 10/1/2019 7:09:41 PM   
Andy Mac

 

Posts: 15222
Joined: 5/12/2004
From: Alexandria, Scotland
Status: offline 		Nope it was a error and has been corrected

(in reply to rustysi)
Post #: 60
Page:   <<   < prev  1 [2] 3 4 5   next >   >>
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> Scenario Design and Modding >> RE: Updated Scen 1 and 2 Page: <<   < prev  1 [2] 3 4 5   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

1.563