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[IMPROVEMENT] Morale Soft Factor - 4/6/2021 12:39:52 PM

Nix77

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I think I raised this same issue in Wite1 too, hope it would finally get fixed. This isn't a bug in itself, but it's a major annoyance that the morale soft factor colors don't actually tell anything useful to the player. Well, they do, but they could be doing it better :)

Here's a list of any notable morale thresholds in the game:

quote:

<40 gain 1 morale automatically

>40+D15 no routing if can retreat
>40+D30 no routing if can retreat and division or smaller defending alone

<D50 surrender if isolated
<50 never in reserve for AI
<50 CV reduced when isolated
<50 more than 10 hex from enemy, gain 0-2 morale
>50 +2 enemy hex movement

>80 +1 enemy hex movement

And here are the soft factor thresholds

quote:

<41 red
41-55 orange
56-70 yellow
71-85 dark green
86+ bright green

So actually there's only one (<41) threshold that matches to any of the ones that matter.

I'd suggest something like this:

quote:

<41 red
41-50 orange
51-65 yellow
66-80 dark green
81+ bright green

With my suggested thresholds, you could basically see every morale limits that matter strictly by checking the soft factor color on the counter (except the routing threshold that is a random roll).

EDIT: Just noticed a similar weirdness in rail line usage (38.7.7, just above the soft factor table), for some reason yellow rail is either +0 or +1 SMP. Couldn't this also be 1-9999 tons = dark green, 10000-19999 tons = yellow. This would again be more informative: green = no malus, yellow = +1SMP, orange = +2SMP, red = +3SMP.

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RE: [IMPROVEMENT] Morale Soft Factor - 4/6/2021 2:51:33 PM

Erik Rutins

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Good suggestion.

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RE: [IMPROVEMENT] Morale Soft Factor - 4/6/2021 5:51:22 PM

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Strong +1

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RE: [IMPROVEMENT] Morale Soft Factor - 4/7/2021 7:59:59 AM

Nix77

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Nix77
EDIT: Just noticed a similar weirdness in rail line usage (38.7.7, just above the soft factor table), for some reason yellow rail is either +0 or +1 SMP. Couldn't this also be 1-9999 tons = dark green, 10000-19999 tons = yellow. This would again be more informative: green = no malus, yellow = +1SMP, orange = +2SMP, red = +3SMP.

While looking at the rail line usage chart more closely, seems like the table in 38.7.7 is perhaps completely wrong? 22.4.3 the table is completely different, but I think it's supposed to be the same table? I think 22.4.3 is the correct one and 38.7.7 is obsolete?

The colors in 22.4.3 seem to be better aligned than in the (hopefully) obsolete table.

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