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ORIGINAL: pz501

This is going to sound incredibly stupid, but who is Alfred? Is there any particular thread where I can read posts from him?

Everyone says he has the most knowledge when it comes to the workings of the game.

I've been away from WITP-AE for a long while, and I'm trying to catch up, so I'll appreciate any help.

Also, some posts say Alfred is "gone". Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Again my apology for sounding uneducated, and I hope you'll forgive my asking about something that appears to be common community knowledge.

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ORIGINAL: pz501

Thanks guys for the information regarding Alfred.

The responses were to say the least, educational, especially the picture of Michael Caine.

I'll leave everyone alone now, since I don't want to intrude any further into what appears to be a semi-private forum. Please forgive my ignorance. It won't happen again.

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Although it is discussed in the Bug Compilation thread I linked earlier, the "TRACOM Bug" is very serious and should be looked at. TRACOM is supposed to be a pilot training acceleration mechanism, but unfortunately it can do much more. Several players have reported that when TRACOM contains more than 100 pilots, it also increases the national experience number. When you look at the screenshot below, keep in mind that the IJN pilot national experience number (the highest level of experience a new pilot can graduate with) is supposed to be capped at 34 in 1943. Instead, the bug produces results like this:

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Kull
... but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.

Oh yeah, improvements you might see. just maybe not what you could've expected

Both are stock 1 scenarios

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ORIGINAL: Rogue188

Thank you for the answers RangerJoe, but I have not had much luck searching the forums. At least when I use the search bar. I get lots of answers that have nothing to do with my question. Overall, my point is that the information I pointed out should be obvious. Why should I have to search thousands of threads in the forums to understand how big AF my planes can land on?

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ORIGINAL: Rogue188

Thank you for the answers RangerJoe, but I have not had much luck searching the forums. At least when I use the search bar. I get lots of answers that have nothing to do with my question. Overall, my point is that the information I pointed out should be obvious. Why should I have to search thousands of threads in the forums to understand how big AF my planes can land on?

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ORIGINAL: Kull

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ORIGINAL: Rogue188

Thank you for the answers RangerJoe, but I have not had much luck searching the forums. At least when I use the search bar. I get lots of answers that have nothing to do with my question. Overall, my point is that the information I pointed out should be obvious. Why should I have to search thousands of threads in the forums to understand how big AF my planes can land on?

Actually the forum should be your "search of last resort". I just opened up the pdf manual, typed in "airfield size", and within seconds it took me to section 9.4 which would answer most of your questions. "Rearmament" was even faster, taking me to the Rearmament table at 20.1.2.2, which, if nothing else, shows that port size is only one factor when it comes to loading of ammo.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but many folks do not search the manual, when the answers can usually be found there, and pretty quickly, too. Now if we're talking about paging through a paper manual, then yes, kill.me.now. but the pdf version is easy to use.

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Although it is discussed in the Bug Compilation thread I linked earlier, the "TRACOM Bug" is very serious and should be looked at. TRACOM is supposed to be a pilot training acceleration mechanism, but unfortunately it can do much more. Several players have reported that when TRACOM contains more than 100 pilots, it also increases the national experience number. When you look at the screenshot below, keep in mind that the IJN pilot national experience number (the highest level of experience a new pilot can graduate with) is supposed to be capped at 34 in 1943. Instead, the bug produces results like this:

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Kull
... but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.

Oh yeah, improvements you might see. just maybe not what you could've expected

Both are stock 1 scenarios

This reminds me. Isn't it a bug that when you individually add a pilot to a group it takes weeks for them to arrive but when you add groups of pilots to a group it is instant? Aren't they supposed to work the same?

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Glitches still in the game:

If you attempt to use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll the combat reports instead of grabbing the scroll bar with the mouse a bleed through of text lists occurs which once it clears wipes out the Done button making the use of the Escape key the only way to close the combat report:

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Glitches still in the game:

1. Cascading Selection: Sometimes selecting a TF or Air unit results in the selection cascading two units down the list. The base interface shows the yellow selection outline around the chosen unit, but the displayed unit is two units down the list from the chosen unit.

2. Non Display of Ground Units at bottom of Base Interface: Sometimes if selecting the Airbase or TF icon at a Base hex the Land Unit icons fail to display at the bottom of the interface. To get them to display you have to select the Ground Unit icon in the Base hex on the map.

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ORIGINAL: Panjack
A better pathway to an HTML update of the manual: Matrix (actually, its designer) opens the original design document for the print/PDF manual, removes the background from the pages, removes the page number from the pages, and then generates HTML documents for each chapter.

These files could be uploaded to the server Matrix uses, and someone could be given access to the appropriate directories so that a team of people could make the many small and big changes the manual needs. (I'm not sure that anyone would want to host the new manual because of potential bandwidth costs.) The manual would not be a static PDF document but a "living manual" that slowly integrates updated information. So, instead of waiting for a mythical complete rewrite of the whole manual, players would have access to a (slowly) updated manual starting in a few weeks.

If InDesign was used to create the print/PDF manuals and if the full package of files (including images) were sent to me, I could create the HTML versions of the chapters for other people to edit. (I just opened up a 2003 InDesign document with the current version of InDesign, so I'm pretty sure a 2009 InDesign document can be opened up.)

If Matrix if fine with the above process, I imagine that at least three people would have to agree to work on the living manual to make it become a reality.

Erik Rutins
CEO, Matrix Games LLC



For official support, please use our Help Desk: http://www.matrixgames.com/helpdesk/

Freedom is not Free.

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Although it is discussed in the Bug Compilation thread I linked earlier, the "TRACOM Bug" is very serious and should be looked at. TRACOM is supposed to be a pilot training acceleration mechanism, but unfortunately it can do much more. Several players have reported that when TRACOM contains more than 100 pilots, it also increases the national experience number. When you look at the screenshot below, keep in mind that the IJN pilot national experience number (the highest level of experience a new pilot can graduate with) is supposed to be capped at 34 in 1943. Instead, the bug produces results like this:

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Kull
... but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.

Oh yeah, improvements you might see. just maybe not what you could've expected

Both are stock 1 scenarios

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Although it is discussed in the Bug Compilation thread I linked earlier, the "TRACOM Bug" is very serious and should be looked at. TRACOM is supposed to be a pilot training acceleration mechanism, but unfortunately it can do much more. Several players have reported that when TRACOM contains more than 100 pilots, it also increases the national experience number. When you look at the screenshot below, keep in mind that the IJN pilot national experience number (the highest level of experience a new pilot can graduate with) is supposed to be capped at 34 in 1943. Instead, the bug produces results like this:

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Kull
... but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.

Oh yeah, improvements you might see. just maybe not what you could've expected

Both are stock 1 scenarios

This would qualify as 'gamebreaking bug' to me. It's not huge because you have to embark on this path and you can avoid triggering it, but it seems like something that should be an easy fix in the code.

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Although it is discussed in the Bug Compilation thread I linked earlier, the "TRACOM Bug" is very serious and should be looked at. TRACOM is supposed to be a pilot training acceleration mechanism, but unfortunately it can do much more. Several players have reported that when TRACOM contains more than 100 pilots, it also increases the national experience number. When you look at the screenshot below, keep in mind that the IJN pilot national experience number (the highest level of experience a new pilot can graduate with) is supposed to be capped at 34 in 1943. Instead, the bug produces results like this:

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Kull
... but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.

Oh yeah, improvements you might see. just maybe not what you could've expected

Both are stock 1 scenarios

This reminds me. Isn't it a bug that when you individually add a pilot to a group it takes weeks for them to arrive but when you add groups of pilots to a group it is instant? Aren't they supposed to work the same?

Your comment contains a sweeping generalisation which is incorrect.

If you add a group of pilots from the reserve list, filtered by highest skill, then some are immediately available, while others may take days or a week to get to the air group.

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9. 3 available ways of pulling a pilot into an airgroup from the reserve pool all produce different results with respect to arrival delay and XP loss. https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3847055&mpage=3&key=�

< Message edited by Tanaka -- 12/6/2021 5:58:50 AM >

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(in reply to Ian R)

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Although it is discussed in the Bug Compilation thread I linked earlier, the "TRACOM Bug" is very serious and should be looked at. TRACOM is supposed to be a pilot training acceleration mechanism, but unfortunately it can do much more. Several players have reported that when TRACOM contains more than 100 pilots, it also increases the national experience number. When you look at the screenshot below, keep in mind that the IJN pilot national experience number (the highest level of experience a new pilot can graduate with) is supposed to be capped at 34 in 1943. Instead, the bug produces results like this:

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Kull
... but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.

Oh yeah, improvements you might see. just maybe not what you could've expected

Both are stock 1 scenarios

This reminds me. Isn't it a bug that when you individually add a pilot to a group it takes weeks for them to arrive but when you add groups of pilots to a group it is instant? Aren't they supposed to work the same?

Your comment contains a sweeping generalisation which is incorrect.

If you add a group of pilots from the reserve list, filtered by highest skill, then some are immediately available, while others may take days or a week to get to the air group.

This is what I was referring to:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4923122

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9. 3 available ways of pulling a pilot into an airgroup from the reserve pool all produce different results with respect to arrival delay and XP loss. https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3847055&mpage=3&key=�

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ORIGINAL: Trugrit
For the manual, I think the best option is not to try and rewrite the manual but to
highlight it and annotate it with fly outs. Manual mistakes could be corrected this
way without having to rework the entire manual.

This ability already exists somewhat in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
I’ve done some of this to my own manual
(As Shown Below)

Comments can be added to the PDF but they have a limited length in Acrobat.
Forum links could be added which would expand that ability and allow the player
to go directly to the correct forum post without doing a search for it.

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Although it is discussed in the Bug Compilation thread I linked earlier, the "TRACOM Bug" is very serious and should be looked at. TRACOM is supposed to be a pilot training acceleration mechanism, but unfortunately it can do much more. Several players have reported that when TRACOM contains more than 100 pilots, it also increases the national experience number. When you look at the screenshot below, keep in mind that the IJN pilot national experience number (the highest level of experience a new pilot can graduate with) is supposed to be capped at 34 in 1943. Instead, the bug produces results like this:

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Kull
... but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.

Oh yeah, improvements you might see. just maybe not what you could've expected

Both are stock 1 scenarios

This reminds me. Isn't it a bug that when you individually add a pilot to a group it takes weeks for them to arrive but when you add groups of pilots to a group it is instant? Aren't they supposed to work the same?

Your comment contains a sweeping generalisation which is incorrect.

If you add a group of pilots from the reserve list, filtered by highest skill, then some are immediately available, while others may take days or a week to get to the air group.

This is what I was referring to:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4923122

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9. 3 available ways of pulling a pilot into an airgroup from the reserve pool all produce different results with respect to arrival delay and XP loss. https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3847055&mpage=3&key=�

First:

You are citing a 2015 thread - at a time when the game was still being patched - the topic of which is, initially, Sangeli's pilot training assist tool, leading into a discussion of individual pilot experience losses resulting from moving pilots from one aircraft class to a different one.

Ironically, given a few hours ago on this thread you were, yet again, personally attacking and criticising him in his absence, the key post is Alfred's post # 53: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3847055&mpage=2&key=%26%2365533%3B. Had you actually read the thread GetAssista linked, you would have seen this further link: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3706882&mpage=1&key=� provided by Alfred. See particularly koniu's post #3.

You might have also read WITPQS' post #69, wherein he points out that all the assertions of a bug are incorrect, and why they are. Further, you might also have seen Kull's post #75. Perhaps you could do a search of the patch read-me notes and see of MichaelM subsequently made any change to the code with respect thereto; it was more than a year before the final patch.


Secondly:

Your post under reply referred only to delay times of arrival of pilots called into a group. It sweepingly asserted that "when you individually add a pilot to a group it takes weeks for them to arrive but when you add groups of pilots to a group it is instant".

Your sweeping generalisation is wrong, and the thread you linked provides zero evidence to support it. If you manually pull a group of 10 or 20 or 25 pilots from the reserve pool into an airgroup, you will see that some come with a delay quite often.

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ORIGINAL: actrade

I would also add I was having "bleed through" of my Windows desktop while playing full screen, but upon searching found out that it was the "-dd_sw" command giving me bleed through in FullScreen, but apparently the command can be helpful in Windowed Mode. Once I deleted that command, no bleed through.