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- 10/10/2003 2:53:41 AM

gus

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Joined: 3/16/2002
From: Corvallis, OR
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Hey Mogami,

Yes setting a TF to retirement allowed is the correct thing to do but Aloid's original post was for UV to provide 'stupid human alerts', i.e. to warn you when you have ordered your TF to do something that may be sub optimal for the given situation. If we all were capable of issuing the optimal set of orders every turn to our units there would be no need for this.

Let me give you an example from the Matrix line of products that is representative of what I am asking for. In SSG's game Korsun Pocket arguably the most acclaimed feature is the 'Combat Advisor' which highlights for the player all possible combats along with the odds and the friendly units involved to achieve those odds. The player no longer needs to hunt through every friendly and enemy stack of units to coalesce a sequence of moves and combats for that turn. Does the Combat advisor play the game from the player, no, it simply makes suggestions and that is all some of us would like from games that are as detail oriented as UV, WitP etc.

While it is true that creating a turn checklist and adhering to it religiously does solve this problem it would be nice if the UV/WitP engine were able to help out in this regard after all this is one of the many benefits of PC war games vs board game, they are much better at record keeping and the mundane little details that humans often overlook.

-g

(in reply to mogami)