Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: McNaughton

Well, there has been a lot of talk, but maybe we should get organized.

Creating a community mod to address some of the OOB corrections would probably help the situation. Matrix will probably take a few patches to catch up on a lot of the OOB corrections because it is very time consuming, plus they are concerned with enhancing things like the AI.

Since we have an excellent editor, we can do this job for Matrix.

I have done a lot of research and planned changes for the British/Empire/Dutch aspect of the game, and know that others have extra material to add to this, as well as Japanese/American/Chinese/Russian.

While it will be difficult to come to a consensus on a lot of things, we can start discussing what we feel are the MAJOR changes we should implmenent, saving some of the technical details for personalized modding. Differences between major and minor would be...

Major: Creating two versions of the Hurricane II (a fighter with machine guns, and a fighter-bomber with cannons).

Minor: Tweaking the P-40E Warhawk climb rate from 2800 to 2750.


Some main areas of concentration shold be:

Leaders
Weapons
Aircraft
Air Groups
Ship Classes
Ships
Headquarters
Land Combat Units

Maybe we could open up a few specialist threads on the Scenario Design / Game Editor area with specific titles based on specific themes (i.e., a Leader thread, talking about new/changed leaders).

Any thoughts?

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ORIGINAL: mongo

Isn't the major problem we will face the fact that the database is full?

We would have to take stuff out to add new classes and such?

Nailing that down to everyone's satisfaction sounds like an undertaking to me

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ORIGINAL: McNaughton
Some things, like the leader files, are virtually full, but other areas, like ships, ship classes, aircraft, etc. have significantly large amounts of space left for at least 'minor' additions.

"Mongo only pawn..in game of life"

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ORIGINAL: Hipper

Yes

what we need to do is find some friendly web space where we can publish the mod
(hello Spooky ) then list the changes with reasons on a thread in this forum that way eveyone can see what has been done and then we can arrange PBMs with a moddified database which everyone can agree on.

This can even be done as fantasy mods ! (seperate database obviously)

so send your Dadabase to spooky soon

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ORIGINAL: McNaughton

I was thinking that this should really just tackle some of the 'big' issues.

Some are, giving the RAF actuall air marshalls for their air units, and eliminating some erronious leaders and replacing them with some MIAs. Others are adding Walrus squadrons to RN cruisers/battleships, moving the arrival of the Grant tank until 1943, adding a difference between the two distinct versions of Hurricane fighters used, correcting some possible errors (manoverability of Lily and Sally possibly mixed up), adding some missing ships (RN Auxilliary vessels), but not necessarily adding too many small details (i.e., tweaking the speed of Battleship Y from 27 kts to 28 kts).

I think that if there are some proposals for some basic changes (i.e., have LtGen Yamashita command 25th Army in 1941, not 14th Area Army for 1944), this could be possible. I have worked with other games which are a bit easier to mod (as they have mutliple files you could easily cut and paste), but if we keep things 'simple', we could create a series of scenarios fixing some 'major' things, saving 'contraversial things', such as adding the USS Montana class, for supportive mods based upon the OOB-fix.

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McNaughton