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harley -> RE: Printed manual ? (9/24/2009 4:42:47 AM)
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The planning and defending aspects are essentially the same, where the attacker plots raids to targets, setting the alt, time, and waypoints. The attacker then presses the go button, and the defender reacts in real-time to the planned raids. At this point the attacker just gets to watch, hope, curse and if they are inclined, pray.
Where we made changes are to the internals of the game - sweeps can now loiter, there are more waypoints, fighter-bombers can sweep, and all returning fighters and FB's can attack and defend. Loads more stuff that we've mostly forgotten. It sounds like we and the WITP:AE guys came up with a similar solution to altitude, too, where our AC are affected by alt in 3000' bands, I think they used 5000'. So some AC are dogs, but get better, others go the other way. We also changed the replacement system to allow for start and stop dates of AC, so Ron was able to make about 6 variants of the Thunderbolt, some which are only around for a few months.
So, for the old manual, the general ideas are still valid, but much on the minitiea is not.
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