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MikeJ271 -> RE: Question about AI's use of radar (9/13/2017 7:46:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DWReese
When you start introducing lua, and other things, many of us are almost completely lost. The ONLY WAY that I could EVER get lua to work for me is if I see the formula written in someone else's scenario, and then copy those same words into my scenario and change the name of the unit. And, all of this is just to get the unit to turn its radar on. I don't think that that is so egregious. You can't seriously be "stunned" because I want my unit's radar to be turned on.
Your concept of "stealing" or "copying" is coming from programmers' perspective. Most of us are not programmers. Most are simply game players. Most (my estimation) have real trouble with things like lua, but are too afraid to ask any questions because they will be belittled by the "unofficial bully" (not you) of the forum. They will be told to "go read this" and to not come back. Well, they can read all they want, but if they don't understand the language (lua or Chinese) it won't matter what they are reading because they don't understand it.
So, most of us try to get things to work on their own. If WE aren't successful, then ultimately WE give up. If everyone ultimately gives up, then they stop playing the game. If you read through the various threads, you will see that many different and unrelated people have indicated that lua is too far advanced for them. If WE are able to see what others have done in other scenarios to turn on the radar and to implement it into our modified scenario, then that's about as far as many of us will ever get to go. I don't think that that is a bad thing.
A very good point, which gets to the nub of my feelings about CMANO, and this forum.
In terms of the latter, I’m very reluctant to ask questions, owing to the presence of the “unofficial bully”, who you sense is just waiting to make his presence felt. (I’m catching up with the forum after a few days, and I see he’s done it again in another thread, to a new player.) And to be frank, my view is that people could be forgiven for thinking that from certain quarters, he’s regarded as a “useful idiot”, who helps to prevent people asking simple questions, even where the answer isn’t anything like obvious. I can’t think of another reason that his behaviour would be tolerated to quite the extent that it appears to be. That behaviour makes this forum quite unpleasant to read, let alone get more involved with as a contributor. Locking a thread once it's happened is pointless if the matter isn't going to be addressed.
As for CMANO itself, I’m certainly a fan, and play it more than all my other games/simulations combined - several times over. And I also like tinkering with my own scenarios or messing with published ones – all strictly for my own use.
However, CMANO still has its limitations - and sometimes these are highlighted by those same simple questions. As far as I'm concerned, in respect of some of these, the now-familiar response of “Just do it with Lua” is non sequitur. Having been involved in networking and suchlike, I’m far from computer illiterate, but to put it bluntly, I don’t know coding (any language), and have never been able to get my head around it. Therefore, until or unless someone does what I’m trying to do, or points out how to do it on this forum, I’ll continue to get stuck. But as already noted, I certainly won’t be asking how to do certain things on here anytime soon, and that’s principally because of the attitude of some of the forum users.
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