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Resisti -> Spwaw 8.2 : scenarios fixing (3/2/2004 12:40:09 AM)
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Ok, with reference to the thread “a stiff salute is in order”, and as anticipated in there, I’m posting hereunder the document I prepared, explanatory of what I’ve done, with regard to texts/titles/scenarios fix.
The only problem, is that I cannot upload here the little additional goodie I prepared, actually, cause the Forum is not allowing any .zip/.doc attachment (will this be ever fixed?!?).
So, for time being, those who want to have it now, just put their mail here, or send me a PM.
I’ll ask that this file will be included in the patch, too.
Here we go:
A big work has been done on the about 350 scenarios showing in Spwaw 8.2 and a considerable amount of my free time has been spent on this; approximately 200 hours in a 6 weeks period of time.
I hope you’ll keep this in mind and be indulgent with me, when you’ll discover something that slipped me through [:)]
Few new scenarios have been added and others have been moved to fill the holes left by those (few) scenarios we had to delete for different reasons.
In particular, all the Tutorials, which where missing in the 8.0 release, have been moved back in.
All the scenarios’ titles (the .cmt files) have been revised and made consistent with a given scheme; all titles in the list are now showing this structure:
nnn(scenario slot)-abc(title)-nn(year)abc(author’s code)
To achieve this, some titles had to be modified/made shorter, but all the original titles have been maintained in the intro texts.
All the intro texts (the .txt files) have been revised and made consistent with a given scheme which should allow the player to have all the necessary information about the scenario at hand.
Each text will now show:
Title
Type of engagement
Place of the battle
Hour and date of the battle
# of turns
Scenario size
Estimated time of play (where provided by author)
Testers’ names (where provided by author)
Designer’s name
Designer’s mail address (where provided by author)
Player Notes (where provided by author)
Historical background (where provided by author)
Sources (where provided by author)
The evaluation of the scenarios’ size has been done mainly following a scheme based on the total # of units used, but also taking in consideration the # of turns and if the human player is on the attack or in defence.
Each text has been checked for misspelling (using the Windows Word orthography check feature).
The graphical aspect of the texts has been improved, too, and they all are now showing with a better columning and spacing, when opened in the game.
Then, the scenarios have been checked for compatibility with 8.0.
Part of this work has been done by scenarios’ authors (so you can’t blame me for these, if something is wrong [:-] ), and a considerable percentage of them by myself.
Either for patch’s space reasons, and also for an evident impossibility to fix also the smaller glitches in 350abt scenarios, those with minor problems have not been fixed, so you could still find map’s texts errors, or the “P1”-“P2” issue, or units having more weapons than the # of men they are composed with (a sniper with a rifle and grenades, i.e.), etc.
Another hard decision has been not to replace those tanks that had some of their characteristics modified in Spwaw 8.0/8.2, like Range Finder or Fire Control. With many, many thousands of units potentially involved, this what not a feasible task for a human being alone. [sm=crazy.gif]
The things I’ve basically checked, and asked authors to check, are:
Map glitches
Units showing a wrong icon
Units having wrong weapons
Vehicles having an inappropriate carry capacity for the units they were intended to carry.
All these checks have been necessary since some weapons/units had their slot changed, inside their own oob, as well as certain vehicles had their carry capacity modified (reduced).
In example, Grant and Stuart I tanks, when appearing in old scenarios, had their main gun swapped into a Twin AAMG…
On a funny note, I found some American battleships bombarding the D-Day shores with…. Bayonets!! ROFL
Last, I created a document, which includes the complete list of all scenarios showing in Spwaw 8.2, with author’s name, year, and theatre. It will come handy, I’m sure, especially if you use it taking advantage of the “filter” feature of Word application, so to easily find all scenarios designed by a given author, or all scenarios taking place in a certain year, etc. I turned this feature on already, in the document’s copy I’m attaching here.
TIP: update this document on a regular basis, whenever you add a scenario in your own Spwaw installation.
A word on campaigns: there will no chance to have them revised in time for the patch release: few are, but many others don’t, yet. Some are under revision while writing by their authors.
I count to have them all(or most of them) fixed(under the limits indicated above) at a later stage, and release them separately. Sorry, but we can't do everything at the same time..[:(]
I would like to thank “Wild” Bill Wilder for all the help he provided me during these weeks, for all his words of encouragement, and for having stored all the revised files as a back up copy on his PC [sm=00001746.gif]
Well, that’s all folks!
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