Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Valdemar

Unit Training by Generals

Allow players to choose the special ability and the unit which learns it when generals make their training roll.

I realize the developers really love randomness in the game, especially if it is the simplest solution, but randomness here is really more than a disappointment, it is not historical or logical. When generals decided on a set of skills that they thought their armies needed to win, they trained every unit under them to the same standard. Individual brigade commanders may have emphasized one skill above another, or added additional skills, but it certainly was not a random affair. Keep in mind that I am only suggesting this for special abilities and that the quality upgrades that generals can give are not included.

I'm certainly no coding expert, but this hardly seems like a difficult process to code.

Please consider this change.

Regards.

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ORIGINAL: ericbabe

We do have code that prevents double-teaching of some special abilities and I'm surprised that Diggers isn't on the list of things we prevent.

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ORIGINAL: Valdemar

Gil,

I'm suggesting that players be allowed to pick both the unit that gets trained, and the skill as well.

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Well, I guess then we'll just have to release some add-ons...

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Personally, I think the manual is pretty good for a game this complex. Some people don't like it that certain features are discussed in multiple places, but that's the cost of creating a manual that lets players start with the Basic game, then move on to Intermediate, and finally Advanced. We thought that was a great way of easing people into the game, but it did come with this trade-off. The good news is that for the hoped-for FOF expansion we'll probably be able to use video tutorials, which should help greatly.

By the way, I assume you know some things aren't in the manual because they were added later, and are in the patch documentation .pdf file.

Good to know you're enjoying the game. Good luck with that navy -- just don't use up ALL your resources on it.

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ORIGINAL: R.E.LEE

Hey Gil so many thanks for the replies if not for you being here i dont know,i mean the buzz is GONE for this game,ive really been having alot of fun,however i been winning to easy on about the fifth diffuclty level so i just tried a game on full general,whats up with that 6 turns in petersburg is taken and all buildings sacked all area forts destroyed,3 union armys ivaded and all the south gets is 40,000 standing army,am i not understanding something was it ever this uneven at start of war,dont get me wrong ive gone from being sickly dissapointed with this game when it came out ,to loving it and i know all acw buffs will lov it too.i ,ll check the manual for the forts gill ive had a real hard time find ing any fort details though and ive looked for hours,mabye im dumb.The main thing i want to know now is,(and ive posted this elsewhere)how does the increase in AI difficulty work it realy seems like they just get way more men and stuff as opposed to playing a better stratdgy etc?thanks Gil,also do you think id be able to play a pbem with my 512 rams cause id realy like to play if anyone can do just instant battles as i cant do the detailed ones no ram.and yes i was that guy i bought the game rite away.

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

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ORIGINAL: R.E.LEE

Hey Gil so many thanks for the replies if not for you being here i dont know,i mean the buzz is GONE for this game,ive really been having alot of fun,however i been winning to easy on about the fifth diffuclty level so i just tried a game on full general,whats up with that 6 turns in petersburg is taken and all buildings sacked all area forts destroyed,3 union armys ivaded and all the south gets is 40,000 standing army,am i not understanding something was it ever this uneven at start of war,dont get me wrong ive gone from being sickly dissapointed with this game when it came out ,to loving it and i know all acw buffs will lov it too.i ,ll check the manual for the forts gill ive had a real hard time find ing any fort details though and ive looked for hours,mabye im dumb.The main thing i want to know now is,(and ive posted this elsewhere)how does the increase in AI difficulty work it realy seems like they just get way more men and stuff as opposed to playing a better stratdgy etc?thanks Gil,also do you think id be able to play a pbem with my 512 rams cause id realy like to play if anyone can do just instant battles as i cant do the detailed ones no ram.and yes i was that guy i bought the game rite away.

If you're playing on the highest difficulty level it means that the enemy is getting a lot of bonuses and you're being somewhat hamstrung, so it's not surprising that an overwhelming force attacked you. (Playing at the highest difficulty level is not necessarily historical -- the idea is to make things even more challenging than they really were, after all. So that's what you're seeing.)

I'm not sure which scenario you're playing, but if you're going to play at that level as the CSA I'd recommend the November scenario with the option for hindering winter movements turned on, since that buys a bit of time for the South to prepare.

Eric will have to answer you on the AI issue, since he's the programmer. I'm pretty sure I know the right answer, but I'll defer to him.

As for PBEM, I'm pretty sure it should work. But you can easily test it by playing a turn or two against yourself in PBEM. If you can start a game, save your turn, open the files that were generated, and play that turn, I'd say that PBEM should be no problem at all.

As for the buzz, you're right that the forum is pretty dead these days, but there's still a steady stream of new visitors and customers. I regularly see people in the forum whom I haven't seen before. (I don't have the world's greatest memory, but I usually have the ability to look at a forum name and know if that person has been around before.) With the obvious exception of WITP and one or two other games, it's pretty normal for a game to get less attention once it's been out for as long as FOF has. My expectation is that when we produce the small patch that we need to come out with there will be some life back in the forum. And if we announce that we are indeed working on a FOF expansion and begin soliciting further input on it I think we will definitely see the forum roar back to life. In the meantime, I hope you and others will spread the word, especially to those who gave up on the game right after release, before we made all those changes.

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I hope your getting paid for this,thanks for all the help.Terry