Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
Even those that have 1280x1024 as their base resolution can still run a 1024x768 game just fine and you can usually set (either through the monitor or the display card) whether you want them to scale/stretch lower resolutions or not, so you don't even have to put up with any distortion if you don't want to.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

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ORIGINAL: pad152
jwilkerson - I'm a long time player from day one and would suggest you get a hold of War Plan Orange, you will be shocked by the Fog of War compared to WITP!

I can speak for Jwilkerson here..., he is a long-time player of WPO as well as WITP.

And the WPO fog of war can't be compared with the WitP fog of war...

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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl


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ORIGINAL: pad152
jwilkerson - I'm a long time player from day one and would suggest you get a hold of War Plan Orange, you will be shocked by the Fog of War compared to WITP!




I can speak for Jwilkerson here..., he is a long-time player of WPO as well as WITP.



And the WPO fog of war can't be compared with the WitP fog of war...

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ORIGINAL: briny_norman
Also, will there be sorting options in the databases like 'show only bombers' or 'show only british planes' like there are in lists in other parts of the game?

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ORIGINAL: Bane

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
Even those that have 1280x1024 as their base resolution can still run a 1024x768 game just fine and you can usually set (either through the monitor or the display card) whether you want them to scale/stretch lower resolutions or not, so you don't even have to put up with any distortion if you don't want to.

Mahalos for the reply!

Question here - We'll have the ability to run it in window mode as another option?

Really good stuff guys!!

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Well I wanted to post the roles and responsibilities for the project so the forum will have visibility to who has been doing what. People have been arriving and departing off the project for well over a year now so a list like this is only a snap shot - and it is certain to change again before we are through, but here it is as it is now. Of course some folks do many things and I'm not going to make this a 50 page document, but these are the primary roles these people have at this time.

Air Team
Ian Kibler(TheElf) - Team Lead
Thomas Eliot (TimTom) - OOB Research
Steve Sanchez(ChezDaJez) - OOB Research, Testing
Mike Kraemer - Testing
Michael McFarland - Programming

Naval Team
Kristian Fischer(Terminus) - Team Lead
Justin Prince(Tankerace) - OOB Research
John Eldredge(JWE) - OOB Research
Bruce Powers - Testing
Don Bowen - Programming

Ground Team
Andy McPhie - Team Lead
Kereguelen - OOB Research
Joel Szabat(Blackhorse) - OOB Research
BadNews - OOB Research
Mike Scholl - Testing
Joe Chandler(SonnyII) - Testing
James Armstrong(BigJ62) - Programming

Map Team
Andrew Brown - Team Lead, Map Development
Bob Trapasso - Testing

Ship Art
John Eldredge(JWE)
Kelly LaBelle (TOMLABEL)
Brian Wisher (BigB)

Reporting
Markus Baumeister(WOOS)

Assistance and Advice
Steve Dyer (Nikademus)
Forest Webb (TreeSpider)
Chris Richards(Drongo)

Project Management
Joe Wilkerson - Project Lead and other tasks that needed doing
Kristian Fischer - Deputy Project Lead

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: Brady

Something I never understood is why a plane like the Corsare would get such a high manouver rating when it was such a pig, my favorate quote about it's handeling came from a F4U piolet who said:

"It handeled like a hog on ice."

About the only manuaver it can exicute is to run away.

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ORIGINAL: pad152

No one is assigned to the AI?

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ORIGINAL: pad152
No one is assigned to the AI?

Erik Rutins
CEO, Matrix Games LLC



For official support, please use our Help Desk: http://www.matrixgames.com/helpdesk/

Freedom is not Free.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

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ORIGINAL: thinz2
My machine has an Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 Ghz. I noticed in MS Flight Simulator X that the software in configuring itself tended to underrate the processing capacity of dual CPUs because of their lower clock speeds.
So would my system be considered optimal for AE?

Absolutely - the "GHz" rating is really somewhat misleading, but there are few better methods out there. I think it's probably fair to say that when we say 2GHz, we mean "2GHz back from when the first processors hit 2GHz". That means a new dual core like the 6400 is probably more equivalent to 4-5GHz in those terms.

Regards,

- Erik

Does this mean that AE will be compiled to take advantage of multiple cores?

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ORIGINAL: witpqs
Does this mean that AE will be compiled to take advantage of multiple cores?

In case you guys missed this query...

Erik Rutins
CEO, Matrix Games LLC



For official support, please use our Help Desk: http://www.matrixgames.com/helpdesk/

Freedom is not Free.

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ORIGINAL: Brady

CC, but wouldent Just Climb and spead be suficient to express the diferance in manuaverabality? to say compare a Oscar and a P-38, Clearly the Oscare is a far more nimble plane, and the P-38 much faster and depending on the alt could out climb it, it would seam at a glance that to state that the P-38 was more manuaverable as well would be over statating the isue of it's comparative uberness, but I never fully understood how this all worked out in WiTP, I know when Nickademus worked his magic with the AtoA model he seamed to come a long way given the limited variables he could tweak, considering the team at hand I suspect good things will come from this in the end.

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ORIGINAL: el cid again

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ORIGINAL: Brady

CC, but wouldent Just Climb and spead be suficient to express the diferance in manuaverabality? to say compare a Oscar and a P-38, Clearly the Oscare is a far more nimble plane, and the P-38 much faster and depending on the alt could out climb it, it would seam at a glance that to state that the P-38 was more manuaverable as well would be over statating the isue of it's comparative uberness, but I never fully understood how this all worked out in WiTP, I know when Nickademus worked his magic with the AtoA model he seamed to come a long way given the limited variables he could tweak, considering the team at hand I suspect good things will come from this in the end.

Well - the RHS team managed to achieve some success in the air model. A lot of effort went into figuring out how to have relative performance between different plane types properly rated. One problem is that you need to consider the combined set of fields defining an aircraft to assess its quality: Oscar is weak in protection (there isn't any for the I) and firepower (the Ia had two .30s, the Ib had 1 .30 and 1 .50, and the Ic had two .50s - not a lot of firepower in an age when standard fighters had four .50s or eight .30s). Yet "the Oscar was almost as great a technical suprise as the Zero" - and the surprise was mostly maneuverability - also tactics (the IJN turning in maneuver was adoped by JAAF).

It would be far better if horizontal maneuverability was separated from vertical. And altitude matters a big deal. So the ability to rate at 5000 feet, 15000 feet and 25000 feet (say) might be really useful.

Most planes are awful above 30,000 feet, many awful much lower. Just because the plane can get there does not mean it can maneuver, that its guns won't freeze up, etc. There is room for considerable more sophistication in the system addressing these matters. But ANY improvements are welcome - and we should look at what we get in that light. WITP II will no doubt do even better than AE.

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ORIGINAL: donkey_roxor

This is not really a question, but more of a comment -

Sardaukar asked a question on page 3 of this thread asking if the AI will be user-modifiable in any way. I realize that the answer to that is "work on AI will happen after most of the other stuff is done, and we're trying our best," but I'd like to cast my vote in favor of user-moddable AI scripting. Look at all the neat things modders have done with the original WiTP - imagine if the same modders could also script AI behavior. How cool would it be to have the Japanese AI launch an attack on Pearl Harbor or northern Australia? Now think about how cool it would be if AI scripts could be transferred between players, maybe with some type of encryption - like PBEM, except not quite...

Anyway, just some thoughts.

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

Didn't see this addressed anywhere else so I'll ask here.

The stock game left out Thailand when historically they did fight on the side of Japan early in the war. Will AE add the Thai OOB as a Japanese ally?

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

Didn't see this addressed anywhere else so I'll ask here.

The stock game left out Thailand when historically they did fight on the side of Japan early in the war. Will AE add the Thai OOB as a Japanese ally?

Kereguelen can give more details over on the land thread, but yes I think there will be a Thai OOB, it has certainly been discussed a number of times.

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

will we be able to bring onto thy opponents.....a shrubbery?

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ORIGINAL: Buck Beach

I'm not sure I truly understand the full concept of AI scripting? What does it include? I am only looking for a very brief explanation.

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ORIGINAL: Buck Beach

I'm not sure I truly understand the full concept of AI scripting? What does it include? I am only looking for a very brief explanation.

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ORIGINAL: Buck Beach

I'm not sure I truly understand the full concept of AI scripting? What does it include? I am only looking for a very brief explanation.