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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Michael - Thanks for the new feature of being able to harvest pilots 5 or 10 at a time. In my game as Japan, I have many air groups in Japan that have a few highly skilled pilots. If I use this feature, then they would end up at TRACOM or Reserve pool. Some also include the leader as an active pilot. If I was to make these few pilots inactive (shows up as 1 in "Delay" column), can I then withdraw the 5 or 10 pilots?? Thus, any pilot which shows any number besides a 0 in the "Delay" column cannot be withdrawn using this feature.

Edit: Added a screenshot. I want to keep the two pilots in yellow and the leader (shows asterisk next to name) and harvest about 15 to 20 other pilots.

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ORIGINAL: michaelm

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Michael - Thanks for the new feature of being able to harvest pilots 5 or 10 at a time. In my game as Japan, I have many air groups in Japan that have a few highly skilled pilots. If I use this feature, then they would end up at TRACOM or Reserve pool. Some also include the leader as an active pilot. If I was to make these few pilots inactive (shows up as 1 in "Delay" column), can I then withdraw the 5 or 10 pilots?? Thus, any pilot which shows any number besides a 0 in the "Delay" column cannot be withdrawn using this feature.

Edit: Added a screenshot. I want to keep the two pilots in yellow and the leader (shows asterisk next to name) and harvest about 15 to 20 other pilots.

I think it will only release '0' delay pilots. Need to check but it will need to wait till tomorrow before I can look at code again.

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It's always been that only 0 delay pilots can be sent to reserve. It would be a good change if any delay pilots could be redirected toward the reserve.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

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It's always been that only 0 delay pilots can be sent to reserve. It would be a good change if any delay pilots could be redirected toward the reserve.

I set the three pilots with the best "Air" to inactive and they still went into reserve as a test (didn't save the changes, so it never happened). If Michael changes the code to do what you want, then you cannot use this new feature on a significant number of air groups. Many of Japan's Home Island groups have a few highly skilled pilots to train up to green pilots.

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ORIGINAL: Nemo121

In the interests of further reducing clicking would it be possible to have a button on the pilot screen of airgroups to automatically accept pilots from the reserve?

What happens at the moment is that when I pull pilots from the reserve into the airgroup those pilots get a delay between 1 and 7 days. I then have to go back and check that airgroup every day to make the pilots who arrived that day active.

If we could automate this so that all pilots who reached a delay of 0 were automatically activated it would reduce another huge cause of button clicking and unnecessarily repetitive checking.



Personally my preferred solution would just be to not have this toggle at all but just automatically make all pilots active once they reach a delay of 0. After all the commander's intent when sending pilots to airgroups is that those pilots should be active. Some may want to try to tweak things by filling airgroups with inactive pilots but 99% of the time you want them to be activated when delay hits 0. Could we make this the automatic default for the game? It would save a lot of clicking.

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ORIGINAL: michaelm

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Michael - Thanks for the new feature of being able to harvest pilots 5 or 10 at a time. In my game as Japan, I have many air groups in Japan that have a few highly skilled pilots. If I use this feature, then they would end up at TRACOM or Reserve pool. Some also include the leader as an active pilot. If I was to make these few pilots inactive (shows up as 1 in "Delay" column), can I then withdraw the 5 or 10 pilots?? Thus, any pilot which shows any number besides a 0 in the "Delay" column cannot be withdrawn using this feature.

Edit: Added a screenshot. I want to keep the two pilots in yellow and the leader (shows asterisk next to name) and harvest about 15 to 20 other pilots.

I think it will only release '0' delay pilots. Need to check but it will need to wait till tomorrow before I can look at code again.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Stockpiling means (loosely) "keep them and don't share them".

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ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Stockpiling means (loosely) "keep them and don't share them".

If "YES" is selected then we have your "keep them and don't share them"

"NO" therefore means "don't be a cheap greedy bastard and share them".

Is that correct?

Thank you

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Michael,

A quick question not strictly related to the Beta:

Naval HQs - do they help speed ship repair independent of any Naval Support Squads they have?

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ORIGINAL: michaelm

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Michael,

A quick question not strictly related to the Beta:

Naval HQs - do they help speed ship repair independent of any Naval Support Squads they have?

The Naval HQ is usually only going to count if it does have any Naval Support in it.

Shore Parties as part of the overall Naval Support for repairs, count separately.

So a base containing Naval HQs with just Shore Parties will assist in repairs in SAME hex, but those same HQs cannot support repairs outside of the base. They would need Nav Support squads present to use the command radius to affect other bases in range.

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8.1.1 HEADQUARTERS

These are all support troops (the much-maligned “brass” sitting in the rear). However, these
rear-area troops earn their keep in War in the Pacific, Admiral’s Edition™ by providing large
numbers of support personnel to support other units and for construction and logistics tasks.
They give combat benefits to combat units who are within a certain range, generally the same
hex, and enable more bombers to fly Missions from bases under their control. A unit can benefit
from its HQ, of which there are six types:

» Command - Helps in several ways. They help in giving a bonus to ground
combat. If no Corps HQ is in range of a ground unit, the Command HQ can give
a bonus like a Corps HQ if it is in range of a ground unit. If there is a Corps HQ
within range of the battle, and the Command HQ is within 2 times its command
range of the battle, it can add up to an additional 90% bonus to the Assault
Value of an attacking force for odds calculations. The bonuses are impacted by
the leaderships rating of the commander of the HQs. Command HQs are also
important for air replacements and upgrades (see section 16.2.3 for details).

» Army - Helps with ground combat. Ground units in range can gain up to
a 10% bonus to their Assault Value (whether attacking or defending).

» Corps – Helps with ground combat. Ground units in range can gain up to
a 10% bonus to their Assault Value (whether attacking or defending).

» Amphibious – Helps amphibious invasions suffer fewer losses.

» Naval – Helps to speed ship repair time.

» Air – Helps by allowing more aircraft to fly and allows more air units
to be based at a base with this type of HQ, coordinating aircraft
replacement/upgrades and supporting more groups at a base.

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ORIGINAL: michaelm

For ship repairs, the amount of assist is dependent on how much Naval Support there is. It was this way in WITP IIRC.

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So a base containing Naval HQs with just Shore Parties will assist in repairs in SAME hex, but those same HQs cannot support repairs outside of the base. They would need Nav Support squads present to use the command radius to affect other bases in range.

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

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ORIGINAL: michaelm

For ship repairs, the amount of assist is dependent on how much Naval Support there is. It was this way in WITP IIRC.

I do not think there was such thing as Naval Support in original WITP. All HQs had only support in them.
And I am pretty sure it was working somewhere around the lines, that Command Radius of Naval HQ was added to port size (or half, or square, whatever, anyway, it was added to port size in regards of repair ships).

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So a base containing Naval HQs with just Shore Parties will assist in repairs in SAME hex, but those same HQs cannot support repairs outside of the base. They would need Nav Support squads present to use the command radius to affect other bases in range.

So, Naval HQ can assist in repairs in other bases? Gee, good to know.

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ORIGINAL: Gunner98

Michael

The Beta is fantastic - thank you.

An idea I had, not sure if its possible, which would add a bit of clarity and flavour: Is there a way of displaying the leader's nationality in the TF commander pick list? Added bonus, if you could chose between various nations' Admirals.

Situation: I am fighting a pitched navel melee in the DEI as the Allies vs. VH AI. Based in Darwin and trying to shield Timor and Ambon I have 3-4 SCTFs but have a steady stream of ships shunting between Sydney for repairs and Darwin to get dented again. So ships from the USN, RN, RAN, RNZN, Dutch and a lone French DD are mixing it up and there is no way I can keep the TFs organized along national lines. Currently - I think - the TF leader pick list is based on the nationality of the flagship. Is there, or could there be, an easy way of telling which nation the pick list is representing (I may be blind but have not seen it), besides checking the flagship. Where I get messed up is when I have swapped several ships out and the nationality of the 'in place' Admiral no longer matches the ships under command.

Secondly: If you have a TF consisting of ships from multiple nations - would it be possible to chose a TF leader from among those ships and not simply from the Flagship's nation. I can see a downside here that this may develop a cheat where you have a TF of RN BBs with one US DD commanding by RADM 'Ching' Lee (USN). That is theoretically possible now anyway by building a US TF of sufficient size and swapping the ships - not that it is likely or desirable. Perhaps a control could be put in place along ship classes; i.e. SCTF of 3 CLs and 4 DDs, only the nations with a CL in the mix would be eligible.

I only through these out as ideas to add a bit of clarity and flavour. It would be nice, but not a biggie.

Thanks.
B

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3 groups restricted and 1 group with no flyable planes = no movement out of base to CT.

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ORIGINAL: khyberbill

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3 groups restricted and 1 group with no flyable planes = no movement out of base to CT.

I have consistently moved restricted planes from EC to CP with no problem. There I would change their HQ them and ship them out. This dates back to WITP. I had no problem before as you can see by the several groups already in CP. This change occurred somewhere between p7 and q7.