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This is where we solicit your opinions on what should be addressed before we ship the next patch to Matrix for the full game. The general approach to the patch is bug fixes from 2008.044 and maybe a few feature additions. In other words, you can say ASW search patterns but your suggestion will be ignored. Now if you say that you'd like guns to adhere to the mount arcs that would be more likely to happen. If you can find em, link to any of the defect/bug/issue reports that you think need fixing before a patch.

HCE - 2008.067 ============== - Chg:B047 GE Limited how the AI will execute BOL air to surface and Surface to Surface missile launches. If the axis of the uncertainty zone as seen by the firing unit to the target is greater than 50nm (uncertainty zone width when drawing a line from attacker to target), the AI will not fire. The AI will also not fire if the weapon range/5 is less than the uncertainty zone width. If the uncertainty zone is range ASMs). (thanks Herman) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...&am…

This is just an observation made using HCWW data base in particular ship to ship naval gun combat. Where a ship has say three twin turrets AI will choose say eight rounds to fire at a target will will fire them as four salvos from the first available turret with the inherent time delay defined by the turret's ROF when in most cases (depending upon angles etc) six rounds could have been initially fired, two from each of the three turrets. The first two rounds are likely to do little more than wake up the enemy who might then choose to reply with all guns blazing before ai gets in the second salvo. Also while we are advised of missiles etc being detected there is not such…

Anyone who is interested in seeing a draft copy of the user manual and adding input is invited to join us on IRC Wed at 7pm Central time. When you arrive and show interest we'll e-mail you the Word document. IRC Server: irc.stratsims.com Port: 6667 or 8067 Channel: #harpgamer If you don't have an IRC client you can try the Java clients on the left side of http://www.harpgamer.com or you can try a simple client I wrote, http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...mp;showfile=281 PS, working on the release is one reason you aren't seeing many builds this month...

Says Tony: But I see it's not in both senses, I'm opening both with SE and GE scenarios predating 2015.008+ !!! (I think it was only my bad understanding of the issue!).

1. try of an rebuild. Do the bases need SAMs? DB: HC_80to95_DB noman.zip

Our shot at having a demo version has arrived. Just like ANW has a USNI demo, we will have a similar arrangement. Demo version of the game with... USNI BattleSet rebuilt. The present plan is for Brad to whip up the database and I'll re-craft the scenarios. At Rene's behest I examined his database (turns out the wrong one) and decided it wasn't the way to go for this project though the offer was much appreciated. Depending upon timing I'll probably make two versions of each scenario, one for play by Blue, the other by Red. WestPac BattleSet including a couple of new scenarios. If you craft scenarios that would be of interest to current USNI trends, feel free t…

HCE - 2009.034 ============== - Chg:0000 GE More command line option modifications. -g, added a 9th digit to set the initial time compression. 0=paused, 1=1:1, 2=5:1, 3=10:1, 4=30:1, 5=60:1, 6=300:1, 7=600:1, 8=1800:1 so -g 111111118 would result in 30min:1sec initial time compression. -p option to set the CPU affinity mask. examples... -p 1 (run on CPU 0) -p 2 (run on CPU 1) -p 3 (run on CPU 0 and 1) -p 4 (run on CPU 2) -p 8 (run on CPU 3) …

Hi Please cut the Side to 3 digits and give the country some more digits so the countys have at least 3 or 4, better 5 digits. With the actual 2 digits for countrs it is a real pain... Regards René

2017.012 and newer obviously have serious issues with formation-keeping. I'm finally getting a better picture of what is happening code-wise. In these builds I've tightened up how often various functons check and change paths (path following, station-keeping, close to attack, etc. That exposed the lack of a formal state machine telling units when to turn, when not to turn, etc. Now they just sit and fight each other. Ships trying to close to attack other ships have their intercept course set each second and over-ridden every 60 seconds when they try to follow their plotted path. It goes on and on like that. This is all without even broaching the topic of staying in y…

HCE - 2008.068 ============== - Chg:0000 GE The aircraft speed/altitude dialog works as designed again. It will show the proper speed for the altitude and speed selected. If you manually enter a speed outside of the range of the band or aircraft capability, the aircraft will go to an altitude band and speed less than or equal to the manually entered speed. (thanks Herman) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=2335 - Chg:0000 GE Added hotkey O to show any On Station rectangles for the player's side. Press O to show them, O again to hi…

HCE - 2008.058 ============== - Chg:0000 SE Tweaked the shortening of information in installation, ship, plane, submarine listboxes so that more of the country is visible. Test for crashing, and for sanity.

HCE - 2008.043 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Torpedo acquisition range now converted internally from yards to DUs. 0.3260943 yards = 1 DU. - Chg:0000 GE Updated Credits - Chg:0000 DB HCDB-080616 - Chg:0000 DB commondb.rsr, added res0688.bmp thru res0691.bmp compliments of AoA. So the testing is pretty easy on this one... 1. Look at yourself in the credits. If you got missed, mis-spelled, or think someone got missed, speak now or forever hold your tongue (until the next patch) 2. For those testing the installer mechanism, make sure you delete the spurious delres, res..., etc. shortcuts before installing the patch, th…

HCE - 2009.023 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed the crash bug Larry found in the prompt to choose a group to land at when ferrying aircraft. (thanks Wombat) see 2009.022 release notes for test scenario

HCE - 2010.001 - 2010/01/20 =========================== - Chg:0143 GE Early beginnings... Track sensor status by range ring. No player noticeable changes yet. - Chg:0000 GE Disable Windows\Cascade menu item. Only need to test the latter. Nothing to test for the former yet.

HCE - 2009.024 ============== - Chg:B099 GE Player should no longer lose the ability to click target groups on the map as a scenario progresses. This bug happened because a variable used in figuring out where the player clicked on the map wasn't being initialized to zero. For the time being the logging of this in the MessageLog has been increased. (thanks Lots of us) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...&showbug=99 Whoo hoo! (or so I think and hope)

Using Tony's new Battle Set Creator (Thanx Tony), I designed a Caribbean BS and wanted to try a scenario involving the USCG and modern day pirates. The problem I ran into is that the Red pirate unit cannot be ordered to attack a Green merchant. If I use a Blue merchant, the attack goes OK, but the merchant also acts as an extension of Blue sensors, and the pirate is immediately reported upon detection. It seems in the real world no report would likely be made until after an actual attack/distress call. This is probably similar to a report I made to MANTIS regarding Harpoon BOL shots overflying neutrals and hitting hostiles, even though the neutral was beyond the se…

Due date August 2009 HCE 20th Anniversary items CV32/TonyE - In game links to the gallery, probably from platform display Everyone - BattleSet of 'all time best' scenarios AGSI/TonyE - Spiffed up splash screens to be provided by AGSI, 800x600 BMP or PSD format, we currently rotate randomly between four splash screens. TonyE - Links to and/or embedding of nostalgia interviews (Bond/Carlson creation of Harpoon, Gilman the ups and downs of Harpoon, etc.) AGSI is going to put together a unique compilation of the games for the 20th Anniversary of the computer games, we've agreed to be a part of that and this evening reached a list of work that should …

The latest release of the BS Builder is a welcome and long-awaited feature of Harpoon. I've noticed that on my system, I periodically get alerts that the program has "Stopped Working" or the famous "Not responding". Closing the alerts without acknowledging them seems to let the builder do its job OK. I was wondering if this is a widespread problem, or just another in a long list of Vista annoyances. Buddha

I am sure that this has been hashed over many times before, and I thought I had it down pat, but ... I would like to get some information about refueling. 1) I am currently working my way through West Pac 7, Thanh Hoa Bridge, using the demo of HCE. I have never had a problem with refueling before (which isn't saying much, though). But in this scenario, I am having problems. It was my understanding that you bring the tanker group and the group to be refueled close together, loiter both at the same altitude, and then join the groups. After 60 s, the refueling starts automatically. I used this procedure several times with a "test" scenario and at various points i…