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HCE - 2010.007 - 2010/10/23 =========================== - Chg:B179 GE Recon subtype planes will now turn their radars on at or shortly after launch. It was disabled in 2004 (thanks Akmatov) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=179 - Chg:0000 GE Increase from 1 to 4 group windows. More importantly includes underlying logic to manage detections per side. As for testing, perhaps for now just reply to this thread with screenshots and examples and such. There will be a bunch of stuff that doesn't work right. Also note that saves from prior versions will not work in this version and I won't g…

Brad, Rene, and myself went thru a chat about refueling. When tweaking code in 2007.023 it was pretty apparent that refueling can be expanded from its current behavior without breaking the scenario or save game format. Goals: 1. Allow a tanker to offload fuel multiple times, until it has no more fuel to offload. 2. Separate the amount of offloadable fuel from the tanker's loadout range, instead characterize it in 'drop tanks'. Mechanism: 1. Tanker loadouts will use a special case drop-tank with a non-zero range. A scaling factor of 100 will be applied. a. example: drop tank with range 3.0 means it can offload 300nm of fuel (cruise speed). b. Maximum val…

Hi While playing the latest scen from Ralf i lost two Perry FFG to ASMs. What makes me wonder ist the fact that those ship didn´t fire their SM-1 but the Phanlanx Gun was empty and also some 76mm Shells were fired. Only the ships with longer ranged SAMs fired on the incomming ASMs Staff setting was optimum range and highest fire rate.... Has anyone else similar expierineces? It is nothing what i want to call a bug, only something strange, maybee with a logical explanation? Regards René

Sorry if this is either obvious or unhelpful but if it is useful great. In my testing installation (I've only just sorted out installations as suggested in beta testing guide) I have basically the latest beta (der!!) but I still have the 2009.036 GE (left with winharp32.exe name) and I've named the beta GE winharp39.exe. Now if I want to run a particular saved game or scenario (with an optional selected database, which I have in the beta main folder and with descriptive names) I use the launcher and just amend the GE name in the launcher window depending upon which GE I want to use. Then to compare how it runs in the alternative GE you just go back to the launcher (don't…

Defect Name: ASW Torpedo vs. Land target Build: HCE 2009.004 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: Vista SP1 DB used: HCDB_080712 Scenario used: Saved game "TorpLZ" for EC2003 GIUK Long Description: Blue helo is able to launch ASW torpedo against a Land base or unit. Steps to reproduce: 1) Load and run saved game "TorpLZ" in EC2003 GIUK. 2) Order Helo ADH to Attack Base ZZb. 3) The WAD shows a Mk46 Mod5 NEARTIP can be allocated to either LZ Zulu or Surface contact @123- (which I know to be an artillery piece). It cannot be allocated to any of the Surface units. 4) Execute the order and the ASA announces "Sir, the effective attack range for these aircraft is 7 N…

HCE - 2007.024 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Stop showing SAM and Gun counts at enemy installations and land units on the mini report window. - Chg:0000 BSB Hide the running of end_edit.bat but capture its output to the log file. - Chg:0000 GE Improve DLLExport interface to improve speed when no DLLs are loaded. - Chg:0000 GE Hopefully prevent Neutrals from attacking AI, prevent AI from giving player detects of Neutrals. To Test: GE Set up test scenarios with Neutrals. Make sure that... 1. Neutrals do not report AI positions to player 2. AI does not report Neutral positions to player 3. Ne…

OK guys...here it is...Scen-Zilla. I'm not releasing this in the general public forum yet because I really need to know a few things due to its size. This one needs a real, thourough test please, what I need you to look for are the following. 1. Scenario can run on your computer. If it does not RAM and processor speeds would be helpfull for tweaking decisions. 2. Obvioulsy that all victory conditions for the player can be met. I am personally going to play through as red to check the AI's conditions (they may get eased up some). 3. Do ships run aground? I've moved some of them and while I can't control how the AI uses its ships, I should at least have it …

HCE - 2009.005 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Second try at retargeting missiles fired at subs that are now submerged. http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=2502 This will probably be the last build for a little while. We have to get a new demo build out in the next couple of days. I'm regretting opening the hornet's nest of attacking ships and subs in port. That is some of the toughest code and of course is pretty key to the game. It should have been left to the grand re-working but I may revamp it before then since I did stir up the hornet's nest.

Love the ability to zoom out further with the unit window! Looks like the new unit window is essentially identical to the group window, just it shows individual units within formation. Very handy, but is anyone else noticing the "choppy" movement of units/missles when you zoom into 16x or smaller? Seems that once you get 16x or smaller the unit window become almost unusable. Is there anything that can be done to smooth out unit/missile movement in the smaller zooms of the new unit window?

HCE - 2010.008 - 2010/10/23 =========================== - Chg:B179 GE Changed "Radars for AEW, EW, and Recon subtypes are turned on at or shortly after launch. " to "Radars for AEW, EW, and Recon subtypes are turned on at the patrol point." per the discussion at http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=10598 This was in effect in 2010.007, the release notes entry was just incorrect. - Chg:0000 GE Show the X (close button) in upper-right in group windows to allow closing them. Also actually close the window when the close button is clicked…

I was playing a user scenario from GIUK EC2003. In the saved game "NOGO", Blue airgroup BQA is attacking Red subgroup ZXV north of Iceland. BQA will release its final torpedo on target. The Staff Assistant will announce that BQA is out of torpedoes; return to base Y/N? Select "Yes" and the group will loiter; select "No" and the group will leave. This happened on both the Vista and XP machines. NOGO.zip

HCE - 2008.061 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Better solutions to the same fuel issues of 2008.060 You know what to do

Now would be a really good time for everyone to go to work on the Pipe Dreams forum. Terminal maneuvers is low hanging fruit (smaller topic than most), for those aching for a beating work on logistics. Either way there are plenty of topics there and an extreme dearth of ideas, discussion, and commentary about what everyone wants.

In a previous discussion I was part of (Matrix Harpoon forum, Feb 18/09), I was given to understand that an Aegis cruiser was assigned a ROF of 20 and a control limit of 20 by Harpoon, that is, the ship is able to control 20 SAMs at a time, and can replenish them at the rate of 20 every 30 s. (In addition, I thought that the ship would normally fire 2 SAMs per target.) More recently (Harpgamer forum, July 28/09), I was informed that this Aegis cruiser can fire up to 30 SAMs per 60 s. There may be a typo here, or the rules may have changed in half a year, so I'm not going to worry about this discrepancy too much. What does concern me at this time is that the ac…

I'm wondering if it's possible to get some kind of "lock" for the windows, as I'm functionally an idiot, I keep managing to press the "cascade" button and ruin my window sizes and whatnot. Could we get a "custom" remembering feature or a lock so you can't change it?

Hi run it from the Blue side, turn your sensors on and wait for red... A better description will come later, sorry samtest.zip

2008.058 SE Little did I know there was even a Rename Unit command in the SE. Anyway, I tried to rename the Blue airfield in WestPac 1.0 and the SE crashed with a GetAnnex error. For now I'd suggest not using the Rename Unit with non ship/sub units but maybe there is hope to enable renaming since the UI already exists (as does the data structure).

Harpoon: Commander's Edition Copyright AGSI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HCE - 2008.001 ============== - Chg:0000 GE If autosave was set to zero, the game would constantly save, fixed so that no autosaves are done with a value of zero. - Chg:2057 GE Neutrals should no longer attack any other sides' subs (or anything else but anything else was dealt with in earlier releases). - Chg:2355 GE HDS III GIUK 12.0 is the same scenario as 11.0 Kludged the system to not show HDSIII scenario 12.0 in the scenario selection of the G…

HCE - 2010.009 - 2010/10/24 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Unit window will now show units for the perspective of the active group window. (thanks donaldseadog) - Chg:0000 GE Saving and loading of games will now work but it is doubtful that the entire game state is being saved and loaded correctly. (thanks donaldseadog) - Chg:0000 GE Enable playing of green side in addition to blue and red. - Chg:0000 GE Allow the player to click on groups of the player side, even when that isn't blue. (thanks donaldseadog) - Chg:0000 GE Group window perspective selection dropdowns are now set tall …

I'm back to getting the old Vista "Not Responding" whenever I try to use time compression in any scenario with 2008.061. Sometimes it passes, sometimes not. I'm also getting the "Program has stopped working" on exit, which went away for a while. I think it's apparent that Vista has had a problem running Harpoon from the initial inability to use the Help menu through the ever present "Not Responding" for which Vista is famous. I don't blame Harpoon for this, I blame Vista, which is the biggest disaater since the Edsel if you ask me. I'll continue testing as best I can, but I can't promise anything constructive until wahtever is causing the compatibility probl…