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HCE - 2009.013 ============== - Chg:B095 GE Don't ask player where to land enemy tankers who have just split from the refueled planes. (thanks Brad) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...&showbug=95

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 - 2009.009 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Planes already within AAM range will not re-prompt to close to fire. The prompt was errant since they were already in range. Attached is a save of mine HCDB-081124 South Africa battleset. To see the errant behavior load up the save in 2009.008 and ask ANA to attack ZZC. Fire a missile or two at the helicopters in the carrier group and you should get a prompt to close range (something like, Sir, our attack range is 80nm, distance to target 57nm, should we close and attack?). Obviously that is wacky since the Phoenix can be fired, we're already in range. When you load the scen in 2009.009 and t…

This build is reverted back to the status of 2008.068 and then selected fixes from later builds were applied. Please retest all of the items in this post even though many were already verified. I'll work thru marking previously fixed and now unfixed items as such over the coming week. HCE - 2009.007 ============== - Chg:0000 GE This build is the code reverted to the original 2008.068 plus a number of tweaks. That means a number of issues are now unfixed. This was done since the fixes presented more challenges than the original issues. This returns the game to a stable state from which we can…

HCE - 2009.018 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Made a new critical hit distribution table for mobile land units. In other words, you should no longer see land units with flooding. - Chg:B084 GE ASW helicopters want to (errantly)close after firing last torpedo. The fix isn't ideal but it does address the issue. Now after that last torpedo is fired there is no prompt. If the player cancels the attack, the prompt will appear since the game thinks the target is actually North another 8nm. (thanks ReoTeo) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/in…

HCE - 2009.020 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Upon scenario load, the raw event side is no longer checked for MESSAGE_EVENT events which was resulting in staff message events being ignored. In sum, this should now allow the Red side to see staff messages from the scenario file. - Chg:0000 GE Here is a bit more explanation on the behavior of the Staff Messages as entered by the scenario designer. * Message length should not exceed 63 characters * If you have a group selected when you enter the Staff Message, that group will be ref…

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 - 2009.017 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed the Speed/Altitude event processor to do what I mean in 2009.016, not what I coded (Tony). Planes in the group should now all end up at the proper altitudes and speeds after take-off and at waypoints. - Chg:0000 GE Remember that force 1:1 time hotkey addition in 2009.016? Well, it is now the L key, not \. - Chg:0000 GE Subs that surface due to damage will now split off into a new group so that they can be told what to do. In debug builds a message like the following will be shown for enemy and ne…

HCE - 2009.015 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Answering yes to RTB ASW bird out of weapons message will now RTB, answering no will leave it on station. (thanks Wombat) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=2495 - Chg:B073 SE When adding more than two variable start points, don't crash. Note the often incorrect highlighting of the selected start point still exists, fixing it is proving most challenging. (thanks Ralf, and many others) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...&showbug=73 - Chg:0000 SE Improve the logic for enabling and disabling …

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

Load up EC2003 IOPG 5.0 Edit the Group ABb Delete the unit Base - Diego Garcia. The above shouldn't be possible yet it is. The Delete Unit button should be greyed out when the installation is selected. 2008.064 SE

I've noticed that screen animation of group movement stops at any level above 1 Min. The game still seems to progress at the higher levels, and the game clock runs, but at the higher levels, all symbol movement freezes, and then the symbology will jump if compression level is changed, either up or down. I'm also still getting the world famous "Not Responding" when using the mouse at any level above 5 Min., although keyboard commands are not affected. Buddha

HCE - 2009.014 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed game crash in certain circumstances when some planes out of a group are shot down, but not the whole group. (thanks Brad) see attached file, if the bug still exists the save will crash after about 2 game seconds (assuming a Bear-D gets shot down). If the Bear-D is shot down and no crash then the bug is fixed. bear4.zip

This coalesced from some ideas that I have discussed previously and elsewhere, and in particular from a discussion that is current right now in the Matrix forum. It is similar to or the same as what Warhorse and Mack2, and perhaps others, are already doing. It is time to give this tactic a name. At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's men were heavily outnumbered. Therefore, they were forced to assume a static defensive posture. Sitting Bull's forces drove their horses in circles around the defenders, who spent their ammunition ineffectively. In a modern plane-on-ship engagement, the 30:1 speed ratio forces the ship to assume the role of static defender, reg…

HCE - 2009.012 ============== - Chg:B094 GE More work on the aircraft Speed/Altitude dialog. It is now driven by the typed in speed. If you type in a speed faster than Cruise with Cruise selected and click OK, the throttle setting will be kicked up to Military (or AB if appropriate) if the aircraft has such a speed available. If not, the speed is dropped down to the fastest available at that altitude. It will also bump up any speed less than loiter. (thanks Brad) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...&showbug=94 …

Seeing absolute silence since the open beta started isn't my idea of an improvement So I'll help you out a little bit, there is a problem (2009.007) re-assigning aircraft missions (probably any intercept ship/sub/air). Once a plane group is told to intercept a certain group it is very difficult in many cases to assign that plane group to attack different target or otherwise change tasks. What is needed: 1. Test scenario of the situation (small, tiny,...) 2. Saved game with planes in the air ready to have a new target assigned. 3. Instructions on recreating the issue. 4. The above three items summarized in a single report at the Issue Tracker, http://harpga…

HCE - 2009.011 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Started adding the code framework/templates to make maintaining backwards compability with saves games possible. Players can now load saves from 2007.000+ in the current GE. - Chg:0000 GE Make sure Nuclear Release event sound stops playing when dialog goes away. Also completed putting the nuclear release DLL code in the game (it wouldn't have worked in 2009.010 if the player was the Red side). (thanks Buddha) Testing saves, grab a save from 2007.000, 2008.024, or 2008.044. If it opens okay then the feature works. It should help wit…

HCE - 2009.010 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Added a Nuclear Release event to the ExportDLL interface. See: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...mp;showfile=390 Easy testing, try it out, if you see a different dialog, then it works. Hint, Alt-3 gives immediate nuclear release. I guess this is my Valentine's Day present to everyone.

HCE - 2009.008 ============== - Chg:2429 GE Fixed the 10x too large BOL range ring. (thanks Herman) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=2471 - Chg:0000 GE Only show BOL range ring as large as BOL capable weapons instead of as large as the longest range ASM/SSM. - Chg:0000 GE Made the BOL range ring yellow like it was meant to be. - Chg:0000 GE Added a Staff Assistant information message when the group has no BOL capable weapons and a BOL attack is attempted. - Chg:0000 GE Don't let weapons launch their own BOL attacks. (thanks Herman) - Chg:0000 GE Fixed inability to retarget a…

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 …