Database Design & Discussion

Reading this very interesting USNI article, I was thinking in something similar to this for a new damage point calculation based in the named "Navy’s Survivability Instruction 9070.1A are taken into account in designing U.S. Navy surface ships to three survivability standards", affecting mostly auxiliary and low-value ships (analogy can be applied to other navies/ships), as for me many civilian/merchant ships (also in other time periods) receive too many damage/hit points: Level 3: CVN, CG, DDG (and decommisioned BB, CV, CVN, CG/CGN, DD/DDG, FF/FFG?). I think this Level 3 can keep 100% hit points derived from her standard displacement, as usual (previously to constru…

I have a question regarding to 'upgrade of the graphics database EC2003 in my copy of HCE. I'm inserting images that are "missing" in the directory "HCE \ commondb \ rsr" with the PIC on their ID in the database "pfData2005.mdb" with the procedures " PIC ID = (resxxxx.bmp -154) " , once finished (and exported database) to save the job done for a subsequent installation is sufficient save only the directory "HCE \ commondb \ rsr" and the database file "pfData2005.mdb" ? or are needed also commondb.res and commondb.rsr from the game root directory HCE. Thank you and I apologize for my bad English.

Aim-7Ms acting like Aim-120s: From an F-15 I fired Aim-7Ms at a group of bombers. The program asked me to turn on the radar as the missile is semi-active radar homing. I did that and then turned the radar off. The missiles proceeded to miss the bombers, then they corrected and acted like Aim-120s with self-guidance and destroyed the bombers. This also happened in another game where I shot down all the opposing F-15s after they fired their Aim-7Ms. The Aim-7s did not disengage but continued to track to their targets (much to my surprise). In the database the Aim-7M is flagged as radar guided and semi-active guided. Could it be that it should only have the se…

Thx, Jan

Hey guys Ive got a few questions about the HCCE db structure Bundy said you might be able to help me with. 1. The commondb.res and commondb.rsr: Are these the database files that are used for any game, and that I can edit with the pfbuild2002.mdb? 2. How do I create Battlesets? For example suppose I want to allow Alfa boats in the GIUK battleset, can I edit something? or make my own battleset? Where is the data defining what units can appear in which battlesets? I couldnt find it in the commondb. Thanks for any help you can give.

The Kfir C.7 is perhaps the most powerful IAF a/c asset of the HDS3 and later MEDC scenarios. In HCE the Kfir is rated at 1516 kts top speed which enables it to choose the fights it wants to fight disengage from the rest and reach any critical spot around Israel quickly. It also easily outruns the Damascus Gammon SAMs (1434kts), which would otherwise be a major headache for blue for the MEDC scenarios. Is this top speed for real or is this a typo? The Wikipedia article actually lists the Kfir C.7 with Maximum speed: 2,440 km/h (2 Mach, 1,317 knots, 1,516 mph) above 11,000 m (36,000 ft) In the original MEDC the Kfir had 1317 kts top speed from HDS3 on it has 1516kts. …

Hello, I reinstalled HUCE yesterday and I cannot enable content at pfbuild2005.mdb. Has anybody got the same problem?

I just fired up the old HCE after many years and noticed that a lot of the unit pictures are missing. First I thought I'd ask how to replace/add them, but perhaps a patch fixes the issue? I looked up and apparently my version is 2009.043.... Where are the patches? I see 2017 is mentioned on the forums. Additionally are there any scenario sites alive apart from this one? I stumble over a lot of dead sites/links out there, and even a lot of the harpgamer links are dead.

I'm trying to figure out how you get the RCS value for ships, aircraft, installations, ect ect. I know there's a formula out there to do it, but for life of me, I can't find it, and I've spent close to 2 hours trying to find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm tinkering with the platform editor at the moment and have a few questions about the way fuel consumption works. As I understand it you set the range for particular loadouts. So what is the significance of the range figure in the aircraft description form. Is that just for reference? Also what is the significance of the fuel entry? Surely the fuel consumption etc. is modelled simply as range? Thanks Paragon

I was running a scenario with F-35C and after launching AAMRAMs at a pair of Typhoons I had them reverse course and hit burner to try and get away from the missiles launched at my aircraft. Imagine my horror when they were only doing about 870 knots. I just read the C model can do 1200 knots. Wiki has it at Mach 1.6. Is there something I’m missing here? And I’m using the stock Db Byron

Are these the launch parameters or are they the altitudes the weapon travels at? I'm asking because I'm having trouble understanding why a AGM-84E SLAM can only be launched at VLOW altitude...when I've seen footage of them being launched at atleast High.

What is the maximum allowable number of damage points that could be attributed to an installation? My guess is that is is some (2^n)-1

I know the official database (Brad's HCDB-xxxxxx) is maintained so as to be workable with old scenarios written on any of its predecessors, and with all else being as is this is necessary but I have this following thought (collection of thoughts). The most recent battlesets' built in scenarios (say in EC2003 family of battlesets) are getting old. In some future release/patch/upgrade I see a need for perhaps post 2010 era scenarios built in to battlesets. Also some of the battlesets have no built in scenarios and these ideally should have some. The official database is filling up the loadout annex space, it has some entries included as workarounds that are now unnecessar…

In my main computer something has happened with the DB editor, and is destroying the DBs in modification. Each time I try to import a common.res file, the DB is in blank,even importing correct DB files from the other computer, or downloades from the Harpgamer site. It says the error is here in "Modules" and in the section "cFileIO" , but I don't know as to repair it: With rsArray .AddNew ![Annex] = LastAnnex ![iD] = LastID ![subAnnex] = SubAnnex ![Array] = Format$(ArraySize, "0") & ArrayVal .Update End With LastID = -1 Were I should to look to find the LastID = -1 and change it?

I didn't see harpoon missiles as a possible loadout for the JSF. I would expect that they will be able to carry them?

Some days ago I saw Brad has reduced in the last iteration of the DB in one unit the sound value of the submarines in the DB. I think is an usual change, I perceived it because in the previous iteration I was thinking about the sound value of the submarines and noting they are adjusted to the real values. This thinking was based mainly in the data published on the famous table of Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies:1718-1990, of Polmar and Noot, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis,1991. Today, reckoning about it but not searching data about the topic, I've finded casually this page base on the mentioned table and parallel data of other books: http://web.archive.or…

OK, I've installed the newest version of the beta, followed the on-site instructions to the letter, and when I try to open anying, the Access DB crashes to desktop. OK, I am using Access 2000. And I did not install the old run-time library, but from the instructions it didn't seem necessary. Anyone have ideas? I can give more info if needed. I am completely stumped on this one.

When I attempt to enter the ID number for a weapon in the PE, I get the following error message: The error does not seem to have an immediate effect, but when the database is exported, aircraft will use the wrong weapons (but the correct number of those weapons). The loadouts appear fine in the PE, and this error appears both when editing an existing database or creating one from the blank database. Also, when an existing weapon from an existing database is edited, it will stop appearing. For example, editing the AIM-9X (ID 18490) in the HCDB will cause loadouts that previously used it to use the AIM-9L (ID 18489) instead. Does anyone know why this is occuring and how…

What is exactly "area" ECM? because, AFAIK, Type-D, FLIR and Laser (Sub-Type) pods aren't functionnal at all. In fact, what is a "Type-D" pod? About "sensor flags" in the aircraft annex, FLIR allow to detect ships but not planes and IRST detect aircrafts not ships, isn't the opposed IRL? Thx, Jan