I'll just toss in my thoughts here, in case the dev(s) are paying attention to this sampling of the vox populi.

The various suggestions that have presented in this thread for handling the SC game engine's limitations with naval operations are excellent and well meaning, but I fear that the ...

Assignable hotkeys is the obvious way to go.
Some of us old admirals are just too hidebound to use anything as fancy as an ALT key.
Next thing you know, you'll be wanting us to use missiles instead of good old-fashioned guns.

I have returned to the game for the first time in several months, and I am devastated to learn that my beloved space bar can no longer be used to advance the action by 1 minute during battles. What's happened? The space bar has been my friend in this game for years! :(

Any remedy that you can ...

I'm perfectly happy to wait for a new iteration of WPP, and if it takes a diversion into another genre, so be it!
I really thought the first go at it was very good.

Thanks for these suggestions, I'm sure they'll help the next time I take this on.

I have been playing DW2 pretty intensively lately, and at the end of this experience I must confess that I do not understand at all how to use fuel tankers. My most successful strategy so far has been to bring a fleet to a complete halt along the route to a distant objective and hope the tanker ...

Ok, thanks. That makes sense and is a good change.

I am returning to the game after several months away, and I am looking forward to learning about all the changes that have been made to it.

The first thing I have noticed, however, is that when I first encounter pirates they don't immediately offer a protection treaty, in contrast to what they have ...

I am using an external monitor. I wonder if that could possibly have anything to do with it. Otherwise, how could you not be able to reproduce it?

Oh my goodness, yes. The placement of those announcements is quite annoying.
And yet none of us thought of mentioning before now.
Well, now that one brave soul has broken the ice, let's hope this brings about a change.

Just bumping this for your attention.
The explosions are still happening when audio is disabled in ver 1.00.14

In my experience, it is not rare to have inferior numbers in any given battle scenario. However, depending on the type of battle it might not matter, if for example you are playing convoy defense or convoy attack. In other cases, you can have superior numbers deployed, but then watch as the enemy ...

I find the level of AI-on-AI warfare is adequate from the run-throughs I've seen so far. I've played as a number of different countries -- Italy, Germany, France, USA -- so I don't think what I have seen is a result of sampling bias.

What I find somewhat more questionable is the system of ...

Hi, William --

I'm reporting this here as a bug -- not sure where else to put it.

It turns out that when you turn all sounds off in the preferences you still get the very large KA-POW! of a ship blowing up. Which really caused everyone in our living room to jump noticeably when it happened.
For ...

Wonderful AAR! I love the immersiveness of your writing. Thanks for taking the time.

As for the ahistoricity of the fleets at game start, I've never been especially bothered by them in RTW2. If you avoid going to war for the first 15-20 years of the game, they don't stand out so much. The game isn ...

Will the UI be upgraded? The current UI looks like from Windows XP system, hard to imagine it's a 2023-released game


There have been some UI improvements, but nothing like a re-work or re-design. RTW3 remains on its original engine and we'd need a major engine upgrade to do much about the UI ...

I was just checking in here for the first time in several months. I had feared that William had somehow succumbed to the dreaded disease of "feature-itis," but it's good to hear that the long rollout is due to his customary care in getting things ready for release.

My only concern now is that the ...

For what it's worth, I too would like to see a no-aircraft option, although it's not a deal-breaker for me. I don't know if the basic game design would allow for it to be put in at this date. I too have used a slower tech rate to prevent aircraft from appearing, and it is a viable alternative ...

coachi wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 2:29 pm What is totp2

I assume that they're referring to the sequel of Tigers on the Prowl.
Do we know that a sequel IS in the works? That would be ok, if SP2 never gets published.

Umm . . . anyone up for some thread necrophilia?
It's kind of unusual to see the last poster in the thread before it went dormant 6 years ago also be the one to resurrect it.