RHS non critical comprehensive update 7.7883 uploading

[el cid again]

I have collected some enhancements and eratta - the most interesting of which is adding KM oiler Ukermark and KM raiders Thor and Michael.


Meanwhile Forum questions caused me to invent a way around hard coded factories which expand beyond all reason at certain locaitions. Now they don't expand. [The locations with problems are Nagoya and Gumma] I fixed these with the location file - so you cannot see it without new RHS - so well do t that eay.

We already fixed pwhex to help address the problem locally. It is already in upload process.

This file set should be out tomorrow.


Since we now know all the things that need changing in pwhex files - we will update Levels 5 and 6 after that. We might also do updates for the scenarios - but these will be functional economic matters and eratta only. I don't plan to add the German ships. [Lots of work for lots of scenarios for only three ships and two air detachments]

[el cid again]

The impacts of these changes (aside from eratta fixing) are mainly

1) Singapore should hold out longer

2) Osaka will more often be a viable location to load ships

3) Nagoya and Gumma will no longer try to expand G4M and Hitachi engine production beyond all reason.

Level 7 will also gain the chrome of the three German surface ships.

[Buck Beach]

Sounds good Sid.  I'll wait till tomorrow or when it comes out to start a new game.

Merry Xmas.

[Mac Linehan]

Thank you, Sid.

Merry Christmas,

Mac

[el cid again]

The few changes outlined above are incorporated in a comprehensive update. This is in packaging and upload process for the primary distibution list at this time. Also modified are the three Level 7 RHS Economic Utilities - not because anything changed data wise - but because four locations change slot numbers - and the Utilities are among other things listed in slot order and serve as a quick look up index associating location and slot.

I am thinking about Levels 5 and 6. They do not have the two German raiders or tanker. I think we can cut the number of pwhex files in half - going with STANDARD, PANAMA, KYUSHU and RIVER - with standard duplicated as pre renamed pwhex.dat for players who don't like renaming. [Level 7 has 8 pwhex files - the addition of RAILROAD meant we needed RRPANAMA, RRRIVER and RRKYUSHU - which is called LATEKYUSHU]. I think perhaps we should do a microupdate with just the location file - so Gumma and Nagoya also work better? These changes will permit players to control the interior river system exits and also add the ability to take out the RR tunnel to Kyushu, in addition to making the economy function better at its four worst problem sites remaining. Or we can skip it - if no one cares.