Out of Pilots Again

[Sardaukar]

There should be no problems upgrading to last Beta. You can both of course backup your recent save if things go badly for some obscure code reason. But I have not seen any reason NOT TO upgrade.Seems to be remarkably stable for PBEM, otherwise Tech Support would be filled with posts about it. [8D]

[michaelm75au]

The new beta has the ability to release one or 5 pilots with the lowest EXP at a time from either the group pilot list, or from the named pilot reserves.
In general, you can only release pilots who are active (delay of 0 or 1).

The filters in the name pilot reserve list allows you to refine the list before you ask it to release them.

In addition, if the number of free pilots gets below a certain limit, the game will automatically drop the excess limit from 33% to 20% (except for dedicated training groups set in the editor).

[AirGriff]

michaealm- so, we can delete pilots as you mention above in the upcoming patch, yes? That's a huge game saver. Many many thanks.

[beppi]

ORIGINAL: michaelm

The new beta has the ability to release one or 5 pilots with the lowest EXP at a time from either the group pilot list, or from the named pilot reserves.
In general, you can only release pilots who are active (delay of 0 or 1).

The filters in the name pilot reserve list allows you to refine the list before you ask it to release them.

In addition, if the number of free pilots gets below a certain limit, the game will automatically drop the excess limit from 33% to 20% (except for dedicated training groups set in the editor).

Thank you very much, as my PBEM in 44 is currently close to the 50k limit and i fear it a little bit this will help quite a lot.

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: inqistor

Well, if KIA/MIA pilots can be deleted, so is WIA.

After all, who would want back guy, who spent last sixteen months in hospital? And, when you have lost both hands, you can be qualified as WIA, but you surely never fly again.


What is the possibility to apply array resize AFTER loading save?
There were implemented question about database upgrade in ongoing games.

Actually, history suggests that if the pilot wants to fly, take him. A US medal of honor winner in WWI improperly used political influence to fly again in WWII - and won another medal of honor! IJN's greatest ace lost one eye - and had leg damage so bad he could not fly a normal airplane. No one wants a one eyed fighter pilot. But in a modified plane that was also obsolete he became an ace yet again! Another pilot lost a leg on USS Princeton - was forced out of the Navy - but used an old law to return. He made the first jet landing on a carrier in history!

[Dereck]

ORIGINAL: el cid again

Actually, history suggests that if the pilot wants to fly, take him. A US medal of honor winner in WWI improperly used political influence to fly again in WWII - and won another medal of honor! IJN's greatest ace lost one eye - and had leg damage so bad he could not fly a normal airplane. No one wants a one eyed fighter pilot. But in a modified plane that was also obsolete he became an ace yet again! Another pilot lost a leg on USS Princeton - was forced out of the Navy - but used an old law to return. He made the first jet landing on a carrier in history!

Who is this person who supposidly won a Medal of Honor in WWI and WWII? I'm especially interested seing that only 19 individuals won multiple Medals of Honor with the last being Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC, who won his first for action in Mexico on 22 April 1914 and his second for action in Haiti on 17 November 1915. In 1917 the laws governing the award of the Medal of Honor ended all multiple awards. A person can be nominated multiple times (such as Robert L. Howard during Vietnam who was nominated three times before finally receiving the medal) but, since 1917, can only be the recipient of a single award.

Could you have mistook a WWI nomination and a WWII receipt for two receipts?

[inqistor]

ORIGINAL: el cid again
Actually, history suggests that if the pilot wants to fly, take him. A US medal of honor winner in WWI improperly used political influence to fly again in WWII - and won another medal of honor! IJN's greatest ace lost one eye - and had leg damage so bad he could not fly a normal airplane. No one wants a one eyed fighter pilot. But in a modified plane that was also obsolete he became an ace yet again! Another pilot lost a leg on USS Princeton - was forced out of the Navy - but used an old law to return. He made the first jet landing on a carrier in history!

HEY! I am trying to be helpful here!

I have written about hands, because IIRC there was a British pilot, who flew without BOTH legs. There MUST be some level of injury, which disqualifies you from flying (I hope).

[beppi]

Just want to inform you that in my current PBEM we ran into the 50k limit in 2/44. Michaelm would it be possible to ad a futher
release 10 and release 50 pilots button ?

I currently as the allieds have around 12000 pilots in the reserve pool, 70% or so are trained but a lot of them are untrained green pilots which where created mostly by mistake. It would make the release process a little easier if i could release more at the same time.

Release of 5 least a little bit to the problem that i have to click the button very often and usually i check first how many pilots i want to fire, and when i then have to click the button 48 times but i missclick is sometimes it is hard to not make a mistake.