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ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

ORIGINAL: hueglin

ORIGINAL: Terminus




Not so much in the graphics, but in the number crunching.

So does that mean it will play, but very sloowly, on my 900Mhz Thinkpad with 256 MB of RAM.

The main thing is to have enough memory. What with the much larger map and database the requirement will be a lot larger than the current version, which is already considerable (300mb plus IIRC). However if you can have enough RAM to prevent the executable from paging itself to death then it will work, but the execution phase will just take a long time.

I played WitP for ages on an old shed of a PC with a 500MHz CPU running Windows 98. It was very slow but I could get by due to having 380mb of RAM, which was just enough to prevent constant paging.

Look in the GAMES section for AE, and check the Screenshots (it's the one on the left of the third row). That's the editor that will ship with the final product.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: jcjordan

I ask these here mostly because it fits in other places as well as general so trying not to have multiple posts -


2) Will the air units be like CHS/RHS where individual squadrons are represented instead of the larger group as I assume most of the OOB stuff is coming from them?

2) That's for the Air Team; at the moment it's like current stock

ORIGINAL: Brady

Coal? Japanese industry ran on coal, not oil, as WiTP would lead one to beleave, I know this was very abstracted by the Suply aspect, but most of the Coal came from China and Japan it's slef, is this modeled in the game or is this aspect still aken to how WiTP has handeled it.

ORIGINAL: Brady

Coast Watching, is it still the same or have some of the more unrealastic aspects of it been done away with, like spoting at night, and their presence on islands they were not on, or the efect of their abailitys diminished over time , that is relative to the time of ocupation, simply put if the Japanese ocupy the island they go away after a time.

ORIGINAL: Mifune

I see additional aircraft slots, will there be additional slots available across the database?

ORIGINAL: mlees

Sir. What do you believe will be the most significant effect(s) of changing the map scale from 60 to 40 miles per hex? (Why was that decision made?)

ORIGINAL: Grotius

Thanks again, Terminus. You've been very patient with all our questions. Much appreciated.

I have more map-related questions; I hope Andrew starts his thread soon. I'll save most of them for him. But I do want to reiterate an earlier poster's wish that we'll have some sort of on-map indication of facilities present at a base, as Subchaser's map does.

ORIGINAL: DD696

Are we going to be provided with an editor that will edit the data for a game in progress? Or will we simply be left with 1) the endless restarting of the game with everyone being an expert on the first six months of the war, or 2) having to continue play with the data errors? Providing us with a improved editor is great, but without the ability to do so to a game in progress this improved editor is not so very much improved. I know you will bring up the PBEM argument, but can you not also consider the AI player or the PBEM player who would like to repair a game without having to restart?

I constantly change scenario data and I do make mistakes doing so. Can you guarantee that the new scenarios will be free of all data errors and of errors that creep into the database due to programming problems? If not, why cannot they be repaired?

ORIGINAL: Snowman999

ORIGINAL: Grotius

Thanks again, Terminus. You've been very patient with all our questions. Much appreciated.

I have more map-related questions; I hope Andrew starts his thread soon. I'll save most of them for him. But I do want to reiterate an earlier poster's wish that we'll have some sort of on-map indication of facilities present at a base, as Subchaser's map does.

Proving that "to each his own" lives in WITP-AE, I HATE those on-map symbols. Make my head hurt. The simpler the map, the better, so long as the info is one level down or appears on mouse-over. With double the terrain types on the new map I think seeing the ground is going to be even more important than in stock.

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

(1) Why 40? Well we wanted 30 or even 20 .. but Andrew made the call based on estimate of amount of work required and amount of resources available. The 40 mile map is about twice as much art and data as the 60 mile map. It took about 15 man months to key in the new PWHEX file. Making the map 30 mile hexes would have doubled this again. We would not have had the resources to get it done in the time available.

(2) Effects will be similar to differences between WITP and UV relative to scale. It will make Mid-Ocean intercepts a bit tougher for subs and TFs, though we have made some offsetting changes to improve TF MOI. See the naval thread for more details. Also map is more accurate and base locations and terrain are more accurate. These are the main differences I can think of. Probably more will be discussed in the map thread.

ORIGINAL: Knavey

Are the Soviets getting "the love" or is it pretty much as was for them?

ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

This is a "Map" question but since we don't have a thread for that yet ...

In the screenshots there is a variation in the way the "dot" bases are represented. On the South Pacific one they look as they do now, but on the Singapore area shots they seem to be crosses, with something of a glow around them.

Is this meaningful or just different icon sets that are being tried out?

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

One more thing just come to my mind (it is always like that when you wait long time for something and then there are just too many questions to ask)... [;)]

Are leaders still "teleportable" (i.e. moved from one location in an instant) or they require movement by transport ships/planes during turn itself (HINT: the historic Yamamoto departure for example)?

Same thing with aircraft movement from base to base (in WitP player can load/reload endlessly to avoid transport casualties because that movement is done inside turn instantly)?


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: csatahajos

Ok so to put my question in a more specific form:

Would it be possible to add a res. change switch for some predefinded higher res. a la Uncommon Valour or is it still limited by the engine? I'm just forcing this because if it was possible back in the old UV days then I thought perhaps it's doable...(so I'm not looking for a dynamic resolution thing, just for some predefined switches.)

Joe?

ORIGINAL: ctangus

The more I read, the cooler this is... Few more questions:

1. Is any more progress expected on exterminating the synch bug?

2. Will art from some of the forum artists ship with the release?

3. Are geishas & USO Troupes modeled?

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: hueglin

I'm wondering why there is such a jump in system requirements over the original WITP? Has there been that much change to the engine (particularly graphics)?

WITP
Pentium II 600 Mhz CPU (rec. 800Mhz)
128 MB RAM (rec. 256 MB)
8MB Video Graphics Card 16 BIT Color

WITP-AE
CPU: 2.0 Ghz minimum, 3.0 Ghz recommended
Video/Graphics: 128M minimum, 256M recommended
RAM: 512MB minimum, 1GB recommended

Not so much in the graphics, but in the number crunching.

ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

(1) Why 40? Well we wanted 30 or even 20 .. but Andrew made the call based on estimate of amount of work required and amount of resources available. The 40 mile map is about twice as much art and data as the 60 mile map. It took about 15 man months to key in the new PWHEX file. Making the map 30 mile hexes would have doubled this again. We would not have had the resources to get it done in the time available.

(2) Effects will be similar to differences between WITP and UV relative to scale. It will make Mid-Ocean intercepts a bit tougher for subs and TFs, though we have made some offsetting changes to improve TF MOI. See the naval thread for more details. Also map is more accurate and base locations and terrain are more accurate. These are the main differences I can think of. Probably more will be discussed in the map thread.

I always wanted a smaller scale. 10 miles would probably have been best However, as someone who once tried to create a map or two I am fully aware of how much work that is. Assuming that the overall area covered has not changed then a change from 60 to 40 miles per hex makes for 2.25 the number of hexes to be defined (and drawn). That is quite a lot ...

Then, from looking at the screenshots, I would tend to think that this single change will actually make for more than 2.25 times the game experience. There is really an impression of space now, which to my mind there wasn't before. It was all too cramped.

ORIGINAL: William Amos

Can we get real OOBs ? I mean the ones with stock WITP were so inaccurate. FOr example several Medal of Honor winners were missing from the game (such as Admiral Kidd and Captain of the USS West Virginia as well as others. And Major Deveroux is missing from Wake Isle

And the USAAF in the Philipines was wrong for example here is the OFFICAL military hostory showing what planes were in the philipines. (Im sure there are other examples.

http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/wwii/5-2/5-2_3.htm#p37

...
Bombers: Philipines /Hawaii
B-17Ca B-17Da 35 12
B-18A 18 33
A-20Aa 0 12
A-27 9 0
B-10B 12 0
...
Fighters:
P-40Ca 0 12
P-40Ba 0 87
P-40Eb 107 39
P-36A 0 14
P-26A 16 0
P-35A 52 0
.Misc. (Incl. Obsn, Cargo, etc.) 24 34
22
...
TOTAL 277 231

ORIGINAL: William Amos

Can we get real OOBs ? I mean the ones with stock WITP were so inaccurate. FOr example several Medal of Honor winners were missing from the game (such as Admiral Kidd and Captain of the USS West Virginia as well as others. And Major Deveroux is missing from Wake Isle

And the USAAF in the Philipines was wrong for example here is the OFFICAL military hostory showing what planes were in the philipines. (Im sure there are other examples.

http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/wwii/5-2/5-2_3.htm#p37

...
Bombers: Philipines /Hawaii
B-17Ca B-17Da 35 12
B-18A 18 33
A-20Aa 0 12
A-27 9 0
B-10B 12 0
...
Fighters:
P-40Ca 0 12
P-40Ba 0 87
P-40Eb 107 39
P-36A 0 14
P-26A 16 0
P-35A 52 0
.Misc. (Incl. Obsn, Cargo, etc.) 24 34
22
...
TOTAL 277 231