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ORIGINAL: sanderz

Hi

In the document there is a section on Air Production with some suggestions as to what to turn off or increase.  Trying to get my head around whats best to do (PDU on).

For the A6M5 Zero you change it to the A6M3 Zero which is fair enough as with the other factory you have 2 x 30 R&D.  Is the thinking here that you will just change the factories over to the new models on their standard arrival dates and that it is more important to have the A6M3 early than the A6M5?

I see the A6M5c has armour (though at the expense of other stats) - does this armour make this plane a lot better than the standad A6M5.  If not i can see why that would be another reason not to rush the A6M5.

Also - is it worth rushing the Sen Baku (which is the upgrade to the A6M2) as it upgrades to the A6M5b and i'm assuming there will be a large number of the old A6M2 still around? 


thanks

ORIGINAL: sanderz

EDIT - Why increase the Ki44-iia Tojo, there are no new airgroups and nothing upgrades to it as far as i can see - what am i missing here? Or is it that whilst nothing is on the upgrade path you can convert other planes (the Oscar?) to it?

ORIGINAL: sanderz

Hi

In the document there is a section on Air Production with some suggestions as to what to turn off or increase.  Trying to get my head around whats best to do (PDU on).

For the A6M5 Zero you change it to the A6M3 Zero which is fair enough as with the other factory you have 2 x 30 R&D.  Is the thinking here that you will just change the factories over to the new models on their standard arrival dates and that it is more important to have the A6M3 early than the A6M5?

I see the A6M5c has armour (though at the expense of other stats) - does this armour make this plane a lot better than the standard A6M5.  If not i can see why that would be another reason not to rush the A6M5.

Also - is it worth rushing the Sen Baku (which is the upgrade to the A6M2) as it upgrades to the A6M5b and i'm assuming there will be a large number of the old A6M2 still around? 

thanks

There is no damage or cost associated with moving a fully repaired R&D facility to the next upgrade option as defined by the editor. The advantage with non-realistic is that fully repaired production plants can be moved along this path at no cost too.
Which is why building the A6M2, and then switching it to the Baku and then the M5b is a good option for non-realistic(straight away), but can’t be achieved with realistic R&D.

ORIGINAL: sanderz

Another question on the document.

"So turn everything off, except those that are currently building and then we’ll (you’ll) determine what you want. The purple and blue graphic will tell you that turning off all those merchants give you a HI windfall."


By turning off "everything except those building" i assume you mean just the "Queued" ships. But if i do this none of the figures at the top of the screen change. I can't see how i am saving any HI.

However, if i accelerate these queued ships then the "calculated points" does change, it increases by 1 x Durability.

Also, where in Tracker is the "Ship delay and HI graph"?

What am I missing here?

Many thanks

ORIGINAL: n01487477

Yeah - Santez wanted me to re-write that and having you echo that concern - I might as well.

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

The only question that may confuse players is air production. When doing R&D on an airframe, they will not repair much the further away they are due (an airframe due in '45 will not repair often in '42). An engine that is not due for production until '45 will start to repair after every expansion.

So if you double your engine factory from 30 to 60, after 30 days and 30k in supply it will be repaired and then start accumulating Developmental Points so once it gets to the magic 100 points, it will move forward a month. It is easy to move engines forward by months, if not year which makes little sense to me, but I'll stay off that soap box. [;)]

ORIGINAL: sanderz
For the A6M5 Zero you change it to the A6M3 Zero which is fair enough as with the other factory you have 2 x 30 R&D.  Is the thinking here that you will just change the factories over to the new models on their standard arrival dates and that it is more important to have the A6M3 early than the A6M5?

ORIGINAL: n01487477
No, my thinking is that once the M3 R&D factories are fully repaired, I'll move them up the line ASAP.

ORIGINAL: sanderz
Also - is it worth rushing the Sen Baku (which is the upgrade to the A6M2) as it upgrades to the A6M5b and i'm assuming there will be a large number of the old A6M2 still around? 

ORIGINAL: n01487477
There is no damage or cost associated with moving a fully repaired R&D facility to the next upgrade option as defined by the editor. The advantage with non-realistic is that fully repaired production plants can be moved along this path at no cost too.
Which is why building the A6M2, and then switching it to the Baku and then the M5b is a good option for non-realistic(straight away), but can’t be achieved with realistic R&D.

So what I'm saying is don't research the Baku, playing Realistic Off - build a few more M2 factories, when fully repaired, switch them to the Baku and in the same turn, to the M5b and voila - you're researching that! Can get it a year early if wanted.