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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
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I added code to track from which carrier a carrier air unit originates when it flies an air mission to a land hex (e.g., a ground strike). When one of these units is aborted, the program returns it to its carrier of origination automatically - which saves the player the trouble of figuring it out. Because a carrier can not be damaged when one of its carrier air units flies those missions, making the return automatic is ok. During naval air combat making the return automatic isn’t possible; since the carrier might have been destroyed in the combat.

ORIGINAL: SewerStarFish

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
Player Interface
I added code to track from which carrier a carrier air unit originates when it flies an air mission to a land hex (e.g., a ground strike). When one of these units is aborted, the program returns it to its carrier of origination automatically - which saves the player the trouble of figuring it out. Because a carrier can not be damaged when one of its carrier air units flies those missions, making the return automatic is ok. During naval air combat making the return automatic isn’t possible; since the carrier might have been destroyed in the combat.

Super, a nice little touch. If the programming is straight forward it would be nice to have this for naval air combats that don't result in the loss of a CV.But I suspect you would have done that already if that were the case.

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: werwolf
I am waiting since 1999 r may be more. Since now I have seen only the Beta version. Personally I do not think Matrix Games want to develop anything about........

One could think the contrary since the last weeks were quite busy with Steve taking the project.

Froonp, thanks for the vote of confidence. First let me say, I have been waiting since 1996 and I am very happy to now be able to do something to make it happen. I work on this 50 to 60 hours a week. My current phrase about the project is "I continue to push onward, trying to shove this very large elephant down a path that it has refused to travel for over a decade.”

I give David Heath at Matrix Games weekly status reports on things accomplished for the past week and things planned for the next week. As I promised before, I will post monthly summaries of those status reports in the forum. Since this thread has been started, I guess this is as good a place as any. My first report to the forum will be at the end of this week (the end of July). But to answer the question directly, we have MWIF scheduled for release as a download in the spring of 2006.

There are some who say that degree of optimism just proves I am out of my mind. Actually, I am shooting for early spring 2006, but even I concede that depends on a whole lot of things not going wrong. If the date does drift, I will let you know here. In any event, I will be keeping you informed as to progress every month right up to the game's availability.

The more people are involved in these forums, letting me know their opinions and ideas, the better the final product will be. It will also help me finish MWIF faster by preventing me from going down blind alleys and wasting my time dong things wrong and later having to correct them. I thank you all for your support.

ORIGINAL: V22 Osprey

Damn this is the longest I've ever seen a game in development. I agree with Terminus, that release date he Posted from 2005 is only 4 and half years off.[8|]

I REALLY want this game though. I've even set aside $100 in birthday money to pay for it.(As long as this game has been in development, we all know it's going cost upwards of $100) This looks like the ultimate operational whole world World War II game and I can't wait for it.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Starcraft II... Duke Nukem For(n)ever... That's two games that took longer...

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: V22 Osprey

Damn this is the longest I've ever seen a game in development. I agree with Terminus, that release date he Posted from 2005 is only 4 and half years off.[8|]

I REALLY want this game though. I've even set aside $100 in birthday money to pay for it.(As long as this game has been in development, we all know it's going cost upwards of $100) This looks like the ultimate operational whole world World War II game and I can't wait for it.

Warspite1

It is the ultimate operational whole World War II game [:)] and the Matrix version is staying as faithful to ADG's boardgame as possible (with a few differences as you would expect).

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: V22 Osprey

Damn this is the longest I've ever seen a game in development. I agree with Terminus, that release date he Posted from 2005 is only 4 and half years off.[8|]

I REALLY want this game though. I've even set aside $100 in birthday money to pay for it.(As long as this game has been in development, we all know it's going cost upwards of $100) This looks like the ultimate operational whole world World War II game and I can't wait for it.

Warspite1

It is the ultimate operational whole World War II game [:)] and the Matrix version is staying as faithful to ADG's boardgame as possible (with a few differences as you would expect).

If it ever comes out, it'll be interesting to see if it's so big that it's unplayable. I hope not...

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: V22 Osprey

Damn this is the longest I've ever seen a game in development. I agree with Terminus, that release date he Posted from 2005 is only 4 and half years off.[8|]

I REALLY want this game though. I've even set aside $100 in birthday money to pay for it.(As long as this game has been in development, we all know it's going cost upwards of $100) This looks like the ultimate operational whole world World War II game and I can't wait for it.

Warspite1

It is the ultimate operational whole World War II game [:)] and the Matrix version is staying as faithful to ADG's boardgame as possible (with a few differences as you would expect).

If it ever comes out, it'll be interesting to see if it's so big that it's unplayable. I hope not...

ORIGINAL: warspite1

That's the sheer genius of the game - you get the whole war, it feels realistic, and yet you get a thoroughly enjoyable, easily playable game. You play WITPAE - different animals I know - but in terms of complexity and micro management, this is nothing like as difficult.

ORIGINAL: coregames

ORIGINAL: warspite1

That's the sheer genius of the game - you get the whole war, it feels realistic, and yet you get a thoroughly enjoyable, easily playable game. You play WITPAE - different animals I know - but in terms of complexity and micro management, this is nothing like as difficult.

There are board games on the same order of magnitude. The Europa series of games from GDW along with Third Reich and its offshoots might be considered the direct ancestors of WiF. Europa was supposed to be playable as one giant game, although just Fire in the East was monstrous enough in its own right. For playability, Harper's A World at War has the edge. You're right though; for marrying the grand strategic with the operational, all in a way that doesn't make your head spin too much, WiF stands alone, and Steve is pulling out all the stops to keep that unique combination intact for MWiF.

Noise was made a few years back about Matrix adapting AWaW for the computer, but that didn't materialize. I'm surprised someone hasn't picked that project up, given how much simpler it is than WiFFE.

Even if the company that took over from GDW (HMS/GRD) ever finishes Europa and Glory, I can't imagine a computer adaptation. It would probably take longer to play than the war took to fight.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

That's not technically possible. The "AI" doesn't exist in some void apart from the rest of the program, to be clipped on at will.

ORIGINAL: Terminus
That's not technically possible. The "AI" doesn't exist in some void apart from the rest of the program, to be clipped on at will.

ORIGINAL: jjdenver

ORIGINAL: Terminus
That's not technically possible. The "AI" doesn't exist in some void apart from the rest of the program, to be clipped on at will.

I don't understand this statement at all. I'd assume when you start a game you can set some countries to be played by AI. That option would just be disabled and all countries would have to be played by humans.