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ORIGINAL: AndrewKurtz

Oh no. You're not going to get away with that. We see right through your attempt to get us believing we see right through your previous attempt. By God, we see through it and, as a result, don't see through it[&:].

So when's the patch due out[:D]

ORIGINAL: LarryP

[8D]Gil: I bet you will be the happiest person of the bunch when this patch\update is done. [;)][:D][:)]

PS: You buy your underwear at Victoria's too?! [:D]

ORIGINAL: AndrewKurtz

ORIGINAL: Grey Hunter

The three second attention span whiners starting to get to you Gil?

you know, you'd think they'd go an do something else to amuse themselves, you know, Like playing the game?

You mean you're allow to play other games while you wait for a patch? That changes everything.

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

ORIGINAL: AndrewKurtz

Oh no. You're not going to get away with that. We see right through your attempt to get us believing we see right through your previous attempt. By God, we see through it and, as a result, don't see through it[&:].

So when's the patch due out[:D]

Now that AndrewKurtz has seen through me, I guess the jig is up, so I'll provide an update. A few days ago, we announced that Eric was putting up a new beta patch, and if that worked well we'd go to public beta. Sadly, while much of that patch represented an improvement, some of the code led to an unintended consequence: the AI began to take divisions out of army containers when shuffling around and not put them back. So, in a matter of a few turns, the AOP was simply three empty containers, while a bunch of divisions were sitting around in the same province. Eric knows which part of the code caused this, so he's going to fix it today and let us make sure it's working. And if that goes well, and nothing new has popped up, we'll be ready for public beta.

ORIGINAL: Grey Hunter
and gil, i realise that, but I have a hard time realsing that sarcasm isn't the way of life for you americans as it is for us english.

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Just for kicks, here's a screenshot I took that shows the disassembled AOP. Note that Hancock and Sherman are both commanding empty containers -- containers that used to have all those divisions in them.

ORIGINAL: LarryP

Does the AI still give a choice to promote Generals, or does it suggest promotions?

ORIGINAL: Drex

I would think that for a 2 star position you would get a list of all the Brigadiers and for a 3 all the 2 stars would be listed.

ORIGINAL: Drex

If we decided to skip a level does this result in a negative political situation somewhere? Chris mentioned in another thread that during the Civil War ,generals were never promoted above one level at a time so promoting from an "eligibles" list would mimic history.

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

ORIGINAL: Drex

I would think that for a 2 star position you would get a list of all the Brigadiers and for a 3 all the 2 stars would be listed.

We've never done it that way. But that's an interesting game option: limit both player and AI (or both players) so that the only generals who can be promoted are those at the level below. Would this be worth doing, or is it unnecessary government regulation?

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

ORIGINAL: LarryP

Does the AI still give a choice to promote Generals, or does it suggest promotions?

I'm not sure what you mean. The AI does its own thing with generals, and doesn't tell you what to do with yours.