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ORIGINAL: ltfightr

The done box can be hit with the esc key

You're joking? It's been there all along? [X(] LOL! figures... thanks ltfightr, that's one wish down. [8D]

The only problem with hitting escape is it sometimes closes two windows: the combat animation and combat report.

bumpity

My number one issue is I would like to be able to return ground units to be empty shells and return all squads to pool.

This is especially required in India where due to the low level of Indian squad replacements throughout the war I would like to be able to say ok 17th Indian division will transfer its only bgde (i.e. its 100 assault points worht of squads) back to the pool for reassignemtn to allow another division to be brought up to strength. either that or Make Indian replacements grow as war goes on 40 just aint enough in my opinion I would happily give up a re inforcement formation for the ability to grow my replacements.

(Also arent British replacements a tad high at 40 squads per month all through the war I wasw sure that the UK started to run low on Inf by 44 surely UK replacements should decline in 43/44 and only pick up again in 45.)

Andy

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Great ideas both of them..plus can its say on the ship screen when a ship will be fully repaired by when in port.

not possible ship repair is random

A few of us have reported being evicted from the game after looking at the ship database..No idea why this is happening..

bug not a wish

ORIGINAL: The Gnome

I have another one

Add a Fighter/Fighter-bomber mission: CAP

Keep the cap percentage as the percentage of planes on CAP duty, the remainder rest.

you can already do this in two ways.

1) assign the FG/FS to a specific base, (its own) for the escort mission. It will NOT escort any bombers to any other locations

2) set the max range of the FG/FS to lower than that of any nearby enemy base or just set it to 1.

ORIGINAL: m10bob

A few of us have reported being evicted from the game after looking at the ship database..No idea why this is happening..

If you can figure out exactaly what is sequence of steps cause this to happen, post it in the bug thread and we'll look at it.

ORIGINAL: GBirkn

I'd like to have the ship selection filters that are available in the port view screen (CV, BB/BC, DD/DE etc.) available to use when creating a TF, or transferring ships to or from a TF.

Oh, and a "Form New TF" button on the screen that shows the list of ships in a port.

Already on the list.

ORIGINAL: 2Stepper

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

Turn resolution will continue to get slower as more stuff gets added. Can't really be helped. Everything adds to the duration of a turn.

Suspected as much. The bugger does have a LOT of information to muddle through. I guess what I wouldn't mind seeing is something like a filter so all the command decisions would just be shown as "South seas fleet: Orders complete" or something for that part of the turn. Then when the action starts, let it run... Probably just nit-picking cause like you say, the more gets added into the game as it wears on, it'll get longer...

Ah well...[8D]

We had something like this durning test and the testers did not like it becaues it appeared to slow things down.

Guys this is the wish list not the bug report, please don't get them mixed up. We will be viewing the bug thread much more often than the wish list.

It would be nice to see a radio tower icon on the map screen for the sigint report locations that you pick up each turn.Adding onto it have a radio silence option for TFs.When on radio silence their orders/target cant be changed unless you click off radio silence.Upon doing so your opponent would receive a sigint report if one of their bases are within range of the TF.

As well a sightings menu of all enemy sighted during the turn with a click to go to location.It would save a ton of time flying all over the map.

Great ideas but would require too much time and code. Sorry.

you can already do this in two ways.

1) assign the FG/FS to a specific base, (its own) for the escort mission. It will NOT escort any bombers to any other locations

2) set the max range of the FG/FS to lower than that of any nearby enemy base or just set it to 1.

Terific! Thanks for the trick, I obviously didn't think f this

My wishes:

1. ships sunk screen -- how about the date sunk? Later in the war, it helps to know what sank yesterday.

Already on the list

2. create TF from port screen (seconding someone's note, above)

3. this one irks me: during air combat, when I close the graphic screen, we continue to see pilot results go on, and on, and on... Sorry to you pilots out there, but when I want the screen to end, I want to get to the results screen and not wait (had one combat yesterday where one plane got shot at by two squadrons, and everyone claimed a kill... [:@] ).

sorry no can do

4. to #3, how about allowing us to turn off specific graphic combat screens? (say, turn off air-air, but keep air-surface, etc)

sorry no can do

5. how about horizontal rules between every third or fifth entry on the longer tables (eg, a/c losses, ship/unit arrivals, etc). Helps when reading across the entries.

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1) A "Previous/Next Base" button and hotkeys. If possible: sorted by size of base and/or each region.

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2) Unit arrivals shown in a report not just as it flys by in the lower left window.

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Thanks for any consideration of these suggestions.

My apologies if these have already been suggested or if they already exist and I'm too dense to find them.

1. I second the motion for hotkeys (e.g, arrow keys) to cycle through bases and TFs.

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2. How about hotkeys to cycle through air and ground units in a given hex? Again, arrow keys might be nice candidate.
already on list

3. More hotkeys generally. Mousing hurts my hands; keyboarding doesn't.

4. A hotkey or button to "make home base same as destination hex." I often seem to want to send a TF away and tell it to stay where it's going, so I end up clicking on the destination hex twice -- once to set the DH, once to set the home base. (Is there a way around this already?)

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5. Off-topic: a fix to the sound bug!

ORIGINAL: ltfightr
I also want to be able to have a hot key that will cycle through the taskforces on the map without having to select each one.

Oh, hell yes! Even PacWar had this!

Also one for ports (with ships in them). And one for airfields with at least one air group.

ORIGINAL: dpstafford

ORIGINAL: ltfightr
I also want to be able to have a hot key that will cycle through the taskforces on the map without having to select each one.

Oh, hell yes! Even PacWar had this!

Also one for ports (with ships in them). And one for airfields with at least one air group.

As long as this is a wish list, East Front had a feature where at the beginning of a turn, a cycle flag was set. You could hotkey through every unit unit each one had been "considered". Once you had looked at each one a message popped up saying that you had touched each unit. Keeps from forgetting a unit on the map.

Any chance?

Added to list. As good a chance as any of the others.

ORIGINAL: mjk428

1) A "Previous/Next Base" button and hotkeys. If possible: sorted by size of base and/or each region.

This is already in the game...click on a base....lower part where it has the base's name are two arrows....try them