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ORIGINAL: cavalry

OK like you all I am looking forward to AE...

BUT I would like to ask if patches will be upgradable for games in progree IE no restart for effect.

I had two PBEM games of 42-45 games going one got to Oct 43 before the allied player gave up for personal reasons the other in MARCH 43 and still going despite the fact the allied player has lost all his original CV .

So I would like to ask if patches will upgrade games in progress, I think my WITP games had been without some earlier fixes or am I wrong ??

regards
Cav

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

We have been doing weekly builds for the AE testing for over a year now - during that time there have only been 2 or 3 times we've done a build that REQUIRED new game start - so based on that track record I seriously doubt we would even consider doing a build that would REQUIRE a restart.

The one we just did was at our choice - not to fix a bug but to increase the number of AI scripts allowed. For AE we went from about 150 up to 1000 and we thought that might be enough - but we've used them all up - so we just increased it again and that required a save file change which required new game start.

But note that while it is very unlikely that we would do a patch that would REQUIRE a restart - it is possible that a patch might make changes that would only apply to new games - but this would not REQUIRE a restart.

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

We have been doing weekly builds for the AE testing for over a year now - during that time there have only been 2 or 3 times we've done a build that REQUIRED new game start - so based on that track record I seriously doubt we would even consider doing a build that would REQUIRE a restart.

The one we just did was at our choice - not to fix a bug but to increase the number of AI scripts allowed. For AE we went from about 150 up to 1000 and we thought that might be enough - but we've used them all up - so we just increased it again and that required a save file change which required new game start.

But note that while it is very unlikely that we would do a patch that would REQUIRE a restart - it is possible that a patch might make changes that would only apply to new games - but this would not REQUIRE a restart.

ORIGINAL: TalonCG2

Perhaps I should start a new thread to ask this, but...
Reading this thread made me think of something.

I assume the install of AE will be similar to the install of many other game program addons almost like a super patch. Once AE is installed over Witp, will you still be able to play both versions? Or does it completely overwrite Witp converting it to AE?
If I'd like to continue my current game in Witp to it's completion for instance, will I need to have two separate installs? One vanilla Witp I have now and on my other hard drive I install AE over a fresh new install of Witp?

ORIGINAL: pad152

I wonder how this will effect mods, custom campaigns/scenarios?

Example: Changing the ship class of the USN Alaska from a CA to BC, would this get changed back if the database get refreshed with a patch?

ORIGINAL: treespider

ORIGINAL: pad152

I wonder how this will effect mods, custom campaigns/scenarios?

Example: Changing the ship class of the USN Alaska from a CA to BC, would this get changed back if the database get refreshed with a patch?

WitP and AE operate the same way ...when you open/start a new game, the data in the scenario file is "baked" into your save file. The save file then has all of the data to run the game, and the game is run from the data in the save file.

If the data in a scenario file is updated...it does not affect ongoing games because ongoing games are using the data in the save file. The only way to make use of the "new" data is to start a new game.