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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

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Change folder structure to put saves, non stock content, and mods in Documents/My Games folder or similar.

ORIGINAL: Lobster

ORIGINAL: junk2drive

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Mine for now

Change folder structure to put saves, non stock content, and mods in Documents/My Games folder or similar.

You are a Micro$oft planted spy, yes? They are the only ones who would want to scatter a game's files across the expanse of the hard drive. [:D]

ORIGINAL: berto

A "structural" issue: reorganizing the games' files and folders.

Let's take a look at just one game, East Front.

In East Front, there are

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[root@berto East Front]# ls -1 | wc -l
5282

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5282 files, all of them in the top-level game folder. There is no hierarchy, no organization. It's hard to wade through and find stuff in all of that morass.

This is what I propose:

Retain the main, top-level folder: various .exe & .dll files, for the game engine, the editors, and whatnot; also .ini & other configuration files; and any miscellaneous files not covered by the following.

Under the main, top-level folder, these folders, most of them new:

[*]Graphics: all .bmp, .bit, .jpg, .png & any other graphics files
[*]Pictures: all .bmp, .bit, .jpg, .png & any other picture files
[*]Sounds: all .ogg, .wav & any other sound files
[*]Scenarios: all .scn, .scl, .map & .org files, also any special scenario docs
[*]OOBs: all .oob & .obx files
[*]Saves: all .btt, .btl & any other save game files
[*]Manuals: all .pdf, .doc, .rtf & other documentation and text files (.hlp files?)
[*]Logs: error, AI & other log files
[*]Tools: CSlint files, unit viewers, maybe some encryption tools, etc.
[*]Mods: (details to be described at a later date)

I would recode the game (not difficult) to look for files

[*]first, in their "proper" place, in the appropriate folder as described above; if not found, then
[*]second, in the main, top-level folder

In this way, we can transition from the current layout to the new one. The game will still work whether all or only some of us adopt the new folder layout, or in the meantime keep the current single-folder layout. (Eventually, we will all want to have the same file/folder organization of course.)

I'd like to move on this fairly soon.

Thoughts?

ORIGINAL: **budd**

another zoom level and mouse wheel zoom

ORIGINAL: PawelM

something about air strike which I do not like: I plot an air strike at certain location and I loose LOS on the hex=> air strike does not arrive.
I would like the airstrike to be able to occur even then. Imagine and aircraft which was called by ground units arriving and although friendly units have lost sight of the target then air units can still locate it if it is still there! They have their own eyes and if they arrive to the requested sector for support they do not require ground units.... Attack whatever is there they find... this would be a nice and realistic addition to air strikes IMHO...