Tac Ops Diary

[Tazak]

I think the TOD is a hugely underused resource of information, I'm putting it down to 'not overly user friendly' but with some changes can provide a easy to read timeline allowing players to quickly read through any activity that has occurred they might have missed watching.

Standard format:
this is the current format
0641 hrs - 3/A/Iron Horse - new orders received: Screen in hex 1101
0641 hrs - SitRep - 3/A/Iron Horse with screen orders has 2 x Mechanized Rifle, 1 x Heavy MG and 1 x Dragon in hex 1101 at 42% readiness with 46% ammo and 32% morale. 1 enemy(s) spotted.
0642 hrs - 1/C/Iron Horse in 1108 is engaging 2 x BMP-1D, 4 x Mechanized Rifle, 2 x 30mm AGS GL, 4 x Heavy MG and 2 x AT-3 Sagger in hex 1208 at range 645m.

While this is a very small sample (export it to excel and a battalion sized force will generate over 1000 lines in a few hours), and other than sitrep you need to read everything, if these were labelled similar to the sitrep above in the following fashion;

0641 hrs - FragO - 3/A/Iron Horse - new orders received: Screen in hex 1101
0641 hrs - SitRep - 3/A/Iron Horse with screen orders has 2 x Mechanized Rifle, 1 x Heavy MG and 1 x Dragon in hex 1101 at 42% readiness with 46% ammo and 32% morale. 1 enemy(s) spotted.
0642 hrs - Contact - 1/C/Iron Horse in 1108 is engaging 2 x BMP-1D, 4 x Mechanized Rifle, 2 x 30mm AGS GL, 4 x Heavy MG and 2 x AT-3 Sagger in hex 1208 at range 645m.

This would allow export to excel and have filters applied to filter out the 'updates' not required and allow for a much faster read. I've used standard report names that most ex-military will be familiar with.

Export
An export option (CSV or XLS) would be nice, more for ease of use as you need to select all then copy and paste

[CapnDarwin]

Definitely something we can spruce up in 2.1. I would like to get some combat reporting in there too. Some weapons used and basic hit numbers. I will have to talk to Rob as well to see if export and filtering could be done in the existing control or if we need to rebuild it in a way where exported reports and filters could be used.

[batteran]

Thanks tazak.

Ideally, if we can have a log file initiated and writed in real time with this Tac op diary content well formatted (csv format is ok ^^), it will help for some modding possibilities.

I would like to have at the start of the scenario, the full player OB written in the tac op/log file too, if possible ^^.