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Can the system skip over empty event slots without problems if I wanted to categorize events for future searching/editing ease? Here's an example of what I mean;

Events 1-50 scenario basics - rail, transport, etc
Events 100s weather
Events 200s Force 1 events
Events 300s Force 1 unit and formation specific
Events 500s Force 2 events
Events 750s Force 2 unit and formation specific
Events 1000s Victory events

If I understand you correctly you want to set up i.e. 10 events from slo t1 to slot 10, leave the following slots blank and add more events in i.e. slot 50 and so on.

Should be no problem.

Cpl GAC wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 6:25 pm Can the system skip over empty event slots without problems if I wanted to categorize events for future searching/editing . . .

Short answer, yes.


Long answer, I use a system very similar to what you are describing. Typically, I'll have one block for Force 1, one block for Force 2 and a third block for common/global events. Within the blocks events are then grouped, such as all Force 1 deployments in the 300's. Events can be left blank as separators and/or for later additions. I also keep a spreadsheet which helps to locate events and to document those complex event sequences which need to be reused from time to time.


Regards, RhinoBones

Thank you, both.

Sigh. I remember back in the day having to cut events from a scenario because we only had 100 and you had to pick and choose. Admittedly not having to do that is clearly a vast improvement.

True, but on the other hand we used to not do something because it would take more events than possible to do, but now we do not have that excuse.

Note that while we do have a possible 10000 events, we can only 'see' 100 beyond the last event. So if you want to skip from, for example, event 100 to event 500, you will need to add dummy/placeholder events every 100 events until you get to 500.

sPzAbt653 wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 12:32 am Note that while we do have a possible 10000 events, we can only 'see' 100 beyond the last event. So if you want to skip from, for example, event 100 to event 500, you will need to add dummy/placeholder events every 100 events until you get to 500.

Lol!

Nothing against Ralph, he did a lot of good work on TOAW over the years.