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Have some additional questions from the info in the database ....
All questions pertain to turn 0

1) Devices
There is a field listed as "ceiling". Looks to be a range/altitude item, but why then are
there several occurences of negative numbers ? For Ex. both the 90mm AA &
105mm AA guns have a negative number for the ceiling field.

2) Armaments/Weapons (still in devices)
Many of the weapons list no production rate, nor pool. Am I to assume that the "armament" industry produces x% f this and y% of that ? Just wondering whether
you have the level of control to produce more of a given weapon specifically, or do you
just need to increase the armaments industry in general ?

3) Pilots
I was looking to generate a listing of the number of pilots (on turn 0) per group. However, can see an easy way to do this. There are actually few pilots in the database itself. Several groups don't even contain pilots from the database. I'm guessing the pilots are randomly genereated ? I can't find anything within the groups database or pilot database that would allow a direct extraction of pilots per group. Is this correct, or am I overlooking something ?

4) Location
These is a field called "disabled". Mostly associated (or maybe entirely to) LCU's. Is this disruption ? Or something else ?

Is these a field or means to compute the disruption level, assault value and load cost per
LCU ? Is there sufficient info within the database to do this ? If so, does anyone know how to do this ?

Thanks in advance


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ORIGINAL: scout1

Have some additional questions from the info in the database ....
All questions pertain to turn 0

4) Location
These is a field called "disabled". Mostly associated (or maybe entirely to) LCU's. Is this disruption ? Or something else ?

Is these a field or means to compute the disruption level, assault value and load cost per
LCU ? Is there sufficient info within the database to do this ? If so, does anyone know how to do this ?

Thanks in advance

It represents Disable Percent. Editor manual page 31. Sets the percent of disabled devices in a unit at that base at the start.

1) Devices
There is a field listed as "ceiling". Looks to be a range/altitude item, but why then are
there several occurences of negative numbers ? For Ex. both the 90mm AA &
105mm AA guns have a negative number for the ceiling field.

My mistake in dump pogram. This should be an unsigned figure. Numbers over 32K are coming out negative. 33800 -> -31736. Will update it.
BTW this only affects the what is shown in the export. The correct value (either -31736 or 33800) is imported into the database, which is why I never noticed the error.

2) Armaments/Weapons (still in devices)
Many of the weapons list no production rate, nor pool. Am I to assume that the "armament" industry produces x% f this and y% of that ? Just wondering whether
you have the level of control to produce more of a given weapon specifically, or do you
just need to increase the armaments industry in general ?

If an Allied device and there is no replacement rate or in pool value, then the device is never produced during the game.
If a IJ device and production is on, it is assumed that the items are produced by "industry" on a need to basis.

Michael