Inf.Div upgrade to VG Div, Information Needed Please!
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2001 5:31 am
Hello All.
Over the weekend I was running multiple Computer v computer games to check out my new Barbarossa OOB.
and i noticed that some of the German Infantry divisions were transforming into VG divisions.
( As a human player I'v never played as the Germans sufficently long (mid 1944) to see this before.) Initially I'd thought that it was a hard coded slot thing, so I started taking notes. To my bewilderment 8 games later, I can see no pattern to the upgrades. I'm finding that while one or two Infantry Divisions became VG in every game,the most common was that the divisions in question only became VG Divisions one third of the time.
And I noted more than 40 divisions that upgraded at least once. I originally thought that perhaps there was an undocumented hard coded upgrade based on the slot occupied by a historically upgraded division. But a comparrison with the original OOB soon showed that many of the divisions that were becoming VG did not correspond to the original slots occupied by the historically upgraded divisions.
Finally, If it is a hard coded upgrade feature, should I bother to ensure that the divisions upgrading are the historically correct ones? (This would mean going back over the Axis Divisional data, and doing more bulk re-arranging, to align the historically upgrading divisions with the appropriate hard coded slot; and then multiple games to test that it works; About 12-24 hours work.)
Over the weekend I was running multiple Computer v computer games to check out my new Barbarossa OOB.
and i noticed that some of the German Infantry divisions were transforming into VG divisions.
( As a human player I'v never played as the Germans sufficently long (mid 1944) to see this before.) Initially I'd thought that it was a hard coded slot thing, so I started taking notes. To my bewilderment 8 games later, I can see no pattern to the upgrades. I'm finding that while one or two Infantry Divisions became VG in every game,the most common was that the divisions in question only became VG Divisions one third of the time.
And I noted more than 40 divisions that upgraded at least once. I originally thought that perhaps there was an undocumented hard coded upgrade based on the slot occupied by a historically upgraded division. But a comparrison with the original OOB soon showed that many of the divisions that were becoming VG did not correspond to the original slots occupied by the historically upgraded divisions.
Finally, If it is a hard coded upgrade feature, should I bother to ensure that the divisions upgrading are the historically correct ones? (This would mean going back over the Axis Divisional data, and doing more bulk re-arranging, to align the historically upgrading divisions with the appropriate hard coded slot; and then multiple games to test that it works; About 12-24 hours work.)