Interceptors

Eagle Day to Bombing of the Reich is a improved and enhanced edition of Talonsoft's older Battle of Britain and Bombing the Reich. This updated version represents the best simulation of the air war over Britain and the strategic bombing campaign over Europe that has ever been made.

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Hard Sarge
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RE: Interceptors

Post by Hard Sarge »

if we keep making changes we won't :P

I like the idea too

if it is a simple quick change, I will ask for it, if it is something will take some time, then it will have to go on the list for later

for the spacing, well, that is what it is, spacing, we only got so much room, thunderbolt takes up a lot of it, so it gets split into two lines, for the 109s, just being at 10 K or above, makes it a split, not sure what to say there
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RE: Interceptors

Post by Brutus »

I tested how it was in the old version: there was no line break at all, and therefor it was much easier to read.

Informations like this should always be accessible as easy as possible, so that you don't have to "read" them but just have a quick look over, seeing instantly what is important and ignoring what is not. So it's necessary to find the informations you want immediately in a certain place. In this sense, the text behavior in your screenshot is a serious setback.

The best solution in my opinion would be no linebreak at all, as it was. The second best would be a fix linebreak, maybe complemented by a lightly increased line spacing between the groups of planes.
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RE: Interceptors

Post by mh »

Thanks Sarge.
I did some changes on my computer: New installation, reupdated the game.
Game did change, but I got new proplems:
Amis seems to go to the brittain after some missions?
They hit my airfield with really good straffing attack, but after that they trying to go to brittain, not italy where they started their mission. Some did survived after flying through germany and back from belgium, but I don't see any meaning in this.

Game really seems to change after I take cd out of cd-drive(I didn'n know, that no cd needed for launching the game). Is it possible that game reads old files from cd if that is inserted to cd-drive, cause in my old game configuration, it showed right version on leftdown corner, but game was quite different than what you are shown in your screenshots and what it is now in my computer?
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RE: Interceptors

Post by bigmilt »

That bug is in the original program for the 12th/15th and med command - I read a hard sarge or harley report that is fixed in
the new version - to get around it - on escort missions for those commands only use high escorts - its the close one't that will head to England.
On the fighter sweeps I use the shortest range a/c - the p38j and p51 depending on the launch point and target may make it to England.
For the 12th a/f alot of their groups upgrade to p51b - if I am not going to use that squadron as an escort - fighter sweep or ground attack only
I change them from p51 to p47 - the p47 won't make it to England. My first game I had 2 p38 groups get stuck in England unusable and had to
backtrack a few saves.
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RE: Interceptors

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sorry, read this before heading off to work, and then been working on my HD's the last couple of days and forgot to reply

yes, that is called the Dover bug, in the Med, to get around it, fly sweeps with shorter ranged Aircraft, or plot the raid to try and burn off most of the gas

and yes, Close Escourt will then act as a sweep once the target is reached, so most times in the Med, you want to do High Escourt

and yes, we have found and fixed this
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