Map for Round 3: ITALY

[Mister Fork]

There will be some lofty objectives...

[Phil]

Mister Fork !

When is the 3rd round starting ???

Phil / OPP7755
C.O
Canadian Eagles Fighter Squadron

[VWE]

As soon as round 2 ends...

[MjTalon]

yesh... finally we can use the long range bombers effectively now.

Can't wait for this, some good missions are going to be made on italy .

[bongaroo]

Or, you'll log on at 5 or 6 in the afternoon to find 7/8's of the map in the hands of one side who landgrabbed undefended bases all night and day while you slept and worked.  

[whiteman]

works both ways

[indy007]

Originally posted by whiteman
works both ways

It shouldn't work at all.

[indy007]

I'll go a step better, this entire unbalanced side problem could easily be fixed with probably 2 lines of code.

If a side has 25% more people than the other side, disable C-47/Jeeps.

10 vs 7 - game goes on.
10 vs 6 - capturing is temporarily halted until sides are re-balanced.

Not perfect, doesn't take into account spies, idlers, etc, but it's better than just letting people wail on the pinata.

[whiteman]

Originally posted by indy007
It shouldn't work at all.

agree, not a whole lot you can do about it. can say i was surprised to get on and see allies had a lot of land last night. we promptly lost it as the shift change occurred.

[republic]

Originally posted by Mister Fork


There will be some lofty objectives...

Italy!!!!  Oh this is going to be so awesome.  A real map with a real war....  I can scarcely contain my glee.  I'm going to be walking around all day like Bob from the Enzyte commercial.

If only we could stop the off hours base takers....it might be near perfect.

[indy007]

Originally posted by whiteman
agree, not a whole lot you can do about it. can say i was surprised to get on and see allies had a lot of land last night. we promptly lost it as the shift change occurred.

CheckAxis()
{
CurrentImbalance = (AxisPlayers-AllyPlayers) / (AxisPlayers+AllyPlayers)
If (CurrentImbalance > .25) then DisableAxisCaptureStuff
else AllGoodForAxis;
}

CheckAlly()
{
CurrentImbalance = (AllyPlayers-AxisPlayers) / (AllyPlayers+AxisPlayers)
If (CurrentImbalance > .25) then DisableAllyCaptureStuff
else AllGoodForAllies;
}

A bit more complex than that, but not by much. I'd be willing to wager HiTech could knock out a solution as simple as this one in under an hour. No idea how base handling is done by the code, but if its stored by a record, a simple for loop can cycle everything on & off quickly, especially in these relatively small AVA maps.

[Phil]

Originally posted by indy007
I'll go a step better, this entire unbalanced side problem could easily be fixed with probably 2 lines of code.

If a side has 25% more people than the other side, disable C-47/Jeeps.

10 vs 7 - game goes on.
10 vs 6 - capturing is temporarily halted until sides are re-balanced.

Not perfect, doesn't take into account spies, idlers, etc, but it's better than just letting people wail on the pinata.

That's a good thought 007 !

Maybe not temporarily halted, but NEED LOT MORE TROOPS depending on the numbers...

I think if HTC sees this, they will talk about it !

You got my vote !

Phil / OPP7755:aok

[Stampf]

Something along these lines would be excellant.  Let's face it, following rounds planesets are determined by "who wins", so it's gonna happen wholesale until someway to curb it is implemented.

Now that this thread has gone from one-liner everyday jibberish, to problemsolving, maybe HTC will look at it for us.

Salute.

[indy007]

Originally posted by Phil
That's a good thought 007 !

Maybe not temporarily halted, but NEED LOT MORE TROOPS depending on the numbers...

I think if HTC sees this, they will talk about it !

You got my vote !

Phil / OPP7755:aok

I like that. That would actually be even easier depending how the capture amount is stored. If it's a global variable, then you wouldn't need to cycle through the field lists or anything. Simply set it to 9999 or whatever when the imbalance function says so, then back to 20 as it evens out.

[Mister Fork]

There is little we can do with milk runners other than announce that people /squadrons run the risk of being banned and then excluded from awards.   (fixing symptoms - not the problem)

We're all adults, and we'll treat you as such - but that also means giving you lots of flexability and rope - sometimes so much rope people will hang themselves with it.  That's the risk they run in milk running bases.  Get caught - get punted from the awards and recognition.

The real solution is to find out who plays and when, then schedule players to be there which will safeguard against milk-running.  We COULD turn on side balancing, but I'm not sure thats the way to go either (treating a symptom).

Besides, Italy is a big map.  If people choose to capture bases in a milk run, congrats on childish gameplay.  Get caught milk-running, face the consequences.