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Originally Posted by mark bonamer
hey pb,
when do you think the next version (.72?) of FOTRSU will be released? (the 70% solution?)  |
Not too sure now... thanks to torpedobait, we are having to re-do some more of the campaign and plane layers...
(just kidding torpedobait - we should have re-done them anyway)
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Originally Posted by torpedobait
... Glad the plane problem was real. I'm sure you will come up with something to cut it back. I used to see the same problem when laying off Savo Island, but I can't give you a time frame for that one. Have not had a recent encounter there so I don't know if it still exists, or whose planes they were. Might have been prior to establishing the base at Tulagi...No rush there, you know, something to do "in your copious free time". |
The planes were real, that is for certain. I added in a couple of new Australian airbase at Port Moresby and Australia, so that the Far East subs could see the Aussies flying about in their new-fangled "KittyHawk" airplanes, which are P-40 Warhawks souped-up with stronger engines, and painted very similarly to the Flying Tigers... can't have a game with such pretty planes not flying those airplanes... Anyway, both the "Normal" and the "Large" airbases use the B-24 Liberator, so when I added 3 more bases, two "Normal" and one "Large", there were over two times as many B-24 Liberators capable of striking Rabaul... Maybe not totally unrealistic, nor totally off-the-wall 'historically' for the game, but the hit on the computer trying to draw all of that. Those new bases have now been made "Small", with no bombers, only fighters. This is similar to the invasion forces you'll see traveling about the Southwest Pacific in 1941 and 1942... Most of them have about one fourth to one third of the ships the real invasion forces had, but the Silent Hunter game has a tough time trying to draw 70 plus ships ~and~ all of the airplanes of even one group, much less several groups...
