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Be careful! When you start editing units in a efile there will be no end and suddenly it is 2 years later and you are not even finished

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So here is the plan for the next 14 months until the end of 2025: - finish Vyazma map (almost done, only roads are missing) - create another map of Greece for Dimitris - create new Kiev map - design 1941-42 BARBAROSSA campaign with 25 scenarios. Most scenarios will be taken from Weltkrieg, but there...

A new map is finished!

Number: 1596
Name: Athens South (3K)
Location: Greece
Period: WWII
Map size: 3150;3000

Comment: mod of map 1572

LuisGuzman wrote: ↑2024-11-08 06:35, Friday New official OpenGeneral 24.11.08.0 available !
Installer and core packs updated

OpenSuite version updated to match the OG one.

Muchas

Welcome back then!

I don't remember when i joined JP's and if we ever met there before the forum vanished, but it's great to have you aboard here in the new forum!

hoza wrote: ↑2024-11-05 07:52, Tuesday I am really getting old. I used them in the first turns to destroy british AD and then forgot them.

Happens to me too!

Great thanks! But please take your time

How come the one V1 did not gain any experience? Did you deploy them in France next to the auxiliary V1?

Here's just a little teaser. Dimitris asked for new maps of Greece and one of them, Athens South, shares some areas with existing maps.
Look at this beauty

Hey Luis, I just want to ask if/when you plan to release a new full installer of the game and suite? So everybody can get to the same versions again. I feel it is very confusing because not everybody is using the same versions.

Current scenario: Operation Black Sea: Taman and Kuban We have to land at the Taman Peninsula and also capture VHs along the coast, like Anapa and Novorossiysk, but also in the hinterland. At HQ i only buy attachments since the player can not buy new units. We get a free infantry unit though. The n...

Current scenario: Operation Husky: Gela The first real scenario. At HQ i bought a fighter, my favorite WWII plane, the P-47. I also bought a flak and artillery. The player also gets some free units. After deployment i sent my units to the coast of Sicily and the first units land south of the Dirill...

Yes, this is an academic conversation .. but it's better than none at all I am sorry, but i have an other opinion. We can discuss this for years, like the other topics on map making, but it will not bring us new maps. As i have said, as a map maker you should choose the name or names that you think...

That's what I did --> I entered the name of the town - sometimes in 3 languages --> Królewiec (Russian: Калининград, Kaliningrad; former German: Königsberg) The problem is that if I only enter Krolewiec, will you know that it is Kaliningrad? --> this is an example - think of small towns, and it r...

And another issue - in Greece there were and are Greek towns In the lands of today's Ukraine and Belarus - towns were once founded by Germans, Poles, Jews, Ruthenians --> so they were given German, Polish, Russian names accordingly Then these areas changed affiliation --> so the names were changed ...

Thanks for sharing your opinion @PrinzMurmel :howdy There is one more thing i'd like to add to the discussion. Weaker players or players who are new to the game might do not get a BV and so they have no chance of getting a proto while the veterans easily amass the protos. So a campaign may even beco...

I checked EFILE_ATOMIC - there is no option to change to German localization --> is it not needed? I don't even know what that 'localization' is and how to do add it :huh English is fine! And i never heared that any other file used something like this. Only Gustlik efiles to add a Polish version, r...

Since nobody answers you I can only write, that I can not display Polish characters in the game. I get some odd characters like you say. Of course you should do as you like, but maybe keep in mind that international players most likely can not display special characters in the game. Outside of the g...

Found it! Thanks. Time to add a bunch of things to the EquipIcons. The official equipicons are not updated at the moment. If you want to share your work, you would have to also share the icons and descriptions, otherwise people can not play the campaigns when icons are missing. Sorry, i forgot, do ...

RoyalBengalTiger wrote: ↑2024-10-19 18:24, Saturday New question...

The icons have descriptions when viewing in the modding tools.

How do I add these descriptions to icons in the icon tool?

The descriptions are stored in the OpenIcons.csv excel sheet.
Or in case an efile uses additional icons in the EquipIcons.csv.

Long time i have not touched Civ III. Maybe i should give it a try or just check some random maps out with the speedy Aztecs. And I must admit, I have never played any other game from the series. I'd like to play one of the newer games from the Civ series (or Anno series), but i guess they would not...

Current scenario: Lamberdusa under attack! Some posts got lost due to the forum breakdown, but i am much too lazy to restore them. So i will just continue with the campaign. At HQ i bought some attachments only. The player can only deploy destroyers, ground units and the seaplane tender. After depl...

Got a massive proto, which i sold for 2K. That's why i don't like protos very much. Of course it is nice to get such a expensive proto, but it is just about luck. My bomer also got a leader. OpenGen 0.93.5.RC3 * 5 May 2024 * AI version: 2.00 (2014) Efile folder: D:\Games\OpenGeneral\efile_atomic\ * ...

While work on the maps is slow, i thought i need to play something and i decided for an allied campaign. Only 15 scenarios, so let's see if i get 15 leaders before the end of the campaign :lol (Or if i dismiss them all). The Pantelleria garrison surrenders before the end of the scenario and a BV is ...

Great job Luis and Gilestiel

Also, most maps uploaded in a month since Febraury 2013

Lord help me

I book 4 more numbers.
1596-1599 please

The question is, if the prototypes will really be random. People reload a lot.... For example, i never got 3 protos in a row in my whole life. Yet, other people constantly get them. Or even four in a row, five in a row,... ;) Personally i like a thoughtfully curated campaign more than random protos....

Great job! :bow :notworthy Deciding which country to assign is sometimes not easy when map covers more than one country, as I try to avoid creating multi-mix-countries for maps like 50003. :dunno :howdy Just pick the one country that you think fits the best. It will be okay and people will find the ...

But does it take away from the replayability of a campaign? Personally I don't think so. You can get some really special units that would not be available to the player later in the game (like most protos). Although for example in the Weltkrieg campaign there are only 3 proto choices while the play...

Another question. As a player, what do you prefer? Classic campaign setting with all units having a base strength of 10 and the chance to get a prototype after a BV. or Campaign with curated prototypes that every player gets, no matter the victory rating. Also players can sometimes choose one proto ...

Battle of Mallorca! The tank fought the whole campaign. Very nice.
But i see no leader name. Do the other leaders also have no names?

Good job

More than 11K kills and only 18 kills by aux units

Best tank ever: 2748 kills, 26747 exp

(And please everyone keep in mind that there is a a hugh exp regression!)
Please, can you post a sceenshot of your tank's inspect unit panel?

Captain Rummelsnuff eats Surströmming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nte--7A ... ummelsnuff

When this happens to me, I sometimes replay the entire turn. I can't remember I ever used this feature on purpose, and I guess most players rarely do so. But of course I can live with the inconvenience :winkgrin In a defensive scenario it can be a tactic to blow hexes and slow down the advancing AI...

Hi, I have a small item for the wish list, something which repeatedly annoyed me (because I couldn't use the interface correctly). When you have selected a plane which is able to bomb the ground, and you click around to select something else, and you don't watch exactly what you are doing, it happe...

I realized that i don't have to change Weltkrieg :bonk There simply can be two version of the campaign! One version with 80 scenarios, as it is now, and another version with 20+ scenarios added. So i don't have to worry too much and can just keep adding maps and scenarios to the extended version :cool

Yes, like i said, if no more bugs are reported maybe Luis can release a official version of the game and suite soon, so everybody can get on the same version again. It's confusing with the various RCs and people who might not visit the forum often play with later versions.

Weltkrieg has 80 scenarios now. I'd like to hear opinions if the campaign could/should be longer. Dimitris and I were talking about maps and campaigns and there will be 2 new maps for his planned Greek campaign. I could also use these maps and also some maps that are unused at the moment. So would y...

Yes, it's very confusing with all the different versions. Maybe, if there are no bugs reported in the next weeks, Luis can release a new complete installer, so everyone can get to the same version again.

I mean map number of existing maps. Something like SSI maps 10 or 17 maybe fits the region? I also lean towards my map 1564. But yeah, i just think about many possible maps and constantly think about how to paint them. That does not mean i actually will do them :lol It's just that i think about map ...

Another hypothetical question (for now

):
If one were to make a map of the southwestern Kursk Oblast / Seym River, which map style would you prefer?
Please point me to the maps, that have a fitting style for this region in your opinion. Tell me the map numbers please.

Sorry, i don't understand this. Which layer do you mean? I was talking about real terrain Between the right and left wheels (their tracks) - are you planning semi-transparency so that e.g. grass (background layer) is visible Will you draw (the road) manually or using some template, brush ..? --> so...

:howdy Thanks guys, i will do it like shown in the picture :cool You make the road on a new layer, right? Yes, there are several layers in one map file. One layer each for - map resource (scanned paper map etc.) - hex grid - trees and woods - cities - bridges - roads - railroads - rivers - fields - ...

As i wrote before, i am working on a new Vyazma map with the map 741 by Andrey Zorin as resource. In the original map the roads (apart from the highway) are brown so i think the designer maybe wanted to show the Rasputitsa. I want to stay close to the original and paint brown roads. What do you thin...

sympatyk wrote: ↑2024-08-20 18:15, Tuesday Your backgrounds for the first message

Thank you very much

Yeah sorry, i didn't look into it. I did not try uploading any pictures because i was too lazy and i thought it is not urgent because nobody is woking on maps anyway :dunno (I am currently working on the Vyazma map of which i showed the background. I added the highway and now working on the rivers.)

Next question - why are machine gun infantry units commonly classified as anti-tank? They often have just 1 point of hard attack... Most likely the efile designers wanted the MG to use the AT-class traits. So the setting is not about the hard attack but about the inherent (hard-coded) traits of the...

Here is my honest opinion: Nobody will create a video because there is a thread about making videos. Nobody will make a map because there is a thread about making maps. Nobody will make a campaign because there is a thread about making campaigns. And so on... Intrinsic motivation is needed. Just mak...

I try to create various technical topics, but there is no response .. apparently they are not needed? If you have fun compiling these technical informations, then why not do it? For example, my plan was to not touch any maps until winter but after 2 or 3 months my fingers were itching so to speak a...

I also have your drawings (I don't know if all of them ..) and I will put a directory with them on Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/108NgcZD6TtU75b_cY5GoauvZI9DCf8aY?usp=sharing That's it, thanks :cool Half of files i could not find on my computer anymore. For the opening post of...

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