Hmmm I definitely found a few lines that jumped lol

For the geometry of the sea zone tiles, the goal would be to find something analogous (where the connections are the same.) Also on a physical table maybe like an extra wide king banquet 36x72 that sorta deal hehe.

I think v3 probably makes the more sense to key it that way than revised though, since that one is so small, but I also wanted to get the white border thing working which is always sorta tricky, mainly on account of wanting something that can be blended as well.

If I pass it through a gray instead of white gives different effects, so like to make it more muted, or the sea zone color doing different blues for player preference. Mainly because for revised it's cool to have the dark ocean light sea zone, but other boards like Classic or v3 might look better with the black line, so just trying to get a way to do both from the same sort of templet.

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@quack_89 Are you using "fast AI"? I also have a decent laptop and encounted the same issue when playing any other type of AI.

@trout

yea no need to go to big on the report. I always do 🙂 I'd try and use The Captain's as a guide.

Don't worry too much about pictures. There is a small < > upper right where you can go full screen. Select a certain area you can tune out the History or just bomb the entire screen in.

I usually zoom out to get a bigger picture. The save game has all the info but most won't want to fire it up unless they're real interested.

Anyway, be a couple days probably. Need to fix a couple things and update the Notes again.

Fun game 🙂

@rogercooper said...

@igbi Be careful with making every VC a capital. The AI can overdo it, focusing too much on it.

But Roger, unlike your mods, there's no nuance or sophistication to my mods. They're a brutal reduction.

Ha, ha. You tell me one thing. TheDog tells me another. A rock. A hard place. I'm between them? No, no, I'm over to the side, just a blip on the screen. Only the storage scope will show that I've been here.

It would be good if the AI had direct support for victory cities, at a level intermediate between capitals and normal territories.

Don't know the details in any way, manner, or fashion. But the best of AIs would require no tweaking by us, except to weaken it, which would be in the options.

There are things of number value all over the map. Those numbers, along with the tagging of what has to be captured should be enough information for a super-strong AI to calculate a plan.

A strategy, with battle tactics to carry it out, adapting as needed to what the opponent does.

But maybe you're talking about something else.

--IGBI

@cernel said in Command line AI vs AI play feature:

@igbi said in Command line AI vs AI play feature:

The ww2v0 is my naming to make it line up with ww2v2 to ww2v6.

When 1, 2 and 3 actually mean first, second and third, there is no zero (traditionally). What comes immediately before 1 is -1.

Anyway, Classic Second Edition is V1. Mind you, "V1" stands for "Classic", not for the edition here: the Classic Third Editions, basic or Iron Blitz, are also V1.

No need to reply here. But when writing a response to the last post, I thought there was a going to be context in another post to engage in long-windedness, but actually there's not.

And then I thought, I'll go ahead and summarize some thoughts anyway about "Some Hypothetical Great A&A Analysis Tool vs What is an AI", but in the light of that every good thing comes to an end, every marginally good thing needs to be brought to an end.

As to confusion amongst naming, there's the manufacturer, a large corporation, and then there's the user. The user is looking for free software written by benevolent developers, and confusion on the user's part results in the wasted effort of answering the same questions over and over.

As to the large corporations, confusion many times makes them money. Bought that $100 version instead of the $45 version, because you were confused?

The Original Topic Title

I put out a request. Maybe in a year or two the developers decide it's something they want.

I only created an account to make the request. The software is good as it is.

--IGBI

@rogercooper said in Standard Variants:

I doubt could doubt I could do upkeep, which involves changing the value of every territory with a property.

Changing territory values are not that hard. Check Mega New Elk's map. Territories are a list of variables. Adjusting their PUs values is quite easy, even though a game properly. Or a fancy each to create a charge. Unless I'm completely misunderstanding what you mean, which is totally possible.

Cheers...

@hungry-coyote

yea might have to switch back to the 2.5 stable. Idk if that pre you have works. Idk though

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 12

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1942 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 12 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 1 armour, 1 fighter and 9 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; Combat Move - Russians 2 armour and 3 mech_infantrys moved from Poland to Germany 2 mech_infantrys moved from Romania to Slovakia Hungary 1 armour moved from Romania to Slovakia Hungary 2 fighters moved from Baltic States to Germany 3 fighters moved from Albania to Germany 1 tactical_bomber moved from Albania to Germany 1 fighter moved from Russia to Slovakia Hungary 2 mech_infantrys moved from Volgograd to Tsinghai 2 fighters moved from Volgograd to Tsinghai 1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Sikang 1 fighter moved from Volgograd to Sikang 1 infantry moved from Samara to Novosibirsk 1 mech_infantry moved from Urals to Timguska Russians take Timguska from Japanese 2 mech_infantrys moved from Russia to Novosibirsk Combat - Russians Battle in Tsinghai Russians attack with 2 fighters and 2 mech_infantrys Japanese defend with 2 armour Russians roll dice for 2 fighters and 2 mech_infantrys in Tsinghai, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 1.33 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 2 armour in Tsinghai, round 2 : 1/0 hits, 1.00 expected hits 1 mech_infantry owned by the Russians lost in Tsinghai 1 armour owned by the Japanese lost in Tsinghai Russians roll dice for 2 fighters and 1 mech_infantry in Tsinghai, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 1.17 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 armour in Tsinghai, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 0.50 expected hits 1 mech_infantry owned by the Russians lost in Tsinghai 1 armour owned by the Japanese lost in Tsinghai Russians win with 2 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4 Casualties for Russians: 2 mech_infantrys Casualties for Japanese: 2 armour Battle in Germany Russians attack with 2 armour, 5 fighters, 3 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber Germans defend with 2 aaGuns, 1 factory_major, 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Italians defend with 1 fighter Germans roll AA dice in Germany : 1/0 hits, 1.00 expected hits 1 fighter owned by the Russians lost in Germany Russians roll dice for 2 armour, 4 fighters, 3 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber in Germany, round 2 : 4/1 hits, 4.17 expected hits Germans roll dice for 2 aaGuns, 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Germany, round 2 : 2/1 hits, 2.33 expected hits 2 mech_infantrys owned by the Russians lost in Germany 2 aaGuns owned by the Germans and 2 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Germany Russians roll dice for 2 armour, 4 fighters, 1 mech_infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Germany, round 3 : 4/1 hits, 3.83 expected hits Germans roll dice for 2 fighters and 1 mech_infantry in Germany, round 3 : 2/1 hits, 1.67 expected hits 1 mech_infantry owned by the Russians and 1 armour owned by the Russians lost in Germany 1 fighter owned by the Germans, 1 mech_infantry owned by the Germans and 1 fighter owned by the Italians lost in Germany Russians captures 31PUs while taking Germans capital Russians converts factory_major into different units Russians win, taking Germany from Germans with 1 armour, 4 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 12 Casualties for Russians: 1 armour, 1 fighter and 3 mech_infantrys Casualties for Germans: 2 aaGuns, 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry Casualties for Italians: 1 fighter Battle in Slovakia Hungary Russians attack with 1 armour, 1 fighter and 2 mech_infantrys Germans defend with 1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys Russians roll dice for 1 armour, 1 fighter and 2 mech_infantrys in Slovakia Hungary, round 2 : 2/1 hits, 1.33 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys in Slovakia Hungary, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 1.17 expected hits 1 mech_infantry owned by the Russians lost in Slovakia Hungary 2 mech_infantrys owned by the Germans lost in Slovakia Hungary Russians roll dice for 1 armour, 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry in Slovakia Hungary, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 1.17 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 armour in Slovakia Hungary, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0.50 expected hits 1 armour owned by the Germans lost in Slovakia Hungary Russians win, taking Slovakia Hungary from Germans with 1 armour, 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 10 Casualties for Russians: 1 mech_infantry Casualties for Germans: 1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys Battle in Sikang Russians attack with 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry Japanese defend with 1 bomber Russians roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry in Sikang, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 bomber in Sikang, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits Russians roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry in Sikang, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 bomber in Sikang, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits Russians roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry in Sikang, round 4 : 0/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 bomber in Sikang, round 4 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits Russians roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry in Sikang, round 5 : 1/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 bomber in Sikang, round 5 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits 1 bomber owned by the Japanese lost in Sikang Russians win, taking Sikang from Japanese with 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 12 Casualties for Japanese: 1 bomber Non Combat Move - Russians 1 fighter moved from Sikang to Volgograd 2 fighters moved from Tsinghai to Volgograd 3 mech_infantrys moved from Ukraine to Volgograd 2 aaGuns moved from Ukraine to Bryansk 2 mech_infantrys moved from Novgorod to Poland 1 tactical_bomber moved from Germany to Poland 2 fighters moved from Germany to Poland 2 fighters moved from Germany to Poland 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Baltic States 1 fighter moved from Slovakia Hungary to Poland Place Units - Russians 1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys placed in Volgograd 3 mech_infantrys placed in Novgorod 1 fighter and 4 mech_infantrys placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 44 PUs; end with 76 PUs Objective Russians 3 Berlin: Russians met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 86 PUs Objective Russians 2 Spread Of Communism: Russians met a national objective for an additional 15 PUs; end with 101 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Japanese regular : -0.17 Germans AA : 0.00 Germans regular : -0.67 Russians regular : -1.67

Savegame

@jason-green-lowe said in Limit total number of Chinese fighters?:

I swear I tried hard to think of this on my own and couldn't, but it seems so obvious once you point it out.

I have said the same thing! @beelee, @TheDog and many others have pointed stuff out to me, and I'll just go "WOW! I could have had a V8!" (Head-slap emoji)

Cheers...

I'm afraid if I don't leave this somewhere it will be lost to time forever.

Here is the Pop_1914 folder which I have. It includes a tweak I must have made at some point, to the under image. Probably while trying to get blends to work under the newer scheme, or who knows, it was like years ago now.

This map/game is not in a fully completed state, meaning I'm not sure if meets the specs for the pre-release 2.7 is stuff. It won't autounzip, but if I extract the folder and place that downloaded maps it will launch up. I think perhaps just needs a yaml in the right spot, or to match the new structure for that stuff in the latest tripleA way.

It's missing some elements, unit graphics I believe, as I only had Germany for that from Hepps, and I think the others may need to be worked up. but this is everything I have for it so I didn't want it to be lost. Going like 5 years on my old dropbox links probably will be defunct eventually. Anyhow here it is from the archive on my drive.

Power of Politics 1914 (Map/Game Folder)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16IwfPRBcPzAXTu-F7HN4mYBAobiRq_vU/view?usp=sharing

That includes everything I was given by Hepps and Redrum at whatever point that was back in like 2020. The way Hepps did his design, the Misc folder was used to include all the decorative elements in tiles (basically like same way as using the map tools tile_breaker in map tools/tile_reconstructor in other optional tools. I believe what I did was to isolate out the convoy lanes, and then put it back in a reduced opacity, and changed the base ocean color to a lighter color for blends. This was just me trying to customize what was already there, hence the backups in case anyone needed to restore. Here is an image with blends on and then another blends off, so you can see what all is there.

Image (export gameboard image)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuXZ1ry7nqqyAGiZPphSzo8kmsJ5Yt0S/view?usp=sharing

pop_1914_small.png

Image (export gameboard image blends on)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-sEamonkaYpPcztZAwDnhKEaaeC8f--b/view?usp=sharing

pop_1914_blends_small.png

Unit purchase (screen)

Screenshot 2025-03-07 055506.png

There screen for G1. Right now G is the only faction with graphics, so I think that would need to be the basis, at least for Central Powers. Perhaps the Entante could just be made in the similar style. Graphics for that one all 48px, but might do an upscale if I can find the time. Otherwise I think Hepps stuff all looks pretty badass though, I mean stylistically it's all very visually cohesive with his other tripleA boards, and has the unifying vibes. Not sure what if anything comes of it, I just didn't want to lose all that work that they put in. Map is in a WIP state still. I'm not sure of the ultimate design vision for the politics and such, but wanted to make sure it was saved somewhere at least.

Best

Elk

@VictoryFirst

I'm struggling hard. I can't solve why the trigger fired. The above was a notification change. Shouldn't matter. Here's the trigger firing

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Here's the trigger

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and the condition

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the at war ones are pretty basic. None of that should be new.

wwtf I guess I'll just try and recreate it. It never happened before. Not where JPN and the Allies aren't even at war.

Wtf this is pissing me off

Edit
I recreated it or at least the JPN attack and it worked fine. Idky it nutted up for us. Will just have to edit in the yanks if jpn attacks first

fbs

had some git bs today too. I wonder why that is. Neither have happened before

@redanto triplea_4113_18ita.tsvg

Latest version v010 ready for download.

Updated manual New Unit Bridge that can be placed in Rivers and Channels, it is a non moving 'transport' New canal Hellespont & Anatolia Post 2 on 1st page for Code Raiders has a summary of how Winter works Winter is coming, well on turns 4, 8,12, etc (with a Winter symbol . With a popup to warn & remind you of its effects for 1 turn

Winter in a territory and Sea Zone (Arctic, North and Antarctic)
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Winter Terrain Effect for this turn
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Your comments are most welcome.
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Link to 1st post that has;
Google Drive download link
Latest 1888a SAS manual
Latest TripleA version

https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4056/1888a-steam-steel-official-thread

@jason-green-lowe

I remember something about you working on that map. Hopefully it is coming along ok, and we will get to see it soon!

Good luck on your projects!

Cheers...

@victoryfirst said in VF (Axis) vs TGC (Allies) | Classic, Game 2 - Balance:

Yes, I am playing so many that I sometimes forget where I need to do my turn.

Yep. I can relate to this. Thank you for rolling for tech and taking the game this far. Yes, some of your moves shocked me but I can see with a bit warmer dice rolls - things could have gone differently.

GOOD GAME!

@redanto triplea_4107_22rus.tsvg