Rongor

Hey there,
I  usually return to playing CM every half a year or so. Often this means reinstalling some stuff. As always, Battlefront's version numbering policy gets me intensely confused and I am creating this thread to not only point some attention towards this unnecessary situation but also to urge responsible staff to may be at least think about doing something about it in the long term.
For example: I just found a recent installation of CMFI/Gustav Bundle on my hard drive. Obviously I only had installed but not activated it before since it asked me to insert the key for a "CM Fortress Italy - v3.0 UPGRADE". In one of my dedicated text files I found that key and after activation, the game started. Arrived in the game menu, the version number didn't show 3.0 as expected. Instead it showed v1.20.
I visited all my installation backups and found a v200 installer and a CMFI v300 upgrade. I then could only guess that the numbers 2.00 and 3.00 may point at those CM engine versions. I am not sure as I can't recall it anymore after some months of absence from the forums. So I visit my Battlefront account, thinking I just should make sure and maybe download missing stuff again. In my account I find a CMFI upgrade 4. Since I just activated 3, I instantly had the idea of needing another upgrade. Opening that upgrade 4 on the download page, the installer shows no connection to anything with the number 4. Instead it is called "CMFI v200 Upgrade" in the downloadable archive. This maximizes my confusion, as I already have downloaded 2.0 and expect v3.0 to be newer.
Is it really so hard to find a numbering convention which instantly tells the user what exactly he has at hand? Without visiting the forum (no central hint there found so far), I have no chance to understand what is going on. I don't think this is the way you guys at battlefront wanted it to be. It goes on since I started purchasing CM titles and isn't that much different with the other titles.
If you call something CMFI v2, I expect CMFI v2 and nothing else. Stop to confuse me with engine versions, instead name them as integrated version numbers of the game and don't call them anything else so that I have a chance to find what I purchased.
By the way, both the Battlefront website including the shop and the forums use unsecured connections according to firefox. Maybe it is time to switch to https in 2018? Since CM titles aren't that cheap, money shouldn't be the problem. Maybe overhaul the whole system, which in its core finally enables me to download including-everything-installers so at the same time stopping the need for me to study confusing version numbers while applying several cumulative patches in a row...
Please forgive the venting character of my inquiry, but seriously, this is hard to bear.
 
Thank you!

Well guys, thanks for the guidance. Actually what I had to realize that I have to execute an installer called "CMFI_v200_Setup.exe" after having installed "CMFI v300 Upgrade Setup.exe".
The CMFI v300 Upgrade Setup.exe is in fact the CMFI v120 and should be called so or they should have named it "CMFI Engine3 upgrade" or whatever. To name it "CMFI v300" is totally weird, because there is no CMFI v300.
The question comes up, if the complete "CM Fortress Italy v200 Installer" is all I need for CMFI v2 on engine v4 or for CMFI on engine v2. Let me guess: It is neither engine v3, v4 or anything, it is engine2 v4 right? What a joke!
 

CMFI  Engine version 4- but close. 
 
This is what you want to get fully up to date.
http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage_bfc&product_id=620&category_id=37&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26
These are the instructions you want to follow.
Note, if you own the original v1.x (Engine 2) version of Fortress Italy and/or Gustav Line you will need to relicense those products.  After installing the Upgrade launch the game and enter your new Upgrade 3 + 4 license key.  Exit and use the Activate New Products link from that game's Documents folder to launch the game again.  Enter your original CMFI license key and the game should now fully load.  If you have Gustav Line repeat this process and use your Gustav Line license key. This is a one time hassle resulting from making CM more cross platformable going forward.
 
 
This is what you should see when launching the game.