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@cargol and @ALBY, enough already, ok?

That isn't their fault. That is ours. During testing we tested very tiny battles to get through them in a reasonable amount of time. The current tournament that we're playing will run for over 3 months by the time it's finished. That's a very long time to test, especially if there is an issue that gets fixed and the testing has to start again. The running score that we see for each Round has never been based on the final in game CM score. It was only intended to give player a feel for who was doing better. Then, at the end of the battle, the final in game Combat Mission score replaces the running score. It became apparent early in the first Round of this tournament that the running score was going to be MUCH higher than the end game Combat Mission score. That would take away the incentive for the player to finish. If the running score shows you with 13,000 points but after you complete the battle that is replaced by an in game score of 550 (for example), you would have a higher tournament score by simply not completing the battle. Which is why, for this tournament we are asking people to not complete their battles. Combat Mission was never designed to track in game scoring. No score can be tabulated until a battle is complete. The amount of coding to do that would be astronomical. So, we needed a workaround for the problem. Here's what we've done. Each turn of a tournament battle will push out 3 points for the player that causes the highest casualties and 1 point for the other player (0 points if no casualties are caused by either player). When a battle is completed the final score will be the in game Combat Mission score. We need to make sure the running number is low enough so that there is no way the in game score will be lower than the running score, once the battle is finished. That can be done by the scenario designer. This will give the players the incentive to complete the battles and get their higher scores. This scoring change has been done for a while and is in the most recent patches for Black Sea and Shock Force 2 (it's actually in Battle for Normandy already too). It will be added to Cold War once the current tournament is finished. Make sense?

Weird. You shouldn't be able to do that, Unless the internet connection is so wonky that the turn never processes. I can't tell what the original poster is playing either.

Yeah. Like finished PBEM++ it will remain on the In Progress list for 30 days.

I'm not sure what the message is saying. Who "closed" a battle for cheating? Slitherine? I am aware of his ticket to Slitherine support because they also contacted me to see if I had any idea how he would have gotten a wrong game file. You shouldn't be able to open turns multiple times. Once you've played your turn it should disappear from the list.

The scoring system for Cold War is borked (technical term). It has been drastically changed in the latest CMSF2 and Black Sea patches. When they are released on Steam and Matrix we're going to hold a public beta tournament to test out the revised scoring system. The Round 2 scenario particularity shows in what way it is borked. The example that you saw highlights it. EDIT: I just went and looked at your Round 2 scores. DALBY is the player that received a game turn from someone else's battle and wasn't able to advance that one. That oddity is being check out by Slitherine. No one has been able to tell me yet how that happened. No one else had that happen, did they?

Yeah, thanks. We had great seats. I thought of you just before I left.

OOps...Round 3 started while I was typing.

I'll let Slitherine know that the email notifications have been spotty. This battle has been nuts. I don't think that my opponent is on our forums. Our battles are coming right down to the wire. Round 2 will end today. I think at 17:15GMT (Going dark for a bit. @Warts 'n' all, I'm seeing my boy Elvis tonight in Atlantic City. Pretty stoked.)

The_Capt used a map that was made for the Cold War module. The location of the battle is outside the Cold War area of operations.

Wow. That's a kick in the gut story. Sorry for your loss.

No, but that's funny! Although I guess it is, just not the one @The_Capt was referring to. I'll give it another day It does have to do with the map.

https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/best-play-ever-nominee-philly-special Yes, it was possibly the greatest play in Eagles history and happened in their Super Bowl win 5 years ago. There is even a bronze statue outside the stadium (at the entrance I use to get to my seats. I use the gate in this picture) of when the coach and quarterback were calling the play. It will forever be part of Eagle lore and worthy of being my first tattoo. And now back to our continuing praise of the return of Paper Tiger and his work.

This one is going to take a very long time to heal. My youngest daughter started doing tattoos on people. She got the kit on the Amazons. She doesn't do a bad job (yatsbyry on Instagram). For fathers day she wanted to give me my first tattoo, I'd been talking about it for 5 years. I finally let her do it in January. If you know, you know.

@The_Capt and I had an email exchange this morning and he was cool with me putting this out there. He designed the first round's scenario. We didn't mention it at the time but there was an Easter Egg in that scenario. We wanted to see if anyone noticed. No one did. Which surprised us a little because you guys never miss a thing. Welp, here it is: https://battlefront.sharefile.com/d-s4ec9cae2481448d2a85e5b17454b1fd3 Remember....This battle is for H2H ONLY. There are no AI plans for either side.

Some may know this story....and others may not. The Road to Nijmegen campaign for Market Garden was broken for a lot of people. We wanted to fix it but we were missing a very important file used to create a campaign. One of everyone's favorite and most skilled scenario/campaign designers, @Paper Tiger, had created the campaign. He stepped away from the Combat Mission world for a while and we were unsuccessful trying to reach him to get the missing file. Paper Tiger has returned! Despite a dead computer he was able to locate the file and has redone the naughty bits. His changes are as follows: The updated campaign is available for immediate on the Patches page. https://www.battlefront.com/patches

Excellent point that I meant to say. It could come back from HQ that it is working as designed. And @Vacillatoris correct. If it is determined to be a bug it wouldn't be fixed until the next patch.

I can confirm that a bunker with men in it can spot 360 degrees. An empty bunker does not. And neither can fire.....although they can draw a target line. I did this with CMBN. I'll test them all before reporting it. Thanks!

I've just been going through the mess that you're referring to. If it starts up again there will be vacations given. They may even end up being given to the wrong people, if I accidently take the posts out of context. Anyone who wants to avoid getting some time away should stay out of the mud.

Exactly? I can't say exactly. I can say that they've had it for over a week. They do their own testing before pushing it out.

Enough

You can without hurting your score.

Not for the rest of the tournament. Don't finish any battles.

Yes. The full game installers are all up to speed. What that means for people is one of 2 things. If you purchased the game using Game Engine 4 then the link is a full installer. If you purchased it when it was still using Game Engine 3 then the 4.0 Upgrade's download link is the full game installer. Short version, any download that you have that uses Game Engine 4 is the full game installer. That goes for ALL CM2 titles.