BigDog944

Check the announcements section for the AAR. I got the first click on Moon's post! A 33 page PDF is going to provide me some nice reading to go along with my morning tea!

Except they aren't CMBB...

I hope not too. However, if it is true, I would sign any petition asking Battlefront to release a patched CMBB exe that allows the clear text importing and exporting of battle files and results! You can bet that the community would then have multiple different working campaign systems developed within six months. All you have to do is look at the "Scorched Earth : Online War" campaign project (http://www.scorchedearthxtreme.org) for IL-2 to see what kind of work is possible from a dedicated community such as the CM series and IL-2 have. Could you imagine a web based, massively multiplayer campaign system for CMBB along the lines of SE:OW? We'd be fighting the entire eastern front down to the squad level by now in one absolutely massive multiplayer campaign. Oh well, maybe some day...

My guess is that they guy who is developing CMC has run out of money and as such has run out of ambition to finish the game. Anyway, once CM:SF comes out and Battlefront announces that their next CMx2 based game will be WW2 based, this forum will finally be laid to rest.

Wow, I would love to play that one, being an early war fanatic!

This was posted by Hunter on November 21st. Being on beta 6 isn't bad, but I think they ran into some fundamental problems with the way they were implementing fog of war in the game, and so I'm guessing they needed to do some serious redesign on the game. That's about the only thing I can think of that would have caused such a long delay. My prediction is Q2, 2007.

Hilarious!

Wasn't the word that they needed to completely rework the fog of war side of the game, or something? Some kind of a "D'oh!" moment...

It's based on the IL-2 engine, which definitely models projectile trajectory. In IL-2, every machine gun bullet is modelled individualy for trajectory and damage caused!

Thank you very kindly, Sir!

Something massively HUGE about WW2!

How goes the battle, Richie? Haven't heard anything in a while, so I'm just looking for an update. Cheers!

Check out the link to "Richie's Scenario Pack" in the sig of Richie's post (the third one in this thread).

My God. I'm in love! Beautiful work, Ritchie. I'm honoured.

:cool:

Scenario files have an extension of .cme, I believe. Maps would have another extension (I don't know which one), but that would be the file you'd need to upload. Use an FTP program to do the actual uploading, or rather sftp from the putty suite of tools. You're question is extremely vague, so you'll have to be a little clearer for someone to actually give you any meaningful help.

There are two BigDogs on the list, and the one I'm using is spelled wrong... I'm not sure who the other "Big Dog" is, but he ain't me. I'm BigDog944! Yes, I am! See?

Excellent essay, Jason. Thanks for sharing.

I agree Physim, we don't really know, and that has largely turned the issue into an emotional one. However, it is getting a lot of press time down in the US at the moment, with some heavy weight media outlets coming down on the side of "We need to do something" I think. I'm not American, but it seems CNN is running a week long focus on it in the "Anderson Cooper 360" show. Could just be more wood on the fire against Bush/Chenny/Rumsfield et al., or it could be a general swaying of American public opinion on the topic. Time will tell.

Ike I think the real concern for most thinking people around climate change is long term local climate shifts (aka "Dust Bowl" prairies) and critical food chain species extinctions, such as the loss of certain plankton species in large regions of the world's oceans. Though a couple of extra C average temperature could possibly help with our average tanning rates, it's likely to harm far more people than are benefited by it. One thing I really dislike about this issue is that policy is generally set by politics, not science. But then again, we lack the science to adequately explain the phenomenon. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were man's political nature that doomed the species, rather than his war-like nature?

As always, Jason, thanks for sharing your knowledge with the forum!

This is an interesting topic, for sure. However, one thing I'd like to throw in is that perhaps an average temperature rise across the planet isn't the problem. The average temperature rise at the poles is what humanity should be concerned about. The reason to focus on the poles is because there is a heck of a lot of water stored up and down there in the ice caps, and should that ice melt in any significant amount, ocean levels will rise and perhaps threaten some heavily populated, low lieing areas. My understanding of the physics of the issue isn't very deep (but I can follow it when it's laid out in front of me like in this post), but an average *planetary* temperature rise of 1 degree C may be manifested as a 0.25 degree rise near the equator, and a 3 degree rise at the poles. That would still be something we should want to avoid, I think. Can you shed any light on that, Jason? I've not seen any mention of polar average temperatures in your discussion so far. I'm genuinely interested in your opinion on that part of this topic.

Uh, so you're saying that CMC, though a nice idea, isn't playable? :confused: I beg to differ... One could easily come up with a set of tourney rules that would work quite well. The fact that there are no valuable prizes available may mean that you'll have to be a little more loose in the command structure, but that doesn't sink the idea.

So I take it this proves that the role of greenhouse gasses in the supposed "global warming" is a non-issue? Kyoto and other international environmental treaties are misguided and a waste of time? I don't have strong opinions either way, but I am interested in hearing about the physics and background as you have posted them here.

Wouldn't CMC itself provide all the communication you needed? I believe I read somewhere that it models higher commanders giving orders and the delay of those orders getting to the front line units, etc. Perhaps that would be enough to keep everyone organised. It would also be a little more realistic than an open-to-the-whole-team forum, as the lower commanders would then only know the orders they've recieved, and perhaps not the over-all strategy decided upon by the higher level officers. Then again, there'd have to be a dedicated group of players to be able to handle a month's worth of real life time where their only participation in the game is "Wait for further orders". Excellent idea, though!