wunwinglow

wego. My PC is slow, and my brain is even slower. I'm not getting on at all well with the multi tab command structure, compounded by the cursor lag I am getting. One pop-up list when you right-click on a unit please, and unique letters for each command. You can ditch the tabbed thingy completely as far as I am concerned... But I'll get a more up-to-date PC to solve the other issues. I can't blame battlefront for them! Tim

Rorkes Drift??!! Now that WAS asymmetric warfare!!! Tim

I use a CAD program called Rhinoceros. (www.rhino3d.com) Once the publishers have a working core of the next version of their software, they release it, free, as a beta, to all their existing customers. There is a month or so's time limit on it, and anyone can report back with bugs, comments, suggestions etc. Each month sees a new beta, until eventually the software goes 'real', and it is sold. Anyone with a beta copy gets a discount on the final commercial release, and of course there are service upgrades during the life of the version. Maybe a year or two on, the first beta of the next version becomes available, and so on. What does this do? It makes sure that most of the bugs get squished early. It makes sure that any problems the CUSTOMERS feel are important get addressed. It means that all those problesms that the publisher could never hope to find out with internal testing, get sorted! It means the Rhino community is knowledgable and skilled with the product, and they feel VERY committed to it. And so do the publishers to their customers. Have a look at their website for more info. I'm wondering if such a model could be usefully applied to the next CM product.... Tim

You need an agent! Hollywood is beckoning.... wun

It is an abstracted breach. It might LOOK like a breach, you might be able to see through it now that it has appeared, there might rubble strewn around indicating a true breach has been created. But no. It is an abstraction. Do a google search on the works of Rene Magritte, especially pipes. Which were not pipes. In French. Discuss..... wun

Who designed the questions in that daft survey??!! If I say I don't know, what is the point of then asking which is my favourite? And what if I am not planning on buying ANYTHING? And if I've already told you I like wargames, am I going to care if you start publishing flight sims? No, I am not. Other than if it distracts you from publishing wargames. Or more to the point, distracts you from sorting out the pathfinding in certain games already published that I could care to mention.... wun

Yes-ish.

Hollywood NEVER lets the truth get in the way of a marketable screenplay, that's what makes it Hollywood. Tim

wun

I really like the RT aspect, but the slow mouse cursor response is killing it for me; that and having to work through several menus to get to a command. And having several key commands relating to different orders. But most of all, it is making me realize it is time to get a new PC!! So it isn't all bad news..... Tim

Perhaps this was the problem..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDAPOM--cCk Tim

http://www.buymybook.co.uk/irony_detector.htm No, on second thoughts, forget it. We wouldn't get threads like this then, would we? And then my ribs wouldn't be aching so much.... Thank you, thank you, guys! wun

Tim

I'm still playing the demo right now, I really need a new PC (like I need convincing....) but sometimes this level of micro-management can get a little irksome; an infantryman would presumably have enough commonsense to shoot at the spotter rather than the armoured shield of the gun, without having to be told specifically, particularly by me, when I'm trying to command a whole platoon of his comrades! I'd expect his sergeant to be putting him straight if he made such a boo-boo... Tim

Yer, an done-e furget us frum the wescunry! Oim frum Baff, so Icun tawk posh ifyoo wan, or Icun tawk loik a yokal, nas uptyoo. An moi gramfer, Ee wus inna Zumerzetloitinfuntree, so Igot sum creedenshaws. Wun

No Utah, Gold, Sword, Omaha or Juno then? Shame... Maybe that will be a future patch. please? (Ungrateful so-and-so, aren't I!!??) Amazing game, really looking forward to this! wunwinglow

100% Authentic. Hmm. I don't think my insurance company will like the sound of that.... wun

Gun? Mortar? Rocket Launcher? Unique weapon that defies classification? Whatever, awesome. Thank goodness they only made 18.... wun

...so some of the Interweb is rubbish, and some is OK (like spelling corrections), and some is meant to be funny, and some is meant to be serious. Isn't there a plug-in for Internet Explorer that checks this out for you? There is certainly one for 'Irony', http://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk/irony/ which, I understand, works very well indeed! It might prevent these threads getting so entertaining. And educational. And uproariously funny.... wun

Maybe you could do this by getting a row of assault boats across a wide river, to simulate a pontoon bridge? Sorry, my boat handling skills in CMAK are every bit as bad as they are in real life, so I apologise in advance if I am talking drivel! Wun PS I still reckon it was an opportunity missed, not putting the whole range of 79th Armoured Division vehicles in the game. Then you could have seen what Engineers could REALLY do!

John Kettler, detail please. I am more than happy to stay behind after class and write out 100 times whatever it is that I have got (gotten??!! UGH!!) wrong... Never too proud to learn. Never. But I can still spell 'Engineers'. wun PS MOS, I agree wholeheartedly about spellcheckers!

There is ALWAYS hope!!! Maybe if the game and participating here encourages youngsters such as him to appreciate how important it is to spell correctly, we can go some way to repair the damage. And the sooner the better. I gets MUCH harder to learn this stuff as you get older. Teachers telling their students 'It doesn't matter if you can't spell, it's your fuzzy little ideas that matter..' is surely one of the crimes of the century. You need BOTH. I reckon it is a grand excuse for teachers, who clearly cannot spell themselves. And worse, don't care. wun PS Is it obvious I am a touch miffed at the slack approach to the correction of spelling in my own kids school work?

No-one cut me any slack when I was learning to spell. That's why I can spell 'Engineers'..... wun PS I am not knocking the kid. His teachers need a kick up the ****, however. I am sick of teaching graduate employees the difference between 'waist' and 'waste', (Oh, the spell-checker said it was OK...) that adhesive has an 'h' in the middle, and 'speling' is spelt 'spelling'..... It might not matter to teachers (tetchers?) but it sure as heck matters out in the real world.

Feel sorry for the shallow little idiot, he clearly lacks the intelectual capacity to appreciate this fabulous game for what it truly is. Where-as us lot...... Tim P

47, going on 8. Don't ever grow up. Just look what grown-ups do to each other... Oh, by the way, I finished that archery course and just bought a KAP Winstar riser with Hoyt limbs, 70" with a 34 pound draw. I'm discovering muscles I never knew I had! Like I said, don't EVER grow up! wun