Lethaface
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1 hour ago, BFCElvis said:
The best would be if the game was capable of pushing out the score you would see in a ceasefire each turn.
Agreed.
Without passwords there might be a 'dirty' way to automate a ceasefire for games not finished by the cut off time? I mean in theory the 'only thing' needed is a couple of ceasefire and end turn clicks.
@Butschi managed to automate 'some' UI clicking in the editor, maybe something similar could be achieved in the backend for a tournament?
Maybe just wishful thinking but I'd be willing to help with that if there would be a lead there
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Git gud
Abrams, Bradley, M60 TTS all have thermal optic. Try a game without those (although TOW and Dragon also have thermals) and feel the difference. I don't have issues with my USSR forces. The vehicles are usually worse on spotting/optics, but not short on firepower.Sharing C2 contacts helps, that's another thing which is easier as US forces.
And yes sometimes I also wonder if the exact spotting values modeled are 'correct'. All I know is that thermals do make all the difference because it makes stuff standout from the scenery. -
21 hours ago, BFCElvis said:
The player who causes the most casualties in a turn gets 3 points. The other player gets 1 point. The subsequent turns will add to those scores with the same 3 or 1 points. At the end of the battle, those scores will be replaced by the in game final score. This is why, unlike the last Cold War tournament you want to complete the battle now because the end score will be higher than the running score.
The point of the running score is to give a loose sense of who is causing more casualties and does not reflect any of the in game victory conditions. Combat Mission was not built to push running scores for in game victory conditions. It would take re-writing a MASSIVE amount of code for it to do that. An amount of programming time that we would not spend.
Thanks for the info! I think it's an improvement over the previous scoring system, might not be perfect for reasons you mention but let's see how it turns out :).
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8 hours ago, ratdeath said:
I got one turn, Syrian side. It's no longer in my "in progress" list.
Could it be a problem that I have created an account for pbem only? (I also have my main Slitherine account, but it's not on the same email address so it shouldn't cause any problems I guess). I use less secure password for my PBEM games that I have memorized for CM PBEM++
no password needed/better not to put one afaik. But it sounds like all is well, everyone starts with the RED/Syrian side which only asks for a password (which should be left blank ideally) to send the file.
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GL & HF all!
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14 hours ago, nathan1776 said:
I don't know
. I asked my contact for my internet at the condo I live at, who asked her contact (who I'm guessing is the tech guy for the condo), who said he asked the ISP and is waiting to hear back.
One thing you could try is reversing the changes in windows firewall and see if it gives you a popup when hosting a LAN game (it did for me). Windows can work in mysterious ways, who knows you opening the ports in windows firewall previously has bound them to something not CM. Also you can always try to see if your friend can join after you opening the ports; the indication on portchecker.co might not be definitive.
Like Redwolf says, a VPN can be used to bypass these issues. Back in the day when I still played CM realtime (have moved over to WEGO almost exclusively for PBEM) I used logmein Hamachi because people always had trouble opening their ports
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It still seems to be available:
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On 4/4/2023 at 12:18 AM, Sargeant Schultz said:
Sublime!!! My man! It's me, Sgt Schultz. Just got back in the community. Getting a new comp soon, and will have to purchase the game again due to lost hard drive and non-functional old email address.
I'd open a helpdesk ticket to see what they can do.
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On 4/2/2023 at 3:11 PM, Sublime said:
ALSO
The_Capt
Wheres he?
Alive and kicking quite active on the forum and coproduced CMCW
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On 4/2/2023 at 8:00 AM, LongLeftFlank said:
Ha ha, that would make you pretty much the only one at this point, now that our dear SgtSquarehead has ascended to ValhallaCon. I'm out of here for the duration, mostly work, but also the general tone of late feels like 8th grade. I don't need that crap at 59. Be well mate, hold the course!
While we all have our flaws I too have good memories about your contributions on here.
Among other things you once recommended Crashed by Adam Tooze, which is a great source of info (both the book and him) although often very deeeeeppp econometrics. I mostly liked his geopolitical analysis combining economic, military/defense and political aspects into a single view.
Times of crisis brings forth more heated and or emotional debates and discussions (and ego management plays it's part, which is also not a constant among people), we all react differently to those times and the emotions brought forth in discussions. I don't think Sublime is the only one here respecting you as a person and a contributor to various topics and CMx2 content. -
It's a good video, as are the other on his youtube channel!
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PS 2: You might have correctly opened the port but if there is nothing actively listening on it, the portchecker might say it is closed. So try it while you are hosting a LAN game.
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27 minutes ago, nathan1776 said:
As I wrote in my original post, I believe I have set up port forwarding correctly: https://i.imgur.com/l2bL3RR.png
Ah I read it on my phone just now and all I saw was you configured it in Windows Firewall. Looks good to me.
Anyway I did a quick test:
* Forwarded port 7023 TCP&UDP (it's a 'both' setting in my router) to my PC
* Started up the game
* Started a battle selecting Realtime/LAN
* Windows Firewall asked me to allow.
Then I used https://portchecker.co/ and it said:Port 7023 is open.
Edit: sometimes a router/firewall has some special button to commit changed rules into active. Can always try restarting it.
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you need to open the port in your router and forward it to your PC.
Your ISP should have given you login details for your router.
The router is usually accessible by it's internal IP address on your network which is usually the same as the 'gateway' IP.
To check the address of your gateway you can select the properties of your ethernet adapter or open a command prompt and type the 'ipconfig' command.
Make sure you know what your doing because opening too many ports isn't good for security.
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43 minutes ago, Beleg85 said:
Yes, balancing grain prices in general across EU is real problem even in normal times, as lot of local inequalities and absurds arrises due to greater good of common market; in both NL and PL farmers are also very "energetic" group, very keen on hitting the streets if they feel threatened in any way. Coal miners are the other one here.
Ukranian grain on EU market do and will cause problems, no reason to hide it- but we shouldn't forget that ultimately responsible for debalancing this sphere is Putin and his genocidal cronies.
New package of goodies announced:
Indeed Putin/Russia is responsible. The war has various side effects but I think most rational people with enough food on table will agree that supporting the right side is the right thing to do; nothing comes for free. Some don't really have a clue/interest in what's going on outside of their frame of reference.
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US sends more ammo good.
I don't want to anticipate on outcomes too much but it's looking like Ukraine has been stocking up good for an offensive op. -
7 minutes ago, Beleg85 said:
Actually, tomorrow Zelensky will be in Warsaw in rare international visit, there are rumours local farmers may protest to block his route. Why? Well, geniuses from government bought or stored Ukrainian grain in cavalier effort to help Ukraine before grain deal; they didn't think they may run out of storage space, railway cars to move it, and ruin Polish farmers by lowering prices on foreign. So they kinda did collapsed part of economy here to help, but it was chiefly due to lack of foresight and lack of communication between various public and private actors than geopolitical games.
We also have a farmer problem
, and now they've just won the vote for our senate and provincial government offices.
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10 minutes ago, TheVulture said:
Sweden is a bit more tricky though because they've managed to piss off Turkey (criticism of Erdogan's human rights record and support for Kurds) and Hungary (criticism of Orban). Nothing that other NATO countries haven't also said, but here they are in a position to demand concessions in exchange for not vetoing Sweden.
Sweden and Turkey had an agreement on what Sweden needed to do before Turkey would allow it in, but Turkey is saying that Sweden hasn't fulfilled its obligations yet (notably extradition of some Kurdish organizers from Sweden, which were blocked by Swedish courts). The Turkish parliament has approved Swedish entry to NATO, but I gather it's not up to them, but to the Erdogan administration.
So Sweden is unlikely to get approval from Turkey before the Turkish elections in May.
Hungary is expected to give in if/when Turkey does, but that's not certain either.
I know
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On another news I just read some concrete plans (or rather it has been decided) of Dutch defense 'firepower increase' due to the Ukraine war:
* Tomahawks for submarines and frigates
* Puls (Israeli MLRS), together with Denmark and maybe Germany.
* JASSM-ER for the F-35sNo groundbreaking stuff but seems to me like a pragmatic move: effective long range precision capability on air / land / sea. Plus it's buying of the shelf from what I read.
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17 minutes ago, FancyCat said:
I've always been of the opinion that the West could keep using Russian gas, as long as military aid to Ukraine compensated for it. I mean, Ukraine still allows Russian LNG to flow to Europe thru its pipelines on its territory, in return for cash. And certainly no one can deny Poland's desire for Ukrainian victory. The main thing is balancing cutting off Russian exports while not damaging Western economies, which as the price of energy is globalized and traded freely, can result in headlines affecting pricing.
Same thing informs my opinion about exports of Russian food supplies, sure, cutting off money to Russia is great, but the suffering from such actions on pricing on the global markets would cause increased instability. Same reason why the Black Sea grain initiative is vital for Ukraine and worldwide.
I surely never thought crashing ones own economy for whatever reason is ever a good idea. A wise policy would be to implement such changes gradually to limit hard disruptions/volatile movements etc, but with a clear vision about endstate (=no soup for you Russia).
Anyway the hypocrisy caught my eye.
Of course Poland and virtually all of the Polish people are on Ukraine side, that's not in question. Nobody said anything to the contrary. -
40 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Article about a Russian FSO officer who defected to the West back in October. He worked for Putin since 2009 and had fairly extensive contact with him over the whole period of time. The main takeaway from this is that he also views Putin 2022 as being very different than Putin 2009. The current Putin is paranoid and isolated, getting his information 2nd hand at best.
https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-security-officer-karakulov-war-criminal-ukraine/32349423.html
Steve
That's interesting. I remember wondering whether Putin had gone mad because of the pandemic isolation and started getting high on his own supply.
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1 minute ago, dan/california said:
Yes, but they seem to use all of it to produce artillery, and IFVs that are shipped from the factory straight to the Ukrainian army, so it is ok. They don't whine about it either, They just keep adding shifts and whole assembly lines and SHIP the bleeping stuff with greetings for Ivan already neatly inked on the shells.
No they use the LPG to gas cars. I call hypocrisy.
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I don't know this source but is at least interesting given the usual bashing against some other country.
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1 hour ago, The_MonkeyKing said:
I shall present you with the original version of the song:
Finns are very glad to join NATO. Many NATO beers and liqueurs have been and will be popped today! ("OTAN" translates "to drink alcohol" in Finnish)
I hope this will materialize in much more support for Ukraine from us. At least all the three biggest parties have stated UKR support has been too little and too late, including from us fins. With the limited packages, the government has always added that the fact we are outside NATO is limiting our support.
Welcome!
I think whole of NATO and especially in Europe we are quite a bit more stronger and united because of this. Hope Sweden can finish the process as well sooner rather than later.
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32 minutes ago, Vet 0369 said:
Don't know where you got the demoncratic idea from, but it's not cognitive congruent.
It was a typo.
Ah, ok my bad I thought you saw some demonic form in a democracy lol.
32 minutes ago, Vet 0369 said:The U.S. originally specified that only white men, age 21 or older, who owned property, were allowed to vote for their Representatives. Senators were selected/elected by the State Legislatures. The “Voters” didn’t get to directly elect Senators to represent their States in the Senate until the 20th Century. Benjamin Franklin supported a vote to remove the requirement of owning property and penned a very succinct reply to a five-page statement by his supporters in favor of removing ownership of property. He said “A man owns an A**, the man can vote. The A** dies, the man can no longer vote. Therefore the vote lies not with the man, but with the A**.” I used to use it when I was teaching Executive Branch Regulatory Writers how to write in plain language (required in the 1990s by a Presidential Executive Order).
I know some about the US history, but the US wasn't the first republic to exist and the architecture of it's democracy doesn't define what is a democracy or republic. Anyway in NL woman were only allowed to vote from ~1922; most democratic countries weren't fully representative democracies until later in the 20th century. -
5 hours ago, Vet 0369 said:
I watched a “Master Course” one time on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Presenter said that the Framers of the Constitution envisioned the U.S. as a Republic, and would be horrified to see it now as a two-party Democracy. He said tha one off the signers actually said “I am an Aristocrat! I love Liberty, but I hate equality!”
We began as a Republic and evolved (or devolved) into a Demoncracy. Perhaps why our two major parties are Republicans and Democrats.
A republic is generally considered to be democratic / a democracy. Aristocracy is something very different, a voting system in which only the aristocracy gets to vote is nowadays not considered democratic.
Don't know where you got the demoncratic idea from, but it's not cognitive congruent.
As an example; our country is a representational democracy disguised as a constitutional monarchy. But we could easily transform into a republic by replacing our ceremonial King with a ceremonial President.How much powers a president has, how many parties there are, the common law/constitution etc, all of those things ARE NOT defined by whether the form of democracy installed in a governing body of a nation state is a republic or not.
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