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A Canadian Cat - was IanL

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  1. OK I'm sure it will be @Grey_Fox's suggestion that will fix it then.
  2. Don't hide your team when you want them to act. Hiding greatly reduces the team's spotting ability. Unless the armour is unbuttoned. Then they team members will fire small arms at the TC I am fairly sure that armoured cars count in the armour arc. Maybe. The risk is they will fail to spot the tank. Target arcs are meant to prevent your men from firing. So, use them carefully and sparing.
  3. Brad is that you? Funny story, in a team I was on we changed our source control rules and made it mandatory to enter a description when checking code into the source control repository. We did this because some people were checking in code without any mention of why. Our troublesome team mate just entered '.' as his description. Sigh
  4. Second possibility is you have font scaling set on windows. You can fix that by selecting the comparability tab for the properties of the .exe. Let the game control the scaling and it should fix it. Those instructions are from memory.
  5. Yeah I was going to say people will be keen to frag Jar Jar.
  6. Yeah, it must be because that post is going to have me thinking all day too. Dude you have to write a book at some point.
  7. Sounds good. I will join you in stopping. We are all friends here and we want to remain that way - cheers.
  8. I just don't by that. Like what? Weekly statements "we have 8 scenarios started for the new module and 5 new models" and later "we still have 8 scenarios started and no no models". Or monthly the same. And again and again. I think it would start a whole new area of complaint "why aren't they working on <insert favourite project> nothing is changing what are they doing. They are just wasting time. LOL LOL every damn day man. I have several photo and video editing tools I use and have zero visibility into what they are actually working on until they release something new. I hit the odd bug. Some are annoying some bloody inconvenient. I never have any clue if or when they are going to be fixed. Hell only some of the time can I tell they have been confirmed. I follow this advice - sound familiar? Exactly and I do and I use them to edit my photos and videos and get work done as best I can. Hell yes I would rather have working product when it's ready.
  9. As a Canadian I would vote Canadian. Wow that would be cool though. It's a lot of work. I suppose you can cut that work down by setting up the forces for one formation and play testing and tweaking. Then creating a roughly equivalent force from the other formation. That would at least cut down the play testing required to less than double. A very good idea. Plus map damage does not get preserved between fights so fighting on different parts of the map helps any continuity issues that can create.
  10. 100% or the endless bitch session that would result here if the decision was made to delay and issue a new date was made. There are really only three choices with regard to this: Pick a date and ship whatever you've got - obvious downside is bugs and issues with content Pick a date and delay to a new date if things are not as you want them - obvious downside here is complaints and erosion of "trust" Don't pick a date (or I should say don't say one publicly because all projects have dates) and just repeat the mantra "it will be done when it is ready" - is there a downside here - I don't know one. Marketing people will say they cannot build the sales collateral - BS just have it ready and book the interviews and reviews in the final weeks or after release but what do I know? I only have 30 years of software development experience and no marketing experience - other than watching them do it and not make sweet **** all of a difference if the campaign starts before release or after. Customers say they cannot plan or rely on you - BS: buy the products that are available that fits your needs. If non are available you have to wait. Wouldn't you rather have a working product in some future time than crap now? If you say you want working product now that's just stupid because that doesn't exist does it? Hence this question. You can end up in a combo of 1 and 2 that either turns into a death spiral: the product is not ready so we will delay it but that means you need to add feature X because the competition has changed which leads to more delays and feature Y needs to be added etc.; or you delay one or two times but piss off everyone and eventually you are forced to end up releasing early even though you tired to do the right thing and fix your problems. I have worked in through all of these scenarios. The choices that BFC make are absolutely the best framework for managing projects I have lived with. I have worked for other places that get it right too BFC are not unique but doing this right is not the norm - sadly.
  11. I would really like it too. We seem so close with Fortress Italy. Would require the time pushed back a little more and some new equipment I suppose but not a lot. There would be some buildings that would need to be changed / added plus all the usual TO&E work plus some scenarios. I would love to have such a game. In CM1 AK was my favourite.
  12. There are photo editing programs that are a lot cheaper than Photoshop. One that I use is Affinity Photo (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/) and there is also a plug in for Paint.NET (https://www.psdplugin.com/)
  13. Have you seen this? https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/combat-mission-black-sea/cmbs-other/battlefront-official-briefing-templates-cmbs/
  14. To be fair he's not in the best of health. It may not be as much a surrender and he just cannot do the job any more - or can see that day coming rapidly. He certainly has given enough service to get a break.
  15. I do love that saying - it is always a good avenue of thought when trying to figure out if some conspiracy theory is true or not. I fear in this case there is some malice too - those agents are likely fully aware of the **** they are sending people too.
  16. No one took a shot at this. I don't have a source that proves it but I think you can look at the attack actions and infer the plan was to take out the head and end the whole thing in a few days: Columns of mech streaming in from the north and just trying to drive on the roads to Kyiv Air mobile landings at air ports around major cities especially Kyiv Saboteurs activated in the capital as the attack got started. You don't drop air mobile guys that far behind enemy lines with a plan that says it will take three weeks to get to where you dropped them off. You don't just start driving on the highway if you expected significant resistance. The combination of these actions points, in my opinion, strongly towards a 2 day plan. Or at least a quick win plan. To me it looked like a plan to attack on a broad front in the east and south but the victory path was to take over the capital. Decapitate the current regime and insert a favorable one that would then take over the army and have it stand down. With that new government in place your forces in all parts of the country can then concentrate on mopping up those that choose not the listen to the new leadership. Maybe not a 2 day plan but 2 days to be a unstoppable several week process.
  17. Excellent. BFCElvis is the support professional so follow his advice and you will get sorted out in the end.
  18. Correct that is the user to user self help forum not the location for official support. For that go here: https://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/ The correct thing to do. Oh that's not a good thing. That will revert the version you have. So, for openers uninstall what you have and reinstall using the Download for the Base Game v2.18. Stop downloading and installing anything else - unless the pros at the help desk tell you to. You have it. That is what the base game download for v2.18 is version 2.18 of CMBS based on game engine 4. No stop downloading random stuff. Just stop. No. Entering your keys is not order dependent so no order. There is no deactivation. Over time more activations are supposed to automatically be made available. You can confirm with support thought to be sure.
  19. User name doesn't check out To be clear just funning ya and I am not actually doubting you.
  20. No. All that does is place your email in a place that your opponent can see when you start up a game. Very good advice. I have had that happen. Not just to Slytherine's mail but lots of things I actually want. Partly this is some pattern matching by the email providers and partly it comes from user interaction. Have you ever been annoyed at a news letter that you don't remember signing up for or that comes way more often than you are happy with? We all have. If you and a bunch of other people mark them as spam then at a certain point the system may tip everyone's stuff in to the bin. Recently Google prompts with a message checking if you want to unsubscribe instead of report spam for those messages that have an unsubscribe link. I do hope there is careful consideration happening there because unsubscribing from actual spam must confirms a human reads that email box.... We know what that means
  21. We better start soon. A few more ships and there will no longer be enough to create a full bingo card.
  22. First off nice overview of how to make a QB map. Did you mean AI group here instead of plan? If there are three platoons I would think they would be assigned to different groups.
  23. It would be super cool to see soldiers with four arms handle two MGs at once and 12 fingered soldiers will be better for throwing grenades. That's what I currently think of when I hear AI image generation. On a side note someone even 3D printed an add on finger you can wear so you can later claim that any video capture of you was actually a deep fake
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