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I agree.

I think you may be about 2 turns ahead of his posts - I think. So far that's not an issue really because there is limited contact.

Exactly the same here. My wife has two younger sisters. My wife never wears makeup and STILL outshines the two of them. And they are both good looking. Can't hold a candle though. I may be biased

That fixed it. Thanks.

I do know that using the GPU or not shouldn't make a difference. I used to have the same computer, now have a 2019 13" (with no GPU). Either way on yours should work. It's not your computer. Your specs are better than mine (except for the Intel onboard graphics but that's MORE than enough). Obviously that doesn't fix it [edit] I downloaded the demo and confirmed this on my own MacBook Pro. Something else to add to the list. The latest update to Catalina seems to have broken a few things here and there.

Stéphane - I ran your 2 saves and sure enough, they jumped for me just as you described. I've submitted a bug report with the saved files attached through the bug tracking system. Thanks for providing the good save games. That helps a lot!! If anyone else here has a save they can provide that shows the same behavior, anything additional would be of help. Dave

Can you send that to me or post the save here please? I'd like to take a look. I remember that happening in testing (not in this particular scenario or scenery) and I thought it had been fixed. Thanks! Dave

The thing is it depends very much where you are. In my daughter's hospital they currently have almost 500 patients and have had to convert entire floors solely to care for them, in addition to creating a couple extra ICUs. They were able to do this and haven't been overwhelmed but this is a big hospital with deep pockets. They have discharged so far over 1500 patients who have recovered.

Wish we had that problem. There isn't any in the morning when we go on old people hours. LUCKILY, I had just bought a big family sized package just before all the stay at home orders. We still have some of that.

Thanks. Yes I am very proud of her. (always am of course, but even more now) She's a senior nurse with about 12 years of varied experience, so she definitely has the knowledge and experience to keep herself medically safe. Mentally though, it's been tough on her. She was pretty upset about this guy - her patient. The other day I called in a care package for her to a local package store she could pick up - a bottle of Jameson Black Barrel and a nice bottle of wine. She doesn't drink much but it's a nice treat she wouldn't get for herself and she's been on a pretty strict diet so I didn't want to get her food goodies. She calls and we IM a lot. Told her to just call anytime and unload if she needs to. Wake me up. I'm not working so I can make up on the sleep anytime.

Here's an example of what could be an ambiguous death. My oldest daughter is a RN at a major hospital. She was just telling me tonight she has a patient, older, who has COPD. He's had a tough time but has technically recovered from Covid-19, however, it so damaged his lungs that while he no longer has Covid, his COPD will probably now kill him. She says there is little hope for him. He'll technically die of COPD. So far 7 floors of her hospital are converted to Covid care, new ICUs created. First she was rotated to Covid floors sometimes, then her floor was converted, and she is now being detailed to assist in the ICU. However, the point of this post is the good news from the trenches is that the last 3 days they have for the first time, discharged more recovered patients than admitted new ones. It's been a long haul for her and she's pretty strung out. She works 3 days of 12 hour shifts, and then 2 days off. Rinse, repeat. And I wake up at 2am worrying every night. But it looks like the worst for her might be.. not over yet, but tapering down... some.

What he said. As long as you have your license keys, you'll be able to enter the licenses. The all in one installers install everything, then when you start the game you'll get an activation screen. Inside the application directory, there is a script "Activate new products" It isn't quite clear from the help desk article that the script is within the directory you install the CM into. You can run that shell script and it will start up that activation screen again to enter another license key. You'll have to keep running that script once for each license key.

You could not install them, purchase the version 4 upgrades for each, and assuming you have your original v 3 keys you can license new downloads of the version 4 all in one installers that will get you up to date. If for some reason you don't have your original sales and license information, the help desk can help you with that and get you up and running. I think that will do it for you. CM runs just fine in Catalina. The only thing odd is that when you try to run the installer it will seem like it hangs. Wait it out (a couple minutes, maybe 3) and you will get an error message - something about not being able to determine if it's free from malware. Cancel that, go to System Preferences/Security and Privacy and click on Open Anyway. Then it will verify, and stop again, and you'll have to do that again before it installs it. After that it's fine. It's a thing about Battlefront not being a registered developer with Apple. There's no issue with the software.

Ok. Just thought I'd mention it since someone in the beta boards noted it as a new issue. Glad it's working.

Do you use Avast by any chance? One of the beta testers just reported that Avast is just recently preventing CM from starting for several hours. Then it works.. Just a thought. I used to use it on my MacBook Pro but found it hogged my Mac down, so I don't anymore. His was W10, but I expect it would work the same for both Windows and Mac.

Good news!

I found my little shirt pocket sized handbook that I used to carry as a FIST Chief and as a Brigade Fire Support Officer and then Artillery Bn S-3 (Ops officer). It's full of useful info and templates for fire support - calls for fire, how to develop ops plans for attack and defense. All the info a fire support officer at different levels needs at hand in abbreviated format. The most useful thing though for CM I found in it is a couple of pages of opposing targets and recommended fire missions - which resource and how many volleys, and different tables for attack and defense. This might be most useful for Black Sea due to the time period (this was from about 1979-80 I think). HOWEVER, all of my experience was in the 82d Airborne, which is a very highly trained light infantry division that arrives in style. We had towed 105s (M102s - the successor to the M101s from WW2 and Korea), 81mm and 4.2" (107mm) mortars. Same as WW2. The biggest difference we had was more forward observers pushed down to lower levels. Our fire direction procedures still used charts and "firing sticks" (specialized slide rules for calculating elevation and time for time fuses. One per charge) So it may be pretty well applicable to WW2 as well, with the obvious change that the calls for ICM and DPICM would not apply. But each one has a few choices depending on the friendly resources. It could be used for reference by players, or by scenario designers setting AI fire missions I think. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15dTgvZmGvfxoyGjHr3smkzoaPmGJMstSWF4djW2KFEQ/edit?usp=sharing Enjoy. Hope this is useful. Dave

Hmm. I'm stumped. Can't think of what is (or was) happening.

Mine is updated to 10.15.4 and all titles run correctly, including the RT beta. I didn't notice any difference in behavior after updating Mac OS X. I realize that doesn't help you, however, it doesn't seem to be specifically the update that is doing it, but may be related to it, just not the main cause. I have two suggestions: a) Try to open any CM title, watch it bounce, Open System Preferences, go to Privacy and Security and see if there is a message there telling you it can't open, and you can override that. If that is not the case and there's no message like that then try b) below. b) I would suggest picking one title and reinstalling it from the all in one installer. You shouldn't have to relicense, just rename the folder your existing one is in (add "-save" to the folder name). Then run the installer and install new. When you do that you will get a message along the lines of can't verify there is no malware - go to System Preferences and tell it to open anyway. Then it will verify the installer files, and you will have to answer the open question a second time. Then it should install. When you start the game, you will probably have to do that same sequence again to tell it to run anyway. Dave

I think you're on the right track. I would try a clean installation of one of the games, the one that gives you the problem most often, if there is one. To save downloads, (just in case the new install blows up completely), rename the folder for your existing install by adding "-original" or something obvious. Then you could trash the new install and revert to the existing one if need be. The only time I've had anything resembling a freeze is just a momentary hiccup where it pauses panning in some of the biggest scenarios. (I'm discounting beta testing crashes where sometimes weird things happen). And I run mine on a 13" MacBook Pro laptop - far below your specs and I run with all the graphics settings maxed out all the time. My laptop is pretty new and I didn't have issues migrating from my old one, but that's certainly a possibility.

This just occurred to me this morning. Peace and quiet. No phone calls for about a week so far I think.

Not here. All closed. Schools closed. Restaurants closed but doing curbside or delivery. No events. Town meetings all by video or phone conference. No gatherings > 25 people. Over 60 no gatherings > 10 people. Chamber of commerce has a helpful web site with a spreadsheet on line with all food vendors (stores, bars, restaurants) their hours, and whether they do take out, curbside, delivery or drive thru. Local micro brewery is taking next week off from brewing to spend a full week making hand sanitizer. Then they'll give it all away. Pretty awesome. This is not a big company. Pretty successful little brewery but still. People who keep touting the flu numbers just don't seem to have read (or believe?) the medical experts that are saying and have been from the beginning that these measures are so that this doesn't cause millions of deaths around the world. Sure, so far only thousands have died. The POTENTIAL is very much worse. To add some on-topic content, I finished George's scenario that the dark and moody screen shot came from. One of the most enjoyable I've played in a while. Great map, REALLY well thought out AI opponent, choices to make that have big consequences. Really fun. Lots of good work is going into the scenarios. Your gonna' love it. Dave

That's George's scenario. Appropriately moody and ominous because EVERY scenario of George's that I've played or playtested has gone to hell in a hand basket. "Life comes at you fast" as they say. This one is no exception so far (that pic was early on, and disaster had not yet struck - usually my own fault for being rash).

Some fixes are much harder than others, without breaking a whole bunch of other stuff. It hasn't been forgotten.

This isn't true at all. There were numerous save games provided and lots of back and forth discussion trying to pin down what (if any) unique situation it occurs in. And on the Beta forums there have been a lot of experiments run and test cases set up to verify and track it down . Everyone knows it exists and no one is not admitting it.