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Wow...this forum has no sense of humor.

Matrix/Slitherine's system is a lot better. Except its slow as molasses. Its frustrating slow. To the point a game like CMO, with dozens of DLCs, take almost an hour to get at all the SNs. While BFC's makes you dig for each number, its very fast so might end up being a wash.

Whose grass mod is that?

There are security issues that Win7 just isn't prepared for. Especially CPU level. And consumers are the absolute biggest problem in cybersecurity. Most big malware and ransomware attacks are done from consumer PCs that the owner doesn't even know are compromised. Win7 absolutely cannot begin to know how to protect itself from those chip-level attacks. That has to be done at the chip level in conjunction with the OS. No third-party AV software or self-help site will fix that. Cyber-criminals drool over unprotected thermostats and Win7 PCs still connected to the internet. Thats not even talking about GPU driver support completely going away and the lack of Win7 support for DX11 and DX12.

Not holding out a lot of hope. The C in BFC definitely doesn't stand for change.

One of my clients is a large manufacturer. A number of its factory systems are legacy Win7-based. Win7 makes up 8% of its total PC inventory. But Win7 makes up 40% of its security incidents. They had a recent ransomeware attack that started on a Win7 system that couldn't get a security update that all Win11 machines got. They are now finally replacing all of those systems. Corporations react to risk and cost. Its driving the final death of corporate Win7. As more games move to DX11 and DX 12, Win7 will get left further and further behind. CM and older games might be the last games to support DX9. Even Steel Beasts is planning on updating to DX11+.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5201/~/support-plan-for-windows-7-and-windows-8%2F8.1 The sun is setting on Win7. AMD is heading the same way. Large corps are all on the move of wiping out old Win7-based systems for security reasons. That'll be the true death knell. MS only maintained limited support for Win7 because of corporate buying. So bite the bullet now or move to Linux. I have been on Win10/11 for years and have no issues. Upgrade was easy and painless from 7 to 8.1 to 10 to 11.

ASL then Steel Panthers then the beta CMBO. I don't play much Cm in the in the last couple years. I play mostly Command Modern Operations, Steel Beasts, and MSFS. A little IL2 Great Battles sprinkled in.

A 100ft Cat 6 ethernet cable is $40 at home depot.

Thats not true at all. The lua is some very generic code that someone who knows nothing about coding or lua tried to feed into ChatGPT. The AI is not some miracle of all known info and data. Without training or access to APIs that are specific to the game/app/whatever, it will always be generic and 99% unusable. CHatGPT is great at generating in-context text through Large Language, but without access to specific data, it is still very generic in its output.

Can someone point me to the big file installer to reinistall on a new PC? I went to this page... https://www.battlefront.com/patches But its just patches. Is the only way to do it to go through all of my orders and find the original? Why is there no direct link from the patch or product page?

Agreed. I was just pointing out the fit of the timeframe. Not commenting on BFC's business model.

India Pakistan would fit very well, considering the equipment used. Maybe even better than Arab-Israeli.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semovente_da_47/32

The content for first gen CM is stellar. I can live very easily with the graphics. Its the interface that kills me after playing second gen CM.

Lets keep a little perspective on CM1 content. Those three games by themselves were four entire theaters (more if you count side theaters like Finland) across 4-5 years of a single war were delivered over a real world timespan of 4 years. It took another three years to get to a dodgy CMSF 1 release. Then another 4 years to get the full CMSF game release complete. CMBN came out a year after the last CMSF release. Over the next 11 years, there have been a three non-WW2 (counting a re-release of CMSF) games and no modules. But for WW2, its taken 10 years to get a much smaller scope of WW2 content compared to CM1's three games. The peak of BFC releases, IMO was the 2010 to 2015 time period. In the last couple years, its been kind of paltry. I think most of know and understand the reasoning behind smaller content releases as to units, regions, and timeframe, But games like CMBS appear to be somewhat orphaned. There appears to be very little realistic and marketed content strategy.

Most alternative energy solutions fail at scale. The most efficient and transportable energy medium today is still fossil fuel. Maybe that will change. But it won't change with current solar and wind technology along with batteries. Plugging more EVs into the grid is a failed proposition without new grid-level battery technology. Current bsttery technology completely unsustainable. Its unsustainable both for the availability of resources and how those resources are retrieved. There are serious socio-economic issues in the mining and reclaiming of solar and battery materials. Until thats fixed, EVs will remain a limited urban solution. Again, the solution is using less energy. If anyone is that incredibly worried about climate change due to fossil fuel dependency, shut your computer and cell phone off right now. Google searches consumes the equivalent energy of continuously powering 200,000 homes in the US annually. And thats just the search engine. Every time you search, you spin up a server somewhere. It adds up. Stop doing that. Everyone's worried about the environment until they have to do something real about it.

Just to close out, I am not anti-alternative energy. I am against knee jerk enthusiasm to any alternative energy that isn't tempered by the harsh reality of a cold New England winter on an overloaded grid with scarce NG power plants.

btw, one of the best barometers of the success or drag is in a society driven by capitalism is to look at what large operational companies are doing. Industrial companies and technology companies aren't building solar fields to power their own operations. They are building them to sell "clean" energy into the CALISO so companies in California can meet local clean energy regulations. Its weird and telling.

Again, the short-term solution is use less power. But the crazy push for EVs is pushing it in the other direction.

There are ways to have your own micro-grid which can automatically switch from grid to non-grid. But you need PUC approval. There are some big hoops to jump through. And yes, it is because of line safety. Thats why when you install your own panels and tie into the grid, you give up control of the panel's access to the grid. The solution is never connect to the grid and have your own battery or generator. But then the payback period starts to get VERY long. Also keep in mind that the install and maintenance costs of personal solar arrays require a seven to ten year payback period to break even in an average US climate. You don't just install panels and let er rip. It requires constant clearing of debris and cleaning of film off the panels. One big expense many don't consider is clearing trees around the house for LOS access to the array. The panels themselves start to lost their full generation capability after five years of continuous use. At ten years, there's a good chance you'll have to dispose of some of them. Landfills in the US are already declining solar panels and batteries because of the toxicity risk.

Hope you're not using a fancy new high-energy PC in Germany. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/german-gas-rationing-looms-industry-begs-exemptions-2022-08-09/ This is what moving too fast towards solar and wind get you. Exposure to suppliers outside your control.

While I hardly consider CM2 a AAA title in the overall gaming market and most likely past its prime, almost 10 years and still going is hardly a dead end game.

Solar won't be a sustainable energy source in most areas until battery technology has gone through a revolution. Grid-scale batteries are VERY expensive and inefficient per kW stored. Plus disposal of batteries is a huge problem. Wind has the same issue. Both are intermittent sources and you have to have energy for trough generation. If you shut down nukes, all that's left is NG powered plants as ancillary and peakers, at best. But in reality, most grid-scale generation has to have a parallel nuke plant capacity or an NG fueled plant has to be built for no-sun peaks. Its simple grid physics. Both California and Texas have shown this. The rapid switch to wind ans solar isn't the only reason for grid issues in those states, but its a large contributing factor. Because of harmonics and inverter power issues, private solar going back on the grid is usually a money loser for utilities. They do it because they are forced to and the equipment and local substation upgrades needed make onboarding private solar very expensive for the utility to market. PUCs force utilities to buy solar back from private owners at a non-market set rate, regardless of the capex need to upgrade the local equipment and substations. Its even crazier in the EU. Even before the pandemic, Germany was increasing its import of coal. Guess why. Because they bet too heavily on wind and were having major grid issues and coal was the only source of reliable and consistent fuel to make the needed power growth. Then they got addicted to Russian NG. In the end, the best solution for the grid is use less power. Not many people realize that computers, the internet, and cell phones have contributed to over 50% of the increase in electricity demand over the last 20 years. I don't listen to anyone complaining about climate change until I see them get rid of their cell phone and PC.

Steel Beasts also has that capability. You can set a retreat path if spotting an enemy or taking fire. You can also differentiate the action based on the type of fire. It really increases the ability for the AI to scout without micromanagement. You can also set alternate paths forward based on contact. I really liked and used the different Hunt and Move to Contact orders in CM1. We gained a lot in CM2, had a lot of CM1 stuff added back into CM2 over the years, and we had stuff like this that never made it back.