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Maybe there was information about a game somewhere in the media (even one related to the name "general")? I don't think so. If there really had been some major buzz around OG, big enough to attract all of a sudden a thousand potentially interested people (!), some (even only 1-2%) of those thousand...

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There is no really easy way to "fix" this, the only solution phpBB offers is to ban a range of IP addresses (like "1.0.0.1" to "1.0.0.255"), if (and only if!) all those "guests" come from a specific homogeneous IP range, and aren't just hacked residential IPs from all over the world. Else you can on...

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Indeed, there has been a discussion over there (BTW, could somebody with moderator powers separate those discussions into their own thread? I'm afraid this discussion isn't finished yet, and in the meanwhile it's polluting...). That been said, I'm wondering what those 500+ "guests" are looking for. ...

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Possibly, but all the legitimate/official bots (like search engine crawlers etc.) have names (user agents), and show up as whatever they are. For instance right now there are me, "Bing [Bot]", and 502 guests on the forum...

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I constantly see between 400 and 500 guests online Ah yes, I forgot to mention those 51 were specifically in this forum part... Right now it says 514 "guests" in the forum root, and that's very curious. Dare I say "suspicious"? I've (co-)run a hobbyist forum for over 10 years as admin, with a large...

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Randowe had problems to post, I just type this for test If you're testing, it does work now, but earlier (around 12h UTC) the forum was down (SQL error: Too many connections) for a while. :dunno I don't know what's going on, but there are a huge lot of "guests" lurking around lately (51 right now),...

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I see, thanks. That been said, my case was a little special, since the offending unit was an auxiliary unit and my equip.cfg has " noldr_auxunits=1 "... :huh No matter what that leader was, it shouldn't have happened at all, isn't it? When does the "noldr_auxunits" check happen? Before, or after the...

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One of my fighters :huh got a leader, i think it was influence, and i declined it with the new option. After i closed the game i saw a message: - Err - U:12 is a fighter but got an improper Leader! - Check CombatTest log file Ok, so i got the aformentioned message when i closed the game. But since ...

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After deselecting the aviation mode, until you click somewhere other than the plane, the air unit is still selected One extra click solves the problem.. Yes, I know, thanks. I tried everything, including clicking on empty ground to deselect, selecting another ground unit, and so on. I was able to s...

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What I mean is [...] I see. Well, I guess that's what I'll end up doing. Too much work and risk to fix your wish Okay, no problem, I thought I'll ask... I could not find any bug. I replied already Answered there. I'll give you a savegame when I stumble upon it again. When I first met the problem, t...

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Aw crap, the button does work here. :doh When I first met this problem I did try the "airplane" button and it didn't change anything, the plane kept being selected (the button didn't change this)... Unfortunately I don't have a save from that, it was in the middle of a test playthrough. Sorry, I'll ...

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Then setup the official EFILE_NOKORP merging all SCENARIO campaign folders into EFILE_NOKORP\SCENARIO :cool Not sure I understand you. :huh I'm not very fond of the 1 Campaign = 1 EFile solution for this use (CC campaigns are special), because an EFile with 10 campaigns would appear in OG as 10 EFi...

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BTW, concerning question #3, there is a list of all OG hotkeys, you can get it when hitting some key (1? F1?), but also from the "more" button on the right side panel.

Edited: F1 gets the list of hotkeys

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Me again. A nice thing to have would be the possibility to make sub-folders in the /Scenario folder, so you can assemble all files of a given campaign inside its own folder . You would have /Scenario/campaignA/[files] , and /Scenario/campaignB/[files] , and so on. This would avoid the current jumble...

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Me again, bug again... :( There is a selection bug when one of your ground units is below an enemy plane : Sometimes you can't select your own unit, you only select the enemy one. I didn't manage to understand what triggers it, but when it's triggered it's pretty consistent and easy to reproduce: He...

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LuisGuzman wrote: ↑
2024-04-19 08:09, Friday
that means the unit is anchored.

Thanks! I've always wondered what this might mean.

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:huh At the bottom right corner :dunno .. of the map ? I'm sure that's what he means, the information shown when you select an enemy unit: On the bottom right corner of the map window frame, after the unit's entrenchment value, there is (when appropriate) a "S" and "H" value. I too supposed those t...

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Can't give totally reliable answers for the rest, but about question #4, suppression depends on what the E-File creator has decided. You could make anything give (or not give) any amount of suppression, lasting or not, so there is no rule, it solely depends on the E-File the scenario uses. For the m...

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you will see more than you want (e.g. the taskbar) That's not a really problem, you can set the taskbar to "auto-hide" (slides down when it hasn't the focus). And if you don't like to change this setting all the time, just create a new (local) Windows user for recording videos, and set his taskbar ...

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LuisGuzman wrote: ↑
2024-04-18 10:37, Thursday
Edited: Here it is the current Leaders' table

Shouldn't AT have "Overwatch" leaders too?
I mean, that's the whole point of AT (especially towed ones): Ambush unsuspecting tanks...

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Excellent. Thanks a lot, I'll try it on my next scenario...

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LuisGuzman wrote: ↑
2024-04-16 07:57, Tuesday
Although it is obvious, here it is a sample of new custom "scen_name"_weather.txt

Thanks!
Most is obvious, but I did have doubts about the "#99 weather data for scenario" part (= the exact syntax it expects).

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I doubt that any designer will download such big OpenMapX.zip file instead of searching MapFinder to find a suitable existing map. I confirm. :grumpy In the last (5+) years I have downloaded a big part, if not most of Gilestiel's, but when making a scenario I still visit there because its filter fu...

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LuisGuzman wrote: ↑
2024-04-14 10:55, Sunday
OG version 0.93.5.RC2a available

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Yes, that is how I've done, but it looks a bit strange for me. Why? It's a different paradigm, but a pretty simple one: Select the unit to upgrade on the right pane Select what to change in the left panes: Unit types on top, transports on bottom. That's all. :dunno The only thing which has changed ...

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it would be needed some change to realize your are upgrading the transport only The way it worked (back then?) was that if you clicked on a unit on the right pane, available upgrades and transports appeared in the left pane. If you did not select a new unit on the upper list, but only a transport i...

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For the transport buying issue : As you can't upgrade in a standalone scenario, I made a mini-test-campaign . You get two core infantry units. Simply step on the Allied VH to win the first scenario, and in the second scenario's HQ phase, try to change the "Brandenburgers"' transport. They currently ...

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randowe wrote: ↑
2024-04-12 19:10, Friday
i got not asked to keep/decline the leader.

Probably the same issue I posted about some posts further up.

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LuisGuzman wrote: ↑
2024-04-13 08:01, Saturday
Could you enhance my low-understanding mind, by posting a sample to check myself, please ?

Will do, in a (couple) hour(s). Need to get to the Windows/OG computer.

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Then I'll add a "scenarioname_weather.txt" Now that would obviously be the ideal solution! Infinite possibilities for infinite specific cases... :cool :notworthy Hex_tiledecors.png/cfg files are needed to use tiled map, because some people - like me - prefer to check true terrain by switching to ti...

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LuisGuzman wrote: ↑
2024-04-12 10:58, Friday
Sorry I missed this, but I don't see any possibility to do that in current times. Maybe in my next resurrection

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Probably the best solution for you is customizing any of the existing weather zones as you prefer. I'd like to keep them, because for 99% of cases they work fine. It's just some special, weather-dependent scenarios which need special weather... I think, from my own point of view, 3 additional weath...

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Still me. Could we have more weather zones please? I suppose the game just reads the contents of the selected weather zone into some array, so it doesn't really matter if the selected weather zone was #3 or #300, does it? Why are we limited to only 22 weather zones? The point is to have the possibil...

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Is it raining/snowing (in the first turn)? Then it is shown like this for planes without all-weather ability. :doh Yes, it is snowing... And while I see the rationale behind it, that should not happen! :nyet The initial HQ phase is a place beyond time and space, where you buy/upgrade your troops, a...

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Other OG bug:
In the HQ screen (before deploy), fighter air attack values are displayed between [square brackets], like if they couldn't initiate air combat!

It shows like it should for bombers though (both passive bombers and fighter-bombers have/don't have their right brackets).

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I would use half-tracked for hovercrafts able to cross land and water. If you have hovercrafts, I would suggest to use the "Custom" type to create a special "Hovercraft" movement type. Because it would be quite different from "half-tracked": Hovercrafts would be indeed unaffected by surface conditi...

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I think it's a general thing for us old timers that started out with PG in the 90's. You sort of have an image in your mind of how things are supposed to look and feel, but so much has happened with the technology since then. :) I'm also one of those who bought "Panzer General" The First, and was h...

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I remembered that names should be written in lower case for consistency... Ah, sorry, didn't know that. I always use capitals for better legibility. I also write out names, because I have difficulties remembering what some shortcut (occasionally misspellt) actually means, not to speak allowing them...

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Or I just missed them... :o Finally that's the explanation... I simply missed them... Mea culpa. Unfortunately I can't fix the .mapx without losing the names, so it will remain like that, with some missing hill (it doesn't change anything anyway, there is little chance a player might step on one of...

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I only asked about column 0... I see. Well, given I set the terrain hex by hex in Open Suite, I guess Open Suite didn't allow me to select those hexes. (I assume , since I can't check right now.) Or I just missed them... :o mapx with names https://drive.google.com/file/d/14c509SxFHnOGQxjmN0DEXAVyzN...

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LuisGuzman wrote: ↑
2024-04-02 19:40, Tuesday
50030.jpg uploaded to OG's repo

Thanks, but the .mapx has issues (Open Suite bug? See here).

Here is a new version, where sympatyk helped me put the names back in the .mapx.

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Open Suite bug : When inside the MAPX Editor tab you do a "Save as MAPX" export, it doesn't bother saving names!... :doh The previous version can't do it either. How can I export a .mapx with names? There must be a way? In the meantime, here are the missing names (contents of MAP_50030.txt): [MAP:5...

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Out of curiosity, I will ask - the mapx file does not contain names? Doesn't it? :shock It should, all town hexes and the river have names. Or at least had names. It seems indeed that for some reason my latest edit erased all names (Open Suite bug?). I'll put them back and re-upload the files. Disc...

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(Posted download link in the map thread.)

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Here is my #50030 Kursk XXL (5k) map: Download Link
(JPG and .mapx)

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Thanks. I'll post a download link for the JPG/.mapx for Luis and you (in the weekend, today: family visit!...).

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2. Avoid raising a new leader when increasing unit's bars. You must decline when asking to It does work intermittently for me. :huh I had indeed lots of prompts for a leader (it's scenario #20 in a campaign, so pretty much whatever any unit does, it will gain a leader...), but at some point I notic...

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IIRC XXL (5k) maps are not stored in the MapFinder, too big. Or are they now? I know some of the XXL maps (not all) are on download on open-general.com, but I don't remember how it is supposed to work when they're used in a scenario: Do people need to download the XXL maps manually beforehand, or do...

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New bug: In the "buying list" screen, first tab, there is a checkbox "Enable $Vars to customize AI purchasing (Requires AI >=2)". When I customize those buying settings and save, it does write the settings to the .buy4 file all right, but if I open that buying list again, it resorts to $Vars uncheck...

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Still me. And could be have a way (in the "upgrade" screen) to buy transports for units which are currently not for sale themselves ? Right now, to buy a transport for a unit, that unit needs to be for sale too. What if I don't want the player to be able to get another of those units, but still buy/...

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