game Preferences settings

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by FASTBOAT TOUGH

My settings are as follows...

1.GENERAL and REALISM Preferences are all on.

2. PLAYER Preferences all at 100% with the following exceptions...

A. TROOP QUALITY- both sides XXX.

B. BATTLE POINTS - USA 6500 RUSSIA 1000. I might be looking at this wrong but, I see this as increasing the "ratio" of points for the AI, then by adding the 1000 points, as a further bonus to the AI spend account. Most campaigns I play run from around 17 to 27 battles. I will find a competitive AI equipped with the latest armor etc. (Such as I reported on the AI using the T-72B3 right from the first battle/campaign I played after the Patch was released that included that tank.) and as the campaign develops outnumbered.

C. MAP - Height 80/Width 100, Can't remember if that's default or not but it works for me.

D. ARTY EFFECTIVENESS - Set to 90% because I felt at 100% it seemed like a 100% when it came to AI arty and mine just didn't seem as accurate (But not by much.), though I understand I can make the numbers go beyond 100%, it simply doesn't allow for "Fog of War" if you will. I've at times gone down to 80% if my campaign is anywhere from 1946 - ~1965/1970.

The AI is the only way I've played the game before even joining the community.

Regards,
Pat

Your Point B will simply not work as you think.

In a campaign, the player 1 points setting is only ever used for the humans initial core buy, as the maximum initial core force value allowed (unless he uses the max points setting).

P2 will always be XXX in a campaign, i.e. the correct ratio of points for the human P1's core troops (as experience values them) plus any support points the human bought in the battle set-up. Note that only the current value of troops is used - so if you bought 1000 points (out of the max 6500) plus 1000 supports, your value is 2000 in battle 1, any unspent points of the initial core buy or current supports points get "dropped on the floor".

In addition, in campaigns the air strike value is determined by the internal campaign code and not the preferences settings. So its effectively XXX.

If you want the AI to have say 105% of your force then set the AI advantage percent value on the misc tab of the game options launcher to 105, 110 for 110%, etc. That is what that is for (works for battle generator as well, for P2).

The setting you have there would only work for a random single battle made in the battle generator, and it completely devalues the Russian buy there if say it was a meeter - instead of getting 6500 points of Russians, you are giving it a mere 1000.

Its not an addition - if not XXX its an absolute value. The P2 value is therefore best left at XXX unless you know exactly what you are trying to achieve.

[Dion]

I too, set the player preference settings to their default levels. The only time change them is when I want to simulate some type of strategical situation, like air superiority, "green" or elite troops.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

Well now this is another fine mess I've gotten myself into , so Andy thank you for "squaring me away" on my AI assistance theory, I have taken the lesson onboard, and have applied them. Thank You!

Ooh Don, since Andy has "squared me away" I have this feeling you're about to "round me off", I assumed, and we've seen thus far how that's worked out for me to this point , that the "Arty Effectiveness" on lower right bottom of the Preferences page doesn't control both the AI and my effectiveness?

Well I've been playing for how long now? But the important thing here is "You're never to old to learn something new" and maybe this will help someone else now or in the future and that would be well...!

I'm at flank speed, hard to port, noisemakers launched to evade the dreaded MK-48D(on) torpedo with DC parties standing by fore and aft. Yeah like I was going to say "Standing by for incoming" -

Anyway thanks again for the help and a belated Happy Fathers Day to all it applies to!

Regards,
Pat

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

Doesn't seem like days off are just like work days anymore?

Anyway this from my previous post needs to be clarified "that the "Arty Effectiveness" on lower right bottom of the Preferences page doesn't control both the AI and my effectiveness?", better to have said, I thought by adjusting the "Arty Effectiveness" to 90% on the Preferences page, that both the AI's and my artillery accuracy would be set to 90%.

As a side note, for WinSPWW2 I set the accuracy even lower to something in the area of 80% - 90% depending if I'm campaigning in the beginning, middle or last year or two of the war. During the "Battle of the Bulge" the USA was using what can only be described in modern terms, as the "Excalibur" round of the time very successfully and in numbers. I posted on this in the SPA/SPAA thread I believe within the last couple of years.

Sorry for any confusion this might have caused but, "Conklinese" can be harder than Chinese to master.

Regards,
Pat

[scorpio_rocks]

Originally Posted by FASTBOAT TOUGH;834586 I thought by adjusting the "Arty Effectiveness" to 90% on the Preferences page, that [B

both[/b] the AI's and my artillery accuracy would be set to 90%.

That was my understanding too..

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by scorpio_rocks

That was my understanding too..

Arty effectiveness is just the one setting, and it affects both sides.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

Thanks again Andy! One out of two doesn't seem so bad now. Anyway now I'm "rightly" playing the way I thought I was for all these years. This is good.

Regards,
Pat

[Felix Nephthys]

My preferences are generally default with a few tweaks. The two links below to other threads should illustrate how I set things and why.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showp...6&postcount=15

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=38939

[Paulus_PAK]

Currently I'm playing with default settings, although for quite some time I was playing with artillery effectiveness set to 120, 130%.