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There is no load filter or non-default loading in EDCE. if there is loading that you do not want to occur, you should use the tree view.
Air Units and Orbital Units cannot be placed outside of transports (cities, etc) in a buy points game. Can Be Placed is also used for other actions. The Unit Mod capability is simply an exposure of the available data. Many entries may have hidden or non-intuitive results.
The load and unload buttons have been disabled but will most like be enabled in a future build.
When in the tree view, clicking a unit does not activate it, because multiple units can be selected at a time. If you wish to activate a unit in the tree view, select the single unit, then click on the activate button.
If you are referring to the save config from the game setup, it only saves a Database key. The game will assume you are aware of the changes you made in a DB. The same is applied to the saving of a single player game. You can exit a game, change the Unit set, then reload the game. This could have ill effects on the save game in question after a reload, but it is up to you to police this.
This is correct. Air Unit and Orbital Units cannot be placed in the open Buy Points mode. This is a rule enforced by the game engine, regardless of data settings.
When editing a unit set, it is important to realize that some data attributes may have multiple and hidden/non-intuitive purposes, and setting something may not work as one intended.
The focus of the game design was not centered on modification, as EDEE was. So the road to modification will be rougher.
Thanks for finding this. It does look like it is in Ascii Standard and not Unicode. However, the changes you sent me are not correct in that the characters are not the same (now they are basic English). I will make the appropriate changes, but this file is not one that is updated in a game update - so the changed file will only be reflected if manual step are taken after the update or a new Data structure is created.
I have also amended the spelling mistakes you found, thank you for those. The misspelled Friendly Defeat is in that localization file.
Regarding the non-escaped single quote, I know you do not agree with it, but this is not standard XML nor will it be. And it would be a mistake to assume I use a standard xml parser because I do not.
Unfortunately, there is not a Default/Non-Default loading option as there was in EDEE. This is by design as it confused more people than it helped. The tree view is a simpler method which people understand when they want to do special loading situations.
The tree view itself is set up for swapping and loading/unloading, not for ordering. So if you desire to order a list of 50 units in a particular way, you will have more work to do. The tree view can be impacted by a machine that has difficulty rendering the scene.
Regarding various comments involving the mouse and the interface, first, all command and info buttons can be mapped to a key. The map itself can also be scrolled via keys. All of those commands and a few more can be set through key binding.
The dialogs and interface controls do have only rudimentary key controls, and they are not fully compliant with standard windows controls. Unity only provides very basic controls, which must be built upon. This involves a great deal of time, which is a short commodity for this project. So some of the basics are in it for now. Time will tell if more can be added.
EDEE, being a Windows OS dedicated program, was able to take advantage of the built in Windows API. Unfortunately, Unity does not do this, it has a homegrown kit which is very basic. This is one of the few disadvantages of using Unity. So a lot of the expectations of windows standards compliance are not going to be there, at least for now. Do not construe this as a defense for the things you don't like, it is just the reality.
I had not wanted to Sort the list or keep it sorted but it is a rather arcane way to drag and drop from my experiences in Windows and Linux - I have both.
It still remains that the unit list for the city is very difficult to use if you have an accumulation of units.
By not being able to specify a load sequence the LOAD ALWAYS picks up AA, Artillery FIRST. It would be more appropriate to have the load function load infantry, armor, engineers, Seabees first rather than AA, Artillery that I usually want to leave in a city for defense. From my perspective, if this is always going to be the way LOAD works, that button and keystroke are useless in my play. Perhaps some compromise could be reached?
Hi Ron,
The "game data directory" is where is where info is stored, you can find the location for this off the Directories button in the Administration page.
If player #5 is blowing up, it is most likely repeatable. (meaning if you load the game again it explodes in the same way). It would be great if you could make an archive of the game and sent it to me. To make an archive, you go to the Load Game screen off of the main menu, and for the entry in questions you should see an "A" button. That will make an archive which you can find in the "game Data Directory"/archives. Zip that and send it to me and I will see what the issue is. Usually I can get the game back going.
The logs may be useful, you can find those in the "Game Data Directory"/logs directory. If you zip the whole log dir I can sort it out.
--Mark
When it comes to Computer Technology, I know enough information to never cover a FullStop/Period. For the past three hours I have been pulling what short hair out to find this C:/users/Ron/AppData ............................ Where the hell is AppData... cant see it. (PS I do wear Glasses hehe)
Anyway did a complete search of my 3 hard drives and found a Steam/ file with stuff in it dated today - as today is whan I had Player#5 crash on me.. for some reason the game did reload after I closed the game down and P#3 did a toes up and crashed too. I know how much these files are important to you so did a humongous search and hopefully found what you needed. I could not tell what spacific file needed so zipped all files dated this dat 05/12/2017 (or as you USA folks put it 12/05/2017 - We like day/month/year .. where as USA puts the day After the month ... strange??)
ANY way sending all to you attached to an email Titled "Problems From Australia"
You are correct that the buttons do not work when you press sort, as there is a different display of the area where you can drag the buttons around to sort them in the area.
So is the "Done" Button Not Visible? Does it not work when you press it?
Exactly what is locked? Are you able to move the map with the mouse? Are you able to select a unit? How are you exiting the game? Do you press Bail?
