I just got to this charming little post on my to-do list and I have to say it's just as annoying to read now as it was then. I suspect that any " Intel Analyst"that handed in a report like this would find that nobody but them see the "humor" and their days as an analysis would soon end
In that spirit I will say this
DID YOU KNOW...
That the US OOB has 13 available weapon slots left
That the US OOB has 12 available unit slots left
That's a hard limit. It's not going to change and we are not going to create a separate OOB for air units or any of the other ideas that have been floated. In a pinch there could be units removed and amalgamated but there are limits. What this means is we have to weight the value of any new addition and while EW ratings of the aircraft will be reviewed things like Stingers simply cannot be. The best we can do with Stingers is compromise ( which nobody likes but that's tough ) because to add all of the stinger improvements into the game and re-arrange the units that use them so that they are in service at the correct times would use virtually all of the remaining unit slots so that's not going to happen. The A-10s are another good example.
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-- Did you know.....The US never bothered to improve the A-10. (same EW rating from 1977-2020)
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( yep...just as annoying to read now as it was 6 months ago )
The only way to upgrade the A-10s EW is to add more of them ( not going to happen... no room ) or change the start dates so you don't get most of them in 1977 and that creates other problems
When most of these rating were put in place a number of different OOB designers were working on them all at once and although we did try to maintain consistency it's just impossible for a project this size and the last few years have been dedicated to trying to sort out inconsistencies where one nation "got ahead" of others simply because of "human error" ( or whatever you want to call it )
At the time we did not have software to check across all OOB's for similar units that may have differing stats. We do now and we are working to improve that to allow direct OOB editing but that's still in the development stage but I remain hopeful that we can actually start to be pro active with OOB work instead of re-active but we will continue to be limited by the unit , formation and weapon totals that exist now and therefore there will need to be compromises made but everyone needs to be aware ( as we are aware ) that if a problem is pointed out in a piece of equipment the only way to avoid another "error report" down the road is to investigate every other unit in every other oob that is the same as the first one and that takes time
Here's little factiod for those of you who may wonder why we haven't "fixed" all the "errors"
There are over 48,000 ( forty eight THOUSAND ) units in MBT and WW2 combined ( 12237 in ww2 and 36057 in MBT )
To put that in perspective if you were to review every unit ( units only...... not weapons, not formations ).......just every unit in both games and spent one ( 1 ) minute checking that unit you would be done checking after working over 33 days... 24 hours a day , 7 days a week
Do the math yourself
12237 + 36057 = 48294
48294 minutes = 804.9 hours
804.9 hours = 33.5375 days
Put into the perspective of a normal full time job with a 40 hour work week 8 hours per day ( 35 if you figure in lunch, coffee and bathroom breaks ) that number of units .........remember one minute per unit only.......... that would be just a touch under 23 week work...toss in a nice little vacation to refresh and rejuvenate and it's just about a half years full time work....... and that's only units and only 1 minute to get it all right and that only checks one unit at a time and pre-supposes that you have an encyclopedic knowledge of every other unit in the game and doesn't allow for any cross checking.......
It's a big job and we are trying to get it to the point where we are not swamped with "error" reports or requests for changes that simply cannot be done......or reports like the first post on this thread that wasn't appreciated then or now.
Don