game Preferences settings

[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

[IronDuke99]

Mostly use default, but I tend to make the artillery rather more effective and I will adjust stuff when using Western armies against Third world forces.

[Imp]

Originally Posted by IronDuke99

Mostly use default, but I tend to make the artillery rather more effective and I will adjust stuff when using Western armies against Third world forces.

Okay that's interesting, why or do you play with training off?

[RecruitMonty]

I like to use different settings for "hitting", "spotting" and "rallying" to simulate the effects of climate and time of day. I dug up a table somewhere (and then made it into a word doc, then a pdf), which provided me with the parameters (visibility settings were the key). I leave infantry toughness, tank toughness alone and "xxx" is my standard "Troop Quality" setting.

(http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showp...10&postcount=6)

I'll expound a little. In one scenario (Vietnam 1950s) it is night time (vis. 5), the moon is not visible but flares are in use. It is raining. So spotting is set to 35, hitting is set to 55, rout-rally to 65 (for both sides with maybe a deviation of one or two points on the rout-rally scale to account for better knowledge of the local area etc). The changes always apply to both sides. Training / morale etc is always taken into account.

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