Development Diary #10 - 17th of December 2008

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Has the number of sea zones increased considerably compared to hearts of iron 2?

 

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the engineer said:

Has the number of sea zones increased considerably compared to hearts of iron 2?

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As I can see in the screenshots I would sadly say no...

 

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Lusitan said:

And since when does Hood have better AA than Scharnhorst???
Hood was to have its own upgrade, but never had it.

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Because the Hood was bigger it has more AA guns.

 

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the engineer said:

Has the number of sea zones increased considerably compared to hearts of iron 2?

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Hopefully not.

 

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the engineer said:

Has the number of sea zones increased considerably compared to hearts of iron 2?

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there's about 4.500 seazones in hoi3.

 

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Johan said:

there's about 4.500 seazones in hoi3.

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Didn't count them but I guess that's going to be alot more than in HOI2 then?

 

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What are those models at the screen?

 

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DarthJF said:

Didn't count them but I guess that's going to be alot more than in HOI2 then?

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HoI2 has about 2600 provinces overall, including sea zones.

 

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Zanza said:

Hopefully not.

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With the automation outlined by Johan I don't see how this will be a problem.

 

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HOI III looks better and better every week. It makes me sad that there will not be anymore Dev. Diary's for about a month. Oh well, I suppose the Paradox development staff deserve a vacation since they have been working hard on this...

 

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Simply freaking awesome.

 

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Myth said:

HoI2 has about 2600 provinces overall, including sea zones.

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Okay, considering how much of those are land provinces then the increase will be quite considerable.

 

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Johan said:

there's about 4.500 seazones in hoi3.

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wow... this are really good news.. awesome !!!

 

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i like the infinite order idea, hopefully we'll see the same thing in the airforce.

And now a question:
the screenshot shows a ship with 4 canons. ok, lets say i have a single ship in a seazone, with 12 canons, will the sprite show all 12 canons?

 

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Finally - the naval part of the game has been redone.
Glad to know that. The game starts to look even deeper.

 

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Johan said:

there's about 4.500 seazones in hoi3.

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Whoa, but is this included in the 10,000 figure or not. Even if it's not that's still a considerable number of provinces.

 

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Will Lucky said:

Whoa, but is this included in the 10,000 figure or not. Even if it's not that's still a considerable number of provinces.

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The 10,000 figure is for land provinces.

 

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the 10,000 is land provinces

 

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Sorry but seems that you don't know your own game. In your design Hood isn't BCII, but BCIII. BCII is Renown and Repulse. Scharnhorst is BCIV, not BCIII. Check yourself in HoI2.

 

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mandead said:

This of course suggests it's not moddable in-game (though the latter, smaller parts are) - I was just wondering whether we can change this in a defines.txt of some sort. I mean, I think it would be cool if the actual guns could be upgraded, albeit at some expense.

It should still be significantly cheaper than constructing new ships of the same tonnage.

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That didn't happen in the real war though (with some very rare exceptions that were actually planned while the ships were designed). Fixing main gun armament therefore does make sense.