Hoi4 Units of Measurement

[patrickt95]

Will the new Hearts of Iron 4 game have settings to change temperature to Fahrenheit. And units of measurement to MPH and Miles? (Please don't add responses that are ignorant, there is other countries out there besides yours! Be respectful)

 

[panzerzombie]

No !

Its a swedish game and you have to endure the measurements most of the world uses, not just an weird ex-empire and its stubborn colony.

 

[WSnova]

We are civilized after all.

You Barbarians keep using your miles and feet.

 

[Daelyn75]

I've grown up with using MPH for WW2 aircraft speeds, so seeing KPH still confuses me. Even though I am Canadian, and everything else is fine. It's those damn British and American books I've read growing up.

When modding previous HOI games for aircraft speed, I always had to reference the measurement difference between what my books say and KPH.

I should know the speeds in KPH by now, but sadly I still get lost. Keep it all metric please. It's overall a much easier to understand system of measurement.

 

[leeuw]

The International System of Units (official name SI, Système international d'unités) has as base units meters, kilos and seconds, not feets, pounds and .beats

 

[Had a dad]

We are civilized after all.

You Barbarians keep using your miles and feet.

yeah those of us that can do complex math and not just factors of 10 will do so

 

[jtm-0]

I agree i doubt it will be to hard to implement, we need to look after the people of US, Liberia and Burma

 

[Kikaider]

 

[Daelyn75]

In the game flight sim game IL-2, you can switch between Imperial, and Metric for distance, and speed. I always RPed it up when I played as the Germans, Russians, or Japanese I'd use Metric, but as the Americans, I'd use Imperial.

 

[Adonnus]

Hate to break it to you but the whole imperial thing could have gone better for America's space program...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

 

[Nicolas I]

I fear that my tanks/planes would be slower in MPH than in KM !

At least the nautical miles would be the same for all ships, or are they ?

 

[Axe99]

Hate to break it to you but the whole imperial thing could have gone better for America's space program...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

lololol (although sympathies to the people involved, particularly whoever would have been responsible for testing that system.....)

More seriously, a lot of games enable conversion, and it's simple linear maths, so wouldn't be a crazy thing to do, but if not, I'd argue it's easier learning metric than imperial, and more people use metric than imperial, so if we had to pick one, then I'd argue that'd be the one to use. Except ship speeds, which should be in knots .

 

[Zaku]

Hate to break it to you but NASA is using the metric system.
Even the LGC(guidance computer for the lunar landing) used SI units to calculate.

Anyways this is offtopic, as long as HOI4 doesn't have nazi space bases on the moon. (please paradox)

 

[Daelyn75]

Hate to break it to you but NASA is using the metric system.
Even the LGC(guidance computer for the lunar landing) used SI units to calculate.

Anyways this is offtopic, as long as HOI4 doesn't have nazi space bases on the moon. (please paradox)

Wouldn't they use metric as well? Or would it be something like Hitleric by this point?

 

[77Hawk77]

Feels very strange to spend money on converting some text that has no impact on gameplay just so that a few people from one country can relate to it better.
Even if you don't know SI units, effects of temperature will be in the tool tip like "Frozen" and for speeds it's safe to assume that the higher number is faster, and do you really need to know anything beyond that?

 

[z4uberelefant]

countries not using the metric system:

 

[The Nothing]

Will the new Hearts of Iron 4 game have settings to change temperature to Fahrenheit. And units of measurement to MPH and Miles? (Please don't add responses that are ignorant, there is other countries out there besides yours! Be respectful)

Please, consider units conversion is always a pain in the ass for programmers. At least, for me it is, and if I was developping a game, I'll just use one and only one unit to avoid any bug, and save some precious time. This doesn't means it's impossible. It just means you have to think with two measurements in each of your algorithm you're writting. Good luck to not forget in some of these that there is another measurement making impossible to use some maths functions.

 

[GermanPower]

Really guys? Lol'd.

In all seriousness please do this. Please don't make me have to mentally translate every time I view speed of units I have. The US has the most sales of any nations. It'd be nice if I bought from a US ip there were the correct measurements. I'd be so happy to see that. It'd be a nice touch.

Edit: It is the least of my concerns. It'd just be something nice assuming it would be easy to just mask the number.

 

[Zaku]

Really guys? Lol'd.

That guy who called the imperial system barbaric didn't even reply to the moon joke. How is he defensive then?

 

[GermanPower]

That guy who called the imperial system barbaric didn't even reply to the moon joke. How is he defensive then?

I should have put people, maybe. You just aren't getting the joke anyways by your post. It has nothing to do with him but the mention.

It has to do with the people getting all technical and huffy over the moon joke. The moon joke was clearly in response to joke/satire the guy was making. So to then be all -adjust glasses- well technically! Is hysterical. I didn't see anyone go. Well technically the US is a first world nation and post something from wikipedia.

Edit: It was meant for the other Americans and non-conformist My meme.