Japan 45

[Strela]

John,

Firstly, thanks for the note back. There is no need to tone things down and my response regarding 'demanding' was more related to the 'please explain why x doesn't work as I expected' type posts. Sometimes we don't have time to reply, sometimes we miss a post and other times we have other things on our plate. I have tried to explain some of the circumstances behind how we build and test games and just as importantly research them.

As you said, being hypothetical leaves a heap of things open to interpretation and it's easy for people to justify their position based upon a quick internet search. Beyond Japan '46 we don't have any further hypothetical titles planned and it is much easier to display the depth of 'history' that we have followed modelling an actual battle.

I do want to say this thread has been very useful for us. That's why I'm supportive of critical appraisals as we can go back and check things. A number of the things called out in this thread were corrected in the Japan '45 patch 1.01. A lot of items have been adjusted in Japan '46 to reflect the additional feedback we have got from the community. Another key item that was raised here regarding bunker building had us review the PDT files for both Japan '45 & '46. We have gone back and made some changes to the PDT files to align them with other games in the series, including dropping bunker building to 1.5% for example. Items such as the range attenuation effect have been fixed and we have cleaned up a lot of minor variances. I expect we will issue a new mini patch for Japan '45 once Japan'46 comes out.

So thanks for the support, don't tone it down, but do understand that these games are the result of 1,000's of man hours of work and we can sometimes become a bit sensitive!!! 

David