Post by dizzy on Sept 24, 2019 16:06:19 GMT -6
Air Management used to take a long long time to manage your Squadrons before and after war. We are talking 10 minutes or more every time a war started or ended. It sucked.
Not anymore.
We now have drag and drop and multi-select ability and copy and paste which makes it easy to duplicate squadrons and add/delete them. These new tools are kick-ass! No more apprehension every time a war starts/ends fearing squadron maintenance. Thanks for fixing it, makes the game more enjoyable.
Here's some spit shine and polish ideas to make it even better. I've listed the most important first and know none of them are a priority, they are just ideas, but hopefully they are easy to do and would be appreciated by all of us on RTW2. Fredrik W
1.) The left hand window of Air Group Management separates/organizes squadrons by Type of base and location. That's an improvement. But lets add visual Region names for greater ability to discern where bases are at a glance. Where 'ALL' then 'Reserve' is normally, add Carriers and then list all our carriers and then have it say Naval Air Stations and then list those, and then let's have it say Northeast Asia Airbases (for example if that was your Home area, as home area region names should be listed 1st) and list all those airbases, and then Southeast Asia Airbases (alphabetically by region) and list them, etc.
2.) Reserve and Active squadrons. This could be a great tool, but it needs ONE-MORE addition to make it really useful. Putting an airbase into Reserve status reduces the number of aircraft in each squadron by 2/3rds of their total Authorized Air Strength rounding up. But that reduction isn't enough. We need a 1/3rd feature. So add a button when you Right+Click a base that lets you put the base on 1/3rd status and call it whatever you want you could rename 'Reserve' to 'Reserve-2/3rd' and add 'Reserve-1/3rd', or call 1/3rd 'Inactive', whatever, we just need more of a cut to reduce aircraft numbers.
3.) We need a way to populate the Reserve pool with more than one squadron at a time. I like to have squadrons that will be ready to go on newly built carriers. So when you Right+Click on Reserve or any Base or Carrier and select Add Air Unit, there needs to be a little box next to the Number of Aircraft box that says Number of Squadrons 1-20 (default on 1) so we can populate a Base or Reserve with any number of aircraft and squadrons.
4.) Stop auto-scrolling. When I drag and drop and air unit into a base that I've scrolled down to, it deselects the base and auto scrolls me to the top of the list of bases and I have to scroll back down and find it again. Stop that.
5.) Currently, Change Role is something that cannot be multi-select. That needs to be multi-select.
6.) Copy and Paste Airgroup. Great tool! But let us copy and paste to and from a save group. For example, holding CTRL+1 while Right+Clicking Copy would save that to 'save group 1' so I can have different types of copied groups and simply select CTRL+5, for example, to paste 'save group 5' in the selected airbase. It would save us a lot of clicking.
As long as this game keeps getting improved, and one way has been thru user feedback, I'm giving mine on this particular topic. Hope to hear from anyone else if they have different ideas.
Not anymore.
We now have drag and drop and multi-select ability and copy and paste which makes it easy to duplicate squadrons and add/delete them. These new tools are kick-ass! No more apprehension every time a war starts/ends fearing squadron maintenance. Thanks for fixing it, makes the game more enjoyable.
Here's some spit shine and polish ideas to make it even better. I've listed the most important first and know none of them are a priority, they are just ideas, but hopefully they are easy to do and would be appreciated by all of us on RTW2. Fredrik W
1.) The left hand window of Air Group Management separates/organizes squadrons by Type of base and location. That's an improvement. But lets add visual Region names for greater ability to discern where bases are at a glance. Where 'ALL' then 'Reserve' is normally, add Carriers and then list all our carriers and then have it say Naval Air Stations and then list those, and then let's have it say Northeast Asia Airbases (for example if that was your Home area, as home area region names should be listed 1st) and list all those airbases, and then Southeast Asia Airbases (alphabetically by region) and list them, etc.
2.) Reserve and Active squadrons. This could be a great tool, but it needs ONE-MORE addition to make it really useful. Putting an airbase into Reserve status reduces the number of aircraft in each squadron by 2/3rds of their total Authorized Air Strength rounding up. But that reduction isn't enough. We need a 1/3rd feature. So add a button when you Right+Click a base that lets you put the base on 1/3rd status and call it whatever you want you could rename 'Reserve' to 'Reserve-2/3rd' and add 'Reserve-1/3rd', or call 1/3rd 'Inactive', whatever, we just need more of a cut to reduce aircraft numbers.
3.) We need a way to populate the Reserve pool with more than one squadron at a time. I like to have squadrons that will be ready to go on newly built carriers. So when you Right+Click on Reserve or any Base or Carrier and select Add Air Unit, there needs to be a little box next to the Number of Aircraft box that says Number of Squadrons 1-20 (default on 1) so we can populate a Base or Reserve with any number of aircraft and squadrons.
4.) Stop auto-scrolling. When I drag and drop and air unit into a base that I've scrolled down to, it deselects the base and auto scrolls me to the top of the list of bases and I have to scroll back down and find it again. Stop that.
5.) Currently, Change Role is something that cannot be multi-select. That needs to be multi-select.
6.) Copy and Paste Airgroup. Great tool! But let us copy and paste to and from a save group. For example, holding CTRL+1 while Right+Clicking Copy would save that to 'save group 1' so I can have different types of copied groups and simply select CTRL+5, for example, to paste 'save group 5' in the selected airbase. It would save us a lot of clicking.
As long as this game keeps getting improved, and one way has been thru user feedback, I'm giving mine on this particular topic. Hope to hear from anyone else if they have different ideas.