Curious Cold War Database ends in 1979?

[Akmatov]

Just curious why 1979 was selected for the end of the Cold War Database rather than 1989.

[Sardaukar]

I bet it is because of database sizes.

[Randomizer]

Makes perfect sense to me. 1979 was in many ways a watershed year with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian Revolution beginning to change superpower dynamics and the Cold War's end game unknowingly commenced. 1980 would see the Reagan era and the biggest peacetime military build up in history unfolding.

By the time the Cold War ended, much of the hardware was technologically mature and the current setup demonstrates this nicely in my opinion. Each covers roughly thirty-years, about as long as a professional career in the armed forces of in one of the given periods.

Spitting the DB's into 1946-1979 and 1980+ is reasonable and there is platform overlap built into both so from a user standpoint when one DB ends and the other begins is pretty much irrelevant. That said there are very likely quite mundane reasons that are entirely reasonable from the developers perspective.

-C

[.Sirius]

Thanks Chris saves me answering it, the Cold Start almost after the end of WW2, splitting the Dbs at 1979 mark is right as Chris is concerned also one mother of a DB from 1946 to near future is too big for one guy so I cover the 1946-1979 time frame amd Rag covers from 1980 onwards

[OnFire]

Btw, are there plans to eventually merge them some day (2 years or so) ?

[thewood1]

Is there really any game reason to merge them. All the cross over units are in there.

[OnFire]

One can dream... [;)]