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by sfbaytf
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:04 pm
Forum: Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific
Topic: Different how?
Replies: 38
Views: 2255

Re: Different how?

Would it be too much of a change to allow stacking of units and use handle it in a way the other games like Flashpoint Campaigns handles stacked units?
by sfbaytf
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:27 am
Forum: Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific
Topic: Different how?
Replies: 38
Views: 2255

Re: Different how?

I like the SC series, but modeling the Pacific War is very difficult for any game. Also single player vs AI can be tricky to model/program. The one unit per hex rule is definitely a glaring issue. In other games of the series you could overlook that when it came to naval warfare, because the theater...
by sfbaytf
Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:17 pm
Forum: Command: Modern Operations series
Topic: Dice rolls
Replies: 59
Views: 2170

Re: Dice rolls

RNGs are interesting. I had a hand held craps game to learn how to play and studies the probabilities and got good at it. I then went to Reno and played using real money and real dice and the flow and results are far different that what I experience using the microchip version using 0s and 1s. I gue...
by sfbaytf
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:28 pm
Forum: Command: Modern Operations series
Topic: Command: Modern Operations Showcase - Icebreakers Beta!
Replies: 3
Views: 583

Re: Command: Modern Operations Showcase - Icebreakers Beta!

I have to concur with the above. As a rule I don't join social media and limit what I join as much as possible. I have serious concerns about privacy and other issues. Recently Modzilla has released a petition regarding Microsoft. Their lawyers read the user agreement from Microsoft and could not ma...
by sfbaytf
Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Expired Security Certificates.
Replies: 2
Views: 397

Re: Expired Security Certificates.

To be fair I've had issues with other sites and VPN recently. I've seen posts to the effect that many sites deliberately configure their sites to have issues so users will stop using VPNs so they can collect data to analyze and sell as you the user are the product and the cash cow. There's a reason ...
by sfbaytf
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:15 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Expired Security Certificates.
Replies: 2
Views: 397

Expired Security Certificates.

I've been getting warnings about expired security certificates on this site, I know from past work experience that keeping them up to date can be a chore/headache, but really should be kept up to date. Don't know if this is related, but for some reason my VPN and this site has issues. I used to be a...
by sfbaytf
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:10 am
Forum: Flashpoint Campaigns Southern Storm
Topic: Manuals Now Available for Order Separately
Replies: 9
Views: 1059

Re: Manuals Now Available for Order Separately

It looks like it is shipping from the UK since shipping via Royal Mail. I think Sliterine is based in the UK. May want to think about getting a North American distributor so shipping costs to North American won't be so expensive. I was looking into buying the board game World in Flames an if I boug...
by sfbaytf
Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: Flashpoint Campaigns Southern Storm
Topic: Manuals Now Available for Order Separately
Replies: 9
Views: 1059

Re: Manuals Now Available for Order Separately

I was going to purchase, but the shipping cost to the states was twice the price of the manual. Where are these being printed and shipped from?

Subtotal 1 item $15.99
Shipping
$31.51
Tax
$4.33
Total
$51.83
by sfbaytf
Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:46 pm
Forum: Command: Modern Operations series
Topic: 3D view: Which approach do you prefer?
Replies: 50
Views: 2779

Re: 3D view: Which approach do you prefer?

I never thought I would see this day. Years ago-probably over 10 years I mentioned a move to some sort of 3D representation making comparisons to Combat Mission. Nothing was done and looking back it was probably the right decision to focus on other things, but here we are. I have Tac View, but rarel...
by sfbaytf
Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:08 am
Forum: Press Releases, News and Events from Matrix
Topic: Valor & Victory: Pacific is now available on PC
Replies: 8
Views: 16062

Re: Valor & Victory: Pacific is now available on PC

Bought it and played it a little and so far i like what I see. The sounds are very well done and appropriate. I fired up LnL Heroes of the Pacific to compare and the map and sounds of VnV is better. The game play in VnV is cleaner. Overall I would be hard pressed to pick a winner between the 2. Woul...
by sfbaytf
Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:25 pm
Forum: Valor & Victory
Topic: So why didn't you buy?
Replies: 22
Views: 2343

Re: So why didn't you buy?

I was looking at V&V or LnL some time ago and went with LnL. It seemed like a better value and there were comments about the poor AI in V&V. To be fair I've since seen comments about LnLs poor AI by some players. LnL is a slightly better value, but the very base game is sparse and you'll hav...
by sfbaytf
Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:56 pm
Forum: World in Flames
Topic: Just Boought
Replies: 4
Views: 253

Re: Just Boought

I'll have to take a look and see whats up with AI. Its not an easy thing to do and something that looks this complicated is probably a beast. Maybe in 5 years Slitherine can buy some NVIDIA H100s and have a human like AI opponent for games. As scary as it sounds it looks like we're headed in that di...
by sfbaytf
Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:00 pm
Forum: World in Flames
Topic: Just Boought
Replies: 4
Views: 253

Just Boought

With the sale going on I decided to purchase this along with the map pack for $20 each along with Pike and Shot. Years ago when this was first announced I was eagerly awaiting release. I haven't kept up and don't know the full story but seems like it got to a point where it was decided to cut losses...
by sfbaytf
Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:35 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Failure to Communcate with Server
Replies: 14
Views: 838

Re: Failure to Communcate with Server

I'm going to throw more into the mix... I started using a new VPN provider recently and some apps like DCS doesn't seem to like it. There has been oddities with other apps like dropbox and I had to disable to get things to work, but seems like that was sorted out as I can now access dropbox normally...
by sfbaytf
Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Need help buying a new rig
Replies: 37
Views: 1724

Re: Need help buying a new rig

I have a gaming/flight sim desktop and a couple of gaming laptops. As long as you have a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port you can buy something like a Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD. My gaming laptop with a 3070 GPU came with just a 1GB SSD. I just buy Sandisk Extreme Portable SSDs when they are on sale on Amazon t...
by sfbaytf
Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:16 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Failure to Communcate with Server
Replies: 14
Views: 838

Re: Failure to Communcate with Server

I sent you logging error text. I can clear the log file and play a round and let it error out if that helps.
Thanks!
by sfbaytf
Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:37 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Failure to Communcate with Server
Replies: 14
Views: 838

Re: Failure to Communcate with Server

Tried uploading one of the .ini recovery files and game crashed.

I get a warning in my browser that the matrix servers has a misconfigured certificate. Don't know if that might be related.
by sfbaytf
Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:43 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Failure to Communcate with Server
Replies: 14
Views: 838

Re: Failure to Communcate with Server

Whats also strange is the error reappears when I try to exit the scenario and reappears a second time before I can close out. The PBEM game then appears as on My Turn when I reload.

I do have recovery file to upload, just not the ones specified to upload in error message.
by sfbaytf
Wed Oct 18, 2023 11:31 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Failure to Communcate with Server
Replies: 14
Views: 838

Failure to Communcate with Server

Playing a game and got Failure to communicate with server. Instructed to upload a file with 1538.ini ending, but don't see that file when I try to upload to server.
by sfbaytf
Wed Oct 11, 2023 11:53 pm
Forum: Press Releases, News and Events from Matrix
Topic: Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm Tutorial Series – Episode 1
Replies: 1
Views: 1483

Re: Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm Tutorial Series – Episode 1

This is really worth watching and can’t wait for next tutorial. There is so much to this and even after hours of playing the AI and head to head there is still a lot of stuff I could be more informed about. I have an opponent I play Combat Mission h2h and he mentioned he has Southern Storm and doesn...

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