Russian Winter message.

ancient · Post by **ancient** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:32 am

How much exactly does Russian Winter reduce effectiveness and that other thing it does? The pop up box disappears automatically after a second and I couldn't read all of it. I think I saw a number 35 and a number 15.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:21 am

It decreases in effect each year, but 35 and 15 is the first year yes. It also massively reduces movement.

ancient · Post by **ancient** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:44 pm

iainmcneil wrote:It decreases in effect each year, but 35 and 15 is the first year yes. It also massively reduces movement.

I caught that the 35 is for effectiveness, but what is the 15 for?

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:54 am

IIRC -35 effectiveness is the effect on Axis units, and -15 is the effect on Russian units.

ancient · Post by **ancient** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:48 pm

Thanks. It would be nice if such pop ups required the user to close it rather than close itself in a second.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:44 pm

ancient wrote:Thanks. It would be nice if such pop ups required the user to close it rather than close itself in a second.

Agreed. If one goes afk during the AI turn, (to, for example, answer the requirements of domestic tranquility), one can easily miss something important.

OTOH, I bet if the messages did require a click of an "OK button" to proceed, someone would be complaining about that fact in these forums.

With so many of these design decisions, the designer faces a "damned if you do, and damned if you don't" situation.

Oh well

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:54 am

possum wrote:
ancient wrote:Thanks. It would be nice if such pop ups required the user to close it rather than close itself in a second.
Agreed. If one goes afk during the AI turn, (to, for example, answer the requirements of domestic tranquility), one can easily miss something important.

OTOH, I bet if the messages did require a click of an "OK button" to proceed, someone would be complaining about that fact in these forums.

With so many of these design decisions, the designer faces a "damned if you do, and damned if you don't" situation.

Oh well

Best solution imo, would be to set a delay message option in the game setup, say you don't want the popups because you already know you enter 0 secs, you want to read them slowly enter 10 secs.