Slitherine

Hi,

The following is something is fast becoming my pet peeve playing the game. Some PP usage is allowed only if you have positive PPs and stay away from negatives after the act, some usage is allowed having positive PPs but ending up with negatives and other allow outright negative expenditure. No, this is not the peeve and the feature is fine and dandy. The peeve is that above leads into a situation where you must first do "regular" PP expanditure and keep expanditure that allows negative usage to the very end of the turn.

The above isn't that big of a problem playing Allies(still a minor annoyance for them, too). But playing Axis with its Axis Minors' units is just bloody tedious if you want to take advantage of the flexibility the feature gives you.

The order in which you spend your PPs shouldn't determine how deep into the negatives you can go. Now if only the PP usage that allows negative usage would build up a buffer when spent while you're still in the positives. This buffer could be used to stuff that doesn't allow negative usage even if you're in the negatives. This way the order of usage wouldn't matter. And you could concentrate on strategy and enjoying the game instead of worrying if you screw up the PP usage order and shoot yourself in a leg.

Just venting off,

_augustus_

A good point made. But I'd probably vote to just remove the deficit spending entirely. It would make it cleaner.

Removing the negative expenditure alltogether might be bit radical and remove some flexibility from the players? Well, you could basically achieve the about the same level of flexibility by treating, say, 50 PPs as the old 0 PPs when you play. Then guarding the flexibility would became player's responsibility

I could live with above if the buffer approach is impossiple to implement. But frankly I can't live with current system I'm spending way too much effort on managing order and sizes of different types of PP expenditures at the moment. I don't think I'll start any new games as the Axis anytime soon.

I like the game very much, but

_augustus_ //yeah I could just spend PPs as I go and live with the consequences of doing it in a non-optimal order, but that's just not me