very minor bug in LC with exp of destroyed units

[francoisD]

when you repair a destroyed unit in a LC, it loses all the exp if had before.

but if you change that unit before repairing it, it seems to keep the exp...

yet i did not play a full battle after the change/ repair to see what becomes the exp of that unit

(i first repair then change the units when needed...)

[DRG]

I just want to be clear on what kind of Campaign you are playing. This is a Long campaign, not a Generated campaign or a PBEM campaign......correct ?

Don

[francoisD]

yes it is a long campaign (LC i read previously in the forums)

[DRG]

I just ran the same test three times and each time it came out basically the same. I arranged for a unit that had 82 Experience and 90 Morale in a German LC to be destroyed and I ended and saved the game

I then three times fixed the unit restarting the game each time then three times changed the unit restarting the game each time and recording the results

When the unit was fixed the Experience dropped to between 72 and 76 and morale dropped to a range of 74 to 76

When the unit was changed the Experience dropped to 77 in all three cases but Morale dropped to a range of 57-61

Therefore fixing a destroyed unit is a better option in this case than starting fresh with a new one as the morale of the new unit is much lower than the fixed one. There is no "bug".


Don

[francoisD]

i will check this evening with one of my saved game

[francoisD]

hi don

in the enclosed files are what i feel is strange:
units D0 and W6 were elite (at 100 exp or so), and were both destroyed

if you fix them, their exp drop to 70 or so, which is normal

but if you first change them, their exp only decrease slightly to a bit more than 90...
this is what appears in the most recent file.

i think that changing a unit overide any loss of exp due to destruction

edit: i dit not check their moral

[DRG]

OK, I'll take a look at it

Don

[DRG]

The problem wasn't as obvious until I started looking at your save game with the higher experienced units. The ones I first checked this with had only just started gaining experience.

You found a bug / flaw / cheat that's existed since the code for SP2 was first written

The code for repairing / fixing units has always checked to see if the number of men was zero ( ie was it dead )

The change code didn't and that's why you were able to transfer the old crews experience onto a totally new crew.

Now fixed and the change will be in the next patch

Don

[francoisD]

ok don,

i am glad i was able to help a little bit with this game

i wonder if this was not discovered previously, but people did not report it to abuse the game...

[DRG]

Originally Posted by francoisD

i wonder if this was not discovered previously, but people did not report it to abuse the game...

That's always a possibility. Few people want to expose their secret cheat.

Don