CONVENTION... "IT'S A GO"

The poll we ran two weeks ago had an overwhelming response from WWII Online players with several hundred expressing an interest in attending. The vast majority chose the primary dates of April 29th through May 1st.

At this time we are finalizing the accommodations and events and it appears we will be successful in obtaining at least 200 heavily discounted rooms at the hotel where the events will take place. If you are your squaddies are planning to attend, start making plans for room sharing if possible.

February 11th, 2005- Though it may seem a bit quiet to you, we're cooking up a surpise for longtime players and soon players and Rats will be boogeying down at the convention.
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Infantry Update

Does WWIIOL measure damage to the main spar of aircraft? Does it reduce the G-holding capability based on the physics model thereof?
-Steck

Not yet, but that system is designed and waiting for us to get the time to implement it. Structural limits will allow us to apply damage to vehicle components in collisions as well as after excessive G forces.

Any possibilities of adding a communication tower in towns that controls EWS and when destroyed it eliminates the EWS completely until rebuilt such as similar to bridge objectives?
-Staxx

Great idea, when we implement radar we will more than likely tie it to destroy able objects in the game. At that point we'll have the technology to expand that idea, however EWS is designed to be a simulation of people seeing enemy units and reporting those sightings. While radar and more sophisticated systems will need to be made so that they can be "taken out" by combat ops, the basic EWS system reflects a much less mechanical process. Think of EWS as the farmers who live outside of town, who are loyal to the armies holding their city, reporting activity they see. We need to keep that level of reporting un-destroy-able to some degree.

After watching players fight for 3+ years, I believe it is time to rethink the death penalty. With very little reason to fear getting hit other than having to return to your spawn point and maybe that equipment isn't avaible. A way to instill the "fear of death" is needed. It would give a more realistic feel to combat.
-Satcher

How about everytime you die it costs you $14.99? Too much? Actually we are re-working the mission and scoring system to bring more depth to mission and sortie results. Your success in the battefield will have a lot more impact on your ability to not only spawn equipment, but also move through the RPG layer. In some rank groups it will be possible to slide backwards out of a rank level when your performance, or the performance of your unit (brigade) starts to slack.

What was the logic behind allowing precamping? The game went from a good game to utter trash in 48 hours or so.
-Shivax

You are the only one that allows pre-camping to happen, not us sir. There is no difference in the game engine that gives you any less warning than you have had for...well...a long time. If you ignore one of your towns becoming a front line city, you increase the likely hood of being ill prepared to defend it. If you ignore an incoming offensive firebase, you increase the likely hood of an enemy AO being placed on your city, and finally if you ignore EWS warnings you absolutely allow the enemy to enter your city unchecked. Now exactly how much more information did you want?