| Order of Events: Update of History File |
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When does the game updates the history file? For example, I've noticed that when enemy fleets move to a planet and they have merge orders, you don't detect the merged fleet with your scanners the next turn (assuming you can properly scan their destination). That would imply that your history file is updated after movement but before wp1 orders are completed. Is that correct or is it more complicated?
Spook
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| Re: Order of Events: Update of History File |
Tue, 31 October 2006 17:16  |
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Which I guess just changes the original poster's question to "where does pen scanning occur in the OOE".
To be honest I had always it assumed it wasn't an event as such, but rather just when the m files were written at the end of each turn, you got to see everything in your scan... But if, as you say, you can't see the results of fleet merges, then it is not so simple. Are you sure the fleets were merged as wp1, rather than manually by your opponent the following turn...?
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| Re: Order of Events: Update of History File |
Tue, 31 October 2006 22:53 |
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I seriously doubt that penn scanning 'occurs' as an event. I presume that penn scanning (and all scanning) may very well be handled as a client issue when the turn is opened. The only area then that is grey for this is the 10% chance of detection for cloaked ships in a minefield. This is probably handled in the turn processing and set in the .m file if the fleet is visible.
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| Re: Order of Events: Update of History File |
Wed, 01 November 2006 10:06 |
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| m.a@stars |
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| Dogthinkers wrote on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:16 |
Which I guess just changes the original poster's question to "where does pen scanning occur in the OOE".
To be honest I had always it assumed it wasn't an event as such, but rather just when the m files were written at the end of each turn, you got to see everything in your scan... But if, as you say, you can't see the results of fleet merges, then it is not so simple. Are you sure the fleets were merged as wp1, rather than manually by your opponent the following turn...?
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I seem to remember even more interesting cases, such as:
-- A JoaT-NAS race has an SS overcloaked minelayer surrounded by frigate chaff "scanners" and targeted by skirmishers, but one of the frigates hits a previously unknown minefield, thereby losing its scanner. Perhaps not by chance, the SS was running towards the same minefield, resulting in "XY fleet fled beyond your scanner range. Target has been set to last known position..." where a clear intercept + destruction should have happened.
Should be possible to testbed, tho. 
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I asked my question based on my memory of an event I noticed in a game (or thought I noticed). I should have tested it again before asking.