What Huib (and others maybe) don't like about PzC

[JonS1]

For me, the editor(s) essentially is the game. That and hacking the system to see if I can get it to do what I want. I spend way way more time fiddling than I do playing, and - given that - I've probably spent more time 'playing' PzC than any other game or system.

Having said that, there are things I wish PzC had - WEGO being foremost amongst them, closely followed by secure PBEM games. There are others, but those two are far and away the most important to me. WEGO I don't really ever expect to see in this series, to my sorrow, but the continued lack of secure PBEM is baffling to me.

I also - to a limited degree - agree with Huib about the research in places. Much of it comes down to a matter of opinion or interpretation, but other bits are shady, with a case in point being Salerno'43. I don't own that module, but I did have reason to look at the update patch some time ago and noticed that the OoB is IMO, to put it charitably, bad. A huge chunk of it - some 12% of the lines in the OoB - appears to have simply been copied and pasted out of Normandy'44. The same cut and paste appears in the Anzio scen OoB, although there it's not so marked (only 2%). I've just downloaded the latest patch for Salerno - dated 24 Apr 08 - and it remains the same (actually ... *checks again* ... the OoB is dated Feb last year, so no surprises it's still the same).

Out of curiosity I've just checked the latest Sicily patch, and the cut and paste is there too.

Does it matter? I guess not. Not to me at all, and no one else seems to have noticed.
Could I change it? Sure, but not owning the game makes it a little pointless, and I've plenty of other projects to work on.
Have I mentioned it? Not till now, but see above.
Is it alarming? To me, yes. The more so since it's in the official releases, and replicated in multiple places.

OTOH, the maps for the games I own I'm ok with. I've editted the bits (i.e., place names) that make me most unhappy, so in that sense I'm even ok-er. The continued support and maintenance is truly impressive. Seriously. The game is remarkably stable too - although even mentioning that says more about the state of the PC wargaming industry in general than it does about PzC in particular. The power of the editors truly rocks, even if the interfaces can be a bit clunky. Without the editors I'd have abandoned PzC long ago.

Regards
Jon