(06-26-2017, 03:04 PM)BigDuke66 Wrote: (06-23-2017, 05:09 PM)Volcano Man Wrote: Maybe I am not fully understanding the issue, but 10 MP per 100m elevation is basically a standard amount for all FWWC, PzC and MC games since the beginning. It was a value that was decided to be sufficient enough to not be considered insignificant and it has been in use for some 15 years or so.
As I said I saw 2mp in some PC titles, unfortunately I have cleaned up my drive in the meantime but I think it were some newer titles.
Ah, well, looking at the PzC titles here, the most recent one (Kharkov '43 I think?) does have this set to 2 MP, but all the others are set to 10 MP (including Moscow '42). So, that is 20 titles set to 10 MP, and 1 set to 2 MP.
That is hardly convincing that it should be reduced, and honestly I am not sure why it changed to 1/5th the standard value used all these years in that one title. It might have been a misunderstanding by the designer - perhaps the elevation "steps" in Kharkov '43 is less than other titles, and so the MP penalty was reduced, but since it is handled as 'per 100m' then the engine will reduce it according to the elevation scale of the map automatically.
Now if there were good reasons why it was reduced to 2 MP in the latest game, then I could consider lowering it to 5 MP (I wouldn't go any lower than that though), which is 1/2 the standard value used all these years, or 8 MP as you suggest, but I am not convinced that it is necessary just yet. The problem is that I am a slave to uniformity...