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#4517091 - 04/18/20 05:36 PM Changing Historical Ace Rank  
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Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question.
In my current DID campaign, I'm with 54 RFC in April of 1917.
William Strugnell, is currently listed as a 2nd LT when in reality he'd been promoted to Captain when he was posted to 54 as a Flight Commander in Feb(?) 1917

Here's his Record in the BritishAces.txt which shows him as a Captain.

BritishAce620
William
Strugnell
01
04
1914
01
01
1977
xxKill.txt
xxCraft.txt
06
NULL
NULL
NULL
NULL
Captain
Strugnell.bmp
Strugnell.txt
EOR

Is there any way to change this in the campaign?

Thanks,

epower

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#4517102 - 04/18/20 07:39 PM Re: Changing Historical Ace Rank [Re: epower]  
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I don't believe so. Those files were encrypted by OBD some time ago unfortunately.

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#4517103 - 04/18/20 07:46 PM Re: Changing Historical Ace Rank [Re: epower]  
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IMHO, current Ace rank is calculated approximately in respect to actual date, starting rank and end rank. As you can see in Ace record, there are not mentioned any promotion date.

#4517117 - 04/18/20 09:19 PM Re: Changing Historical Ace Rank [Re: epower]  
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Unfortunate. It's minor detail but like a tiny splinter, it's really bugging me right now. Oh well.

So at some point Strugnell will be promoted in game. I guess that makes sense since he was flying Moraine's in February of 1916.

Thank you, Gentlemen. As always I appreciate the info.

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#4517171 - 04/19/20 10:42 AM Re: Changing Historical Ace Rank [Re: epower]  
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You can imagine, just for this one tiny aspect of the war, the colossal amount of extra data and work that would be needed to be compiled by some poor sod to know every one of the approx 7000 WOFF historical pilots' ranks at every stage of each career, let alone the massive amount of data already in there for some aces such as kills, transfer dates, skin colours etc. There HAS to be some concession to WOFF not actually being quite real life at all times in all places - unfortunately we cannot make the whole world war quite fit in a program, but we have a good go. Ace ranks are often their last known rank and starting rank and then approximated over a career to save our sanity.

Talking of sanity there's an insane amount of detail and work already in there.


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#4517193 - 04/19/20 01:42 PM Re: Changing Historical Ace Rank [Re: epower]  
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Thanks, Pol. Your solution makes good sense. I'm trying very hard not to think about the number of hours it took to research, compile and program the data for 7000 (!) pilots. For the record, I'd say OBD have gone far above and beyond what counts as "a good go." As a certain pointy-eared science officer once said, you have a talent for understatement. The staggering amount of rich historical detail in WOFF beggars belief. Can't wait to see what's next.

All the best,

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#4517225 - 04/19/20 06:12 PM Re: Changing Historical Ace Rank [Re: epower]  
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Thanks. All departments need the detailed research of course and Shredward has worked endlessly on a vast amount of it!


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