Interface problems

[BlackVoid]

I am utterly confused by the campaign interface and also have trouble with the tactical.

- How do I mine a location, other than my own port? Either mining does not come up in the menu or I cannot select a target. I just spent 15 minutes trying to mine a japanese coastal shipping lane near Port Arthur, but could not. Surely, this should not be this hard. I read the manual, but still don't have a clue.
- When does Area patrol come up as an option? It seems random to me, I cannot understand it at all.
- When I have a fleet resting and I select it, it starts to ready itself, why? (This was obvserved pre-patch).
- When I ready a fleet, if I do not give it immediate sailing orders (while still preparing), it goes automatically back to Resting status and needs another 25 hours. Why???

Tactical

- Please give us an option to change the point of view when right or middle mouse button is pressed. Mouse movement should only scroll.
- Scrolling / face changing is way to fast on my computer, any chance of a speed setting for this?
- In a tactical battle I shot up an enemy auxaliray cruiser and it started to sink. I ordered my ships to cease fire, but they kept on shooting, wasting ammo needlessly.
- I am still confused why sometimes I cannot give my division a turn by succession order. Sometimes this is possible, sometimes it is not. Also at one time this order resulted in an immediate turn.
- What is the difference between giving orders to the lead ship or the entire div? Sometimes I can give order to the division, sometimes it is the lead ship. Again, very confusing.
- Hotkeys F2, F3 and F do nothing for me.
- How is it possible to keep the camera on an enemy ship? Why is it that I right click an enemy ship and the camera shifts to my own forces????

PLEASE CLEAN UP THE INTERFACE, THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST I HAVE SEEN! Sorry for shouting, but I paid $60 for a game and instead of playing I spent the last few days struggling with the interface and was forced to give up in sheer frustration on each occasion I sat down to play.

I am no newbie to wargames, I have no trouble controlling War in the Pacific, Combat Mission and many other games. I rarely had this much trouble with a game interface.

[BlackVoid]

I also had a bug, I managed to sink a Japanese AC and after the battle, it was reported as only damaged.

Can anyone tell me how to lay mines?

[Percopius]

In the options, make sure Player Adaptive View is OFF.

'F' is now follow, and follows the current selection. If you zoom from anywhere on the map, you will zoom into the selection.

'R' is free mode.

F3 remembers the camera position, I don't know what use this is.


DO NOT PLOT in Follow mode, unless paused. hit 'R' to go the 'Free' mode, and plot. Notice that you can plot on follow mode, if you use the camera rotate keys instead of the mouse.

P.

[Zakalwe]

BlackVoid,

if you want the division to turn by succesion (or other options), only the leader should be marked, not the whole division.

Z.