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My opponent who is commanding the Americans is wondering about the artillery that seems to appear (it is 1780 and so far about 3 artillery units have shown up there I believe) in the area of Philadelphia on the coast as it were and he can't get to them since I have control the area (as well as the port). Is that going to be fixed (Have any other players experienced this? I tried searching for this to see if this has been posted before. Sorry for repeating this if it was.)...I mean that these artillery units would appear only in an area/port that the US player actually controls?

An update to this...My opponent just told me that this seems to be happening every turn....I will ask him for how long..etc.

There seems to be a problem with the artillery reinforcements in this campaign (version 1.09c) for the American side. Pocus is trying to fix it.

Yes, it seems that the events fire multiple time. The bug should be fixed tomorrow (that should be tomorrow morning in the US normally).

I think I understand now how the problem can occurs. There is no bug in the code, and no bug in the scripts too, for a given version of BoA (the bug only appears on games played over several patches).

It only appears in game started some weeks ago, in 1.07 or before I think. The syntax of the events that triggers multiple time (and should not) has been modified in 1.07 (or was it 1.08?).

<you can skip the explaination if not interested>
Before, the events were set to fire continuously (999 occurences max) but the date was hard-coded on a given turn, so in essence they fired once.
In 1.07 or later, for many events, the trigger date in the main campaign has been a bit randomized. The event can fire once, but the date can vary (with a minimum historical date).

The problem is that, in the host file, the max number of occurences (for old PBEM games mostly) is still at 999. But the syntax changed with a minimum trigger date in the event file (and no hard coded date on a single turn).

So the result is that you get multiple time the events.

FIX

The fix is rather simple (editing one file) but I describe lenghtily the process.

If you have the bug and don't want to meddle with the files, send me your savegame and I will repair the problem.

You can fix the problem by changing the max number of occurences from 999 to 1 in the events that should not trigger more than once.

In the save folder of the game to fix, open the HST file (the host file, this is a text file that can be opened with notepad for example).

Seek the string evt_nam_Supply_Hortelez

Now there is a little trap: You can get the string, that describe the event, in the message panel. This is not what you seek. The event description in the message panel is between {Event} and {/Event}

What you seek is the event reference giving you the state of the event, for the script. The data structure is:

{EventState}
Name=evt_nam_Supply_Hortelez1
Occurences=5
MaxOccurs=999
{/EventState}

And as you see, MaxOccurs is at 999. Fix the entry to 1 (and set the number of current occurences to 1 to) this give you:

{EventState}
Name=evt_nam_Supply_Hortelez1
Occurences=1
MaxOccurs=1
{/EventState}

Repeat for evt_nam_Supply_Hortelez2 (just below), if needed, eg:

{EventState}
Name=evt_nam_Supply_Hortelez2
Occurences=1
MaxOccurs=1
{/EventState}

Nota: This is not abnormal to see events with a 999. Replacements and supplies can have that.

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