Campaign won't advance

[Pandacat]

The campaign won't progress into the next map after Tulagi battle.  All I got was a briefing saying the campaign is won and then a fighter sweep mission.  I clicked fly then my squadron spawned in water. 

[Pandacat]

Yeah, it looks like there is a serious problem with campaign progression.  Finishing one map simply won't allow you to advance to the next.  Anyone else had the same experience?

[sniperton]

You have the answer here:

 

http://forum.jg1.org/topic/3992-wow-its-been-a-while-and-dcg-is-still-alive-and-well/page-2

[Pandacat]

No, that doesn't solve it.  Here is what is going on:

 

The US pacific campaign is consisted of 10 maps (from Tulagi to Okinawa sequencially).  The standard procedure is once I have reached victory conditions of one map, the campaign would advance to the next map.  Say in Tulagi map, if US forces occupies Tulagi Depot objective, then the map is won and the campaign would move onto the next one: Coral Sea.  Once I sink the Japanese carrier in Coral Sea, I win the map and advance onto Midway.  So on so forth.  As far as I remember, DCG always goes like this unless there is new stuff in 3.49 that I am not aware of.  But anyway.  Now I won Tulagi map, instead of moving onto Coral Sea, the campaign keeps generating new mission at Tulagi.  When you click fly the next mission, you and your whole squadron spawn in the water with damaged aircraft and mission fails.  As a result, you can't advance any further; your campaign is basically a dead end at this point.  So I was wondering if any of you had the same issue.  

[sniperton]

Sorry, I've never played the pacific campaign. But HSFX is different ship-wise, so a missing ship (or one whose name has changed) can result in such issues. What if you googled campaigns made specifically for HSFX?

[Lowengrin]

Check that you have "Single Map Campaign" option unchecked. 

 

Years ago, there was a bug that was preventing campaigns from advancing, but it was squashed way back when.  But maybe you've found something new.

[Pandacat]

I double checked.  "Single Map Campaign" is unchecked.  I have pacific campaign multiple times in old DCG versions.  Never encountered this issue before.  Any way to debug this issue?

[Pandacat]

Sorry, I've never played the pacific campaign. But HSFX is different ship-wise, so a missing ship (or one whose name has changed) can result in such issues. What if you googled campaigns made specifically for HSFX?

There are many campaigns for HSFX on missions4today, but any of those are made for DCG?  Mostly they look like just Dgen campaigns.

[sniperton]

There are static campiagns and dynamic campaigns. Dynamic campaigns are either for DGen or for DCG. DCG campaigns are those which are marked as having been made for DCG. Like this: http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=30640.0

[Pandacat]

I heard BoB is a great DCG campaign, but I am really in mood for some carrier stuff. LOL

[Lowengrin]

So I was playing around with the Tulagi and Coral Sea campaigns last night (and made Tulagi have a quick two day campaign for the Yorktown to get in and get out).  But when I tried to add some TBD Devastators to the Coral Sea campaign, it crashed just as the TBDs began their attack run on the Japanese carriers.  Not just once, but three times.

[sniperton]

You mean the grame crashed, don't you? Was it 4.13.2? Could you upload the generated misson file for testing, or would you look at the game log for java exception errors? 

[Pandacat]

So I was playing around with the Tulagi and Coral Sea campaigns last night (and made Tulagi have a quick two day campaign for the Yorktown to get in and get out).  But when I tried to add some TBD Devastators to the Coral Sea campaign, it crashed just as the TBDs began their attack run on the Japanese carriers.  Not just once, but three times.

So Paul, were you able to transition from Tulagi to Coral sea?  Mine was able to transition at all.

[Lowengrin]

Yes, after I added an end date in the endcampaign file. 

[Pandacat]

hmm... Interesting.  My endcampaign file doesn't seem to work at all.  I added Tulagi end date on 5/2, but I am on 5/8 and still fighting.  Let me make sure that I have done right:

[Tulagi]

  Campaign=Pacific_Campaign

  EndDate=2/5/1942

  Victor=Red

 

This is all you added right?  Do you know add victory condition for Blue side as well?

[Pandacat]

I encountered something weird.  The entry for Tarawa worked as expected, but Tulagi just won't end.  Also interesting is that Tarawa ends on 11/23/42, the next map Marianas starts immediately on the same date.  I always thought different maps have different dates and they don't necessarily follow each other right after.

[Lowengrin]

Change victor to blue.  The problem is the campaign that is next is only triggered if the Japanese win....

 

[Tulagi]

  Campaign=Pacific_Campaign

  EndDate=2/5/1942

  Victor=Blue

[Pandacat]

Btw, Paul.  I finished Tarawa map which ends on 23/11/43.  The next map Marianas was supposed to start on June, 44.  But instead, the map start date followed immediately to Tarawa's end date.  It started on 23/11/43.  Is there anyway to make maps start on correct start date? 

[Lowengrin]

No, there's an assumption that if you finish the one campaign, it jumps to the next in the progression immediately.  I suppose there could be an option to try and keep the historical dates (if you're ahead of schedule).

[Pandacat]

Wow, Coral Sea is buggy too.  I sank both Japanese carriers, but can't advance to the next map.  I am pretty much stucked with flying CAP mission everyday.

[Lowengrin]

Yeah, I don't know what happened but the links between the campaigns all vanished (or were never there).  Try adding the following to your endcampaign.dcg file:

[CoralSea]
  Campaign=Pacific_Campaign
  Sunk=CV 20%
  Victor=Red
[CoralSea]
  Campaign=Pacific_Campaign
  Sunk=CV 20%
  Victor=Blue

[Pandacat]

Ok, I'll try it out next time.  Btw, where do I see the links between campaigns?  Is it the allcampaign.dcg or grandcampaign.dcg?

[Pandacat]

This is the only thing I saw in grandcampaign about Tulagi

 

[Tulagi to CoralSea] Blue

  Campaign=Pacific_Campaign

  Map=CoralSea

  Front=Coral_Sea_

  DeHome=Rabaul_Airfield

  RuHome=Townsville_Airfield

  DeBase=Rabaul_Airfield

  RuBase=Townsville_Airfield

 

Possible to duplicate it for Red?

[Lowengrin]

Yes, but it will give control of most of the map to the Japanese.

[Pandacat]

Coral sea works fine now.  I am testing Midway and Santa Cruz next.  I know Tarawa works fine now.