We are back up on PacTactics.com

My web page is back up at PacTactics.com.

In GS Autoupdate, hit the "Options" button and change:

    http://Home.PacBell.net/PackT/GlobalSuperpowers/Message.txt

to:

    http://packtactics.com/GlobalSuperpowers/Message.txt

... and everything should be working again.

AT & T has decided to take home.pacbell.net down

AT & T has decided to take home.pacbell.net down, telling its users to find a new host. Unfortunately, that is where I keep the updates for Global Superpowers. Therefore the game will be down until I find a new place to put my files.

Server Down: Hardware Failure

Last week I lost the fan on the video card.  The server will be down until I can either find another fan or scrounge up another video card.

Client Update: Score and Movement Update

Version 1.76:

• Score screen fixed to account for ties.
• Fixed a problem with the move distance calculation for units inside organizations.

Server Update: Combat Messages

When an officer is killed in battle, all players will now get the same name in their messages.

Help File Updated: Region Page

Updated the Regions page in the help file to read:

Control of a sea region means that you have the largest naval presence in the region. 

To take over a coastal sea region, you must have the greatest number of naval attack points in the region.

If no nations have any vessels with naval attack points, the program checks submarine attack points.

If no player has any combat ships or submarines in the region, the program checks the ownership of adjacent land regions.
 
If one player controls all adjacent land regions, they will also control the adjacent coastal sea regions.

Control of coastal sea regions are checked at the end of each turn.  

Help File Updated: Resolving Combat

Updated the "Resolving Combat" page of the manual to include the following text:

Units are sorted by morale so that the units with the lowest morale are targeted last. Your local commanders may decide that some units are so shot up, they may need to send incomplete units to the front. Units that are under construction take a larger morale hit for being in combat, so they should get rotated out once the others have a chance to recover some.

Help File Updated: Trade Page

Added the following text to the Trade and Technology Pages:

When you trade technology, technology marked NOFORN and technology that the destination player already has will not be listed.

No problems found at this time.

Checked for combat in the Yellow Sea and Sea of Japan around 11 Dec 1940.  No problems found.

Client Update: Company Finance Page

Removed erroneous profit line from nationalized companies.  Resources from nationalized companies in the game go to the owner's resource centers instead of being sold to the market.