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Hi!

I only just now sorted out my keyboard issues.  It was actually pretty stupidly easy, so for anyone who has a foreign keyboard (mine's Japanese) and you can't open the console window, then try this; go into control panel and select Clock, Language and Regions, then click Change Keyboards and other Input Methods, then select Keyboard and Languages and Change Keyboards.  Then add a US keyboard (just the standard one), at the top drop box select the US keyboard as the default one and close all the windows by clicking OK.

Note' This is for Windows 7 64bit.

Now the console window can be opened in game by pushing the button under the escape key.  On a Japanese keyboard this is the "半角／全角／漢字" button.

Now, all my other buttons are screwed up though, but fortunately its easy enough to change the keyboard back to Japanese.

Thanks for all the good advice - it lead me in the right direction!

I don't actually know what to do with the console though... any advice???

Fair enough dude, I'm complaining too much.  I should have just left earlier but I stayed around.  Fuck it, it's a game, right?

Actually that just happened to me playing Berlin on USA Server - fortunately the other players voted no.  It was a fairly fun game too, but in the last 1/4 of it someone tried to vote kick me out about 6 times in a row!  I have no idea who it was or why they wanted to kick me.  I don't think I TKed too often and I certainly wasn't doing anything against the rules - I was on Allied team so there's no uncap or anything.  I didn't even have the highest score.  I guess it was just a grudge. 

Is it possible to have kickback on all weapons apart from landmines?  Or have no team damage just for landmines?  Although that would completely change the dynamic of using mines because then you could run up to a tank and chuck a mine on it and not die.  Oh well, perhaps there's no perfect answer.

BTW, TGIF!

Sorry, I guess that no one would really understand that reference.  Japanese salarymen (suit wearing company employees) don't deal with stress very well and commit suicide by jumping in front of trains.  It happens daily in Japan.  But when they do that, their families have to pay compensation to the railway company for the delay caused by, you know, having to stop the trains and clean up the mess.  However, because JR (Japan Rail) is the cheapest in terms of compensation, it's the first choice for most jumpers.  Therefore, if you're riding a JR train there's a fair chance you'll have a delay.  Hence the reference to our friend Mr. Player jumping in front of a tank like a suicidal salaryman at a JR station.

That's a shame.   Is kickback damage where you get damage if you hurt a teammate?  That's my preferred option anyway.  I guess TKers will always find a way to annoy people no matter what though.  We just have to suffer through it and avoid the temptation to retaliate.

I often play "HOKKAIDOJPN#1 Schindler'sList" and on that server if you team damage - vehicle or soldier - then an equal amount of damage comes off your health.  Therefore, if you team kill then you die instantly.  It makes team killing no fun at all - cause it's just suicide, and it teaches you to be careful when throwing grenades, firing artillery and carpet bombing with the B-17.  I think if you had this system then the intentional (and careless) TKers would move on pretty soon.  Thoughts?

WS

Hi Nameless, Actually I'm not from the USA but it seems that someone who is from the US has already answered your question.  I think you're right to call school taught history 'propaganda', regardless of what country it's taught in.  In some countries it's outright propaganda and in others it's subtle, but I think the bias and desire to paint a positive/less negative picture is always there.  I guess we went to school at the same time, but I in New Zealand.  The history that was taught to us touched on world history but didn't go too deeply into any issues, apart from the New Zealand history modules.  We only delved into "real" history in senior high school, but by then it was an elective subject that only around 10% of my year took.  In 6th form history we looked at the "Road to Sarajevo", from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871(?) and the unification of Germany and Italy, the rise of Gemany as a European power and the dreadnaught arms race with Great Britain, through to the outbreak of the first world war.  Then we moved on to Tsarist Russia, the rise of the Bolsheviks, Ruso-Japanese war, Lenin and the revolution.  After that we looked at the interwar period, hyperinflation in Germany and the rise of Hitler, fascism and the Nazis.  Then we shot over to China and studied the fall of the dynasties and the rise of Sun Yat Sen, and finally we looked at Rogernomics and the new right revolution of the 4th Labour government in New Zealand.  In 7th form we spent three quarters of the year studying Tudor/Stuart England and then some very local history where we literally studied a nearby sheep farm.

So, history taught in New Zealand covers many topics but its goal is to teach history as a subject, rather than teaching history of places as fact.  Our textbooks certainly had a bias towards the standard, pro-empire narrative, but we were encouraged to analyse the backgrounds and political leanings of the historians whose books we read.  However, this was only in senior high school, in a class in which 90% of the students did not take.

WS

In terms of calling someone a Nazi in a game where at least half the maps feature a Nazi verses Allied situations, regardless of your opinion of either side, it would be impractical to ban the word "Nazi", or any other war-time slur.  Personally I cringe when I hear players talking about killing "Japs" and "Yellow people" because I'm currently living in Japan and I have a fair affiliation to the locals. 

In regard to the use of banned accusational words, as in any game, online or otherwise, accusing someone of playing outside of the rules will certainly cause a break in the immediate game-play and will encourage a situation where players are forced to discuss or defend their actions, thus interrupting the game itself.  Therefore, the good people at SiMPLE have created a forum where players can discuss such issues outside of the game itself and not interrupt the game-play of others. 

As for the rest of the opinions voiced in this thread, considering their irrelevance to the original concern, i will ignore them.

In the few times when I have had the honour to play against Mr. Suess, he has always been kind enough to give me practical lessons in how not to play this game.   For this reason I hope his ban is not too long, for without players of his calibre to provide competition, we are little more than the victims of team-swapping TKer looking for their next kill. 

WS

Yeah, no lag anymore.  But one thing I did notice over the weekend was that Battle of Brittain crashes. 
I played on Friday night and it crashed twice on Battle of Brittain but not on any other map.  I rejoined after the crash and it crashed again shortly after.  I'm not sure if it recovered or not after the second time. 

Last night it crashed again, so when I saw I was the first to log on I changed the map to something else and it worked fine.  It seems to only be Battle of Brittain. 

Cheer mate, good luck!

WS

Now THAT looks like something that can help me.  I'll need a fresh mind before I start playing around with my PC though.

Thanks a lot!

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Try the option: "show in folder."  That's how I found the actual path.
Then make a folder shortcut to your desktop or wherever. 
When I right clicked and chose properties it gave me some dodgy file path too.