@Tooltip: I had a hard time trying to figure this one out, but the way that the "Reveal Incoming Troops" currently works is that you have to be able to select the specific wave you want to reveal. Well, "Fog of War" doesn't let the beseiged player know how many waves are coming at him, so technically, he
can't use the "Reveal Incoming Troops" feature until the "Fog of War" dissipates on its own and his able to select a specific wave.
What the enemy sees: Instead of receiving the formal notification of the crossed-swords-on-a-shield icon showing the number of incoming attack waves, a different icon appears: that of a question mark imposed upon a cloud of fog (I'm just making these up -- I'm sure the developers can be more imaginative).
This is their only indication that they have an incoming attack. But they have no idea how many attacks (unless they are Chaos'd -- see below) or when it will get to them. And the enemy cannot use the the "Reveal Incoming Troops" option, because they would have to pick which wave to reveal, and the Fog of War indiscriminately masks all the waves as one. Instead, they just receive an error message saying, "You cannot permeate the fog of war."
To be clear, the enemy is still able to use "Reveal Incoming Troops" on incoming waves which are not masked by "Fog of War". See example below:
GIVEN: I'm attacking you. I send 10x waves at you but use "Fog of War" on 3x of them (doesn't matter which 3x for this discussion). This is what we see in our respective screens of RALLY POINT >> MOVEMENT:
WHAT I SEE:[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Outgoing Troops[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Arrival In
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]03:58:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]04:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]
Fog of War Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]04:05:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]
20% cloak: Fog lifts in:[/TD]
[TD]
00:49:00[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]01:48:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]01:55:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]
Fog of War Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]02:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]
50% cloak: Fog lifts in
[/TD]
[TD]
01:00:00[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]
Fog of War Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]09:50:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]
40% cloak: Fog lifts in
[/TD]
[TD]
03:55:48[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}
[/TD]
[TD]05:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]05:05:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]10[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]05:07:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
WHAT YOU SEE[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Incoming Troops[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Arrival In[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]03:58:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]04:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]01:48:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]01:55:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]05:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]05:05:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]05:07:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
???
[/TD]
[TD]
Fog of War Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]
Attack from ???
[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]
??:??:??[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
... so if you are being attacked, you can still use instant report on waves #1-7, but if you try to apply it to the "Fog of War" wave, you get the error message stated above. And the reason I don't recommend disabling the Instant Report function on the Fog of War line is to avoid a bunch of people complaining to the helpdesk saying "The Reveal Troops icon isn't work properly, it doesn't appear on all incoming attacks, fix this."
After 1 hour goes, two of the shortest "Fog of War" durations will expire, so your screen will now show the following (the lines in blue represent which wave was cloaked by "Fog of War"):
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Incoming Troops
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Arrival In[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]02:58:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]03:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]
Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]
Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]
<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]
03:05:00[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]00:48:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]00:55:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6
[/TD]
[TD]
Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]
Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]
<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]
01:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}
[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]04:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}
[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>
[/TD]
[TD]04:06:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9
[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}
[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>
[/TD]
[TD]04:07:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
???
[/TD]
[TD]
Fog of War Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]
Attack from ???
[/TD]
[TD]
<Instant Report>
[/TD]
[TD]
??:??:??
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
... and so forth.
Does this help?
-Kaleel
[b]@Tooltip[/b][b]: [/b]I had a hard time trying to figure this one out, but the way that the "Reveal Incoming Troops" currently works is that you have to be able to select the specific wave you want to reveal. Well, "Fog of War" doesn't let the beseiged player know how many waves are coming at him, so technically, he [u][b]can't[/b][/u] use the "Reveal Incoming Troops" feature until the "Fog of War" dissipates on its own and his able to select a specific wave.
[quote][b]What the enemy sees: [/b]Instead of receiving the formal notification of the crossed-swords-on-a-shield icon showing the number of incoming attack waves, a different icon appears: that of a question mark imposed upon a cloud of fog (I'm just making these up -- I'm sure the developers can be more imaginative).
This is their only indication that they have an incoming attack. But they have no idea how many attacks (unless they are Chaos'd -- see below) or when it will get to them. And the enemy cannot use the the "Reveal Incoming Troops" option, because they would have to pick which wave to reveal, and the Fog of War indiscriminately masks all the waves as one. Instead, they just receive an error message saying, "You cannot permeate the fog of war."[/quote]
To be clear, the enemy is still able to use "Reveal Incoming Troops" on incoming waves which are not masked by "Fog of War". See example below:
[b]GIVEN: [/b]I'm attacking you. I send 10x waves at you but use "Fog of War" on 3x of them (doesn't matter which 3x for this discussion). This is what we see in our respective screens of RALLY POINT >> MOVEMENT:
[u][b]WHAT I SEE:[/b][/u]
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Outgoing Troops[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Arrival In
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]03:58:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]04:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]Fog of War Icon[/color][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]04:05:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][color=#ff8c00]20% cloak: Fog lifts in:[/color]
[/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]00:49:00[/color]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]01:48:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]01:55:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]Fog of War Icon
[/color][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]02:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][color=#ff8c00]50% cloak: Fog lifts in
[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]01:00:00[/color]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]Fog of War Icon[/color][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]09:50:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][color=#ff8c00]40% cloak: Fog lifts in
[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]03:55:48[/color]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}
[/TD]
[TD]05:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]05:05:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]10[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack on {target name}[/TD]
[TD]05:07:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[u][b]WHAT YOU SEE[/b][/u]
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Incoming Troops[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Arrival In[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]03:58:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]04:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]01:48:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]01:55:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]05:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]05:05:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]05:07:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]???
[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]Fog of War Icon[/color][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][color=#ff8c00]Attack from ???
[/color][/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]??:??:??[/color][/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
... so if you are being attacked, you can still use instant report on waves #1-7, but if you try to apply it to the "Fog of War" wave, you get the error message stated above. And the reason I don't recommend disabling the Instant Report function on the Fog of War line is to avoid a bunch of people complaining to the helpdesk saying "The Reveal Troops icon isn't work properly, it doesn't appear on all incoming attacks, fix this."
After 1 hour goes, two of the shortest "Fog of War" durations will expire, so your screen will now show the following (the lines in blue represent which wave was cloaked by "Fog of War"):
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Incoming Troops
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 3"]Arrival In[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]02:58:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]03:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD][color=#0000ff]Normal Icon
[/color][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][color=#0000ff]Attack from {source name}[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#0000ff]<Instant Report>[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#0000ff]03:05:00[/color]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]00:48:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]00:55:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6
[/TD]
[TD][color=#0000ff]Normal Icon
[/color][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][color=#0000ff]Attack from {source name}[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#0000ff]<Instant Report>[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#0000ff]01:00:00
[/color][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}
[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>[/TD]
[TD]04:00:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}
[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>
[/TD]
[TD]04:06:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9
[/TD]
[TD]Normal Icon
[/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]Attack from {source name}
[/TD]
[TD]<Instant Report>
[/TD]
[TD]04:07:00
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]???
[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]Fog of War Icon
[/color][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"][color=#ff8c00]Attack from ???
[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]<Instant Report>
[/color][/TD]
[TD][color=#ff8c00]??:??:??
[/color][/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
... and so forth.
Does this help?
-Kaleel