Multiple problems: countries not showing correctly, planes not appearing in dropdowns, dropdowns not changing values

[RafaPolit]

Friends,  

I am at a loss at what could have happened on my mission editor.  I launch the mission editor, I select WWII coalition template: 

It loads the map, but the countries available are NOT the ones I selected.  Here's a screenshot:

 

As you can see, "Third Reich" is not an option.  If I select the planes available to me as USA, I only get "modern" planes, the P-51D, for example, is not in the list:

 

This was working fine! I have done a few missions and worked perfectly.  If I load those missions, things are "a bit" better, the items I have already included are there, but not others.  For example, if load a mission I did for the 109, I see the Third Reich as country, I see the 109 as an option, but I don't get any of the 190s. 

 

What could have gone wrong?  What measures can I take to fix this?  I am not reporting this as bug yet, but I don't see how this could be user-operation related. 

 

Thanks for any feedback.

Rafa.

[Rudel_chw]

You have the historic filter enabled (the clock thingy at the status bar) but your mission’s date is not on the ww2 date range. Either change the mission date or disable the filter.

[RafaPolit]

Wow.  They went a bit too far with that one, ha?  Thanks a lot!  I was about to reinstall everything.  You just saved me a lot of hours of re-downloading.  I really appreciate the help and the quick response.  Things are working as expected now.

[Rudel_chw]

2 minutes ago, RafaPolit said:

They went a bit too far with that one, ha?

This filter was actually a community wishlist request for a long time and it is in fact helpful if you use it for missions that use historic dates .. for fictional missions ED allows us to easily disable the filter. I only wish that Mods created by the community could be added to the filter.

[RafaPolit]

Yeah, I completely see the point and use of it.  But some sort of "warning" or reminders are good UX practices: *Not finding the plane or country you are looking for? Try setting your date or removing the historical filter".  Or a warning when you click the "clock": "this will remove non-historic elements from options and drop-downs" so that you are not caught unaware.