[Nobon]

Greetings. Tested a tad more the mod, finished the first true patrol:

59000~ tonnes of merchant shipping, of 9 freighter, and 1 oil tanker,
and 3 shot down planes. Got the second class iron cross for it ^^
(had to go home, spent all the torp's, and the sub was SO damaged by depth charges, and aircraft attacks,
that submerging it to a certain exact depth and to KEEP that depth was a nightmareXD)

With realnav, and without contact updates.

The attack disc fixed wire method works well on medium to big ships to determine speed,

the AOB finding by aspect ratio on attack disc also as good,

And the range determination of periscope grads and math:
K:
100 for attack scope 1.5x
400 for attack scope 6x
1000 for OBS 1.5
4000 for OBS 6x

H: mast height

M: marking on scope (be careful, in attack scope 6x, every line means 2, as the fifth line is 10, so one and a half line distance for example is actually 3...)

R: range R = H*(K/M) ///Do K/M first, of course thats the reason Id put it into ()

also works like a charm.

for range in km<>time in minutes<>speed in knots calculation I use the Nomograph provided.

For course planning I use the map tools, and only my navigator's celestial, and dead reckonings, though I do change the place of the last nav. point if I have dry land what I can use for navigation fix myself.

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So far, the realnav and full manual targeting methods work out very well...
In fact I'm more succesful than I was in SH3 with contact updates+manual targeting. It seems that the "real life" methods work better than a constant contact updating cheat on map XD


Issues:

I start to receive ctd's after many minutes of 512 TC, or more than 64tc.
64tc seems ok, I managed to use the Kiel Harbor pilot script back to the harbor, without any ctd. So, to make sure about a long journey, I usually 512 for 1-2 minutes, then save.... Then continue. ...

ALso the game CTD's after a hour or two of normal, and half a hour spent in heavy visual places, but luckily no invalid saves, every game loads back fine.


A LAST, MAYBE IMPORTANT PART:

Since I am very dissatisfied with the stock game's ship log, and decoration methods, (no ceremony, nor mentioning it at all, in the patrol log, it just sneaks into your medal case. The ship log is half broken, and very dry, like a tweet page, etc.)

I maybe start to make an SH Commander-like windows application, just simplier... For starters, if I do it, it's going to be for WOS only, but if all the files the same, it maybe goes with stock.

With a dumb-simple installation, WITHOUT the shadow of the usual third party program's long, and difficult install, and preparation...



The features in mind with an already thinked-over way of implementation (as I dugged up a bit the campaign files) is:

-Ability to select from different captain avatars, displaying in the application, and also ingame in the crew menu,

-Ability to view your patrol ship logs, with CORRECTLY implemented sunken target info, in an informative, clean, and maybe paper-feeling way,

-By the second part of the programming, an ability to create either a HTML or PDF, or an image of a patrol log, to be able to uniformly and nicely link it to the forum-

-MAYBE (that one needs research) ability to display -all- the sunken target's names

-Plans to develop a method to nicely display all of your decorations, with a little side info-

-in the FAR future, maybe some kind of small roleplay element in the bar, and maybe to visit your superiors to get questioned about the last patrol events.


I can't promise for sure to start this thing, only if Im going to have time for it in the coming months, but just shared it to let you think about it as a possibility.