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Originally Posted by Hitman
Smoke on the horizon!!!!!  |
Hopefully, it's a ship, and not our sub with an electrical fire...
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Originally Posted by torpedobait
New Career out of Midway as of 12/8/41; USS Grayback (SS-208) Gar class, 75% realism:
1. In port at Midway as of 10/05/1942:
2. Five patrols; 239,504 tons of shipping and a couple of escorts;
3. Finally offered a surface radar (SJ-1 Improved); I was expecting a surface radar set after the third patrol, ending in Mid-July 1942;
4. Surprised there was no offer for a new boat after five successful patrols. (sigh).
5. Preparing to go out on sixth patrol. End Report.
EDIT: After completing sixth patrol received offer made (and accepted) for USS Balao, apparently already at Midway, as the base did not change. Date of transfer appears to be 11/20/42 according to the Office calendar.
Strange that the brand new boat only had the older SJ Radar, whereas my previous command had been upgraded to the SJ-1 Improved after the fifth patrol in that vessel. No other anomalies detected so far. End Edited Report. |
Ship upgrades are a problem, and not just from a "date" perspective. We've been finding all of the February 29th and June 31st kind of dates, and may well have most of them banished from existence in the mod. However, we have just begun to research some issues that actually date back to March of 2007 and beyond - issues that were "fixed" with the "updates". There is a little setting in the subs' UPC files for "UpgradeClass=", and the old boats are "0" zero, then there are the "1" one boats, "2" two boats, of which, the Gar and Gato are, the "3" boats Balao and Tench. We are going to at least re-arrange them, because the Tambor and Gar are the same, not the Gar and the Gato. As it stands now torpedobait, you'll probably have to wait on the Balao availability at Midway in March of 1943, before you get a new boat. (If you happen to get a Gato, can you please, please, please let us know as soon as it happens?) You will probably be offered a new conning tower before long though... sorry... but that's the way the game is currently set-up. We'll do some experimenting here in a few weeks, and see if / how we can remedy this - hopefully without an "early retirement" issue, like the game used to do you after an "upgrade" to a new boat. In the meantime, there is a "formula" that is used to calculate your patrols and tonnage sunk for your "Captain's Rating". One average patrol can set you back a good bit. A single poor patrol can hammer your career to where you get next to nothing for upgrades ever, in spite of having other stellar patrols. That is hard-coded. I had a couple of links to old Ducimus posts concerning all of the above, and I managed to crash the browser on my tablet and lost them... I'll have to try and find them again for you, but for now, nightie-night!