[REL] patSH3r - Reborn

[P_Funk]

I was thinking maybe you could just have some minimalist external gui that lets you basically import the status of the crew from the game including compartments they're in and then it could just have presets you press to change crew making it so that you'd still have to pause the game or bring it to 1x at rotation time but that you could avoid the need to keep changing people around one by one.

Another question. Is there anything that can be done about the way the game resets the lunar cycle to what it was at the start of your patrol everytime you load a save? Maybe some way to directly inject into the game the current date on the lunar calendar or something?

[Fader_Berg]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

I was thinking maybe you could just have some minimalist external gui that lets you basically import the status of the crew from the game including compartments they're in and then it could just have presets you press to change crew making it so that you'd still have to pause the game or bring it to 1x at rotation time but that you could avoid the need to keep changing people around one by one.

Hmmm... It sounds interesting but I don't know...
I would like something like Hitman suggested a while back. Maybe the only way is to go through an external program. But in that case, it suddenly doesn't seems worth it. It gets too messy. Maybe if it could be incorporated in SH3 Commander, so that there is one app to rule 'em all. But that's not likely to be happening.

Originally Posted by Hitman

It would be nice to see the crew rotate in full watch sections, i.e. in the german UBoats there was a "Port" and a "Starbord" watch, which rotated every 4 hours (I think it was 4, NYGM readme has accurate information about this). Even if the player wants to drag a crewmember around for exceptional situations (Attacks), could you make the crew rotate in those 2 watches

Sublynx also provided an interesting solution (#142). I had some logically and programming concerns about it, but I can't recall what it was. Maybe we could work out something based on his thought.

Originally Posted by P_Funk

Another question. Is there anything that can be done about the way the game resets the lunar cycle to what it was at the start of your patrol everytime you load a save? Maybe some way to directly inject into the game the current date on the lunar calendar or something?

I've never thought about it. Is it wrong as it is?
I guess it's possible.

[P_Funk]

Originally Posted by Fader_Berg

I've never thought about it. Is it wrong as it is?
I guess it's possible.

The problem is that when you load a saved game the lunar cycle seems to reset to the day the patrol launched so if you play three days of sim time in every session then you basically end up reliving the same 3 days of the lunar calendar. So if you launch with a full moon you will spend a month at sea mostly with full moons.

As far as I know if you never save the game and run a single patrol all the way through the moon otherwise behaves properly.

[P_Funk]

Another question I have is does the night vision fix influence enemy detection as well or is it just for your own crew?

EDIT. Nvm, read hsie's manual to figure it out myself.