Penang

[Ottensen]

I decided to start a career in Penang - GWX1.3 - and after a reasonably successful patrol was puzzled to find I hadn't earned any renown. No tonnage was recorded either, except in the Captains Log, but no renown earned for it. I knew that renown cannot be awarded for reaching patrol areas but what about the tonnage?

The following were all sunk at Madras harbour:

01 Sep 1943
0022 Patrol 1
U-178, 10th Flotilla
Left at: September 1, 1943, 00:22
From: Penang
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BENGALEN
11 Sep 1943
1835 Long 80° 19' E, Lat 13° 11' N Ship sunk! S.S. Patria (Tramp Steamer), 2380 tons
1845 Long 80° 20' E, Lat 13° 12' N Ship sunk! HMAS Gawler (Bathurst class), 950 tons
2322 Long 80° 19' E, Lat 13° 11' N Ship sunk! S.S. Gwaler (Medium Passenger Liner), 15465 tons
2337 Long 80° 19' E, Lat 13° 11' N Ship sunk! Armed Trawler, 540 tons
2339 Long 80° 19' E, Lat 13° 11' N Ship sunk! Motor Vessel, 110 tons
16 Sep 1943
0654 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 5
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 19445 tons

Thought I might have got at least something for that lot

[Canovaro]

I have no idea, but since nobody's answering, maybe you should post this at the mod forum:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=195

And then delete this thread here.

[Lzs von swe]

Is it the first patrol in a new career? If so, it seems you have struck an old bug.
If you do any changes, upgrades, to your boat before the first patrol this is often the result, sorry. Sometimes you get this zero renown thing after first patrol even without making any changes at all, inc. crew.
I always do a short sea trial of the first patrol in new careers, just go some 50km. out and then return to base. Then I do whatever changes I want before the second patrol.

[Ottensen]

Originally Posted by Lzs von swe

Is it the first patrol in a new career? If so, it seems you have struck an old bug.
If you do any changes, upgrades, to your boat before the first patrol this is often the result, sorry. Sometimes you get this zero renown thing after first patrol even without making any changes at all, inc. crew.
I always do a short sea trial of the first patrol in new careers, just go some 50km. out and then return to base. Then I do whatever changes I want before the second patrol.

Thanks very much for the reply. I did upgrade before my 1st patrol, had around 500 renown left out of 1500. I've seen this bug mentioned before but never thought it would happen to me. Also there were no crew medals or promotions available afterwards, just one one crew station award available.

Damn, spent 3 hours real time sneaking in and out of Madras. What a waste of time!

[Lzs von swe]

.....but never thought it would happen to me.
We never think bad things will happen to us, do we?

[CaptainAsh]

Originally Posted by Ottensen

Damn, spent 3 hours real time sneaking in and out of Madras. What a waste of time!

Not really, you got fun. Fun is the first reason we re playing that game

[HunterICX]

Ah well

thats the thing,

with most supermods its advised to start 1st patrol without touching anything (upgrades)

just go with the sub you get and have a first patrol and after that you can go upgrade whatever you want BUT

when you finished the patrol, go back to the main menu (to ENSURE the save says In base BEFORE patrol) thats very important if you want to upgrade your sub

good luck and enjoy

[bigboywooly]

You wont get any renown for reaching or patroling grid as there arent any so the game doesnt recognise it

Same goes for the Black Sea

You can however alter your basic cfg to adjust the renown for returning home to include the grid patrol amount
Just so you dont lose out

C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Cfg

Open the basic cfg in notepad and look for

[RENOWN]
RenownReachGridObjCompleted=200
RenownPatrolGridObjCompleted=200
CompletedPatrol=100 < change to 500 and save
NEUTRAL=-1
ALLIED=1

Make sure you are in port and SH3commander has been rolled back if you use it

Oh and dont forget to change back when you leave the Indian Ocean or Black Sea

[reallydedpoet]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

You can however alter your basic cfg to adjust the renown for returning home to include the grid patrol amount
Just so you dont lose out

C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Cfg

Open the basic cfg in notepad and look for

[RENOWN]
RenownReachGridObjCompleted=200
RenownPatrolGridObjCompleted=200
CompletedPatrol=100 < change to 500 and save
NEUTRAL=-1
ALLIED=1

Make sure you are in port and SH3commander has been rolled back if you use it

Oh and dont forget to change back when you leave the Indian Ocean or Black Sea

Didn't know this, nice option

RDP

[danlisa]

As a matter of course, whenever I start a career my first patrol is, 'Start Patrol' & then 'Dock at...'. I don't even bother leaving the dock.

If you use SH3Cmdr, set your 'days in base' to 1 before doing this and you won't miss out on too much. Remember to change it back or it will be a very long war.

[Jimbuna]

No wonder Germany lost the war

:rotfl: