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[Reverie]

I have before expressed a personal discomfiture with the existing pace for crew advancement. How can we abide by the system of only one crew member qualifying per patrol ? Surely someone has an archival example of true to life crew rating ? Or even a report on another nations naval procedure, past or present ? I don’t want to resort to "Oh well, I’ll give myself ten torpedo experts this time around, or maybe six hydrophone experts and make them all Grand Admirals".

I was under the impression that the default torpedo loadout was extant only at the beginning of a patrol, when we’re still loitering in the office, and whatever changes we make would remain intact despite saving and exiting ? Was that wishful thinking on my part, or am I missing a trick ?

When you take a vessel of potable water to the boiling point in a microwave oven, then add a measure of nescafé or powdered apple cider mix, is the foaming overflow caused by free hydrogen or free oxygen ?

The Mediterranean is fast becoming my nemesis. Is every solitary merchant escorted by a destroyer in this pond ? I have yet to see a lone merchant. I have detected two merchants in the company of one escort; there could have been one just passing through. Difficult to determine when the area is in a storm center rivaling the North Atlantic.

And did Bob really believe that Melissa would step aside and let Allyson take that job ? Will Curtis ever recover from that accident and discover his true identity ? Will Jackie ever reconcile with her parents ? And what about the baby ?

Have a nice day. :sunny:
Reverie

[Canovaro]

Can somebody please tell me what this man is talking about? :rotfl:

[Hadrys]

I have before expressed a personal discomfiture with the existing pace for crew advancement. How can we abide by the system of only one crew member qualifying per patrol ?

I've messed my crew cfg manually to create "perfect crew" of 40 men for VII type. Everybody has qualifications including sailors (which doesn't matter but for the immersion of putting people in places where they know what to do). No adding quals after patrols as on 1 patrol you should already have qualed men and not a bunch of green guys that learn at sea how to drive a boat... officers may have only one qual. Promote people with lots of experience but not always. Award them only after a very hard battle when impressed with quick reloading times for example - give a cross to topr officer who nearly lost himself etc etc. Works very nice. This time I've added two man without quals as from ingame but simple - they're ending their learning process after this patrol. First one becomes a medic, the other I can't remember now lol

http://mrhadrys.com/silenthunter/longestpatrol3.jpg

I was under the impression that the default torpedo loadout was extant only at the beginning of a patrol, when we’re still loitering in the office, and whatever changes we make would remain intact despite saving and exiting ? Was that wishful thinking on my part, or am I missing a trick ?

Always check before departure, it doesn't save most of the time...

When you take a vessel of potable water to the boiling point in a microwave oven, then add a measure of nescafé or powdered apple cider mix, is the foaming overflow caused by free hydrogen or free oxygen ?

:rotfl: :rotfl: by boiling water? :o

The Mediterranean is fast becoming my nemesis. Is every solitary merchant escorted by a destroyer in this pond ? I have yet to see a lone merchant. I have detected two merchants in the company of one escort; there could have been one just passing through. Difficult to determine when the area is in a storm center rivaling the North Atlantic.

I guess... add to this different neutral nationalities cruising. This is not Atlantic - kill everything in sight and should be ok ;) As to the weather, mess the campaign cfgs to stock for example.

And did Bob really believe that Melissa would step aside and let Allyson take that job ?

Hope so :stare:

Have a nice day.
Reverie

an somebody please tell me what this man is talking about?
Canovaro

I have no idea, but I was eating my breakfast and this was a nice way to "consume" my time during it :rotfl:

geeez this forum is frying my brain, love it :sunny:

[nikbear]

I have before expressed a personal discomfiture with the existing pace for crew advancement. How can we abide by the system of only one crew member qualifying per patrol ? Surely someone has an archival example of true to life crew rating ? Or even a report on another nations naval procedure, past or present ? I don’t want to resort to "Oh well, I’ll give myself ten torpedo experts this time around, or maybe six hydrophone experts and make them all Grand Admirals".

I was under the impression that the default torpedo loadout was extant only at the beginning of a patrol, when we’re still loitering in the office, and whatever changes we make would remain intact despite saving and exiting ? Was that wishful thinking on my part, or am I missing a trick ?

When you take a vessel of potable water to the boiling point in a microwave oven, then add a measure of nescafé or powdered apple cider mix, is the foaming overflow caused by free hydrogen or free oxygen ?

The Mediterranean is fast becoming my nemesis. Is every solitary merchant escorted by a destroyer in this pond ? I have yet to see a lone merchant. I have detected two merchants in the company of one escort; there could have been one just passing through. Difficult to determine when the area is in a storm center rivaling the North Atlantic.

And did Bob really believe that Melissa would step aside and let Allyson take that job ? Will Curtis ever recover from that accident and discover his true identity ? Will Jackie ever reconcile with her parents ? And what about the baby ?

Have a nice day. :sunny:
Reverie

which is it,meths?toilet duck?windowlene?you've been drinking one of them haven't you!;)you know it makes you:doh::dead::o:88):rotfl:

[Subject]

:rotfl:

Oh dear! Afraid I only can "help" with a few...

I have before expressed a personal discomfiture with the existing pace for crew advancement. How can we abide by the system of only one crew member qualifying per patrol ?You do know you can manipulate your crew through SH3Commander's "Actions" -> "Manage crew"? Another nice setting I like btw, is the "Realistic career length" and "Realistic crew transfer" under "SH3 Options" :up: If you want a decent crew, professor Ducimus' "Flavoured To Taste" is your friend!

...add a measure of nescafé or powdered apple cider mixI wouldn't touch either :smug:

The Mediterranean is fast becoming my nemesis. Is every solitary merchant escorted by a destroyer in this pond ?No, the solitary merchants are erhm... alone? http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/smilies/dopey.gif
In my experience lone merchants are rare, but they are there! But most are escorted by at least one escort. Often two.

Have a nice day. :sunny:
ReverieYou too! http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/smilies/biggrin3.gif

[maillemaker]

I was under the impression that the default torpedo loadout was extant only at the beginning of a patrol, when we’re still loitering in the office, and whatever changes we make would remain intact despite saving and exiting ? Was that wishful thinking on my part, or am I missing a trick ?

No, I do not think that if you are in base and alter your torpedo loadout and leave the game that that setting is preserved when you re-load.

I find that every time I re-load a game saved while in base I have to re-configure my torpedo loadout (I use all electrics).

[Brag]

I was under the impression that the default torpedo loadout was extant only at the beginning of a patrol, when we’re still loitering in the office, and whatever changes we make would remain intact despite saving and exiting ? Was that wishful thinking on my part, or am I missing a trick ?

No, I do not think that if you are in base and alter your torpedo loadout and leave the game that that setting is preserved when you re-load.

I find that every time I re-load a game saved while in base I have to re-configure my torpedo loadout (I use all electrics).

I load my electrics just before leaving, otherwise the bums and wharf rats steal them. :damn:

[Sailor Steve]

I have before expressed a personal discomfiture with the existing pace for crew advancement. How can we abide by the system of only one crew member qualifying per patrol ? Surely someone has an archival example of true to life crew rating ? Or even a report on another nations naval procedure, past or present ? I don’t want to resort to "Oh well, I’ll give myself ten torpedo experts this time around, or maybe six hydrophone experts and make them all Grand Admirals".
Use SH3 Commander. It lets you change ranks at will.

I was under the impression that the default torpedo loadout was extant only at the beginning of a patrol, when we’re still loitering in the office, and whatever changes we make would remain intact despite saving and exiting ? Was that wishful thinking on my part, or am I missing a trick ?
Can't help you there; I've never selected my own loadout.

When you take a vessel of potable water to the boiling point in a microwave oven, then add a measure of nescafé or powdered apple cider mix, is the foaming overflow caused by free hydrogen or free oxygen ?
Neither. The powder hates getting burned, and is trying to escape.

The Mediterranean is fast becoming my nemesis. Is every solitary merchant escorted by a destroyer in this pond ? I have yet to see a lone merchant. I have detected two merchants in the company of one escort; there could have been one just passing through. Difficult to determine when the area is in a storm center rivaling the North Atlantic.
It's my understanding that Allied shipping in the Med was very heavily protected. But I could be wrong.

And did Bob really believe that Melissa would step aside and let Allyson take that job ? Will Curtis ever recover from that accident and discover his true identity ? Will Jackie ever reconcile with her parents ? And what about the baby ?
I stopped watching that show when they killed Doctor Jim. I'll never forgive them for that.

Have a nice day. :sunny:
Don't tell me what kind of a day to have! I'll have a crappy day if I feel like it!

Reverie
I Like your name. You seem to be lost in one, just like me.:rotfl:

[Iron Budokan]

When you take a vessel of potable water to the boiling point in a microwave oven, then add a measure of nescafé or powdered apple cider mix, is the foaming overflow caused by free hydrogen or free oxygen ?

Reverie

The particles themselves act as nucleating sites for the oxygen bubbles. And it's not pure oxygen, of course, just regular old air expanded through heat that makes up those bubbles. Yes, it's true boiled water loses its oxygen content, but this is from the roiling of the water at the air/surface interface more than from the bubbles themselves. The oxygen molecules are heated and start moving more rapidly. Those that come near the surface escape. That's why water in the Med has a lower oxygen content than, say, in the North Atlantic. (Evaporation is a big problem in the Med, too, which is why you have a higher saline content in the Med than in the North Atlantic. But we were talking about oxygen.....) You can see this when the water cools and you just stir it; you are in effect stirring in the oxygen of the atmosphere back into the water.

It's how fish breathe: oxygen is replenished through the interaction (waves, so forth) of the interface between water and air, not through bubbles of your fish tank filter...although that does help a (little) bit and don't the bubbles look pretty trickling up behind your plants while your guppies mate? Yes, come to think of it, they do.

[johnno74]

When you take a vessel of potable water to the boiling point in a microwave oven, then add a measure of nescafé or powdered apple cider mix, is the foaming overflow caused by free hydrogen or free oxygen ?

Reverie
The particles themselves act as nucleating sites for the oxygen bubbles. And it's not pure oxygen, of course, just regular old air expanded through heat that makes up those bubbles.
Its not oxygen, its steam. H2O vapour. Water doesn't break down into hydrogen and oxygen unless its heated to extreme temperateures (something well over 1000 deg) or a hefty electric current is passed through it.