Effigy
08-05-08, 08:01 PM
The story:
The crew of U-103, in our IXB, was on a routine patrol west of Ireland in late '43. The weather was horrible. 15 m/s waves, zero visibility, and low morale was rampant. Things only got worse when we realized one of our officers, the watch officer precisely, had gone AWOL! Did he jump ship and dogpaddle to Ireland to wait out the rest of the war? Was he hiding on the ship like some kind of creepy gremlin, waiting to jump out and pull a prank on the lads to shake everyone out of the somber mood?
All speculation of course, but the report we sent BDU was that our poor watch officer had been swept off the deck in that storm and lost at sea. (The likely scenario). He will be missed.
The reality:
Came to realize during a patrol that I only had 4 officers visible on my crew management screen, lol. This is not a DID career, so this particular officer had 40 patrols notched into his bunkpost! He didn't die, he wasn't buried at sea, he just vanished from the screen. Can't say exactly when or where, but it was noticed while at sea. When I returned to port, same deal. Gone. Except the crew management screen showed that I had, in fact, 5/5 officers. Attempting to add another one gave me the error message that I had already had max officers.
Had no idea what to do. I exited, reloaded SHIII. Unloaded mods, reloaded mods, etc. Nothing. In a last ditch effort I went to sea, thinking maybe it was a UI bug and he'd reappear once we launched. Newp. We sailed that patrol an officer short.
I don't use the rotate crew option in SH3Commander, so it wasn't like he was removed randomly. And like I said it still technically listed my ship as having 5 officers, and unable to add any more. In SH3C I was still able to see his name on the roster, etc. Very weird.
I eventually had to use SH3C to dismiss him, then add a new officer next time I loaded SHIII. Was nothing else I could do to get that officer slot back. Bah. Hate losing a veteran like that.
Anyone else experience this, and know why it happens. Or what I can do to fix it if it happens again?
GWX 2.1
OLC2 Uber + OLC2 GUI
SH4 FX for SH3
Torpedo Damage 2.0
...is my current loadout. Have run this setup on many patrols with no incident like this before. Puzzling. :hmm:
The crew of U-103, in our IXB, was on a routine patrol west of Ireland in late '43. The weather was horrible. 15 m/s waves, zero visibility, and low morale was rampant. Things only got worse when we realized one of our officers, the watch officer precisely, had gone AWOL! Did he jump ship and dogpaddle to Ireland to wait out the rest of the war? Was he hiding on the ship like some kind of creepy gremlin, waiting to jump out and pull a prank on the lads to shake everyone out of the somber mood?
All speculation of course, but the report we sent BDU was that our poor watch officer had been swept off the deck in that storm and lost at sea. (The likely scenario). He will be missed.
The reality:
Came to realize during a patrol that I only had 4 officers visible on my crew management screen, lol. This is not a DID career, so this particular officer had 40 patrols notched into his bunkpost! He didn't die, he wasn't buried at sea, he just vanished from the screen. Can't say exactly when or where, but it was noticed while at sea. When I returned to port, same deal. Gone. Except the crew management screen showed that I had, in fact, 5/5 officers. Attempting to add another one gave me the error message that I had already had max officers.
Had no idea what to do. I exited, reloaded SHIII. Unloaded mods, reloaded mods, etc. Nothing. In a last ditch effort I went to sea, thinking maybe it was a UI bug and he'd reappear once we launched. Newp. We sailed that patrol an officer short.
I don't use the rotate crew option in SH3Commander, so it wasn't like he was removed randomly. And like I said it still technically listed my ship as having 5 officers, and unable to add any more. In SH3C I was still able to see his name on the roster, etc. Very weird.
I eventually had to use SH3C to dismiss him, then add a new officer next time I loaded SHIII. Was nothing else I could do to get that officer slot back. Bah. Hate losing a veteran like that.
Anyone else experience this, and know why it happens. Or what I can do to fix it if it happens again?
GWX 2.1
OLC2 Uber + OLC2 GUI
SH4 FX for SH3
Torpedo Damage 2.0
...is my current loadout. Have run this setup on many patrols with no incident like this before. Puzzling. :hmm: