Kiel harbor and start at sea

[Pepe le Moko]

If i use start at sea with SH3 Commander and my harbor is Kiel, where will this put me? I am asking cause Kiel harbor is bad for my fps but i want to be based in Brest later in the war for a change. So i wanted to know if i'll start the mission directly outside the canal or not.

[Contact]

Why don't you try it and see for yourself ? :)

[Pepe le Moko]

Because it takes 15 minutes for the game to load with GWX:x

[Oneshot/Onekill]

Yikes! 15 MINUTES!!:o

[irish1958]

With SH3CMDR the start is outside the harbor. If you do this, you cannot use the auto pilot to get through the canal, although this would be fairly easy to program.
To speed up loading, do not use the combined campaign mod.
If possible, add some RAM as it is very cheap.

[Jimbuna]

You could also try the Lite harbour mod that comes with GWX http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[nikbear]

With SH3CMDR the start is outside the harbor. If you do this, you cannot use the auto pilot to get through the canal, although this would be fairly easy to program.
To speed up loading, do not use the combined campaign mod.
If possible, add some RAM as it is very cheap.

What may be cheap for you may not be cheap for others:06:Just a thought.

[Pepe le Moko]

Thanks for the replies. I already have lite harbor traffic :oops:
But i don't mind the loading time so much, it is well worth it in the end and i am reading as i play SHIII, Hitler's U-Boat War the Hunter at the moment, so i just read a few pages while it is loading, it gets me in the mood. I just asked because i was feeling lazy and thought it'd be quicker to ask here.

[FIREWALL]

@ Pepe What type of ram sticks do you have ?

I have some older sticks I can send you gratis in a envelope.

[Sailor Steve]

Start outside harbor at Kiel puts you outside Kiel, as said. It means you have to go back into the harbor to use the Canal, or go all the way around Denmark.

Would have been nice if it started you at the mouth of the Elbe, south of Helgoland. That way you would actually be where you need to be.

[Jimbuna]

I think the problem with returning to the harbour would be that the outward journey should be activated whilst in the pen or the dock :hmmm:

[Pepe le Moko]

Apparently you can change the start at see position with SHIII commander by entering new coordinates. So in theory i should be able to start at the exit of the canal, but the problem is that i have no clue how to find the coordinates and what file to modify to do that.:88)

[Ford Prefect]

When i first tried the "start at sea" option it dumped me on the equator just off africa's west coast. Not an ideal position since my patrol grid was up near norway :nope:

[irish1958]

When i first tried the "start at sea" option it dumped me on the equator just off africa's west coast. Not an ideal position since my patrol grid was up near norway :nope:
That's a known bug when the game is confused by a campaign file conflict, and not related to the start-at-sea mod. It probably has to do with some mod incompatibility.

[irish1958]

What may be cheap for you may not be cheap for others:06:Just a thought.
Maybe so; today's paper is advertising 4GB of DDR2 1066 Hz RAM for $39.00.

[Threesixtyci]

You could also try the Lite harbour mod that comes with GWX http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

yeah....
Just be careful with those two incoming ships. They'll get out of your way while in TC, but it's a pretty good near miss, regardless.

That's a known bug when the game is confused by a campaign file conflict, and not related to the start-at-sea mod. It probably has to do with some mod incompatibility.
yeah, that usually happens because you started with the orginal fotillas and then installed the alt fotilla mod of GWX, later on.