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danurve
03-12-10, 05:49 PM
I have about 900 Messages that should simulate fleet boat traffic reporting sinkings by date, ship sunk, and the boats current Captain. Messages are from record of enemy ships sunk in the Pacific WWII theater by submarine as compiled by JANAC (Joint Army Navy Assessment Committee). So the accuracy should be represented well.

I just need to finish the formating test them in game and make sure they are presented correctly. By that I mean the goal is an emersion text mod.

Example content:

USS Bluegill SS-242
Radio Traffic
X Sunk Honan Maru Tanker 5,542 X Eric Barr X

USS Pomfret SS-391
Radio Traffic
X Sunk Tsuyama maru Passenger Cargo 6,962
X Sunk Atlas Maru Passenger Cargo 7,347
X Sunk Hanburg Maru Passenger Cargo 5,271
X J.H. Hess

Something along those lines. Comments on the formatting are welcome.
This will not be a jsgme mod, it's text lines you can copy and paste into your messages file. Besides, I tried to keep up with all the optional messages in mods with RL_E for SHIII and it grew into a monster.
keltos01
03-12-10, 05:51 PM
sounds .. immersing :03:

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Sailor Steve
03-12-10, 06:18 PM
sounds .. immersing :03:
Ah, yer all wet!:O:

Honestly, Danurve, this sounds like my kind of mod!:rock:
Jan Kyster
03-13-10, 03:36 PM
I have about 900 Messages that should simulate fleet boat traffic reporting sinkings by date, ship sunk, and the boats current Captain...
Something along those lines. Comments on the formatting are welcome.Have you uploaded the text? And do you want some help with formatting?

Have been collecting messages too and use Excel spreadsheet to format and sort the lines before exporting into a TAB-format. Works very well and ensures there'll be no repeating lines...

Looking forward to it anyway - love getting messages on patrol... :up:
virtualpender
03-13-10, 03:52 PM
This sounds fantastic! Looking forward to it.
Galanti
03-13-10, 04:06 PM
Great stuff, I'm very interested!
danurve
03-15-10, 05:06 PM
Almost done - there will be about 1025 total msg.
Included with the intended msg's I put them together with an additional 100 or so news-operational msg's that I think add a dash more life to the game. To find out what they are you'll have to d/l this when it's released. :arrgh!:
Here's a few samples:
http://pathfinderfishandgame.com/images/_793.jpg
http://pathfinderfishandgame.com/images/_457.jpg
danurve
03-15-10, 05:17 PM
Have you uploaded the text? And do you want some help with formatting?

Have been collecting messages too and use Excel spreadsheet to format and sort the lines before exporting into a TAB-format. Works very well and ensures there'll be no repeating lines...

Looking forward to it anyway - love getting messages on patrol... :up:
Not yet but it won't be long, it's just a text file I see no need in a pre-release. All set in the formatting, I've uhm - done this before. :cool: I would like to see what your working on sometime.
I was realy wondering about where the messages should apear to originate from, then decided to keep it simple and use similar IV headers. That way once someone decides to use them and wants to edit that part a simple find/replace function will do it.


Mod has been Released.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=165302