View Full Version : Spawning down in South-Afrika when I'm supposed to go from Germany?
TheLutefisk
05-17-10, 02:14 AM
Hi!
I have a problem, when I am playing my career I have made it to the third patrol. But, whenever I try to start the new patrol I start all the way down by south-Afrika in the FG area (where the colored lines cross). I tried to drive the boat back to Wilhelmhaven in germany and managed this but when I started to fourth patrol the same thing happened again! All the way down to south-afrika...
I am using:
- GWX 16km Atmosphere
- Fubars VIIB Plain
- GWX Integrated orders (this is the last mod I activated, might be this)
Need help! Thanks in advanche, John.
GoldenRivet
05-17-10, 03:45 AM
next time you are in port, request a base change and see if that fixes it.
you are spawning at 0'-0"N 0'-0"W which is the default starting point if the game doesnt know where to put you.
it seems that there has been a mix up as to where you are supposed to be based.
Hi!
I have a problem, when I am playing my career I have made it to the third patrol. But, whenever I try to start the new patrol I start all the way down by south-Afrika in the FG area (where the colored lines cross). I tried to drive the boat back to Wilhelmhaven in germany and managed this but when I started to fourth patrol the same thing happened again! All the way down to south-afrika...
I am using:
- GWX 16km Atmosphere
- Fubars VIIB Plain
- GWX Integrated orders (this is the last mod I activated, might be this)
Need help! Thanks in advanche, John.
This is different, don't think I have seen even a post that mentions this behavior of your boat loading up and starting at that location.
Looking forward to what the fix is, or if it has happened to others.:o
Have you checked the name of your helmsman?
Jimbuna
05-17-10, 07:31 AM
Are you positive those are the only mods you've enabled?
sharkbit
05-17-10, 08:27 AM
I don't remember all the details but it happened to me with a Med career. Prior to a patrol from La Spezia, I got the message that my base has changed form La Spezia to Toulon. IIRC, I was able to leave La Spezia ok, but I saved after a while. When I loaded later on I was at 0 degree N, 0 degree W as well.
I ended up transfering bases the old fashioned way. I just sailed from La Spezia to Toulon, ended the patrol in Toulon and started my next patrol from Toulon. Everything worked fine since.
That makes me wonder if OP's problem is a base transfer issue. You might want to look at the order screen and see if the start and finish bases are different. Maybe you got a base transfer prior to your patrol and didn't realize it.
:)
timmy41
05-17-10, 09:05 AM
just go to your 'before mission' save, its a bug that causes you to spawn at 0,0.
It happened to me a looong time ago. Based in La Spezia I somehow got to Atlantic near the Equator. Chnaged base to someplace else and haven't returned to Med.
TheLutefisk
05-17-10, 03:16 PM
Have you checked the name of your helmsman?
Yeah, his name is Bernard Krupp, why?
TheLutefisk
05-17-10, 03:17 PM
Okey, I've tried to select the save "in base before mission" and also I replaced my Helmsman and now it works!!! :DL
Cheers guys :up:
frau kaleun
05-17-10, 04:06 PM
Yeah, his name is Bernard Krupp, why?
:haha:
Well of course it is.
Long story short, tradition hereabouts is to blame any problems on "Bernard" - he's the guy on the crew who can't do anything right.
If your torpedoes are all duds, it's because Bernard was your chief torpedo mate.
If the deck gun crew can't hit the broad side of a barn at 400m, it's because Bernard is either firing the thing himself or was in charge of maintaining the weapon (or both).
If a destroyer manages to sneak up behind you while you're watching that burning tanker go down, it's because Bernard was the watch officer on duty.
And if you find yourself sailing off the coast of Africa when you should be off the coast of Germany... well, you guessed it. Navigator Bernard, at your service!
Jimbuna
05-18-10, 08:24 AM
Okey, I've tried to select the save "in base before mission" and also I replaced my Helmsman and now it works!!! :DL
Cheers guys :up:
SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
ryanglavin
05-21-10, 06:20 PM
:haha:
Well of course it is.
Long story short, tradition hereabouts is to blame any problems on "Bernard" - he's the guy on the crew who can't do anything right.
If your torpedoes are all duds, it's because Bernard was your chief torpedo mate.
If the deck gun crew can't hit the broad side of a barn at 400m, it's because Bernard is either firing the thing himself or was in charge of maintaining the weapon (or both).
If a destroyer manages to sneak up behind you while you're watching that burning tanker go down, it's because Bernard was the watch officer on duty.
And if you find yourself sailing off the coast of Africa when you should be off the coast of Germany... well, you guessed it. Navigator Bernard, at your service!
Ironically, its not even a long story.
Ironic because it is the base of this website.
It was a story that Dowly put up, oh gosh, 4 or 5 years ago?
frau kaleun
05-21-10, 10:08 PM
Ironically, its not even a long story.
Ironic because it is the base of this website.
It was a story that Dowly put up, oh gosh, 4 or 5 years ago?
Actually it was from the first post in a thread that Dowly started in 2005 (Subsim's been around much longer) for humorous SH3 pics:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=84773
The actual pic:
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/4958/bernard6sp.jpg
The rest, as they say, is history.
(And if Bernard's on your boat for too long, you're probably history as well!)
:O:
conus00
05-21-10, 10:59 PM
next time you are in port, request a base change and see if that fixes it.
you are spawning at 0'-0"N 0'-0"W which is the default starting point if the game doesnt know where to put you.
it seems that there has been a mix up as to where you are supposed to be based.
I have experienced that exact same thing. I am in a process of testing my SH3GWX widescreen mod and sometimes (when I change even MINISCULE thing, like small graphic file) in the middle of patrol, the game on the load puts me at 0'-0"N 0'-0"W.
It's a weird glitch.... :nope:
ryanglavin
05-22-10, 07:17 AM
Actually it was from the first post in a thread that Dowly started in 2005 (Subsim's been around much longer) for humorous SH3 pics:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=84773
The actual pic:
The rest, as they say, is history.
(And if Bernard's on your boat for too long, you're probably history as well!)
:O:
Ugh, why did I say "story"? Me have no memory. :damn:
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