Ships? I see no ships...

[Svendog]

So Kaleun's, after my trip into Scapa flow, I went to Loch Ewe. I went in at 14 meters under cover of darkness and keeping a watchfull eye on the obs scope, saw a mine looming out of the murky depths. After navigating the minefield I once again found a single fiji cruiser. I am starting to wonder if my install is missing some files. This is the fourth harbour I've entered only to find it deserted.
In SH IV there were always merchants docked. Is this normal for vanilla SH 3?:06:

[ralphnader23]

I snuck into Plymouth the other day during a rainstorm to see if anything would be docked. There was nothing there either. Then a frigate on patrol spotted me and began to fire. It was storming so I couldn't use the deck gun, and the water was very shallow, so I set an evasive course towards the other side of the harbor and went to flank. I was getting shot up, when all of a sudden the firing stopped. I continued to jog away, but got curious when it didn't start up again. I went to the conning tower and looked around through the binoculars and saw some sort of fire going on the other side of the harbor. I skirted around the other side of the harbor to make sure there were no ships on that side while my damage control team worked as fast as they could. A couple minutes later I got a ship sinking movie with the frigate in it. Apparently it had run into some of the harbor docks and sank itself :har::har::har::rock:, which explains the fire I had seen earlier and how I hadn't been sunk. (I wasn't credited with the kill sadly) I chugged away from the harbor and went to periscope depth as soon as the repairs were finished. As I snuck away at 2 knots I heard 3 or 4 warships chugging into the harbor on the hydrophones, and there was only 1 ship left far outside the harbor on patrol as I snuck away. Somehow I didn't lose a single sailor on this expedition, although my officers are reporting that they all think I'm crazy, and that there has been a renewed interest in making sure their last wills are filled out.

So yeah, it doesn't seem like there are ships in the harbor often. My dreams of finding a parked carrier were dashed. Or maybe you just have to be in the right place at the right time? (I'm on GWX btw)

[Gerald]

So Kaleun's, after my trip into Scapa flow, I went to Loch Ewe. I went in at 14 meters under cover of darkness and keeping a watchfull eye on the obs scope, saw a mine looming out of the murky depths. After navigating the minefield I once again found a single fiji cruiser. I am starting to wonder if my install is missing some files. This is the fourth harbour I've entered only to find it deserted.
In SH IV there were always merchants docked. Is this normal for vanilla SH 3?:06:

There are ship.tanker.trooptrp.DD,and other as well.so when was you last visit (year)?

:lurk:

[Sailor Steve]

Is this normal for vanilla SH 3?:06:
Yes. In the stock game harbors are pretty much deserted. You need GWX to get the full harbor traffic.

[Gerald]

I miss the point, ""stock SH3" in GWX.there are different...

[danzig70]

Can you add some if you load the default campaign_RND into the map editor?

[Jimbuna]

So Kaleun's, after my trip into Scapa flow, I went to Loch Ewe. I went in at 14 meters under cover of darkness and keeping a watchfull eye on the obs scope, saw a mine looming out of the murky depths. After navigating the minefield I once again found a single fiji cruiser. I am starting to wonder if my install is missing some files. This is the fourth harbour I've entered only to find it deserted.
In SH IV there were always merchants docked. Is this normal for vanilla SH 3?:06:

You WILL find ships in some harbours using stock/vanilla SH3:

Entry.........Exit........Ship............Location
19390915 19391010 Auxiliary Cruiser Scapa Flow
19391004 19391014 BB Revenge Scapa Flow
19391101 19400105 BB Nelson Loch Ewe
19391105 19391205 BB Revenge Loch Ewe
19400301 19400501 Auxiliary Cruiser Scapa Flow
19400307 19400425 CV Illustrious Scapa Flow
19400401 19400601 Auxiliary Cruiser Scapa Flow
19400517 19450101 CL Fiji Light Cruiser Loch Ewe
19400524 19400630 CL Dido Light Cruiser Scapa Flow
19401211 19401231 BB King George V Scapa Flow
19410201 19410217 Auxiliary Cruiser Scapa Flow
19410210 19410320 Auxiliary Cruiser Scapa Flow
19410315 19450430 CL Fiji Light Cruiser Scapa Flow
19420203 19420228 BB King George V Scapa Flow
19420215 19430903 CV Illustrious Loch Ewe
19420215 19430903 Passenger Liner Bristol
19420915 19430903 CVE Bogue Escort Loch Ewe
19430903 19440630 CVE Bogue Escort Norfolk