First time I got mad at SHIII for the first time since release

[vodkaphile]

I mean honestly mad where I quit playing and started playing SHIV then still being mad turned off the pc and went to bed lol.

Maybe extremely frustrated is a better word.

Heres the situation;

Lead Destroyer, Troop Transport and Aux Cruiser hdg 90

Extremely rough seas but I managed to get decent information. So I was pretty positive on the ranges, speeds, bearings etc.

Saved before I attacked just because SHIII has been crashy lately (need to review my mods)

First attempt fired spread missed intended ship but hit aux cruiser, sunk...all was fine.... sunk 3 more ships later on and game crashed near Germany on my way home. (Does that mostly when I switching from 4k+ TC to normal RT).

Anyway so I'm annoyed.


I reload the game and have all the info still at had due to the notebook and pencil on my desk. I know I had to have mad errors somewhere due to my first attempt so I re-evaluate, get the same info returned....so I decide to estimate a bit, increase speed. etc, miss...reload game...more estimating...miss....reload game, take more time to gather more data....fire...torpedo detonated early and they started zig-zagging....reloaded game.....said ok.....ill basically do the fast 90 method....spead ahead of them got in perfect firing position perfect range....miss!! I went on to do this about 5 more times before I was disgusted and shut the game down.


Now normally I don't reload over and over like that...if I miss I miss etc.. but feeling slightly cheated by the games crashing nearly upon entering port... I reloaded. Being already irritated, i wasnt gonna miss targets that I'd already hit.

Hell I don't even feel like logging in today, maybe I'll nix that mission and move on.

SH3/4 and 5 have all had frustrating moments but GRRR!!!

Rant off....

Sorry.

[Sailor Steve]

Yes, that is frustrating. I once worked for hours on a game for a friend, only to have an electrical storm zap the power, and I hadn't remembered to save it. Today I live by the slogan "Save early, save often. Save, save, save. Then save again."

[BossMark]

Yes I learnt the hard way as well about saving often, made it nearly all the way home after sinking nearly 30,000 tons of allied shipping only to get depth charged by 2 Destroyers.

[Snestorm]

T'is better to save after important events, than before.
Good or bad, I don't want to have to do it again.
I feel your anger & frustration, It's justified.

[Madox58]

Times like that have made me wonder if there is not a variable at work
we are not aware of.

You can repeat a save, do the exact samethings everytime and get different results also!

[HW3]

That's why the first chance I get after a sinking, I make a save.:yep:

[Sailor Steve]

The thing I find most irritating of all is when I hit 'Save' and then the game crashes.

Yes I learnt the hard way as well about saving often, made it nearly all the way home after sinking nearly 30,000 tons of allied shipping only to get depth charged by 2 Destroyers.
I would consider that Dead Is Dead and end the career. I only save to protect against game crashes. But that's just me.

[danasan]

Times like that have made me wonder if there is not a variable at work
we are not aware of.

You can repeat a save, do the exact samethings everytime and get different results also!

I am pretty sure there is such a variable. I have no evidence, but subjectively speaking... I am working on a single mission called "Denmarkstrait"

After several "load it and try it out, save it here and there" there is no other explanation for the results I get...

[Jimbuna]

I save semi-regularly during travelling and ALWAYS after anything I consider to be a significant event.

I've not had any save/crash problems for a while but that doesn't make me complacent because I still remember the other side of the coin well.

[Paulski]

Sh3 seems to be the only game where I never ever got mad, and started shouting :haha: When something "bad" happens, I'm, just disappointed, or annoyed, but never mad :)

I save regularly during patrol, and lately I have started saving to 2 different save files, and alternate between them any time I save. So when my last save game is corrupt or whatever, I try rhe one before that.

But I have had only 2 that a save file was corrupt. But I also had once that when I floaded the game crashed, but when I tried it a second time, everything was ok.

[BossMark]

I would consider that Dead Is Dead and end the career. I only save to protect against game crashes. But that's just me.
Just started a new career with this it seems or is more realistic.

[Kapt Z]

We've all been there....:damn:

Whenever someone posts a poll about what they want for the next SH sim I always say 'wolfpacks, dynamic campaign....etc' the same old stuff. I think what I would really like is the ability to save the game without problems at any point, no restrictions.

Now that would be something....:woot:

[sublynx]

I haven't had a crashed save game now for something like 30 saves. One of those saves was even a submerged save. I believe the change for better (I used to crash very often) was caused by the fact that I unchecked the read-only attribute of all SH3 files and SH3 save files. I have no clue why that would help but I have noticed before that the saves of old games (like Panzer General 2) won't work in newer versions of Windows if the save game file is marked read-only.

Another thing that might help is having lots of memory to spare. I only run a few mods (SH3+GWX+SH3Commander+Hsie's and Siebler's realism mod).

[Twin Screws]

I've not had any crashes as yet, only on my second trip of a career using GWX, but did have a fright on return from my first trip.
I was returning to Whilmshaven, arriving under cover of darkness, when the shore batteries opened up on me & killed 4 of my deck crew :x
I've heard of 'Friendly Fire' by Americans, but these are German, What the @#*@ is going on there ?

[Jimbuna]

You must have sunk a German ship without realising...any neutral or friendly country you fire on will automatically treat you as an enemy for the 24 hour period after said attack.

[Sailor Steve]

Did you check the date? By default GWX starts a career in August 1939, a month before that war starts. Since no country is an enemy, sinking any ship will make you an enemy of everyone, including Germany.

[Gerald]

Did you check the date? By default GWX starts a career in August 1939, a month before that war starts. Since no country is an enemy, sinking any ship will make you an enemy of everyone, including Germany. In 24 hours,right?

[Jimbuna]

Did you check the date? By default GWX starts a career in August 1939, a month before that war starts. Since no country is an enemy, sinking any ship will make you an enemy of everyone, including Germany.

My thinking was not the date Steve because he mentioned it was the second patrol (ignoring the background noise :03:).

[Jimbuna]

In 24 hours,right?

As I posted earlier :yep:

[Gerald]

As I posted earlier :yep: Ok! In this tread....?

[Twin Screws]

My thinking was not the date Steve because he mentioned it was the second patrol (ignoring the background noise :03:).

I think Steve has nailed it, it was as I returned from my first trip, I'm only outbound on my second trip as I type this. :salute:

[Jimbuna]

Ok! In this tread....?

My serve I believe :hmmm:

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[Jimbuna]

I think Steve has nailed it, it was as I returned from my first trip, I'm only outbound on my second trip as I type this. :salute:

Great news Kaleun....tis the 24 hour rule :yep:

My post before Steves confirms matters :03:

[Gerald]

#15 :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

BINGO!! :DL