Negative Renown?

[jbruns29]

I just completed my first patrol and sank 2 merchant ships. One britain and one sweden. But after I sank the one from sweden I found out they weren't listed as an ally until 1940. I sank them in 1939. I still got credit for the tonnage. On the way into port (at 1024X speed) I also ran into a german patrol boat :-?who promptly started shooting at me. I exited the game and hit return to port. I assume I lost renown for either of these or both. I am playing with GWX 3.0.

[Sailor Steve]

What month did you start? GWX lets you start on August 1, 1939. The war doesn't start until September 3. Between those dates everything is neutral.

[raymond6751]

If you go around sinking allied ships, they do get quite angry.

I don't think you can have negative renown. You can expect some negative result, though. :arrgh!:

[jbruns29]

I should have said I got negative renown for the patrol. -191.9 to be exact.

[Raptor]

The answer lies in SilentHunterIII/Data/Cfg/basic.cfg:hmm2:

SH3 is scripted to subtract renown for sinking the wrong ship (neutral or friendly).


[RENOWN]
RenownReachGridObjCompleted=500
RenownPatrolGridObjCompleted=200
CompletedPatrol=100
NEUTRAL=-1
ALLIED=1
AXIS=-10
WrongShipSunk=-5000
FirstRankRenown=1000
SecondRankRenown=3500
EndCampaign=-5000

You CAN edit that by removing the minus sign in front of the 1 for NEUTRAL.

Change it to: NEUTRAL=1

Now you can sink anything but an AXIS ship without penalty. Not very realistic, but what the heck; those darn neutrals are sailing in the convoy and have to take their chances like anyone else.:har: