going nowhere

[buddha96]

im playing without mods. its only go to this square. no Norway, no bismark. is it always just gonna be square aa11 or whatever, that's boring as crap. square changes but same same.

[bstanko6]

The grids you get depend on the time of the war, your uboat type, and other various things. Sometimes the game gets stuck if you will and gives you the same grid. I never follow the grids, I try to where the action is, unless my flotilla says otherwise.

[Mittelwaechter]

You'll get no other orders by Doenitz.

For more renown - do as ordered and reach the grid and stay there 24 hours.

Then do what you want.
Raid harbours, visit New York, patrol convoy routes, enter the Med/Gibraltar, patrol west of Scapa Flow and shoot airplanes, sail the Channel/Dover, stay close to the English coast and sink convoys, fight off torpedo boats, sink fisher boats with the deck gun...

The Bismarck/Hood scenario or sinking of the Bismarck is not in SH3 Vanilla. You need to mod for joy.

Sink freighters yourself - do the calculations and math, then program the TDC yourself.

“The boring game” has eleven years after release an active community.

[Wamiduku]

im playing without mods. its only go to this square. no Norway, no bismark. is it always just gonna be square aa11 or whatever, that's boring as crap. square changes but same same.

Yes, it's boring to follow orders. Just ignore them and go hunt for convoys west of Ireland. The Irish Sea can be fun too, and for some real action go to the English Channel. You won't rack up a high tonnage there, but you'll get all the action you can handle and then some.

There's a naval base at Scapa Flow. You can go there and try to repeat Günther Prien's historical attack. Lots of subnets, shore batteries and destroyers to keep you busy.

Follow orders? Pffft...

[RConch]

Follow Orders.

Only if I have to.

[Sailor Steve]

The first thing you should do is get one of the supermods. Which one doesn't matter, they're all good. The stock game has some bugs that will come to bite you sooner or later.

As for orders, you've already gotten some good advice. I'm just the opposite. I stay in my assigned grid for at least a week, and have my own complex system for changing locations (or not). I've had more than one empty patrol, returning home with no sinkings at all. On the other hand I've been playing sub sims for thirty years now, and at some point just sinking things gets boring in itself.

But that's just me. :sunny:

[ivanov.ruslan]

I support wholeheartedly

For me the greatest pleasure of the game is the hunt, pursuit, interception, getting out of the traps and not of torpedoing and sinking targets, and when that happens, everything becomes a completion,then OK

Last but not least, soaring in the ocean, the sound of waves breaking in the conning tower, the roar of diesel .....

[Wamiduku]

Yes, sinking ships is nice, but getting out of a near-death-experience is most rewarding. When you're fighting flooding in a compartment, half the battery capacity is destroyed, oxygen is low, the periscope is destroyed and your own acoustic homing torpedoes have decided that YOU are the target - that's when the game is the most fun.