Love the SIM, Hate the Documentation

[Cujo]

Hello Simers,

I have been enjoying the SHIII for a lmost a week now. I know I'm not the brightest guy in the world but the documentation has much to be desired.

I have acquired about 4500 renoun points and been attempting to upgrade my UBoat. I believe I found the correct screen, I select the Desk labelled "Uboat". I can see the upgrades, and seem to have enough points for some of them, but can't seem to pull the trigger for activation. I tried clicking, dragging and cursing to no aval. Where could I be going wrong. There is zero help in the manual on this.

By the way, I tried to access the "communitymanual" link and it is no longer there.

Any pointers to documentetion links also would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help :P

[John Channing]

Double click on the title of the upgrade you want. You will be asked "Are you sure?", click yes and voila, you have your upgrade.

JCC

[Luuraja]

Hello Simers,

I have been enjoying the SHIII for a lmost a week now. I know I'm not the brightest guy in the world but the documentation has much to be desired.

I have acquired about 4500 renoun points and been attempting to upgrade my UBoat. I believe I found the correct screen, I select the Desk labelled "Uboat". I can see the upgrades, and seem to have enough points for some of them, but can't seem to pull the trigger for activation. I tried clicking, dragging and cursing to no aval. Where could I be going wrong. There is zero help in the manual on this.

By the way, I tried to access the "communitymanual" link and it is no longer there.

Any pointers to documentetion links also would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help :P

Hey and welcome aboard!

It was your first patrol? In 1939?

At first, don't expect you must get an upgrade after each mission. Don't think that having enough renown gives you automatically something special, any upgrade is historical.
This is such kind of game.

About documentation: Find Avon Lady in this forum. She has excellent wiki (but I can't give you exact adress right now).

[Tikigod]

My friend and I had this discussion....I don't think publishers pay attention to documentation anymore....mostly we think its from the Internet....whatever you can't find in manual will always be found on a website or discussion forrum....and most of times with games now they get modded or patched well beyond the life of the game....so its kinda pointless to spend money on paper for soemthing that will be changed in future with patches, etc anyway....The days of huge nicely in depth printed manuals I think are over. I remember with aces of the deep you got a pretty big authentic looking kriegsmarine map....(I still use it) and even falcon you used to get all kinds of maps of the theatre of operations you flew in as well as in depth historical backgrounds to weapons and equipment used. SH3 has pretty cool map but, alot of the historical data seems to be lost..Games were like opening a collectors edition to a dvd....now you are lucky if you get a cool looking box that lasts more than a month (tin or hard plastic) Then again since this is version 3 of a series I guess they don't really think about marketing to the new uboat user....I guess they think people buying this game have manuals from sh1 and sh2 and are familiar with uboat sims....

[gdogghenrikson]

I have been enjoying the SHIII for a lmost a week now. I know I'm not the brightest guy in the world but the documentation has much to be desired.

yea the manual for sh3 is lame, unlike SH2

[Cujo]

Thanks for your welcome, replies and comments. The double click did it. What a difference an upgrade makes. You can reek a lot more havoc with something other than a trainer U-boat.

The comment on the quality of manual makes sense. I did not play shI or shII. A few years ago I played 688 and really enjoyed it. I think you can get away with sparse documentation on an arcade shooter like “Call of Duty” and the like. However, simulation software requires a more extensive manual. I can't complain too much. The cost of the game was only 20$. Unheard of for this quality of software entertainment.

Thanks again for the help. Time to take some tonnage.