JScones said:That sounds good...it takes the patrol length into account and allows for one career to have everything from 10 day patrols in a Type II to 90 day patrols in a Type IX. To eliminate the possibility of a career ending up with an unrealistically high number of patrols the numbers may need to be lower (given the limitations on replicating long patrols without resupply at sea). I'll play around with the numbers and see if I can suggest anything better.

JScones said:I took a long look at this using my careers in SH3 Commander to figure out typical patrol lengths in the game. Basically I think your numbers will work well. The only thing I can suggest is you might want the next to last group (2 in 3 chance of retirement) to have a lower upper limit, like maybe 440 rather than 480. My average patrol in a type VII runs 28 days, so using that number a career total of 480 is 17 patrols, or more if the first few patrols were shorter ones in a type II. But even without any adjustment I think this would be a major improvement over the patrol only method currently used by SH3 Commander.

I haven't been thru all the pages here so forgive me on this question/request.

Would it be possible to include decks awash in the next SHIII Commander?

Or is that a mod only feature? I haven't seen one for it anywhere. I do remember tho a discussion on it with settings for sub configs, but can't find it again.

Yep. I used roughly a 30 day patrol average, which means that II captains will get more patrols under their belt but IX captains will get less. But overall, I agree it is a better way of doing it.

I'll actually set it up as data driven, meaning that if users aren't happy with the default settings, then like most other SH3Cmdr options, they can edit to their own tastes.

It's been raised. It's not really an SH3Cmdr thing though. I know it's part of IUB and RUB and can be easily achieved via some file tweaks (although I'm sure a pre-prepared mod already exists).

Thanks Jaeson. I thought that might be the case but had to ask.

I've not seen a mod for it. As I said I found a discussion on decks awash from December. There is another one telling of the changes need to make it so, but can't find that one. Search here isn't helping at all for that one special discussion on settings.

IIRC, "Decks Awash" is already part of RUb 1.45.

Just a point of clarification in regards to the Date folders and how they work....

I am in the process of converting about 210 megs worth of BBC and various other news casts for the years of 1939 to 1945.

If I understand this right if I want to have the Chamberlain Speech where he declares War with Germany, Churchill's Interview and follow up then a Nightly BBC broadcast round table all play for September 3, 1939 I simply create (or add to if it exists) with the following directory:

SH3 Commander\Date\19390903\data\Sound\Gramophone

What I will get then is that file being played just for that day? Or will it just be loaded once that day is hit and then be available from then on? (Meaning I would have to remove it once that date has passed?)

Thanks in advance for your response!

Church

JScones said:That's sounds great!

I just posted a thread entitled 'The Weather Machine', I'm just wondering if you would be interested in adding something like it into Commander?

Hi JScones, just sent you a PM. :D

I assume someone mentioned it but just in case it wasn't:

Allow renown points to be set from SH3C. As a WaW member, I find this necessary because I must equip my Uboat at certain historical dates with certain equipment and this has nothing to do with hiscores and bonus points.

Play with "Medals and renown.cfg" - with it you can essentially build an entirely new Basic.cfg file! If I get a chance I will make it "multi dimensional", allowing different configurations based on date/u-boat/flotilla, but we'll see.

Yeah, what you're proposing sounds good - I'll think of how best to implement it...

I'll have a look. Sounds similar to Skweetis' 'SH3Weather', which I'm watching with interest and can see potential for connecting/integrating with SH3Cmdr.