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Tip of the hat...
 

...to you SleightOfHand (or should I say SOH in keeping with the acronym theme going on here, LOL).

I think you'll find any rudimentary PRG would be gladly welcomed by the vast majority of the subsim SHIV community.

My thanks in advance for taking this on.:salute:

Muhahaha RR you crack me up mate lolz :har:

MY vote is SH4 RPG no fuss easy to remember

I came across a Hiryu last night and put four torpedoes right... across its bow. Seriously. I missed by about ten feet. Let my experience be a cautionary tale--no matter how good your TDC/PK solution seems to be, you should always update bearings before you shoot.

Inspired by the above, I've decided that this weekend I'm going to hammer out the bit that detects torpedo firings and hits/duds (I'll figure out misses by math). Maybe I'll get to the part that attempts to time-group them into attacks, but I'm not particularly sure I'll do so tonight.

Also, don't expect much in the way of a UI for quite some time to come. For the moment, I'm probably not even going to include one--it'll be a command-line utility until I have more functionality built out (which shouldn't take long, since writing in Groovy is about as simple as programming gets; if you can't stand Java apps--what Groovy compiles to--then you may as well leave now).

I've been thinking that I'll need some help for what to look for for non-US-English users (more importantly, people who play in different languages). I'll let you know about that soon.

Yes sir, as they say in the movies and RL...'final bearing and shoot' :D Good luck with this project:yeah:

My vote is for SH4PRG. Easy to say, easy to type, easy to remember.

This sounds like a really good idea SOH. Good luck.

I'm sorry, the name is already taken by Ron Ronoff of SubSoWesPac. SH4 Report gives you a text-based cruise report for any saved cruise and transfers it to the clipboard. Here's the link to the Subsim download entry. I hope it helps SlightofHand with some file handling wizardry.

You have to keep in mind that what SlightofHand proposes is quite a bit more ambitious than SH4 Report and I hope they're both successful at filling a much-needed gap in our gameplaying.

A sample SH4 Report of one of my mission battles:

Hey, folks. Nothing to show yet, but I should have a little torpedo hits/misses/duds utility for you tomorrow. I expect I won't try to track premature explosions, because I can't do that without introducing some error--they'll just end up counting as misses.

Rockin Robbins, I'd be indebted if you could ask the author of SH4 Report if he knows how the locations in CareerTrack.upc are encoded, and if they're the same way in SaveData.clg.

Anyone who plays a non-US English version of the game, I could use some help with what exactly shows up in SaveData.crp.

Catchy name suggestion

SH-4 SOHULS

A program that lists all the lost souls.....:arrgh!:

If the original project which skwasjer had picked up long ago is dead (and I am pretty sure he is too busy with SH3D etc) see if you can use the name it was going under, SH4 Skipper. I always thought Skipper was a nice USN sounding sequel to Commander :)