Billbam,

Can you please point me to where the TMO more mercahants mod by
ducimus is located at?

Best regards.

I will look for the link today, I believe it is in the [REL]TMO 1.9 thread, probably towards the end.

EDIT: OK here is the the post by Ducimus with the link for TMO More Merchant Traffic.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=2213

The Asiatic of course... You can only make that crossing so many times without anything to show for it before you move your starting point...

Ok, realistic or not, I want something to make finding ships easier... I just spent an hour tracking a small convoy of two cruisers and a battleship along the north side of samar. I had a whole attack station set up and everything, then I had a CTD... lucky I saved...

When I loaded up the game again, the convoy, which was about 5nm away and heading my direction was nowhere to be found, as if reloading the game reset the convoy's path of travel. This is just another chalk mark under the heading of way too much time wasted for no reason at all... At least if I had contact reports or super-sonar, I could immediately relocate them, or at least something else to shoot at....

TMO clean, with out RSRD has led to many more encounters for me. I love it!

Thanks Billbam for the link. Much appreciated!

Best regards.

The problem I've got though, is that RSRDC keeps putting me in the right place to find stuff (Cam Ranh Bay around Dec 10-14, etc) but I'm having trouble actually finding the targets I know are there, which is why I want to get better sensors so that I can find them, or at least some better way of searching.

Same here:salute:

I'm running RFB 2 and things were a little scarce for awhile - most I ever saw were 2 ships together. Was patrolling south of Peliliu when fox traffic advised a convoy heading from there to Wewak, arriving on the 10th April '43, pm.

By hanging around a little longer north of Wewak my radar eventually picked them up early on the 11th and I'm closing in !. BTW have a look at the RSRDC convoy movement documentation - there were several convoys in the area around those dates so historically it's on the money. Great stuff.

If you know your history, you'll find the better stuff using RSRD. RSRD also has a lot of random traffic, just not the levels of stock. Having played RSRD, I could engage one large TF or convoy on almost every patrol.
Nothing is better than running into a 30-50 ship invasion force.

What makes RSRD fun is the correct battle scripts...Get involved in the battles during the Solomon campaign..watch large surface fleets duke it out, mass planes, ect.. The battle of GC goe's on for 3 nights in a row with more TF than you can figure what to do with.

Another good point about RSRD is convoys and TF are more spread apart, not bunched up. Some spread over 20nms...

I think I understand Treblesum81's position and find myself in that same position.

I like the simulation aspect of SH. I like manual targeting and I want realism in how the sub operates and to some extent looks.

But it is still a game. Games are meant to be fun and be a good way to pass the time.

Yes, it is very realistic and a sign of a good simulator to accurately simulate the weeks of boredom that made up WWII submarine life. Reports of subs coming back after 60 days and never seeing a single ship was not a rarity.

When I play SH4, I like to complete a full patrol in 4-6 hours of game play which is about how much I can dedicate for my video gaming. I too wish there was some way to bypass the simulation of weeks of nothing or at least speed it up so that the game becomes more enjoyable.

No I don't want a point and shoot arcade game, but why do we have to choose between two extremes?

I am not fooling myself into believing that I am actually experiencing what a real WWII sub captain experienced. Of course not, it is a video game!

I want to PLAY this GAME to have FUN.

I do wish the SH games had a type of "jump to action" when it comes to TC. Let me explain what I mean

Once I get to my patrol area, I would like the ability to lay out my patrol pattern and tell the computer that I intend on patrolling this area for 1 week (or what ever time I choose). Then I select "jump to action". The computer does what it normally does in calculating the probability of intercept. But in this case, the TC jumps temporally to that time of intercept (note, time not jump to position). Or it jumps to the end of the week and tells me "hey chump, you just wasted one week of your patrol time looking at water".

Oh well, part of the wartime experience. But it would only take about 5 minutes instead of 78 minutes of game time at 128X TC.

Naturally I would want this functionality to be optional so that those who want the more realistic waiting aspect of simulation can get what they want, but those of us who prefer the simulation of the attack can save some time.

You on a laptop Plat...I can get from Midway to Japan in about 5 minutes using about 3000 TC.

Yea, sometimes it gets long and boring, I get that, but you never know what you may miss on the way. I never or seldom dock at Pearl or Midway, the other bases get you much closer to the action and at the beginning of the war the best action heads south from Japan down to Surabaya

I don't use a laptop.

And yes, maxing out the TC to 4K does help, and that is just what I do. :yep: