The word mission was what gave you away during our interrogation. On a career one goes on patrol :yep:

Happy hunting, enjoy your tea and thank Frau Kaleun for her clear explanation of da thing. :rock:

thank you to everyone for replying to me :up:

i will try my upmost to use the correct termonology from now on. :)

i am at point of understanding now as far as the patrols docking and awards + promotions work.

i am still playing on nub mode right now and have the navigator plotting my solutions for me....

.....really looking forward to doing it manually when i have got a better grip on the rest of the game. this game is awesome and it seems as if there is a really good community feel here = win win

will be back real soon no doubt with more stupid questions. :DL


a big THANKS to all

Good hunting, Kaleun Moose :DL

:yeah:

There are no stupid questions, and whatever you do somebody else here has probably already done it nine times over and got all :damn: when they figured out what they were doing wrong. Plus the "manual" that comes with the game is not the most helpful source of info in the known universe (that would be Subsim, lol).

Gute Jagd und fette Beute, Herr Kaleun!

back again...

.........after succesfully completing a patrol is there any kind of penalty or forfeit for using the return to base option instead of manually sailing back to base and then using the dock option ?

cheers :)

Not really. There was supposed to be a renown reward for returning all the way to base, in fact it's still listed there in the basic.cfg file, but it doesn't work and never has. So you can hit Esc and teleport back to base any time you like without taking a hit or losing something that you might have gotten otherwise.

Be aware though that if you ever ramp up the Realism to 100%, you will lose that "teleport" option and will not have the option to dock until you have sailed all the way back to base... or within a reasonable distance of it, I think 20-30 km or something like that.

Eventually you may find that sailing all the way back to base each time contributes to immersion and realism, or that you really just enjoy the trip. Some of us do it even though we don't have to, and don't get any special reward for it. When you've been out in the open ocean for several weeks straight, there's a certain euphoria that comes from hearing that first seagull's "caw" or spotting the lighthouse at the harbor entrance and realizing home isn't that far away.

I've never seen a "Return To Base" option.
I've never done a "Single Mission".

Are you sure you're in career mode?

If so, don't hover with the mouse.
Left click on something.

Example:
Left Click on Awards.
Left Click a specific Medal.
Those eligle, if any, will be highlighted.
Left click on a highlighted figure.
He will now be shown in the lower center box.
Drag the medal to him, and release.
SH3 will ask "Are you sure?".
Left Click "Yes".

Helpful?

Not that I know of moose. And hi and welcome aboard. :salute:

There are three awards (u-boat badge, U-boat front clasp, and German Cross in Gold) which will only be awarded after going all the way back to your port (You could sink the entire royal navy, but if you teleport back, don't expect these awards). The other medals (iron cross, knights cross etc.) do not have this requirement. I remember looking at my medals book in frustration, wondering why everyone on my boat had the front clasp and the badge, while I, with a knights cross at my throat, still lacked these elementary badges.
Of course, sailing back to port isn't the ONLY requirement for these, you still have to send down some allied tonnage.

thanks everyone for the input :up:

it's a little confusing sometimes with no game manual, especially a game this big. Google normally gets me out of trouble, but sometimes i just can't find a specific answer to my need.

what got me confused was hovering over the promotions and medals tabs and seeing the "You must complete a patrol" msg after i had just returned from one. It made me think that by using the return to base option my patrols were not being registered but really it was just highlighting the fact for information :oops:

@ weasel

thanks for that... to add some weight to what you say ... on my fourth patrol i sailed home and used the dock option and was presented with a front clasp on my return.

i guess i shall have to sail home manually from now on.. :D

setting off on my fifth patrol now...back to Scarpaflow again.. i got mauled last time i was there and they send me back again :cry:


thx again everyone

hey all

just a quickie....

i wanted to understand how the hydrophones worked and downloaded raduz's tutorial....( thx raduz)

after i unpacked it i was presented with the massive wall of test explaining how to use it all.

so now i'm thinking there is way to do the sonar man job manually and i haven't realised yet.

is this correct and if so what key do i need to make it happen please?

cheers all

H for Hydrophone.

hi

thanks a lot

i did try that but for some reason it didn't work last night...

...most probable cause was the beer and severe lack of sleep due to this game .....did find it eventually around 4 am time ....:haha:


thx again

WRONG !!! I teleport back most of the time"99%" when all torps are spent and radio in. I get a return to base message and tele back.

I have all the medals. Dude be sure what your posting is accurate.

Funny. I remember having a career starting in '39, and by mid '43 I was missing all three of those. (had knights cross all the way up, but no badge or clasp). I looked around online and came across the theory that not teleporting would award you those. Sure enough, when I did the long haul back to base, I had a badge awaiting me, then a clasp for my next patrol, then the German cross. Perhaps a change in GWX?