Wow this one rolled off the page fast.

This should be stickied in my opinion.

I was wondering why it was taking so long to complete some of my missions. Especially the sink enemy merchent shipping one. I thought there might be some sort of tonnage requirement.

One thing I can add from my last patrol. My mission was to sail to a specific port and take pictures. I went there, took pictures of every single ship, still mission was not completed. There was another port not too far away, so I went there on a hunch, took a picture and the mission was accomplished. I love the missions in SH4, definitly an improvement, however sometimes they can get a bit confusing. Great thread, this will be helpful to a lot of people.

I take a picture of a ship in the harbor it still doesnt complete the mission. When i look at its status there is a little camera symbol next to the Incomplete and when I click the camera I can see a picture. Is there anything I am missing? i have tried to send a status report but that doesnt really change anything. I am really close when I take the picture so you can clearly see a ship in my picture. Also should I take it during the night or day? i have tried both to no avail.

edit:^^^ just saw your post above me.. maybe thats it.. i hope your right

** It didnt work... when i went to the other port the photo button didnt light up to take a picture... My objective port only has 2 gunboats which i took pictures of both of them which show up next to the imcomplete, i dont know what to do from here... I keep doing it at night, does that matter?**

Try taking several photos of several different ships. Worked for me (shrug)

From the mission files it looks like you usually need to photograph five ships to get the mission accomplished. Someone will need to confirm that though as I've never done a photo mission yet.

5 ships? lol i only see 2 crappy lil gunboats... maybe ill just go end patrol anyways

Thanks for the list

jeff

Just found this Beery, and once again... You 'da Man!! :rock:

I haven't done many missions yet. Just started a career and spent 2 evenings playing trying to get to the patrol area. So, I'm having fun, but wasting a lot of time, but having fun. ;)

I have just started a mission that says to sink the carrier Shovoda (or something like that). It said it is leaving port X and going to home port y and I should intercept and sink it. The star on the map is at port X. But when I leave port it will take me about 4 days to get to port X, and I assume it will be on it's way to port Y.

So, how in the heck in WW2 did a sub find the needle in the haystack, and locate a specific ship on it's way somewhere? There are many islands and the ship could go several ways... The mission description had a map and showed the star on the map, with a red dotted line of the target's path (i assume). Maybe I should just go and patrol the star on the map? Is that what you should always do, even though the mission description doesn't seem to indicate that?

that was a great help

Stickied ! YAY ! :rock:

Thanks mods !

You're welcome! :D

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Hey Beery,

Great thread, thanks! I am doing the insert commando mission. I dropped them off not 50m from shore, but they just paddle around in the sea, and never seem to land. The mission does not show accomplished. Do I need to sail away or something?

thanks

mgm

I'm only completing patrols when within 60nm of the symbol.

I placed a compass circle at 90nm and stayed within it for 3 days. Incomplete still. Lowered it to 60nm circle and I finished it quickly.

Just a heads up.

Not anymore????

Are you perhaps playing the metric version of the game? I'm thinking that there could be a bug where it reads the 100 as either imperial (miles) or metric (kilometres) depending on which version you're playing.

Could you be dropping them off too close? When I've dropped them off they always stop paddling well before they reach the shore and paddle back out to sea again. If you're dropping them off beyond the point where they turn around the game might not recognise that they've been launched at all.

Usually you just have to launch the boat and the mission completes instantly.

I'm using Imperial so perhaps it's 100km or 60nm... sounds about right.

Well it's definitely 100nm on my computer - I've tested it.

I'll try it again on my second patrol. :-?