Demand? :roll: :rolleyes:

Very nice IABL:up:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :lol:

"Germany needs a/her place in the sun" :lol:

Nice work, keep on it budy. Eager to see more of your ship improvements.:up:

Me too! Hope you'll finish the Merchant Pack real soon too. Would be a waste not to play GMW 1.04 with it!

Is there something new about the Empire Freighter ?


Greets

madMax

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:arrgh!:

Very nice, your effort is much appriciated. Hull looks stunning with the green added in. Nice. :rock:

Questions.

When you add ships like this one or the coal ones, does the game automatically spawn them?

Or is there something else required? I added the coal ships via JSGME when they came out. I have yet to see them though.

So is this just a luck of the draw thing? Or am I missing something?

Answers ;)

Yes if the ships are registered as generic contacts they will be randomly selected by the game engine. Depending on the mod you're using you might see or not see the ships. To make sure they exist check in the museum. If they're there they can be picked by the game engine and eventually with a bit of luck you will see them in a convoy

THANKS!!

The beta version is ready for release. It has been modified since I first posted screenshots. Let me know if you are interested in testing it and you will get the files by tomorrow evening (honest):yep: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...ife/Emp1-1.jpg

Yeah i'm interested matey :up:

I'd be willing to try it out as well. Never beta'd anything...but just point me int he right direction and i should be alright...lol.

I want to volunteer to test this great mod.

This looks superb and I'd be willing to test it of course, but it wouldn't be honest since I don't have the TIME to really test it.

There's one thing that's been bothering me with the Empire Class Freighter and several pictures of your Merchant Mod. And that's the weapons platforms. Don't get me wrong. They LOOK great. But only when there's a gun on it. In early war years when the ships were still unarmed (and most people didn't know that by 1944 many ships would be armed) it looks kinda silly to have platform without a gun. After all I believe they didn't fit out ships with platforms just in case there might someday a gun placed onto it. Isn't there a way to have an early war model without platforms and a late war model with platforms?

Very nice work!

i'm also interested in..
if you need another beta-tester, i'm here :oops:

Beta testers check your PM's please.

http://www.armed-guard.com/pankraft.jpg

Unfortunately most of the ships are descended from the Liberty Ship, which requires an integrated platform for most of its weaponry. In other words the platform has to be a part of the hull object, unlike the guns on ships like the T-3 tanker and Coastal Merchant. It is possible to clone each ship and delete the gun platforms but this will really increase the file size dramatically. At least some freighters (like the "Pan Kraft" seen here) seem to have sailed with empty platforms but as you said they probably wouldn't have been common very early in the war.