Dog-gone-it! I was miss-informed......I thought WAW only played at 100% (I sputter along in the 50% area!)....perhaps after the "Brothers Brendle" (named after two uncles) carreers are over I will re-think joining. I am running the two carreers from different ports and different sub types, trying to keep them evenly time framed and seeing the differences....one I have more aggressive, the other more calculating......

...roger that, AL. I was just trying to draw him out so we could assist. W@W has it all...it's up to the individual. :up:

BTW, could the original poster or a moderator please correct the thread title?

It should read "Wolves At War" - not "of".

This is the only setting that is optional, however it does not take away from the campaign or realism. I am currently redoing some of the wiki site to explain some of these things, as well as regrouping the site.


BdU
WaW

I think it would be a nice touch to give a patrol start date to U-boat when you are giving a new grid assignment.

Something like this:

BOAT
U469

GRID
BE99

DATE OF DEPARTURE
1/1/1942


Just my 2 cents...

Wow this looks awesome. :o I signed up PROCESS ME.

I apologise for the delay. I toddled off to bed after my last post as it was after midnight here and I've just surfaced. Yes, I like to play 100% realism just for the challenge (except for external cam screenshots). The concept of W@W is very appealing. But if some people are using manual targeting and others are basically letting the AI do the work, to my mind it sort of makes any tonnage figures kind of hard to evaluate. I realise that you want this to be an inclusive activity and I'm not trying to be snooty about it. It's just the way that I prefer to play.

Yes, but as the WaW site says - it's really not about the tonnage. I think you're missing the fact that WaW is NOT a league in the competitive sense of the word. There's no competition going on, no "MVP" awards for tonnage, no effort to evaluate player performance based on sinking stats.

The key is improving immersion. And that's where WaW's sense of organization and community really comes into play. It really fixes one of SHIII's biggest "bugs" - the feeling that you're all alone out in the atlantic. If any kind of merit is given to players, it's for contributing to this community feel as much as possible. :)

That's an excellent point and I probably should have accorded it more weight before posting. But I guess a lot of real-life kaleuns were Type-A competitive types themselves...lol.

Hey, CCIP, where did you get that sig quote from?

The Oesten one?

From an interview with SHIII developers on... Softpedia, I think, a few months ago. They described their experience in working with Oesten on developing SHIII, and that's one of the things he's told them - he is, apparently, an active computer user.

The particular quote refers to a specific mission from a WWII sub sim (he didn't say which) which simulated one of the actual convoy battles he was in (probably the one involving the Malaya incident), and that was his response to playing that mission through :)

is there some kind of link to that interview? sounds VERY interesting.

Yes.

It's called Google. :|\

Here's that bit of the article if you just want to read it:

I got an email assignment to go sign into WAW forums. I dont know if i done this right, but i went to the forums and tried to sign in using my german player name yet can't remeber doing a password for this. So i register just now. i didn't use my german name. Just kiwi. Got accepted into forums but have to wait for a reply.

Was i suppose to register or was i suppose to use the german name that i chose when i filled out the forum to be accepted from the very begining.

waw is so frustrating.

three days ago. an email recieved from Bdu with title Assignment. Please head to the forums and sign up. Sign up as what? my german character or do i sign up new. I tried the german character but what was the password? im sure i never entered a pw when originally signing up to play waw. So i sign in new as kiwi i get in. I get a message i cannot enter until i get confirmation so i wait next day i get a email with title welcome to waw forums. Cool! i head back into waw forums and sign in as kiwi enter password. error message your username or pw is incorrect? Its not cause i copied pasted it to notepad when i created it the day before. I now cannot enter the forums and when i go to the 9th flotilla my german name is not there., yet i was told in an email before i have been assigned to the 9th. WHF or what the hell am i doing wrong. Im not blaming waw, because of the lack of info i am lost at sea. Most sign ups send you an email stating this is your username and password please keep in safe place etc., It should be explained in steps what us new comers have to do. Yes step by step.

I think where i went wrong was the signing up in the forums Do i sign in under the German name or create a new register???

I'll throw a message on this to BdU - hopefully you guys can sort it out... :hmm:

Thanks. I know its me that has lost the plot so to speak. Ive done something wrong.

Thanks again

I believe you signed up on the forums as kiwi, however the rules state that you must sign up on the forums as your capt. name.

Just sign up using your capt. name and all should be well :up:



BdU
WaW

Thanks but one problem, i know my kapitans name but not the password :damn: :damn: :damn:

So how can i solve this? Is there anyway WAW can email me with my password for Hans Rahmlow. Or would it be wiser to just start all over again and reapply :hmm:

Man in the real world i would of probably been assigned to desk duty after all this :oops: