Use SH3 Commander - you can adjust the waves and weather to your liking.

First real patrol after my boat got sunk due to stupid error (i used time compression and accidently fired up med speed, death ensues) in Scapa.

Was assigned to BE, went to Scapa instead - main entrance as I usually hit the block ships if i try the other exits. Got in, waited for daylight to check on targets. A small and medium tanker, a destroyer, a troop carrier and a small merchant. Attacked med tanker and troop carrier and moved away from the place.

BTW. I tried going into scapa many times now with mod, the ships there are the same, placed pretty much in the same spots also. Bug? Besides, the generic contact mod... good job, but now all names in recon manual and the museum say "contact", wtf? that's not fair after all. :D but enough about that. Destroyers spotted me for some time, tried to bomb, i went away by stopping engines and chaning course. mowed away from them to the other side of scapa

destroyers kept cirkling, some crashed into beach lol, i reloaded torps and went for another attack, sunk the small tanker and pumped 2 torps in the halfdead troopcarrier, then went out, got to my patrol spot, patrolled for 24h and went home to wilhelmshafen. 21-22.000 tons! AWESOME :)

Kaptn Lehmann,

a) What problems *might* someone (like me) have if he does not delete the My Documents/SHIII folder?

b) Can I do it now? That is, remove my saved games from both installations I have (GW and my initial "heavily modded") and the put the careers back?

c) If I play with my other installation, does this affect the "now clean" My Documents/SHIII

BTW, apart from some SH3Cdr ralated blunders (for which I am to blame), I havn't noticed anything strange. (Well, apart from the NYGM Damage model, since I am a crypto-DG nut).

Thanks! :up:

Kpt. Lehmann,

I feel the values for promotion are not ok in GW. I completed 3 patrols with a total of 74000 tons at current and am still 2nd Lieutenant (Leutnant). I have promoted 2 of my officers to "Oberleutnant" in this career. renown value is current 3740. I think that's not correct.

Can you help me in finding the CFG-settings for promotion, I know they are hidden somewhere. I will do the change to that CFG to get the promotion to "Oberleutnant" earlier, which I feel should be at around 500 or 1000 renown, which can be done in one successful patrol.

(You can't command 3 Oberleutnant's on a boat as simple Leutnant)

Thanks!

hold on Kpt. Lehmann, I think I found it - it's in Basic.cfg

[PLAYER_RENOWN]
RankLevel0=0
RankLevel1=5000
(I feel this should be lower to be promoted to "Oberleutnant" at an earlier stage - it takes quite some time to accumulate 5000 renown)

Actually that's a good catch - one thing I liked about RUb was that you were only a lowly Lt for the first patrol, after which you were promoted to ObLt. Unfortunately, not having my RUb files handy, I can no longer check what the RankLevel values were set to.

SH3Cmdr users can overcome this by simply adding (in the meantime - until someone can provide the actual RUb values here) the following lines into the "Basic changes.cfg" file (formally known as "Medals and renown.cfg"):

[PLAYER_RENOWN]
RankLevel0=0
RankLevel1=100 (any value < 1500 should do the trick)

Or just edit Basic.cfg direct.

Hmmm, not sure if it should be added to Grey Wolves though, although I can't think of too many people that would object. Anyway, that's up to Kpt Lehmann.

I have no idea whether this may be GW-related or not, but I'm still on my first GW patrol and I had something happen last night I haven't seen before with any combo of stock game, RUB, IUB or NYGM-TW in the last year.

It's July 1941, and I've been stalking this same convoy off NW Africa for about 3 days (in game and IRL), stormy 15m/s winds, heavy rains and visibility down to 400m the whole time. Before last night I had made two attempts to sneak into the convoy on the surface, only to be forced under both times by an escort charging out of the mists from nowhere. Last night, after having decided only to shadow the convoy until the weather changed, one of their zig-zags put me in a perfect position to creep in from the port quarter between a gap in the screen, so i decided to give it a shot anyway.

While I was still about 1000m away from the nearest column of the convoy (as it turned out - of course I couldn't be sure at the time), someone in my crew started calling out that we'd been spotted. I looked around and saw nothing, and my watch officer reported no contacts. This happened several more times, until finally a large merchant (turned out to be a C3) came drifting out of the mists just ahead, in perfect firing position. I had my shot all pre-set in the TDC and doors open, so I fired my first salvo (both hits :) )

BUT, before I could even begin altering course slightly to starboard to fire at the next ship in that column, I came under fire from an escort charging in from nowhere again, and had to crash dive yet again. At least I sank something this time.

I've radioed BdU that my suspicions about the British having equipped some of their escorts with surface radar seem to have been confirmed, and I assume that this explains why these guys keep finding me in this storm.

HOWEVER, what is it that triggers my guy to tell me we've been spotted in this situation? Did somebody give him one of those Popiel's Pocket Radar detector sets from Ronco for the Führer's birthday or something? I liked leaving that warning in the game 'cause I figured under most circumstances it was reasonable that either the sound man or watch crew could probably tell something about the enemy's change in behavior that would indicate that they had probably spotted us, but I don't think there was any way at that point that any of my crew could have known that escort had spotted us.

Did the GW mod play around with any settings that would affect whatever triggers that sound file to be played? Could it be tweaked so it would be more reasonable/realistic as to when you get the warning, as opposed to just removing it completely like I've seen some folks do?

Actually panthercules, that has happened to me once too. I thought it quite odd at the time, hence why I still remember the instance.

OK, I've d/l RUb - it uses:

[PLAYER_RENOWN]
AcademyBonus=1000
RankLevel0=0; SCORE
RankLevel1=1499; SCORE
RankLevel2=7999; SCORE
RankLevel3=15999; SCORE
MedalSettings0=0.25
MedalSettings1=0.5
MedalSettings2=1
MedalScore0=3000;2 class, SCORE
MedalScore1=6000;1 class, SCORE
MedalScore2=20000; knight, SCORE
MedalScore3=30000; oak leaves, SCORE
MedalScore4=40000;swords, SCORE
MedalScore5=50000;diamonds, SCORE
MedalScore6=90000;all, SCORE

It guarantees, unless you sink a Hospital ship, to result in promotion after one patrol.

@ Jscones

Yes - these are fair settings for promotion. I think I will change to these values in my Basic.cfg. Thanks for looking into this!

hello @all
i have an question regarding the clouds. i have no clouds in the sky?

I dont want to risk using this mod on my Laptop just on my desktop but can someone tell me what the sound mod is so I can install just that on the laptop. Currently I have RUB 1.45, SH3 Commander, and Harbor Traffic mod on laptop and it runs great but I doubt this mod will run without any hangups.

My laptop is a P4 2.0, 256mb Nvidia 6600Go card, 1GB Ram. Again all i need to know is what sound mod is that?

Hi,

Could someone please tell me which values I have to change in the scene.dat file to get the stock wave height and not the ones from GW (using timetraveller's tool)? Thanks a lot for the help!

Cheers, LGN1

hello @all
is its possible to became back the color of the contacts on the map, (green, red and black), now they all black.
thank in advance
snakech

solved

Duly noted and on my list! :up: