Doh! I found it, I've been staring at it for daze now. Right on the "Career" page when you select name, year, base, etc. :arrgh!:

As Rosana would say "Nevermind"...

Turn it on and let us know what you experience with it. Getting some mixed reviews.

The difficulty settings for Career also cause a discrepancy with your realism settings.

If you select Custom difficulty in the gameplay options screen to customize what options you want left on(Event Cam, Ext. Cam, Auto-TDC, etc) it sets those to custom; Yet when you start a career you can only choose one the pre-determined realism settings based on the difficulty.

So even though you can play at 60% realism in single missions by selecting your custom settings, your career can not have an event camera, because that is the only option disabled from the 'easy' setting(6% realism). I have yet to find a way to use your custom gameplay settings in your career. Another overlooked problem...

I believe you need to find the options in the office before you set sail. It is in the bookcase on the left. From here you can set what you want and it will save these settings as your career progresses.

My experience is the same as Deep Six. Escorts are aggressive until you get inside their screen. They won't go around a merchant to come after you.

IMO the easy, normal, hard, etc setting at a carreer start is just a baseline for the realism options, which you can change or fine tune later anyway.

It'll be interesting to see if Neal can get the devs to respond.

Another Question I have is why a selection for how much renown you want at a carreer start? There seems to be no reason not to take all you can get. At least, no penalty for not doing so.

The messed up campaign layer must be the cause of me seeing unescorted merchants near Australia in 1943 then. was pretty silly seeing them, and wondering what they were doing and where they were going. I hope somebody fixes the campaign layers soon.

Once the next patch is out I suspect the modders will really start moving on new mods and fixes.

Interesting. Wonder how this works in non career ?

I think it is in the manual also I have to recheck but I do remember see 6% on sensors somewhere

So again...the ONLY way to set this is when you set up a new career...?! This should be adjustable at any time your in port... another dumb setting restricted by menus :down:

Well I guess I get to start over with a new career...thats OK as my current one (on patrol 12) will NOT give me any mission other than "Deploy off coast of Honshu" or "Patrol of coast of Honshu"...Im beginning to think that the war is only fought "off the coast of Honshu"

Maybe they thought you would know how you wanted to play and wouldn't want to change until the next career.:rotfl:

Or maybe they didn't think.

I gave it a whirl a few minutes ago. Set it to "very hard". I couldn't get into the game play option screen while in-game (the option just wasn't there) so that I could see what was or wasn't checked; however, I would say that it probably caused all the game play settings to be set to either "really freakin' hard" or "bombastically realistic". Needless to say, I had to watch my P's and Q's, no more unlimited anything, no outside views, no map contacts at all. Glad my radar man was awake!

At first blush, I liked it; however, I think I'd rather choose my settings in the game play options rather than go this way.

"...and that's all I've got to say about that..."

Frank - out.

you CAN still change/cutomise your REALISIM settings.:yep:

Definitely another confirmation.

First time around, tired easy then moved to hard setting. The realism is completely different from the difficulty level. Seems that lots of items get affected on the AI part. In my case I found the shocking difference in accuracy of enemy airplanes.

:up:

If you played SH3 you will be mislead thinking that realism is affected by the % settings.

hmmm, I am playing "very hard" and am far from home...:hmm:

Let's see if I can get back in one piece. I have been attacked by 4 airplanes so far in 20 days, crash dived each time, 2 near misses but no damage.