Good. I hope people will give this a try. Maybe it will spark a little renewed interest in SH4.

I started a new career. I may post a AAR, but nothing has happened yet. (War hasn't broken out yet.) I've mostly been fussing over the radio stations, getting them straightened out. I am using some of Fred's excellent radio material, of course.

I do like being able to conduct a normal submerged patrol without worrying about being able to recharge the batteries.

Version 2.15 is ready!

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The only changes are to the waves' effects, and the corrections of various typos I found.

I put in a lot of work on the waves; the idea being to retain serious effects at 14 or 15 m/s, but scale it back some at lower levels.

This version is interchangeable with earlier versions.

Enjoy

-TorpX

Good luck with the transition.

I don't think that can happen. At least I've never seen it. They will sink, though. If too much water goes over the deck, they suffer damage and flood.

I ran a mission to test the weather, where there were two convoys with a fair cross section of IJ ships moving through 13 m/s winds, to see if they did ok. I tracked them for 24 hrs. @ 32x. All did well, except the minesweeper. You know the type; very shallow draft and almost no freeboard. It fell behind, came almost to a standstill, and was low at the stern. I figured it would sink in a few hours. Several hour later, after finishing tracking/observing the convoy, I went back to see if the minesweeper, or some trace of it, was still there. Lo and behold, I found it moving at 8.5 kn., almost recovered from it's ordeal. I guess, that when it was far enough away, the "weather" ceased, and it was able to recover - kinda odd.

Ships will sink at higher wind levels. I consider this a feature, and not a bug, as they say. If I'm experiencing 15 m/s seas, I assume it is impossible to attack by either torpedo or gun, so I am operationally at a standstill, and must wait for things to improve. I can't tell you exactly which ships would be most vulnerable to sinking. I only tested some of them, and mainly at 13 m/s. The amount of freeboard seems to be the main factor. I consider 13 m/s to be the threshold of severe weather. Above this level, you should notice things getting ugly.

ISP v 2.4_TMO is in the downloads section.

Link at the bottom of first page.

This is 'light' version for TMO alone (no RSRDC). You can read more of the details in the Mod Workshop thread, or the included Readme.

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I'll consider this, but I don't want to start another version until I get feedback on this one.

I can't give you a definitive answer. Your mod list looks ok, but you'll have to experiment some. I would suggest putting ISP 2.4 right after TMO. Then, with the mods after, pay attention to what, if anything, is overwritten.

These are the critical files changed by ISP 2.4:

all sub *.sim files >> sub physics
all sub *.cfg files >> engine settings

most ship *.sim files >> ship physics
a few ship *.cfg files >> ship displacements/speeds rec. manual

Scene.dat file >> weather/waves effects
Sim.cfg >> wave effects

also a few changes to special abilities in UPC Data folder.

I don't think most small mods will touch the special abilities area, so that should be ok.

If 1.5_Optical Targeting Correction 031312 for TMO 2.5 changes some of the ships' *.cfg files, I wouldn't be too concerned about that.

However, I consider the *.sim files, the Sim.cfg file, and the Scene.dat file to be critical. I would not use anything that overwrites these files.

Remember, if two (or more) mods change the same file, the one enabled last will prevail. This is where the load order comes in. Ordinarily, large mods are enabled first, then small mods last.