I installed this program last night, so far it is great. The only problem I had was with the option "- Added ability to return Commanders from retirement".

When I click on bring out of retirement, then go to launch SHIII it keeps stating my career is over :-(

I have to go in and unselect Realistic Career length.

Ahhhh Mr Beery i have found the problem :) I think. And forgive me if your mention this many times. When i load the stock game of SH3 i have my firewall on, Antivirus running and Spybot loaded, cos i sometimes head to the multiplayer. (i have my firewall to allow SH3 to run etc.,) Having these on never effected my gameplay in single and multi. But it seems it effects any mods i throw on. Well i turned off all of the above mentioned, started up commander load my career and she runs! no errors!

Fixed. :D I like how your got the updated commander personal file very nice.

Thanks, Beery, the new features and improvements are great!

Correct. I added the "Return from retirement" feature primarily as a response to players who run SH3Cmdr mid-patrol and keep forgetting to uncheck the "realistic career length" option. It really wasn't realistic to be retired mid-patrol!

Also, it's there for people who really don't want to be retired after say, four patrols (which did happen historically). These players generally want a realistic career length, but perhaps not one so short! In this sense, I suppose the option can be seen as a reprieve mechanism, which could loosely simulate a pathetic Captain's grovelling to his superiors: "can I continue, pretty please". :lol: Although, perhaps not overly realistic...

Either way, it is not up to SH3Cmdr to force whether players use the realistic career option or not, hence why even a restored career may still end the next time you press "Launch SH3!", *especially* if you have completed a high number of patrols (where the chance of retirement is much higher).

The upshot is, if the player is going to continually restore retired careers, they need to question whether they really want to keep the realistic career length option checked! ;)

Thanks for letting us know - this may help other people who are having problems running SH3CMdr or any other mods. :up:

My usual advice to any user having problems running SH3Cmdr or any mod is to ensure that they are logged on as the Computer administrator (confirmed through Control Panel|User Accounts). Now we can add, turn off all Firewalls/Antivirus and system monitoring software, at least for testing, and then progressively re-try after turning each one back on to see which one is interfering.

JScones- great job on the mod, it works beautifully for me.

If I could request a feature, in the same vein as the "choose your own fatigue model", would be the ability to use the English rank translations for your crew instead of the German.

Keep up the great work.

No problem. Im a happy chap, i now have enable some other mods and im getting no errors! RUB1.43 now works for me, and The Sound mod now works! not to mention commander. Dont know if this is important for you modders but the programs that i use to run and now turn off to allow the mods to work were. Kaspersky Anti-Hacker (comes bundled with iolo System Machanic 5 Professional) Anitvirus is Avasti Professional, Skybot is also part of iolo System Machanic Pro called Spython.

<laughs> I was only talking to Beery about this yesterday! It's on my to do list as another "SH3 option".

Just a guess, but it's probably because you're running a career that has gone beyond 16 patrols. After 16 patrols (which was the most any commander did) the chances of continuing to the next patrol are 1 in 6. So this potentially allows longer careers than history dictated, but chances are that players will only ever see 17 or 18 patrols at most. In your case, if you're already over 16 patrols, the 'Realistic Career Length' feature is just doing its job for every patrol, and constantly retiring you.

Set up for a single mission question
 

Enjoy SH3 Commander so far but have a question:

I tried to set up for a single mission.

the intructions state:

"By selecting "Set up for a single mission" you can prepare Silent Hunter III in anticipation of undertaking an individual mission. .... When finished, click on the 'Launch SH3!' button and SH3 Commander will load up the necessary files and Silent Hunter III will automatically start."

Ok, I did that and Sh3 started.... now what? I went to Single Missions Menu but didn't see any mission generated there. What do I do to get into the single mission? I'm I missing something in the instructions? What I'm I doing wrong?

:doh: ew

"<laughs> I was only talking to Beery about this yesterday! It's on my to do list as another "SH3 option"."

Excellent! :up:

Re: New SH3 Commander utility now available.
 

Thank's Beery! That cleared it up.
Will DL your flottila mod.

Very nice tool but 2 questions.

1.) Is there also a german translation of the programm ?

2.) How to install the programm? I got the SH3Cmdr.2.7z file. But what shall i do with it ?

My english isnt so good to understand thw whole thread. So sorry.

Please Help. Thank you :ping:

Not yet. We've added a lot of German content for those who play the game in German, but so far the actual interface is still in English. I'll talk to Jaesen and see if we can get the interface translated into German too.

You'll need the latest version of Winrar or 7zip to unzip the program. You can find 7zip here: http://www.7-zip.org/