Actually, it's not SH3Cmdr that is getting confused, it's simply the player.

Robin40, by returning to base you have effectively, as far as SH3 is concerned, ended your patrol, regardless of whether or not you penultimately saved it "in the water". As SH3Cmdr merely reads the SH3 game files, this is why it reports your career as "In home base before patrol X".

You need to "Save and Exit", as CherryHarbey recommended, to save mid patrol. Then SH3Cmdr will report your status as "At sea during patrol X" and crew transfers and Kaleun retirements will not occur.

well...I wish to save 2 files, because if one is corrupted the other maybe not and you don't lose the entire patrol

anyway...is there any contrary direction to load midpatrol by sh3 directly?

Well, then understand that you are not actually saving mid-patrol and that SH3, and SH3Cmdr, will correctly report you as "in base", because returning to base was your last action.

See that "?" icon on the main SH3Cmdr screen? Click it and all will be revealed. Of course, it assumes that you save mid-patrols correctly. As you have chosen not to, preferring to return to base to exit your game, then you can either reload SH3 directly as you currently are, foregoing all the benefits of SH3Cmdr, or you can reload through SH3Cmdr, but manually disabling the crew transfers and realistic retirement options.

well...I load midpatrol saves via sh3 directly, that is the last save before the base to start the new mission

when I return to base at the end of patrol I load end patrol via sh3cmdr

it looks like it works

Be aware, though, that if you have Commander set to Automatic Rollback, it undoes any functionality/options it added to the game for you when you exit the game. If you start SH3 again without going through Commander, you will not have those options during that gaming session as Commander was not allowed to do its stuff.

Also, if you want to make two saves to guard against the possibility of a corrupt file, you don't need to exit the game (or your patrol) in order to do that.

Just hit Esc and Save to create the first save file, then hit Continue or whatever to return to the game for a couple of seconds. Hit Esc again and then Save & Exit to make a second save before you exit the game. Just make sure you give the second save a different filename or you'll overwrite the first one you just made. :yeah:

Many thx!

Yep...I did it already on my own this afternoon:up:

Btw

This horrible sh3 save system doesn't allow to delete previous files

SH3Cmdr32
 

Can anyone tell me where can I find this file?

Correct, if you delete a save it automatically deletes every save made after the one you chose to delete.

I'm assuming you want the program, not one specific file from an installation of it?

If so, the first post in this thread contains download links and instructions:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...18&postcount=1

I am too in the process of reinstalling SH3 and now noticed that the download links in the first post of this thread are dead. Could anyone put the SHCommander 3.2 file somewhere for downloading?

posts 520 and 521 have new links

Everything works fine, but I have one question... I'm in my 2nd patrol right now, and just as my first one, I'm ordered to grid AN16. Now offcourserse this isn't a big deal to me, but will it be so for the rest of my career??

I remember when I created my new career in SH3 Commander, there was an option to select a grid, wich I left open. But my career info does say "Next Patrol Grid: AN16". So do I have to change it myself, or is there a way to let SH3 generate the patrol grids for me again?

I'm not sure why, but Subsim Downloads had some files go missing some time ago, and apparently this was one of them. This was not JSCones's fault, and had nothing to do with him.

After a quick conversation he gave me permission to put up a new link here at Subsim, so it's available again.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=2923

Thanks SS. :up:

The SH3 Cmdr can be also found at here

ftp://maikhaas.dyndns.org/Volume_1/S...AESEN%20JONES/



So Long

Maik

Thanks Maik, I forgot you had a copy of it as well. :up: