Got it!

There was ONE subchaser in the 44b subhunters. All the other layers (default) use "generic patrol craft." I didn't change the layer, and in the mission it was SCSubchaser, Unit=0

Change the "0" to "1" and it works.

Thanks for the heads-up! I will release an update later, until then don't start any patrols after July, 1944.

PS--you were partially right, Mush. The unit was in the roster as a corvette (type=1), but one ship in one mission called for the old "type=0" version.

That reminds me, if I knew how to clone ships, I'd be inclinded to clone the subchaser and make it available as a type=1 AND a type=2 so that it would show up both with "GENERIC Corvette" and "GENERIC Patrol Craft."

tater

BTW, regarding the "watching paint dry" It's actually not that bad. I'm working on the entire expansion of the empire (Dec 8th til Coral Sea or so) trying to make very single ship as acurate as it can get for the military stuff. THAT is hard. Took me an hour (with reading) to get the forces of CruDiv7 (et al) from Cam Ranh Bay to Malaya, for example. Makes my head hurt.

well Ive been putting off learning too long suppose i can take a crack at
it next week.
M

Your work is appreciated tater:up:

By the way, the " paint dry " comment, more of a reference to it being tedious than exciting.

RDP

Hehe. I didn't know watching paint dry could be exciting, do tell ;)

<G>

tater

Or watching grass grow :88)

RDP

Thanks for tracking this down! :yep:

tater, while you're at it, can you double-check the layers for early 1942? I just had a CTD while patrolling from Midway in late January - Tambor class, enroute to Honshu from Midway, no heavy stuttering, and the game just decides to CTD on me, quite out of the blue. :damn: Thanks!

Rgr. Will drop my test mission to late january and see if it blows up.

This is reproducable and goes away with my mod off? One of my most used test missions lately turns out to be February 1942, never had a problem with it...

WOW.

That is wierd. My 41a convoys layer has a mission start date of 19420301!

What is wierd is that the mission should start 19411201, and that the campaign.cfg has an end date for the 41 layers (suggested in remarks) of 1942 02 28.

Ok, so I fixed it.

I checked the stock SH4 campaign, guess what: it's wrong there, too.

If this always CTDs you someplace where you can reproduce it, this might also solve stock game CTDs if my fix prevents the CTD here...

tater

Will check and see that. This happened west of Midway, around January 30th. In the meantime I'll apply your fix. I'm assuming the only date that needs to be changed is in the 41a convoy later file?

CC, I'm about to upload a fix for you.

Tater,

I've had 2 CTD's, both in march 42, both going south in the Balikpapan area (the strait between Celebes and Borneo). I don't know if it has anything to do with it , but in both cases I sank a few ships from a convoy, and the convoy's defences (in both cases) consisted of several DD's and 1 subchaser. The first time it happened (it was after the attack) was bad luck perhaps, but after starting a new career it happened again at nearly the same spot, same convoy (well it seemed that way).

Does it have to do with date?
Subchaser perhaps?

Regards

Bando

version 0.66

http://mpgtext.net/subshare/258Improved%20Campaign%20Layers%20v0.66.rar


I will look into the march 42 thing.