I do believe one of the patches changed the range to 50nm. Anyway, that's the number I use and it seems to work ... remain within 50nm of your yellow star for 48 hours (if assigned a "patrol" area). After the star turns gray, you can wander as far as you like.

I'm in this situation now too. At Singapore, with only a small old engine aft merchant at the docks. Is it true that there must be 5 vessels to complete a photo recon?

That would explain it, Munchausen... I have not added any mods to SH4 - only the 1.4 patch. I stayed within 70-80 nm of the star and it worked for me (cleared after 48 hours). The mods will be added when everything gets resolved with my new PC... but that is another story!

Akula4745

I just received the patrol objective and I've been gone for 6 days. No objective completed yet, until I realize that it was reduced to 50nm... :nope:

Goes to prove the SH4 Dev Team never finished this game :damn::damn::damn::damn:

Ahhh...so that's what I was doing wrong.

:salute:

Photo recon of a habor. I'm well within the range. 4 ships. I've taken so many pictures (at least 100) they're starting to pose. It is night. I remember in the original SH it had to be daylight to take a picture. Think I'll try some time compression to get to the morning and see what that does for me.

Well to answer my question, I had to go about it in a round about way, as when I tried to load my saved game, it kept CTD. I think I made the mistake of creating a save point when I was under water. It not only corrupted that save but another one from the same career. Fortunately the auto save when leaving base was still intact so I was able to just start the patrol over again, no biggie at this point. Anyway, back to the harbor I went, and my theory of taking photos of the ships in the harbor during the day didin't pan out, but there was a ship, not in the harbor, but cruising by, that I took a photo of, and with just one snap shot of that merchant, I got a the completed notice. That was good enough for me! So I guess it's safe to say that the game wants not only pictures of what's in the harbor, but what is cruising by as well. I think I read someone mention a similar situation somewhere in this thread.

I have been on about 30 career missions, each time I return to the port I left from and upon return it asks if I want to end the patrol. I returned to Pearl, was assigned a new boat and that new boat left from Brisbane. I ran out of torps and returned to Brisbane and it asked if I wanted a refit, not to end patrol???
How can I find my home port and end my partol?

now I know?!
 

:har: I was "frozen" in place, in the harbor where I was to drop supplies. I'd drifted past the Star. couldn't do Zip!:/\\!!
Thanks to your good guidance, I'll go back and nail that Star.
my previous "Deliver Spy" mission went off without a hitch.
Again, Thanks

spy recovery
 

have you ever received orders to recover agent thay you inserted ?

mac

Nope. The few times I've been given the mission, I inserted then went on my merry way to sink enemy ships.