Hi h.sie,

sounds great :up: I will look whether I can find some additional messages.

There is just one thing I don't understand. It is the statement:

'If none of the above conditions is true: You get one of 8 random BDU-responses.'

I think one of the conditions must be true. Either I have sunk something or I haven't sunk anything or I sunk something neutral. What else could be :hmmm:

So, my question is: If I have sunk an enemy ship and my fuel and damage is fine, do I always get congratulations from the BDU? I think this would be quite annoying because getting congratulations more than once for the same thing would be boring.

Anyway, I think this is great work that allows player to mod a more variable radio traffic! Thanks a lot!

Cheers, LGN1

@LGN1: Ok, my fault - inexact explaination.

Lets assume you sunk 20000t and send a status report. For that you get a congratulation once.

Now lets assume you send a second status report but didn't sink any ship in the meantime. The fix prevents from a second congratulation for the same tonnage (the next step for a new congratulation is 30000t).

If now hull integrity, diesel and torpedoes are okay, a randomly chosen ear-candy message will be sent.

h.sie

@LGN1: The algorithm for BDU responses to status report is as follows:

If ((Hull Integrity < 50%) OR (Fuel < 33%) OR (Torpedoes <= 4)) THEN

• with a chance of 50% a "Return to base" - Message is sent.

Otherwise:

If (Tonnage sunk < 0) THEN:

• with a chance of 75%: a warning ("sink no neutrals") is sent.
• with a chance of 25%: one of 8 random ear-candy messages is sent

If (Tonnage sunk = 0) THEN:

• with a chance of 50%: one of 4 random motivation messages (e.g. be more aggressive) is sent

• with a chance of 50%: one of 8 random ear-candy messages is sent

If ((Tonnage sunk > 0) AND No_Congratulation_so_far) THEN:

• with a chance of 75%: a congratulation according to tonnage is sent
• with a chance of 25%: one of 8 random ear-candy messages is sent

ELSE: one of 8 random ear-candy messages is sent

Excellent, h.sie!

Just one thing I noticed: the 'return home' message because of torpedoes might be problematic for the type II and XXIII which have only a few torpedoes.

Cheers, LGN1

@LGN1: Thanks. I forgot about that point. I cannot differ between a Type XXI and a XXIII from code perspective in an easy way, since the XXIII is a XXI from code view, so I think I use the test for torpedoes only for types VII and IX (which are the most important ones).

Hi mate,

Yes, thank you, for some reason better known to its self it worked when I tried it again with v15f and, although I'll probably never get to experience many of the new features as I don't actually play the game, the mod is excellent!.

Kind regards

Aces

I (hopefully) had a good idea: To program a certain chance (5% to 10%?) that a status report coudn't be received (completely) by the BDU. That would cause the BDU to response with "Transmission error, please repeat last status report!" or similar.

Arguments pro/contra this idea?

10 % - 5 % x 4 ~7 # $ %^&*
 

Don't complicate your life. . . :lol:

...but if you like...

H.sie,any chance to make the view instantly move when you move to new view.What I mean is that right now say you Rclick into the command room and now have to move cursor around to find a spot that doesn't highlight/then press Lmouse and you now have control of the view.Seems backwards to me....when I click to look thru the binos I do not want to then have to click the Lmouse to move the view around....and then when I R,mouse out I have to then make sure I am not highlighting anything and then have to press Lmouse.

@Wolfstriked: Sorry to say, but I wuldn't even know how to start modding that. Graphical stuff is very hard for me in Assembler. Maybe Interior-Modders like DivingDuck can help?

Now I need some suggestions for:

1) Some random Motivation messages like "be more aggressive".

2) Some random "ear-candy" messages that suits to almost all situations.

Thanks!

If there are many ideas, it would be very easy to expand the random "ear-candy" messages to ,say, 16 instead of currrently 8.

Are the messages stored in an external file, or is there still a need to edit one own's SH3 text files to add them?

You have to edit en_menu.txt or de_menu.txt

It's no big deal - you only have to append h.sie's messages to the end of file...

Have a look into 'Supplement to V15F3 (JSGME).7z'...

yup, all messages will be in en_menu.txt, so that everybody can change them to fit personal taste.

edit: nvm.