completed patrols help please
 

hey all

i just bought the game and am kicking myself for not buying it years ago.

i have 1 query if someone could help me plz......


i have completed 3 patrols (made a kill on each one) but each time i get back to base and go to the awards screen and hover over the Promotions or Medals section it says "you must complete a patrol"

i am a little confused :)

thx in advance....

WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

When you say you completed the patrols, did you hit Esc and click "Dock At..."?

hi

yes i did........

awaiting your bad news........ :DL


thx

:salute: Welcome aboard, please explain how toy return and end patrol

hi

for the first 2 patrols i acomplished the missions and then pressed return to base

for the third patrol i salied all the way back to base and parked in the uboat pen but i just sat there was no end mission sequence... so i pressed return to base again.

can someone please tell me the correct procedure

thx

OK, Moose.

Return to base, go to the dock where the crowd is and orchestra is playing

Press Escape

You will see the folling choices: continue patrol or

Dock at (name of base)

Click on dock at

You can test it by just sailing out of the harbor

thank you !!

i thought that after i had completd the patrol pressing return to base would just cut out the home journey.. sadly i was wrong....

i have restarted my third patrol from just after where a sank a destroyer and am now sailing home.

this game is awesome. i'm getting more and more sucked in each hour i play. i already lost 1 nights sleep to it ... :D

so glad i jumped on board

thanks you both for the speedy replies.

Ahoy shipmates

Return to base will get you back immediately but you still need to chose the continue patrol or dock at

Welcome To subSim moose67!
 

:salute: When you return to base, do not forget to drink, Brag's cozy-tea :O:

Been there, done that. :damn:

I even backed the boat in so it ended up just like it started. Okay, game, I'm done... here I am, back in the pen... yooooo-hooooo, anybody home? Time for you to end my mission...

*taps mic*

Hello? Is this thing on? :O:

Happens to the best of us. :yep:

still scratching my head...i've tried to end it 4 times now


if i press return to base i am taken straight to the awards screen. i cant see this end mission option anywhere.

do i have to manually sail the boat all the way back to the docks after the mission?

Moose,
Are you on a career?

Are you loading the Single Missions, or playing in Career mode?

If you are in a single mission, the only thing you do is complete the assignment (or not) and then return to base. You haven't created a particular commander "profile" whose career you can play out over a series of patrols in order to get awards and stuff.

In Career mode, you start a career in one of the available flotillas, are given a particular boat and crew, and depart from the flotilla's base with orders to patrol a particular area of the map. When you hit Esc during a career patrol you are given the option to Continue or Dock. Choosing the latter should dock you back in base and end the patrol, after which you will be able to review your patrol logs and manage your crew and see what awards you received if any.

When you play a single mission you are not running a career that will extend over several patrols and get you renown and awards. When you "return to base" from a single mission, it just tells the game you're done playing that mission for now. It's not the same as ending a career patrol, at which time you'd receive whatever renown or awards you had coming and then be set up to start your next patrol.

ok i have found the dock option and have pressed it. i then go to the awards screen and hover over the Promotions and Medals tabs and still it says " You must complete a patrol first"

i have completed the patrol and dock correctly but it still shows this msg in the awards screen??

somebody please explain before my head explodes ;(

Re: flak qual
yeppers, having an officer and a petty officer both qualified flak will definitely improve your ability to man that flak gun and kill stuff :D

The word mission was what gave you away during our interrogation. On a career one goes on patrol :yep:

Happy hunting, enjoy your tea and thank Frau Kaleun for her clear explanation of da thing. :rock:

thank you to everyone for replying to me :up:

i will try my upmost to use the correct termonology from now on. :)

i am at point of understanding now as far as the patrols docking and awards + promotions work.

i am still playing on nub mode right now and have the navigator plotting my solutions for me....

.....really looking forward to doing it manually when i have got a better grip on the rest of the game. this game is awesome and it seems as if there is a really good community feel here = win win

will be back real soon no doubt with more stupid questions. :DL


a big THANKS to all

Good hunting, Kaleun Moose :DL

:yeah:

There are no stupid questions, and whatever you do somebody else here has probably already done it nine times over and got all :damn: when they figured out what they were doing wrong. Plus the "manual" that comes with the game is not the most helpful source of info in the known universe (that would be Subsim, lol).

Gute Jagd und fette Beute, Herr Kaleun!

back again...

.........after succesfully completing a patrol is there any kind of penalty or forfeit for using the return to base option instead of manually sailing back to base and then using the dock option ?

cheers :)