GRID CO-ORDS IN RADIO MESSAGES
 

Hello again guys,

I am getting some nice radio messages on patrol telling me about activity at certain locations. This information is given in the messages as "x" long "y" lat blah blah degrees etc etc. How on earth can I fond out where these numbers are referring to when the only things on the Navigation Map are grid squares?

p.s any other lady sub captain(ettes) out there? I feel alone!!

Can't help you with any lady sub commanders, but if you check out this site, there is a link to a program that converts between grid squares and standard coordinates. Hope this helps!


http://home.att.net/~rodney.j.martin/gridmap.htm

Thank you Redbear - it looks nice but I don't think I can use that whilst in the game itself. I get radio messages explaing certain numbers in degrees but can't locate them in game whilst on the Nvigation Map - is there a map mod that will have these degrees, longs and lats overlaid on the screen perhaps?

Oh, and having a "male" picture for my avatar is worrying me a bit - are there any girl picture avatars available for me to use please? I have mid length dark straight hair, usually in pony tail!!

Try "Operation Peticoat" Some nice girls aboard. Welcome!! :up:

The Alvon lady plays SHIII your find her roaming these forums. I hear when Donietz told her she might be promoted to a desk job he misteriously ended up in hospital... but we all know sailors like to yarn ;)

Welcome aboard Cap'n Andrea! :D

The radio messages with the longitude and latitude in them are just for effect, there really isn't anything there in the game. There are several lady sub captains out there, The Avon Lady is just the most well known one of them. Chrystine is usually found on the UBI SH III forum.

@HW3,

Some radio messages are true contacts, I have had them just like Andrea, and they are there in the game. The reason I know is I put them there like this:

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/6687/subprop9et.th.jpg

Some don't like this feature but to me it is like getting a message from a spot plane and the navigator marks it on the map.
It shows up on the map after around 30 minutes of game time.
I set the parameters using the Editor, changing the numbers can make the icons appear on the map after an hour if you wish to alter it slightly.

REGARDS FROM AL23. :arrgh!:

Hi there Ms Avon - and a Mummy too! Uk girl sends her best wishes. We can do this job as good as the lads don't you think? Hurrah for lady captains!!

x x

Women on subs
 

Having served aboard a real diesel boat (AGSS 419) and while nonetheless appreciating the intellectual prowess of the female species...please be assured that regardless of intellectual capability...physically, emotionally and sensibility-wise...this is one area/place in which the negatives of female presence and capability VASTLY outweigh the/any positive benefits of
"actually being there". Enjoy the game and know that, in a vacuum, you could do the job....and rejoice in the fact that you could not actually serve aboard one.

Re: Women on subs
 

It never ceases to amaze me that military personnel, who are supposedly professionals, often take pains to admit that sex can get in the way of their competence. I'm not sure what the problem can be, but it's worrying that the military apparently fosters such immaturity.

Three loud cheers for Beery! And a big boo hiss for the other guy! Of course in reality I would not be able to lift as much or shout as much but I can certainly think as much and sometimes better. This is a game isn't it? A simulation? Now where is that pretty pink hairbow! Lol.

Technically, a woman would be more suited to working on a ship's deck anyway - a lower center of gravity makes 'em more stable in high sea states. :-j

Plus, whereas men have greater upper body strength, women's endurance has been shown to be greater than men's. So there are swings and roundabouts.

I just think that the whole argument about women being so disruptive to men in the military due to the distraction of sex is a childish one. I mean these folks are supposed to be tough and professional. If the mere presence of a woman can turn hardened professionals into sappy incompetents, I think there's a deep flaw in military training.

The flaw is not in military training. It's in human nature.

And, actually, it's not a flaw. It's working as designed.

I believe that women can handle numerous roles in the military. I believe that men definitely, on the average, have physical advantages over women that are pertinent to many military assignments.

Yet overall I believe that men and women working in close quarters, especially in many combat situations, will increase the risk of failure.

I don't care how politically incorrect this sounds, especially when coming from a woman. That's the way I see it.

If you contribute to the forums (I think it's only $2 US) you can then send Neal the picture you want (as with mine) and then you'll have your own personal avatar.

Good hunting.

I would agree, if they're poorly trained. But military training (if it's done right) is supposed to train the responses of human nature out of a recruit. The idea is to turn a person into a fighting machine that doesn't give in to emotional impulses. A well trained soldier should do his job without being distracted by fear or emotion. If he doesn't, then the military has a problem.

If a person is trained to the levels of professionalism that should be demanded by a military organization, sex should be secondary to professionalism. I mean I've worked in civilian life and the professionalism with which I've done my job has never been affected by the presence of women. If you're a professional you do your job despite distractions - that's the definition of professionalism. If we become less competent when surrounded by the opposite sex, that shows either a lack of training or a basic lack of ability.

People who are bothered by such petty considerations as women on the job will be bothered by other things, and if we have a bunch of folks in the military whose competence can be affected merely by the sex of the person next to them, then in my opinion those people don't belong in a professional organization - especially one that involves life or death decisions. That's not political correctness: it's plain common sense.

The other thing is that it just doesn't make much sense to me to bar 50% of your population from a job purely based on what sexual equipment they happen to be carrying around. I mean just think of the military geniuses that may have been prevented from serving purely because of their gender. How many female Caesars or Napoleons has Western civilization ignored simply because of a surge of chemicals that happened (or rather that didn't happen) when they were still a fetus in the womb? It just doesn't make sense to me. A professional organization should be trying to get the job done. It shouldn't be coddling human weaknesses or prejudices. Rather, those weaknesses should be weeded out.

XX chromo gamers
 

I keep thanking higher power for creating women that game...and not only star wars & and puzzle gaming, but military gaming. Yay!

I like to think when disaster strikes then man calls on woman for help, just like in WW2 for instance, the american woman worked in factories building tanks/planes in the thousands in fact you could say they ran the country without them the war machine would of come to a slow grid. Here in NZ during WW2 they became farmers. They did the mans job well.

Peace time, they belong in the kitchen :)