now sh4 career settings make me angry
 

ok i did a uber good patrol sank 3 large modern tankers and a large composite freighter and a DD, and i come back i get purple heart, campaign star and i get a new boat YAY!!:D then it says i retired WTF!!!:damn::damn::damn::damn::damn: , i dont want to end my dam career i wanna keep going.. any way i can get around this or did i just lose a good patrol??

I haven't had this happen - I've fled back to the Atlantic until the next patch - but it sure sounds frustrating. Please check this thread for the same topic:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109507

feature that kills the game for me. they stress the RPG element with the crew on the back of the box then make you start over as soon as you get attached to your crew and boat. :damn:

I too am enjoying the icey atlantic again until this is fixed :(

How many patrols have you done before being retired?

My personal best is 4 patrol 70K average then retired. I can't get to 5 patrols no matter what i do.

Vidim da jos ima Jugoslovena iako Jugoslavija vise ne postoji :). To je lepo... Zivio drug Tito!

Well, we all like sims and this supposed to be a sim so IRL sub captains did not go much past 4-5 patrols some more and some less. Desk job after that. So to simulate a sub skippers career, you get retired. Usually not on your first patrol :roll:

Is there any difference if you choose for example 1941 for the start of your career?

Not that I'm aware of because I start at the earliest time possible and alway at Manila.

Bolje da ti ne kazem sta licno mislim o Titu, inace da Neal zna srpski, banovao bi me dozivotno...
Yuga je bila vrh, ali taj lik... Sta ces, jbg, nema Yuge, ali bar nema ni Tita...
Usput, pozdrav, zemljak!:rock: :rock: :rock:

Ma to sa Titom je samo zajebancija :D. Inace, strava mi je kad na ovakvom nekom forumu naletim na nekog naseg :sunny:

I think the answer to early retirement is as plain as ..well.....

look:

http://www.valoratsea.com/subton1.htm

The reality is people are scoring more tonnage in one patrol then then alot of the top boats did their entire career.

If your scoring 50K+ tonnage a patrol (thats alot of renown added up btw), of course their going to retire you. You become and asset and your loss would be determental on moral, not to mention lost experience. A skipper who did that well, they'd be making him an instructure at submarine school so instead of just one Tonnage king, they get alot of mini tonnage kings.

edit: but another truth here, besides the uber tonnage, is they rotated skippers after so long anyway. Just look at the skipper listings for individual boats:
http://www.fleetsubmarine.com/sublist.html

That's some Frankentonnage there:o

With my first career I was retired after 8 patrols with a total of more than 230,000 tonnage.

In that career I commanded 3 boats, started with a Tambor, then got a Gato and finally a Balao but for only my last patrol :x.

If you check this file CareerTrack.upc in the savedgames folder (in C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\SH4\data\cfg) you can check your current Rating value, I guess that if you have a high rating you will have the chance to do more patrols (my final rating was 14).

Mebbe its that Purple Heart... :arrgh!: They weren't gonna send ya out again with a peg leg.