[REQ] Home Port Location ...
 

(Sorry if this has been covered, but I'm working ... er at work ... and don't have time to read all the forum ...)

Seems lately that some folks have been having problems with not finishing missions based on where they were headed for home port.

Is there a way the data base can be querried and this information posted on the technical page of the reports tab? (hope I'm saying this right ...) You know, the screens that comes up with all the stats on your sub, damage, crew, and the like. There is a nice area on those screens just under the sub name and number. If someone could mod these to read: Based in: And the the game querry location is put in a line behind that?

Or maybe on the clipboard?

Just a couple ideas.

Have a nice one!

Okay ... 50 views and I guess it's not doable or important. :doh:

Huh?
 

What reports screen? I've never seen one.

You get a radio clipboard report on a new base
 

When your old base is unusable and you need to go to a new one you do get a radio message about it that was implimented in the 1.3 patch. In my Airbase nav mod I left the original message then added another one on top of it to make sure people under stood where to go.

But zoom out and look at the NAV map.

If you are in the ASIATIC fleet you start off at LUZON when that Big blue anchor disapears you go to the JAVA or SURABAYA base.

When that big blue anchor disapears you go to the FREEMANTLE sub base in Australia.

The big blue anchor's on the nav map are the actual sub bases. The anchor's with the blue stripe's are Sub tender's where you can refuel and rearm torpedo's and gun round's.

So just pay attention to your radio messages and look at the NAV map and you can easily see where to go.

Yeah I know Leo ... I just thought it'd be a cool idea ...

And the only reason I brought it up was because of what happened on my recent mission. I was previously stationed in Pearl, and requested a transfer to Fremantle. Took the mission from Fremantle and when I went back to what I thought was home base, nothing doing. The stupid game sent me back to Pearl, so I spent a good 3 weeks longer at sea than I had intended.

As I said ... just thought it'd be a neat idea, espeically if a player isn't fast enough to catch the radio message while their playing. (Like me ... ) I don't know that I got the message I never saw one in the log when I went back through it.

Thanks any how! :)

okay there is a problem that way
 

I will admit that if you request a transfer there is no set up in game that say's you are supose to go anywhere else. Also it dosn't tell you if you need to switch from Brisbane to Freemantle after you get a new sub.

I havn't figured out how to get a radio message that say's the change. I think it might need to be set up in the Campaign file's or the Flotila's where it has to inform the player of a base change in cases like that.

Actualy looking at the Flotila file I think there is a better possability for a message to be set up in there seeing there are option's for desk asignment's or transfer's when a flotila is disbanded.

Maybe a message can be set up in there depending on your choces made.

I think I read that this supposed to dealt with in 1.4 (no time to look--I'm "working" to :yep: ). I just had this happen to me--was "apparently" reassigned to Brisbane from Freemantle but was never notified of the change. Being I was in an S Class, I new "historically" that that change happened. So, refueled in Freemantle (rechecked radio messages to make sure I hadn't been notified (I hadn't)) and set course for the East coast of Australia. Once there, I was welcomed with open arms and fresh fruit.

However, I did tell the Brass that they could lighten up on security enough to tell me where I should park. They always tell me where to go but not always where to come back to. *sniff* :nope:

Cheers!

Check this thread out:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=113040


RDP

Well that's "Naval Intelligence" for you, they couldn't tell you just in case you got captured and you might tell the Japanese where we park our Subs!:rotfl: :rotfl:

Of course I'm pretty sure they already new that considering they had bombed us out of most of the bases early in the war, but don't tell the "scrambled-eggs", cloak and dagger boys that. :lol:

One thing I always wondered about during the Cold War, every one of our ship's movements was classified Secret, and we weren't supposed to tell anyone where we would be at any given time, however no matter where we went there would be a Soviet "Fishing Boat" waiting for us, (you know the kind I mean....the ones with the 30 million Radio Antennas that they used for "Fish Finders" :lol: (AGIs)

I know exactly what you mean; when I was in (1970ish) we had a saying: "If you don't know where you're going next, walk into any bar and ask the bartender. They seem to know everything."

If you're using billko's damage analyzer ( http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=121353 ), you can save your game, fire it up, select your saved game and it will act like my wife, ah, errr, I mean it will tell you where to go.:oops:

LMAO
 

You better hope your wife dosn't look over your sholder one day when your writing this stuff you know what you will be waiste deep in if that happens.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

I've been caught a few times, but she's rather good natured about it (thank goodness):rotfl:After a little over 30 years we've covered all the bases I think.