patrol zone
 

:damn:
I have got a mission to patrol BF10 in GWX3.0.But I cant find it on the map
Is this a bug

sort of.

but not really.

patrol grid assignments no longer matter in GWX3

:|\\
So does it means I get no reward for patrolling anymore?Or is there a way I can bypass this bug by loading a new mission?

The "No renown for patrol" thing has been around since 2.1 . You can make your own patrol reward in a file somewhere, but I don't know :P

Someone more qualified will tell you though

1) You must be in port before doing this.

2) Goto C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Cfg

3) Open Basic.cfg in notepad

4)Look for the following near the bottom:
[RENOWN]
RenownReachGridObjCompleted=0
RenownPatrolGridObjCompleted=0
CompletedPatrol=0

change to

[RENOWN]
RenownReachGridObjCompleted=50
RenownPatrolGridObjCompleted=100
CompletedPatrol=0 <--this one apparently has never worked..

or whatever floats your *ahem* boat. Then save..Voila !

Those are my settings - 50 for getting to the sector and 100 for completing - not a ton but IF you do 10 patrols that's 1500 renown - good for a few good men. It does work quite well.

Cheers,

I'm curious what year/date your patrol should start (and which flottila/uboat type). Those gridlocations are mentioned in data\Cfg\Flotilla.cfg. But there is no "BF10" in it so the intended location must be legitimate one and get corrupted along the way.

:oops:
I started my career in 1939 in the 2.Flotilla Wilhelmshaven
Boat VIIB

As I suspected. These seem to be the ones that were intended (start of the war, 2nd flottila):

Aug1000=BF13
Aug1001=BF11
Aug1002=BF14
Aug1003=BF15
Aug1004=BF12

the numbers 1000-1004 seem to be related with a indexing system in the file. It has no relavance to a year or date, other than the month shown.

Hmm, you could try to spend 24 hours in each of them and find out which one is the real one. ;)

:hmm:
Thanks for the advice.I started a new career meanwhile with BF18 as patrol zone so hopefully it will not show up again.

JScones has very patiently explained this to me and the format is month, flotilla, year, submarine type, random grid

Where:
Month = Jan through Dec.
Flotilla = The flotilla index (0 to 7).
Year = The year (0 to 6). 0 = 1939 and 6 = 1945
Submarine type = Key for the sub in question. (0=II, 1=VII, 2=IX, 3=XXI).
Random grid = A way to randomise the allocated grid between 0 and 4.

I take absolutely no credit for this - JScones (the author of SH3 Commander and JSGME) is the guy who deciphered the code.

For the above

Aug1000=BF13 indicates Flotilla 2 - 1st would have been 0 etc working down the list as Flotilla appear - Flotillas not starting in 39 will use 0 in their first year ie Flotilla 5 is Salamis 41 Oct5000=CO42

Aug1000=BF13 Indicates 1939 - 1 would be 1940 and so on

Aug1000=BF13 Indicates first entry in the list of patril grids - 01 the second etc


Make sense
lol

Almost right:
Aug1000=BF13 Indicates the patrol grid for a Type II.
Aug1000=BF13 Indicates the first random patrol grid.

This is the breakthrough that JScones has made - it means that patrol grids can be appropriate to the correct sub type. I was working on patrol grids for my 1939 XXI mod and JScones took the time to explain it to me in detail so I could get patrol grids allocated.