[WIP] Rescue Ship
 

I am currently working on a mod that simulates the player sub sending an SoS message during emergencies, thus sending rescue (repair, refueling, and rearming) ships to specific rendezvous locations outside enemy territory. I am accomplishing this through trigger zones and spawns. I am allowing the correct amount of travel time for the rescue ships to reach the rendezvous areas depending on departure point. A large renown penalty for calling rescue ships will also be implemented. Please note that the rescue ships will not come to your exact sub location. Rather, there will be a rendezvous meeting point close to each SoS trigger location. Since sub towing cannot be simulated in SH4, I feel this is the next best thing.

good man !

may yet save a few asses ;)

:up:

keltos

Very useful. I didn't think it would be possible to refuel out at sea. This will be a terrific mod. Especially for a player like me, managing my fuel sometimes is difficult for me.

:yeah: TY.

I'm all for it, if it happened in reality.:yep:

Yes, it's possible. ;) I have already successfully tested and implemented refueling (refit) at sea. Now I am just trying to bring it all together with messages, objectives, etc.

Hmm.....:hmmm:

The renown penalty should be really big preventing Captains of using flankspeed all the time....if I may suggest

It will be very big, like perhaps -2,000. Sound good?

Depends on mods i think.
I have 35k Renown after the third patrol with RFB2.0 So I can buy a few :D

:o

Ok, how about -15,000? :arrgh!:

That´s ok :up:.

Still don´t know what an Upgrade will cost with RFB2.0
But....with 15k for the rescue ship.... i´ll think twice about it ;)

Here are some screen shots of meeting up with a sub tender out on the open sea just before commencing repairs:

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5815/nonamequ.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5049/nonamegr.jpg

This looks brilliant Drifter.

Thanks. :DL

The docking icon still shows up at the 10-mile range from the ship. Can't seem to change that. Must be hard-coded. :hmmm: Player can try and play more realistic by pulling up next to the repair ship or tanker before repairing and refueling.

Excellent work there!

I was wondering if someone could help me. I am having a hard time implementing the mission objectives into the campaign layer.

Here's what I have so far in the DynamicMiss.cfg file:

[Section 221]
FileName=data\Campaigns\Campaign\PatrolObjectives\ Refuel 01.mis
StartDate=19401101
EndDate=19451201
GameModes=Career
InclusionProbability=100
MinimumDifficultyRating=0
MinimumPlayerRating=0
EntryFocalPointLong=16717457.000000
EntryFocalPointLat=4918050.000000
MaximumDistanceFromStartPoint=100000
ExclusiveLayer=Yes
ExclusiveLayerID=301
EvaluationReason=StatusReport
AllMatch=PrimaryObjCompleted
PartialMatch=
PartialMatchingMinimumPercentage=
MinimumFuelPercentage=0
MinimumAmmoPercentage=0

I don't really understand some of these values (Exclusive Layer, EvaluationReason?). What I need is for the refueling mission objectives to show for each and every campaign mission, regardless. I'm not sure how I can accomplish that. :hmmm: