renown in SHIII GWX 3.0
 

hello everybody,

I periodically come back to the old sim. Never tried SH4 because I personally feel unrelated to the pacific scenario and I'm certainly not going to buy SH5 at any price because of the internet requirement thingy).

I play at something near 90% realism and after 3 patrols (the first one being pre-war), I have sunk 20.000 t worth of merchants, but I only receive about 200 - 250 renown per patrol (so now I have more or less before my 4th patrol only 500).

I am aware that the game awards renown based only on tonnage and realism, but I remember being able to switch from my IIA tipe to IID or maybe VII in 4 or 5 patrols.

If this continues, I will be (if I amb lucky), stuck with my IIA until my 10th or 11th patrol, if and only if I do not update my boat (I remember the VII being price at 2.500).

Is this normal? I am missing something?

Thanks and good hunt!

With 500 renown you will be able to get a IID when it becomes available in Oct 1939 I believe.
There is a small mod that does allows for the replacement of the 500 renown for reaching and patrolling your area for 24 hours that was removed from GWX.

You could try WB's replacement renown mod, works with GWX3, in fact I'm downloading it myself right now -

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f...1041a3fc51d567

Using renown to buy new equipment is not realistic. You can edit the basic config file to remove this.:know: NYGM mod does this.
What I do is to remove renown for equipment and personnel upgrades, and then use the renown to track my progress in the war until I get sunk (I have never been able to finish the war (DID+100%):wah:
I find this a better solution for the problem rather than editing the saved game files to increase renown.:DL

Excellent..
 

schoolmaster example,for you :yep:

Thanks for the replies...

To Herr Berbunch: I might try that, but I don't want to mess around with mods, I've lost a lot of careers doing this... and saving at the wrong moment (I actually SAVED one corrupt Save pushing while in the loading screen a LOT of keys + ALT-TAB, shaking the computer, putting it upside down, etc..., I ACTUALLY SAVED IT, just to be depth charged by an angry DD near Scapa one game month later).

Soooo, Should I try it, WHEN do I have to mod (using JGME)? I know I must do that while in port. Is it important AFTER or BEFORE patrol?

To Irish1958. mmmm, I don't thing that renown to get things done is SO unrealistc. I imagine this system as being a mixture of , renow, yes, but also networking, high profile friends, etc...

I've now been working in a big company for two years and a half, I now know how some people get the two armrest chairs, the blackberry curve, chromed stapler or the windowed office. :)

The question is: is it normal to get 250 renown for a 10.000 t patrol??

Thanks and good hunt!

Your realistic setting...
 

in % ?

Yeah, in %... I don't remember getting them to be so hard!

I don't know, I usually enable mods before starting up Commander so that would be before (or a long time after) a patrol, I've never done it with the game running.

If you're worried about save games, you could locate the saves and copy one (renamed) and try it that way.

Fingers crossed :up:

I keep telling people that I play SH4 with u-boats IN THE ATLANTIC.

I certainly respect your decision not to buy or play it, but the reason given is invalid.

Mods are installed between patrols. I think that would be after the last one and before the next one.

Oh! That WOULD be cool (I don't read every post in subsim, so I didn't know that playing SHIV in the atlantic against the allies was possible). Anyway, my computer doesn't have the specs :(

I assume this reason will be ok for you.

The amount of renown awarded is proportionate to the realism setting you have.

Eg: Sinking a ship worth 1000 renown whilst being at 50% realism would mean you would only get 500 renown.

Funny, I've never thought about it in five years of play, but you would think the opposite would be true - more renown would be awarded at lower difficulty levels, rather than less. That's why it's less 'realistic'.

I think using 50% was a bad example........

A 1000 renown ship would yield 100 renown at 10% realism and the same vessel would yield 900 renown at 90% realism :DL

Not quite, at 10% realism a 1000 renown ship would yield 325. At 90% realism you would get 925. Just to complete all your examples, at 50% realism you would get 625 in renown. An additional example, at 0% realism you would earn 250 in renown. It's geared that way so if you decide to play at 0% realism you still earn renown.

Nemo