I´ve sunk a ship and it didn´t count
 

Hi there,

sorry if i´m reporting a known bug, and sorry about my mediocre english. The thing is that i´ve just sunk a japanese merchant and it hasn´t been noted in my captain´s log. It was a ryuyu(?) merchant worth 6000 + some tons, so i feel sort of dissapointed. Is it a common issue?
The game is awesome, by the way. Playing TMO 2.0

Welcome to the boat mate. :salute:

Anyone that can come up with "mediocre english" ain't doing all that bad. :D

About the only time I've noticed not getting credit for a ship sunk is when it's at anchor in a harbor and didn't sink far enough to get credit.
One other time is if you have already sunk that particular ship before and hung around the same area and it re-spawned and you sank it again. No credit for the second time.

I don't recall ever not getting credit other than these two things.
Playing TMO 2.1 You should download the 2.0 to 2.1 patch.

Magic

Losing credit for sunk ships happened to me regularly after installing the DC-Water_Disturbance MOD. Does he use that MOD? If so, remove it. I did and the game runs perfectly now.

Ok, now i´m sure it´s the re-spawing thing. I had sunk a ship just like that about two (game) hours earlier and i suspected something like that was going on. Now i can sleep at ease.
Thank you guys for your replies. It´s a really a pleasure to be involved in such a great community as this is.
Last question for you magic: can i install TMO 2.1 and still continue my current campaign? Thank you in advance [edit cause when tested: i cannot]

Join the club mate,October 1942 got promoted after my last patrol (FORTS) got myself a baloa class sub (cool) sailed all the way from Mare Island via Pearl to refuel and onto the Carlolina Islands to to out merchants (lucky I saved it middle of nowhere) reached my patrol area I was within easy reach of Truck evaded the patrol craft (s) and carried on (6 times sh4 ctd on me on the 7th i rebooted) anyway cut a long story short hut a Big Modern Hansa Freighter mission complete. proceeded to truk TF still stationary :damn: why they didn't move is a mistery,anyway continued and then got mulitiple sonar contacts 5 km away going slow raised scope Battle stations tubes 1-6 open first contact a dd he didn't have a clue i was there 400 yrds NNW of me aimed for the 1st BB and let loose hit the dd major explosion took some dameage fire 3 at the bb again first one took her out gone the second and third took the 2nd BB out fire 4 now am aming for a Heavy Cruiser Makyo she went down like a rock,took out a Modern Fleet Tanker with 5,6 she went up in flames in seconds and sank instantly.Next In view was a Light Cruiser Nakia fired tubes 1,2 both hit she was doing 17 Knts droped to 12 and sank but no cred for it,And before anyone asks the escorts were spaced out too lightly and trying to catch up with the TF and then scattered lookin for me.

You should be able to install the 2.1 patch at the end of your patrol while in the office. Most mods can be installed then but you can not reload any save form your earlier patrols.

Magic

Your kill will only count if you hears (or read) the message "enemy ship destroyed". It is not enough to look at it and convince yourself that it is doomed. If your ship looks destroyed but has not appeared as such in the log, try torpedoing it again, or if circunstances allow, bombard it with your deck gun.

This happens a lot when you raid a harbor. Sometimes they sink, hit the bottom of the bay, and stay there, half-sunken, and you do not get a message saying "enemy ship destroyed" - though it obviously is.

Keep hitting it.