Two Questions - Please Help?
 

These will seem very basic questions but with my limited knowledge of how the game works, I am quite happy playing the game and looking to others, who are far more knowledgeable than I, for appropriate advice . . .

I recently downloaded MFM-v3.3 and installed it into the game using JSGME. The game loads and runs fine but I cannot see any difference to the merchant ships that I encounter - what have I done wrong or what have I not done? Do I need to load or move various ship skins?

My second question concerns lost careers - twice now, I have accidentally clicked on 'New Career' when loading a previously saved game - the last time I did this was en-route home from Spain and crossing the Bay of Biscay in real life - the ship rolled and my finger hit the touchpad in the wrong place! I lost months of hard work and had to start over. When this happens the previously saved game is completely deleted and I haven't found a way to recover it. Has anyone developed a tool to prevent this or to recover deleted games?

Thank you . . .

The MFM adds a lot of new ships, but doesn't remove the old ones. You may have just not seen any yet.

There are tools that can "recover deleted files". Use this phrase in your favorite Search-Engine on the Internet.
But the easiest way is make a copy of youre SH3-folder in 'My Documents'-folder before playing. This is normaly the place where the game saves your progress. If you have a copy of this you can go easily one step back.

Greetings.