How are you captains logging entries about your patrols?
 

I'm the captain of U-657. I was just wondering if you are using a log book within the game, like SH2. If so is there a mod for this?


Venatore

Man, I would love that. The paper and pen thing sucks, I get tired of it and quit after a couple entries.

How could they leave that out?! I really would love to have this feature...

kb

Sad thing is from what I read in another thread.The log book you can write to in game was going to be a feature as one of the modders(can't remember who) found the unfinished parts of it in the games files.

Chalk it up to one more feature the devs did not finish in this game. :nope:

About a month or so ago there was a mod (test version i think) called SH3 Companion. I could never get it to work right-finally gave up. Have not heard any more about it since. Sorry to say because it really was very neat and appeared well thought out.

I use a paper logbook.

Or logbooks, rather. You see those WaW stats below? I've kept a detailed record of each of my patrols there - a shame I can't find time to type them up.

Currently, I have 2.6 small 5.5x3.5 inch, 300-400-page notebooks full of notes. That's an average of almost 3 pages per "day" on patrol :huh:

I just can't do the pen and paper thing. I type a lot faster than I write, and I don't like sitting there writing a bunch of stuff out on my paper while the game goes on. I would like it better if I could go to my "bed" and do my writing in there, with the keyboard. Then it all stays in the game, all nice and neat, and I feel like I'm actually doing it through the captain instead of as an "extra" bit that I do for myself. Man, it's just such an easy thing to implement that could have added so much to the game, it bugs me that it wasn't.

Well since starting Wolves at war ive had to keep tabs on my patrols so i note down when i make contacts, sinkings etc., including time, date and so on. We have to write out a KTB report when we finish our patrol and email back to waw.

I now keep a log on my my SH3 campaigns that haven't anything to do with WAW. I think its a good idea.

Sounds kinda nerd like.....no offense

It is nerd like. :)

Thats why i like it. After i fin a patrol i go to all the trouble of add my data into Microsoft Access database. For storage.

I use to be a network administrator now unemployed so i miss doing stuff like this, until i discovered keeping logs.

no offense taken

Nerdy or not, it's a lot of work writing all that stuff down. That's why I can't keep up with it. I do it off and on, but many of my patrols aren't written down, I just get tired of it. I think if there were a way to do it in-game, I would do it. But, like I said, the pen-and-paper method doesn't cut it for me.

Hit alt-tab and you can go to desktop and use wordpad.

It is nerd-like; but then again, that's what we are, aren't we?

That's a Good Idea .....HMCS :up:

:up:


If it was in game it wouldnt be nerdy but ubisoft didnt include it in the game (yet, it was in SH2).........dumb ubisoft

There's third party diary tools available - checkout http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=33313 for more info.

There's also SH3 Companion - checkout http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopi...=sh3+companion but note that you will need to install v2.0 of the .NET Framework first (can cause problems for some users).

These all work on the Alt-Tab-out-type-in-text-Alt-Tab-back-in approach.

You may like to know that Beery and I are working on an alternate method, which should appear in the next release of SH3 Commander - pending successful testing of course!