GW : Keil Canal - cool but too slow
 

Upon remembering on my fourth mission from Keil that GW has the canal mapped - "wow" I thought this will save me a lot of time

and it did - virtual time that is !!. I saved almost 2 days and a one hell of a lot of fuel

BUT

because it canal is narrow time compression was limited to x4 for most of the journey. So in actual terms it took me an hour. If I used the long route passed Denmark I could have done it in about 20 mins

so the funny thing is I spend more real time to save on virtual time :damn: :stare: :lol:

hehe and mind the unmarked lighthouse thing on the Wilhelmshaven side! i hit it and sank! :o

:lol:

you will not believe it - I sank too

I left it running to watch some telly - came back 30 mins later to find I collided and sank by colliding into that bloody lighthouse !!

Use SH3 Commander, it lets you tweak tc-settings. I have set my close-to-land-setting at 256x.

To change time compression settings
 

You will find a SH3 folder under "My Documents" on your computer.

The path is my documnts/SH3/data/cfg/main

Open the "main" file and locate the time compression settings (second section from top I believe). Change the setting for proximity to land from 4 to 32 and you'll be pleased with the canal. This will cut the trip down to 10 - 15 minutes.

thanks

I think most people crashed into that unmarked lighthouse on their first time through the canal, I know I did. :oops:

Lighthouse, what lighthouse? $%*"^BANG... Oh, that lighthouse! :oops:

more traps
 

There are two peers and lighthouses also in the middle of the canal (there where the canal is nice and wide for a chance. You just think that oh´how nice... then bang bang and hiissss, down you go.

How to exit safely:

http://www.kylania.com/sh3/kiel-exit.jpg

Note, the structure seen above is not visible on the in game map, so make sure you take the green route out of the Kiel exit, not the red one. :)

While you're changing the time compression for LandProximity from 4 (or 1) to 32, you might also want to change EnemyDetected from 8 to 1 as well (better safe than sorry).

Also, the default game setting for max speed is 1024. You can change that to 2048 (or 4096 I suppose, if you want to really speed) to make those long patrols to the East Coast USA or tip of South Africa a bit faster.

Albrecht von Hesse

Someone talked about modding their subs, so that they could reach speeds up to 80 or 90 knots. Think about this challenge: The fastest through the Kiel-canal!
The winner gets a years supply of virtual uboot-coctails!:D

:rotfl:

At least the Kiel canal in the game doesn't have locks in it like the real one. Talk about time-consuming. Flood up...flood down. :lol:

Or 8190 if you don't mind 1 fps and a minute delay between pressing a key and SH3 reacting.

I use 4096 all the time.