[CapnScurvy]

I've released two editions to bring the U.S. Medals Fix up to date. The versions "II" can be found at the first post of this thread. After many missions and following award results, I determined there were two medals "switched" in their order for issue. Why, who knows, the devs don't talk about it much but the basic stock award system is terrible in it's calculations and results. The stock system has the following medals:

Congressional Medal of Honor= 5th tier
Navy Cross= 4th tier
Distinguished Service Medal= 3rd tier
Silver Star= 2nd tier
Bronze Star= 1st tier
Purple Heart= Wounded/Kia Award

The 3rd and 4th tier awards were switched by the UPC files ID's, which made for the awards to be given incorrectly. The only way to correct this was to switch the name and images to match what is correct. I determined this particular flaw with mission after mission and keeping track of what was awarded. A lengthy process since awards are determined (in part I believe) by total tonnage sunk and quality of ships (warships over freighters, BB's over DD's etc.). The fact that we can't change the "calculation process" for awards, only left the ability to change what we can (images and text descriptions). A poor fix to be sure, but our only one.

While I did eliminate the Distinguished Service Medal in the earlier Fix version(adding the Navy Commendation Medal) I eliminated the Congressional Medal of Honor in this second edition. I just didn't like the idea of the CMOH being given for total tonnage sunk. I added the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal to the group as the 1st tier award and moved the rest up one rank. The Navy Cross will be the top award for Captain and crew alike. Although this is just cosmetic, the real change is to the "order" of medals issued through the game calculations. As I said, the change was done through image changes and text descriptions. I still wish we could get a chance to rewrite the hard coded game to make our corrections there.