Yea the identical ships all show up in the identification charts. I don't want to delete them from game. But only need 1 instance in the merchant section of the manual so I don't have to turn 50 pages to verify what ship is my target.
The different tonnages don't serve any purpose for targeting so wouldn't be missed from the ID manual.
What I discovered so far. Renaming the sil file to silORI so the game won't read it only eliminates the photo but not the page from the ID manual. I then tried renaming the cfg file related to the ship but that causes a CTD. It looks as though it may be hardcoded that as soon as a ship folder has a cfg file the game auto generates a corresponded page for it in the ID manual.
In the Sea folder is a file EnglishNames.cfg I believe that the pages in the maual show up in the order that the ships are listed in this file by class type and country assigned to. I may at least be able to put all the duplicate merchant ships, ie when there are 3 medium cargoes all with same mast and depth) at the end of the manual.
This way perhaps I can just refer to say the first 15 pages instead of flipped through several dozen.
I really want to get it organized because I like to ID myself but often first see a ship in fog at short range when there isnt time to flip through 40 cargo ships.
If I can get this to work at some level, I'll post my findings.
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