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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Probably could.
Good luck talking JScones into it.
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Actually, fundamentally I don't have a problem with the idea. For me it's less than 10 lines of code (it would take longer to pack and distribute the end product). But my part's easy.
So let's think about it for a minute.
The people most likely to write to a Kaleun would be their parents, their wife and/or their girlfriend.
Remembering that the feature has to cover all Kaleuns across all careers, all possibilities have to be catered for. One of your Kaleuns may be married, so gets wifey letters, one may be single so gets girlfriend letters, one may get both.
So, considering a possibility of one letter per sender per month, there needs to be at least 210 letter variations (70 months x 3).
Now when I say per month, I mean
on average. Unexpected delays will reduce the number of letters received per month...true, but a delay is just a delay, meaning that perhaps instead of one letter per month the Kaleun may get 3 letters per quarter instead.
Ship sunk so the letter didn't get through? Doesn't matter, the letter(s)
was written and were it not for a
random event the letter(s) would have made it (as far as SH3Cmdr would be concerned).
Now this doesn't mean that the Kaleun
will get one/two/three letters every month (there would be random elements at play that ensured this didn't happen), it just means that they
could get one/two/three letter per month.
But this lack of variation would see the novelty of the feature wear off very quickly, for unlike real life, you will be reliving the same months/years over and over again through different careers. So, at
least one more variation of each letter would be required, so now we're looking at 420 unique letter variations. And even this is still limited because after two careers you'll start to see the same letters again.
So we've now (kinda) got parents, wives and/or girlfriends covered, what about everyone else? I'm sure Kaleuns received letters from other people - other relatives (uncles, sisters etc), friends serving in other arms of the Wehrmacht etc. So to avoid the letter always being from Mommy or Liebe, variations covering these "others" also need to be drafted. Let's say the potential for one "other" letter per month (yes, it will most likely be less, but remember the feature covers
all your Kaleuns, not just one). And even this still assumes that every Kaleun has living parents (at some point at least).
We have now identified 490 potential letter variations
minimum. So, we now see that my effort is nothing compared to GoldenRivet's, or whoever volunteers to write all these letter variations.
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Originally Posted by irish1958
There is a mod in development which could do this.
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Is this related to your medic idea?