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tomoose · 05-31-09, 11:57 PM

Fish40 makes some good points. I essentially use the same techniques to ID a ship. I know it's not as prevalent in SHIV but I've set up on a target in SHIII a few times only to find it's a neutral ship. I like to play as I think I would in real life and would not arbitrarilly sink an unidentified ship. Granted, as has been mentioned, in the Pacific close to the enemy shore you're pretty much guaranteed it's an enemy ship (having said that, is there any RL reports on US skippers identifying a non-jap ship in supposedly enemy waters?).

Back to the point, stack first, cranes/masts second, superstucture and configuration as it gets closer.

I agree 100% with Platapus, it would be great if the ID book was divided into "chapters" or "sections" whereby you could 'flip' to the Tankers section or the Cargo section etc. It's a bit frustrating flipping through each merchant ship to find the various tankers etc. Is this doable as a mod? Having said that, Steelhead makes another good suggestion which I hadn't considered. How can the ID book information be printed out without taking a screenshot of everysingle ship, is there a file where this info is stored which can be brought up in a graphics program and printed?

05-31-09, 11:57 PM	#8
tomoose Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 930 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Ditto Fish40 makes some good points. I essentially use the same techniques to ID a ship. I know it's not as prevalent in SHIV but I've set up on a target in SHIII a few times only to find it's a neutral ship. I like to play as I think I would in real life and would not arbitrarilly sink an unidentified ship. Granted, as has been mentioned, in the Pacific close to the enemy shore you're pretty much guaranteed it's an enemy ship (having said that, is there any RL reports on US skippers identifying a non-jap ship in supposedly enemy waters?). Back to the point, stack first, cranes/masts second, superstucture and configuration as it gets closer. I agree 100% with Platapus, it would be great if the ID book was divided into "chapters" or "sections" whereby you could 'flip' to the Tankers section or the Cargo section etc. It's a bit frustrating flipping through each merchant ship to find the various tankers etc. Is this doable as a mod? Having said that, Steelhead makes another good suggestion which I hadn't considered. How can the ID book information be printed out without taking a screenshot of everysingle ship, is there a file where this info is stored which can be brought up in a graphics program and printed?