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Originally Posted by Salvadoreno
i think i have a problem.
Ok im running SH3 commander from the Jonesoft enabler in my Sh3 directory and i know when i start a campaign from th Sh3 commander exe it should copy all the necessary files to my SH3 folder and i should play. But when i go to find and play, my flotilla nor boat is selected when i load the new campaign i created. And i select the IID from the 2nd and 7th and 1st flotilla.. i tried em all. But it doesnt start me at the start date, the right boat, or anything. What am i doing wrong?
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You're not doing anything wrong, but what you're running into is a fairly common misconception that players new to SH3 Commander have about it. SH3 Commander's 'user entered details' feature is used both to set up a new career and to set up single missions, but what SH3 Commander does relates only to the patrol - it doesn't set up the menu part of the game for you because the game won't allow that at the moment. So SH3 Commander is limited by what the game will allow as far as setting up the career in the menu screen is concerned:
When you start a new career using SH3 Commander, all it does is copy data files to the game based on the choices you make. You still have to choose the flotilla from in the game so that it matches what you chose in SH3 Commander, and you'll still get assigned the standard U-boat for the flotilla and you'll be limited to the dates that the game allows. So if you set up for a career in 7th Flotilla with a Type XXI in December 1944, the game's career system won't allow that. It will allow you to choose 7th Flotilla, but you'll only get a choice of 5 default dates, one for each year between 1939 and 1943. When you've selected the year (in the game) you will be assigned the default U-boat for that date, which is not changeable. What SH3 Commander does comes after this, during the patrol. If you choose a date and U-boat in SH3 Commander that matches the date and U-boat that the game allows for a career, you'll see a news report for that date, a map showing you the extent of German-controlled territory, and your U-boat will be set up for the correct crush depth for that sub. You will also get a special radio message based on that date, playable on your gramophone, and you'll have various graphics files - skins, etc., loaded into the game based on the choices you made in SH3 Commander.
When you set up in SH3 Commander for a single mission, it still will not choose the U-boat for you in the game, but unlike the career mode, you will have the full freedom to choose a U-boat that matches what you selected in SH3 Commander. The date you select in SH3 Commander will determine what date-based files (skins, radio sound files) are loaded into the game. The flotilla you select will determine what flotilla-based files are loaded into the game. Thus, if you play the Bismarck scenario, and if you've selected the correct date for the Bismarck's last battle, you will see the Bismarck in her proper paint scheme for that date (which is different than the standard game's Bismarck scheme), and you will hear a radio message that is appropriate for the period. If you want, you could decide that history can go hang, and you want to see the Bismarck fight in October 1939, so you choose that date in SH3 Commander and when you go into the game and choose the Bismarck scenario, you'll get a different radio message (the one for October 1939), and the Bismarck will be in her early war paint scheme.
So these are the kinds of changes that SH3 Commander is used for. What it mainly does is add historical flavour to the game. It doesn't alter the choices you need to make in the menu screens.