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Originally Posted by Syxx_Killer
Maybe the reason for the no patrol assignment is that the devs didn't specify any in the flotilla.cfg file. Actually why would they? How would they expect so many would want to use the XXI early in the war (me being one of them)?  |
Well ive come to conclude your partially correct.
The CFG files ive come to beleive is nothing more then a resource the game calls upon, while you can change some of content of what it calls, i dont think you can change WHAT it calls. My assumption is theres some hardcode somewhere in the campign files.
Maybe theres something to be learned from this that others can use:
Observations:
- Crew configuration files based on subtype. What cfg file the game uses when it creates a new campgin game is dictated by floatilla and probably year as well. For example If you start in 1939, 1st floatilla the game uses type II crew type when it creates the campign. THe key thing is, that I could not find a way to change this in the floatilla.cfg So either i missed it, or its located elsewhere.
- Type XXI sub is acutally slated for 3 years of use. It has loadouts for 1943, 1944, and 1945. If you try additing additional years, (say, mimicing the type7 in use for 6 years being exact in syntax as layed out in the CFG file when adding the additional year definitions), anything past the first 3 years doesnt work right in game. For example, adding the type 21 for 1939 to 1945, starting at 1943 and up, you run into abnormalities in behavior when starting a campign game. Reverting back to 3 years of use resolved this.
- Type XXI as said is earmarked for 3 years. 43-45. Yet doesnt become available tell 1944. Why the extra year loadout definition? Starting in 1943, XXI sub works correctly for the 11th float, but not the 7th. I find it no conicidence that the 11th is described as being the first to recieve the XXI in the floatillia selection screen. My conjecture is that the 1944 availablily date was a quick fix by the devs because the 7th has noting scripted for the XXI until 1944, and thereby avoiding a 0 patrol grid "bug".
In conclusion the XXI IS scripted to work, (somewhere), in jan 1, 1943, 11th floatilla in bergen. But nowhere else until 1944, 7th float. No matter what you do to the floatilla.cfg, any other float or time will result in 0 patrol grid.