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Originally Posted by DeePsix U-48
I tried viewing a captains log for another patrol and it came up with a message about all ship names being used and would have to use generic. Any way to fix this?
~DeePsix
Commander U-48
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Is this the message you are referring to?
"All names for generic merchants in the [Your Career Name] career have been used once. Ship names will now be duplicated."
In theory you should not get this message for merchants, unless you've sunk over 3500 merchants in a career. You might get this message for warships, especially if you have sunk a large number of warships during a career. For example, the Nelson class battleship only has two names assigned, so it wouldn't be unusual to get it for this class. The same is true for some of the other warship classes, but it will have the name of the class of ships in the message instead of the [generic merchants] name.
If you're getting it for merchants, then there is a problem. If you navigate to your SH3 Companion folder, you will see a file called Used Names.cfg. Look in this file for the header of the career name you are getting this message for (i.e. look for this text [My Career Name]) and then look for the key "generic merchants=" The text after this will list all of the merchant names used in that Captain's career. In order for this to be a valid message there must be 3559 entries. If you see anything less than this, the message is received in error.
I would also suggest looking for the Ship Names.cfg file just to make sure it's present, and then look under the [generic merchants] header. You should see 3559 entires before getting to the next header [generic tankers].
If all that's too complex to follow, email your Used Names.cfg, Ship Names.cfg, and the log file causing problems to:
observer [at] ec.rr.com