Hey,
Thanks for all the input guys, this is a lot of good info for only a few hours time! I can't believe I missed the newbie guide in the forum, stickied and everything.
Yes, this was a steam sale purchase (gotta love Steam). It's good to see mods and updates for the game. I'll try to run a few conservative mods, but I'm also cautious about changing the game too much just yet. It's always possible to mod a game until it no longer resembles what it should, and if the original game was so good then I shouldn't need to change too much, just a little. I'll see if I can keep fatigue enabled for the moment. As for realism, I'm currently running about 60% realism with most options on but not manual targeting. I know this is a major point of the game, but I'll work my way up to it. I'm going to assume I have a competent crew who will do that for me.
As for loosing renown after your first patrol with a modified crew, I didn't encounter that.
I should admit that I did have an encounter on my first patrol, but I lost the ship. In very stormy waters I detect a merchant ship via hydrophone, I put the periscope up and see it's right in front of me and extremely close (only a few meters) and moving away. I jump to my crew section and start throwing guys into the torpedo room to prepare an attack. I jump back to the periscope and the ship was gone. I searched around the area but never found it again. It was exciting for a moment though. :-)
I'm going to go through the guides and check out the mods. One other thing I was wondering - when identifying ships, I have that guide book, but the book doesn't tell me the nationality of the ship (specifically, is it an enemy or not?). I assume that the color of the ship on my map and in the periscope indicates it's an enemy if red, correct? And blue is ally, right? I couldn't find any description of the colors.
Thanks,
Jonny K
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